Wednesday, April 3, 2013

April Birth Month Flower is Daisy



Daisy

The Daisy is the flower bringer of good fortune and blissful pleasure.
It is thought that the name "daisy" is a corruption of "day's eye", because the whole head closes at night and opens in the morning.
The most common characteristic of all these plants, is that what in common parlance might be called a "flower", is an inflorescence or flower head; a densely packed cluster of many small, individual flowers, usually called florets (meaning "small flowers") .Often considered a weed on lawns, though many also value the appearance of the flowers. Several cultivars and hybrids have been selected with much larger flowerheads up to 5-6 cm diameter and with light pink to purple-red ray florets.