Belle Fleur

[CyrilSebastian]

                           {A} Big Purple Rose     
                           {B} A hybrid tea rose with huge purple blooms   
                           {C} And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed   
                                  him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!"   
                                      John Chapter 19 Verses 2-3     
                             
                             

[CyrilSebastian]

                        {A} Lavender Big Time Blue   
                        {B} This lavender has abundant large purple-blue flower wands   
                                  striking silver foliage.   
                        {C} Third Station: Jesus falls the first time. 
     
                             

[CyrilSebastian]

{A} Veronica persica   
{B} This annual is blue-violet.   
{C} Station 6: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.

[CyrilSebastian]

                       {A} Hemerocallis Easter Egg   
                       {B} A cream daylily with a green throat and pattern lavender violet eye   
                       {C} Many churches begin the Easter observance in the late hours of the day   
                             before (Holy Saturday) in a religious service called the Easter Vigil.

[CyrilSebastian]

                            {A} Narcissus Easter Bonnet         
                            {B} A daffodil with ivory white petals and large yellow cup with a pink rim       
                            {C} Pope Leo I called Easter the greatest feast (festum festorum).

[CyrilSebastian]

                               {A} Easter Daisy     
                               {B} Easter Daisy is also known as Hoary Townsend Daisy.   
                                      It has typical daisy blooms that are almost as wide as the plant is tall.   
                                         It has white flowers with yellow centers.     
                                {C} Pope Symmachus celebrated Easter on March 25th, following the old Roman cycle.   
 
                                   

[CyrilSebastian]

                                  {A} Easter Charm Iris   
                                  {B} A Tall Bearded Iris with medium light blue standards.     
                                  {C} Easter is more than a day. It is a season of resurrection.     
 

[CyrilSebastian]

                        {A} Heavenly Flight of Angels Daylily     
                        {B} A daylily with yellow-green spider-type blooms with a white, wavy edge   
                        {C} The angels are represented throughout the Bible as a body of spiritual   
                                beings intermediate between God and men.     
         
                         

[CyrilSebastian]

                                  {A} Heuchera Forever Red   
                                  {B} This plant is also called Coral Bells.     
                                         The leaves are red. There are short spikes with white flowers.   
                                  {C} Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord;     
                                         Praise and exalt him above all forever.     
   
                                   

[CyrilSebastian]

                            {A} Easter Basket Rose   
                            {B} A floribunda rose with creamy yellow blooms edged with pink   
                            {C} Every Easter Sunday the Pope gives an Easter message called "Urbi et Orbi".

[Fatherpet]

Oh.... Amazing thread. I am richly blessed here.

[Shin]

{A} Three Leaved Rose
{B} The rose named 'Three-leaved rose' appears after a little reading to be one described as a large rambling rose with bright semi-evergreen leaves with three leaflets, it has white blossoms and golden stamens. In many places around the world it would be blooming today.
{B} The flower on the floral calendar for today, the Feast of St. Boniface, the Apostle of the Frisians, the three leaflets remind of the Holy Trinity. St. Boniface stood before the pagans and took an axe to the gigantic tree the pagans worshiped, and after a single cut, God blew the tree down, and so they came to the true Faith in the Holy Trinity.

[CyrilSebastian]

Oh.... Amazing thread. I am richly blessed here.

     
 
Fatherpet, Welcome! Do you have a favorite flower?   

[CyrilSebastian]

                        {A} Orchid Oncidopsis Living Fire Darkfire   
                        {B} A violet red orchid       
                        {C} On Pentecost the Holy Spirit appeared to the apostles as tongues of fire.

[CyrilSebastian]

                                 {A} Altar Light Tall Bearded Iris     
                                 {B} A midseason iris with light yellow standards and cream falls     
                                 {C} The Church prescribes that the candles used at Mass and at     
                                        other liturgical functions be made of beeswax.   
     
                                     

[Shin]

{A} Clustered Bell Flower, Latin name, Campanula glomerata
{B} A perennial plant that grows a globe of flowers, it is hardy and can grow 2 1/2 feet tall.
{C} The flower for the feast of St. Paulinus of Nola, today's feast. St. Paulinus was once a pagan poet and Roman senator. Some years after the assassination of Emperor Gratian, he was baptized and became a Christian. Later he became bishop of Nola, and wrote yearly poems in honor of St. Felix, the previous bishop. The bell flower reminds us of the bells used in churches and monasteries, calling people to God.