Monday, May 25, 2009

Flower Power Celebration in Missouri

By Mara Hernandez-Capili

Flowers provide happiness, their colorful petals bring warmth and beauty to any household. They add color to houses and life to gardens. Flowers are usually given as gifts for they symbolize a lot of things. Flowers have therapeutic effect, they lessen depression and sadness. All these, making flower a carrier of pleasure.

Flower has been a favorite subject to both artist and photographers because of their wonderful and colorful appearance. They capture the beauty and life the flower brings. Flowers make a good inspiration, by just looking at it an artist could come up with a lot of things. These are some great samples of popular flower paintings ,Van Gogh's sunflower series and Monet's water lilies.

Aside from its good worth and beauty, flowers have different symbolic meanings in western culture. For example, a rose symbolizes love, beauty, and passion. A poppy symbolizes consolation during death, while a daisy symbolizes innocence.

Flower Festival is one of the most awaited events in Kansas Missouri. The event holds a variety of full bloom and colorful display of bedding plant. Shoppers can choose from a wide selection of flowers of all kinds. During the event shoppers could also find so great ideas for landscape decorations as well as tons of gardening advice from different greenhouses.

There are lots of fun and activities during the festival. Activities include recipe sampling, arts and crafting, live music, bird adoption and much more. Shatto Milk also participates on this event; they will be selling their dairy product plus giving some kids the chance to pat the head of displayed calves. There no place for boredom in this event. Flower festival in Kansas does not only cater the education and promotion of local flowers it also raise fund for churches to help in the needs of others. It is an event full of flowery fun and a blooming heart.

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