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For Valentines Day, I’d like to buy some flowers for two girls I’m very close to (as friends). Each and every year they complain about how they never get flowers so I thought I’d do a nice thing and surprise them with flowers. What kind of flowers should I buy them and in what color? I’m aware each type of flower and it’s color have all these different meanings and I don’t want to send the wrong message, especially since I know that they know the meanings of flowers lol!

Only thing that matters is the thought and how you feel about them

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How does their garden grow? We can help them tend their garden in signature style with our Embroidered Garden Tool Bag & Kneeling Pad – a perfect partner for daily gardening and yard work!We custom embroider any name on the front of the bag for a signature look that is a cut above!Bag is crafted of durable polyester canvas in hunter green and khaki. Bag measures 10H x 9 1/2 in diameter with 22L handles. Also features 8 gusseted side pockets for an array of your favorite gardening tools with a full inside storage section, creating a convenient storage compartment when needed.Kneeling pad is crafted of coordinating green & khaki durable polyester canvas with a 1 1/2 thickness of soft foam for comfort when kneeling. Pad measures 16L x 10W with a 13L carrying handle.

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This vibrantly colored memorial bouquet commemorates a life of beauty. Bursting with glorious shades of red, yellow, blue, and white flowers plus assorted greenery. Appropriate to send to the funeral home.

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I bought a bag of 10 strawberry plants, that look like roots. It says on the bag to plant covering all roots, and to be careful not to cover the crown. What does the crown on the strawberry plant look like (so I don’t cover it)? And what is a good way to grow strawberries in containers?

http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/hgstrawb.htm

The crown is the part of the plant that is at soil level just above the roots.Don’t plant to deep, this site shows a picture of how deep, just scroll down

http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9320.html

I have just bought a tractor and going to gardening next spring.

Lettuce – onions – carrots – radishes – broccoli

Both Trees and small plants evolved flowers. My question is which came first, the tree or the flower. If trees evolved first, then I would expect to see no flowers on trees at all, or flowers that are dramatically different from those in plants. If plants evolved flowers before trees, then I would expect to see all, or most, trees to have bright colorful flowers. So how is it that only a few trees have flowers, but small plants have flowers as well?
I am not asking to prove a religious point. I am honestly asking for curiosity sake.

Flowers could have evolved more than once. Comparing the genomes of plants has inclined many to this opinion. If they have multiple origins then more than one of the current theories may be correct. The one thing they have in common is that the smaller plants or understory trees where the first to develop a symbiotic relationship with insects rather than just rely on wind. Tall canopy trees like the Progymnosperm Archaeopteris or the true conifers relied on wind more easily since with height the pollen could travel farther.

Paleoherb or the ’sneaky herb’ theory suggests smaller herbs or even grasses started it all. The plants began with separate single sex (dioecious) plants. These have the oldest known fossil as evidence. A 120 million year old member of the pepper family, a Piperaceae. The small plants were weedy, fast growing colonizers looking for disturbed soil. They came to this open habitat then had to find each other over longer distances to mate. Large open habitats drove the shift to grow floral structures to attracts insects as aids in pollination. So flowers came as an adaptation to large open spaces to ensure sexual reproduction at long distances between single sexed flowers.

However another of the theories, supported by some molecular studies, is the Woody Magnoliid or the Euanthial theory that says small trees or woody shrubs (magnolia-like plants) with cone-like flowers are the common ancestors. This has the insect pollination syndrome as the driving force rather than habitat.
Here it is suggested the exposed female gamete of the conifer’s cone was gradually enfolded by an increasingly protective structure. The structure became the plant’s ovary eventually.
The female gamete is exposed once the cone’s scales open for pollination and is good food for foraging insects. If the cone developed a cupped shape around the female gametophyte there was more protection but pollen was not blocked from entering with the wind. The more the insects became involved in the pollen delivery process the more enclosed the female gamete could become. Insects bearing the pollen could crawl into where the female gamete was when wind failed to push the male gamete in.
These were shrubby, short, under story trees with broad leaves to catch light penetrating the canopy of archaeopteris and true conifers.

True flowering trees evolved from the first flowering plants. Just as Insect diversity increased dramatically following the origin of the flowering plants so the plants themselves adapted to every possible niche.
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Angiosperms/coevolution.htm

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This handy tool is commonly used to dig drainage ditches and trenches. They feature a tempered round nose, slightly cupped 14 gauge tempered steel blade for efficient digging of deep, round bottom drains and trenches. Offered in 30″ or 48″ lengths with a solid core fiberglass handle and thick molded poly jacket for maximum strength for user preference.

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