Shower your flowers with love

Today, 30 May is Water A Flower Day and gardening enthusiasts all over the world believe it should be celebrated accordingly.

If it weren’t for coffee, cocoa, vanilla, lavender, camomile, marijuana, and many other flowering plants and trees, our world would be a barren, dismal place.

Water a Flower Day is that yearly reminder to show the flowers how much we appreciate them for their vibrant colours, fragrant blossoms and their medicinal, or sometimes lethal, properties.

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The best way to celebrate Water a Flower Day is by giving all of your household and garden plants an aquatic treat.

Also, studies show that gently caressing them promotes growth, so don’t be shy, give their leaves a tender squeeze. Unless you own a Rafflesia Arnoldii, the largest flower on the planet, which doesn’t have any leaves and is also known as the ‘corpse flower’ due to the odour it oozes when disturbed. That’s one plant we wouldn’t mind forgetting to water, isn’t it?

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Best stick to roses and lilies. Water them, stroke and sing to them like you would to a child. You’ll be a better person for it and you’d make the world a brighter, sweeter and more colourful place.

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