But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

It was the hand that Beatrice had grabbed in hers when he reached for one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Whether grown naturally or through technology, people who love orchids say they are the most beautiful flowers on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Smelling the oil she has in the kitchen now is like breathing in an entire field of lavender flowers.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Paul suddenly remembered all the flowers he had seen in a shop window his first night in New York.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

The Hoffmans' website includes a list of vegetables,flowers and herbs that have produced acceptably for them in partial shade.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

On May thirtieth, eighteen sixty-eight, flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Girls like flowers and sunshine and laughter and young people,you know, and she didn't get any of them at home.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

He took a room in an old house next to a magnificent garden filled with strange flowers and other plants.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

And the planner organizes all the details for the celebration, from the flowers to the food to the entertainment.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Pruning can also remove unhealthy or unneeded parts of a plant, and increase the growth of flowers and fruit.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

As a result,there is a reduction in the number of nodes,or joints, that produce groups of flowers along stems.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The garden was quiet. The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

She nodded her head as she touched and smelled the flowers that her father had been so careful to avoid.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

They put the flowers in vases and began to play some fast and lively songs on their guitars.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

The women thought it was funny that Paul had told people he took them out to nice restaurants and sent them flowers.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He was famous for painting flowers,buildings and the natural environment in a way that explored color and the changing effects of light.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He realized that the perfume from those flowers was like the perfume of Beatrice's breath, but much stronger.

VOA: special.2009.05.30