Flowers go back to the beginning of time. Most people don’t know that back in the medieval days, doctors used all types of flowers to heal people. However now they are mainly used as decoration. If you want to know more about how these pretty flowers were used as medicine, then stay toned.

The first medicine

Doctors in the old days [medieval, Ancient Egypt] mostly all used herbs and flowers. Before all the medicine we see today. They use to mix the herbs and flowers together. They used the following flowers, for the these reasons

• rose-has high vitamin C, rose petals and hips are used for heart heath, skin hydrating, and stuff like upset stomach.
• Lavender-It was mostly used for putting people to sleep, or to calm nerve’s, it was used in essential oil.
• Echinacea-It was mostly used to boost the immune system, it was known to shorten the common cold, and flu.
• Jasmine-It reduces stress, it also improves sleep, and helps with skin growth.
• Hibiscus-Reduces blood pressure, helps with digestion, and helps protect the liver.
• Dandelion-they are used in salads because of they are high in vitamins.

Sahenks Ferry

This beautiful garden is located in Conestoga, PA. If you want to watch the flowers boom there, you should go around late march-early June. Now many think it’s large, but it’s up to you if you think 92- acres is large or not. Now with that much space it’s no wonder that they have70 different types of flowers! That’s a lot, in my garden I only have around 5 different flower species, now compared to 70 i feel like i don’t have a lot of flowers. There are some places where you can hunt, because deer love going around the flowers, so if you like hunting and looking at flowers this is the perfect place for you. Now finally this place was surprising built around 1775! That’s old, and to still have many flowers thriving is very incredible. This place has seen it all and is still open for visitors to feel peace for once. So if you want to hunt or just to look at flowers you should come here.

The Lovely Rose

Many know the rose for its iconic dark red look, but did you know there are over 300 hundred over species in the world! Another famous one is the white rose, for its clean and elegant look. Now roses have changed so much over the past 35 million years! That’s right the rose is over 35 million years according to rocks that were in graved with fossils of roses. Did you know there is a rose bush that covers 8,00 square feet. That’s huge, I bet they get a lot of roses every spring. My mom has a mini rose bush she gets maybe 5 or 6 every time they bloom. Know that we know the largest rose bush, let’s talk about the most expensive. So you’re probably thinking about like around 1,000, or maybe 100,000 at max, but the actual price is 5 million dollars! Now why was this rose so expensive, well the only real reason was because it was grown by a celebrity. Now here is the weirdest thing we have done to roses. So we have sent many’s things to space, humans, a dog, a rose. Wait a rose?! Yep, that’s right NASA sent a rose to space to test if it dies from lack of oxygen. After all that did you know there is a rose suggest to be over 1,000 years old! That’s insane how did they even keep it alive that long? Many say its a rumor but it could be possible.

Oldest Flower

The oldest flower known is the Monteschia vidalil. It is suggest to be around 130 million years old according to fossils just like the rose. But sadly it is extinct, because it was once harvested a lot and that lead the extinction of the longest known flower species. It produced fruits with only one seed inside which is pretty rare if you compare it to other fruit which have many. It was also a water plant, that was completely submerged under the water. Making people have to dive in to collect them. That is the reason we know about this flower in the first place. The water fossilized the flower, keeping it looking the same through out the years. I wished i would be able to grow this flower because of how cool it is, but i guess its time ran out.

The one who found the flowers first

Now there is no single person who first found flowers, but most mainly believe it was early natives. The reason is because they used flowers as medicine, food, and rituals. As they roamed the lands for flowers it was most likely them that first found them, tho they did not use them as decoration. Now the person credited with the ‘discovery’ was Carl Linnaeus in 1735. Now this does not at all mean he found them, but he did name and make known to the world that they do exist. Rudolf Jakob cameraius was the first to find out how flowers produced, which lead people to more understand the beautiful nature of them. Many religious people Believe Adam in the Bible was the first to find and see flowers, As it says in the Bible, he was the first human, but it all depends on what you believe. I myself do think Adam was the first one to see flowers as I am mostly a Christian that’s just my opinion.

The Biggest Flower Garden

The biggest garden in the world is the keukenhef gardens in Netherlands. It’s so big it holds about 7 million flower buds, many are different species. The craziest thing is they are planted by hand each year, this is so huge machines don’t damage any of the land. It covers about 79 acres which is insane, i wonder how long it took to build it, and how long it takes to plant each seed. My garden is way smaller than this, only holding about 7 different species of flower. It is know mostly for its huge fields of tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils. I love tulips and i would love to go someday, but it is very exclusive. Opening only 8 weeks each spring, to make sure we only see the beautiful full grown flowers, and when it. Is opened it is paced with people.