Cohabiting are various true flowers such as Filipendula ulmaria, Valeriana officinalis, Iris pseudacorus and Angelica sylvestris.
Many species pollinate flowers such as orchids and petunias while sucking nectar.
Flowers such as devils-bit scabious and early gentian can be found.
Line is provided by branches or slender, steeple-like flowers such as snapdragon, delphinium, and stock.
The roadsides bloom with wild flowers such as the aniseed-scented sweet cicely and pink splashes of bistort.
Some flowers, such as arums and carrion flowers, have qualitatively different odours that, to humans, are unpleasant.
Roses and woody-stemmed flowers such as chrysanthemums can frequently be revived by recutting and placing them in hot water.
Adults feed primarily on the nectar of flowers, such as those of chicory, knapweed, dogbane, and aster.
To cheer you through the winter, plant some cyclamen - choose varieties that give you beautiful leaves as well as flowers, such as C coum 'Silver Leaf'.
One curiosity to the modern mind is that certain flowers, such as marigolds, violets, and primroses, were used as flavourings in the kitchen.
Decoration was most often by the Classical ornament forms seen in architecture: the fret (key) pattern, flowers such as honeysuckle in running anthemion patterns, circles (paterae), and stripes.
