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In the movie Jurassic Park, two of the characters mention that life finds a way. I always liked idea and believe that wild flowers are evidence of this truth. Wild flowers are like people: each with its own personality. What a plant has been accustomed to in nature it desires always. In fact, when removed from its own sort of living conditions, it sickens and dies. But wild flowers have a knack for finding those niches, even in the most unlikely of places, and bring their beauty with them.

Yellow flowers bloom
But only during the day
At night, closed tightly

The color yellow is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Bright, pure yellow is an attention getter. In heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty. Later the meaning of yellow was connected with cowardice.

Yellow is an unstable and spontaneous color, so avoid using yellow if you want to suggest stability and safety.

The Rosebud
By William Broome (1689-1745)

Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose,
The beauties of thy leaves disclose!
–But thou, fair Nymph, thyself survey
In this sweet offspring of a day.
That miracle of face must fail,
Thy charms are sweet, but charms are frail:
Swift as the short-lived flower they fly,
At morn they bloom, at evening die:
Though Sickness yet a while forbears,
Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares:
Now Helen lives alone in fame,
And Cleopatra’s but a name:
Time must indent that heavenly brow,
And thou must be what they are now.

I had a precious rosebud within my garden fair.
Everyday I watched it and gave it tenderest care!
It grew in grace and beauty till all who saw admired,
and of its exhaltation. Beholders never tired!
– From “My Rosebud”
by Anonymous�