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| Crocus, the first flower of spring |
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| Bi-color Daffodils |
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tiny white lawn flowers, now identified as Star of Bethlehem flowers.
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With the exception of the tiny white flowers (whose name I do not know), all of these are examples of cultivated flowers. Each was once a wild species of flower that a long time ago, people decided were pretty enough to plant by their home and in public spaces. Over time, people select some traits to be exaggerated, such as color, petal size and size of the flower itself. All of them are perennials, meaning you plant them once and they keep coming back year after year assuming the roots stay healthy and alive. Perennials are a great part of the 'urban nature lanscape' in that is something directly related to people, we manage and control it, but it's still pretty and wild, but not so wild.
