Draw the picture of a bud and its flower in your notebook.

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Chapter 11: The Valley of Flowers - Blooming buds! [Page 89]

Chapter 11 The Valley of Flowers
Blooming buds! | Q 3 | Page 89

Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.

From the pictures given above, and other flowers that you know, give names of two which

grow on trees	______	______
grow on bushes	______	______
grow on creepers	______	______
grow on water plants	______	______
bloom only at night	______	______
bloom in the day and close at night	______	______
Which flowers can you recognise by their scent, even with your eyes closed?	______	______
Which flowers bloom all year round?	______	______
Which flowers bloom only in certain months?	______	______

What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?

Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.

Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.

What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?

How is rose water used in your house? Is it used as medicine, sweets, lassi or something else? Find out and tell others.

Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.

Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?

Are any special flowers used on certain occasions/festivals by your elders? Make a list of different occasions and the flowers used at each.