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Question
Let us sing this song -
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
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Solution
Do it yourself.
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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 | ______ | ______ |
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| Which flowers bloom all year round? | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers bloom only in certain months? | ______ | ______ |
- Have you ever seen a board like this put up anywhere?
- Do people pluck flowers even when this board is there?
- Why do you think they do this?
- Should they do this?
- What would happen if everybody plucked flowers?
You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.
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.
Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.
Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.
- Find out the prices of these different forms.
One flower ______ One garland ______ One bouquet ______ - Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
- Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?
You could do this in groups of five or six each.
- Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
- Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
- Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
- Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
- After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
