Blue flowers

If in the very top of the summer to find yourself somewhere in the center of Russia in the midst of a ripening wheat field, surrounded by a pine forest, exhausted in the hot haze of July, your eyes will always involuntarily look among the ears of a small flower of the celestial blue - cornflower. The legendary flower, about which verses and songs were composed, is a symbol of summer and Russia. He is unremarkable among other wildflowers - neither in size nor in beauty, but only in his heavenly coloration, which so captivatingly attracts attention to himself. By the purity of the blue color, he is not equal among the wildflowers of Russia.

Legends of the blue flower

Once upon a time there lived a young man named Vasil. He was handsome and blue-eyed. And it was necessary for one little mermaid to fall in love with him. What she did not do, and he showed himself to her eyes, and that he remembered about her, splashed water on his way, and that water turned into blue flowers, but Vasil remained deaf to the calls of the beautiful mermaid, and she suffered. The mermaid was offended and put to sleep a handsome man forever. And these flowers, turned from water, have since been called cornflowers and remind everyone of that ancient undivided love.

And one more legend about a blue flower and unrequited love. In ancient times, in Ellad lived an extraordinarily gifted youth. He was in love with one girl, but the misfortune - she died. From memory he sculpted a statue of his beloved and with the power of his immense love breathed life into it. The gods on Olympus learned about this, became angry and turned the young man into a dolphin. Often the dolphin swam to shore in the hope of seeing his beloved. But she did not come to the sea. But one day he saw her, and she examined among the waves of the dolphin and waved to him. The dolphin threw out at her feet the flowering delphiniums, so that she could remember who loved her so much. Became blue delphinium flowers from the Greeks symbolize sadness.

Pure blue

It so happened that many blue people symbolize pure colors, faithfulness and constancy, pure love, chastity and honesty. They are willingly used in creating a garden design, in floristry, in bouquets for various occasions. In the traditions of many countries, the bride's adornment with fresh flowers. They wove in hair, they decorated a wedding dress, and, of course, the bride went to the crown with the bouquet. The tradition has survived to this day, and no bride marries without a bouquet. Usually it is white and pink roses, but the bouquet in blue tones will also be appropriate and original. Flowers blue and blue together with white, with a small twig of green, give the image of the bride tenderness, fragility and refinement. Heavenly shade have flowers of hydrangeas and irises, muscari and lavender, cornflowers and forget-me-nots. And they are all appropriate in the bouquet of the bride.

Natural beauty

Blue flowers are not found as often as yellow or red. A flower bed, where only such shades of flowers will be picked up, can be made up of plants collected from different parts of the world. It can be delphinium and iris, hibiscus and hyacinth, hydrangea and lavender. They have different shades - from the gentle lilac to the darkest blue, almost black. When the blooms bloom, the photo just needs to be done to leave their fragile beauty to memory.