Encyclopedia / Facts :

• Christmas plants: A berry merry season - with pictures
  "Sarah Raven considers the three British plants at the heart of our traditional celebrations."
  Holly, ivy, mistletoe...
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Who, What, Why: Which countries wear poppies?
  "England footballers are not allowed to wear poppies when playing Spain at the weekend, says world football's governing body, Fifa.
  So what countries wear poppies to respect the war dead?"
  See : The answer + Why the poppy ? + Where did the idea to sell poppies come from?
  (BBC)
  
  

• Flowers a-z (flowerpossibilities.com)

• Names of Spring flowers - with photos (englisch-hilfen.de)
  

• Plant-Related Words with pictures (enchantedlearning.com)

Museums :

• Nature museum unveils 'cocoon'
  "London's Natural History Museum unveils the interactive centre
  that will soon house 34 million plant and insect specimens...
  The spectacular new wing of London's Natural History Museum
  has been unveiled."
  (BBC)

  

Cliparts :

• Flowers - cliparts (hulamall.com)

Meanings :

• Lily of the Valley - Legend and Tradition
  "In the "language of flowers", the lily of the valley
  signifies the return of happiness."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Meanings Of Most Flowers (800florals.com)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Plants - interactive quiz
  (BBC Learning English)

  

• Flowers - "Match each picture with a name." (prof2000.pt)

• Spring Flowers (with photos) -
  "Write the name of the flower (singular) into the correct gap.
  ... you can look up the names of the flowers."
  (englisch-hilfen.de)
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Plant Labelling (primaryresources.co.uk)

  

• The Parts of a Flower
  - gap-fill activity to print - NO picture
  (SCIENCE: Life Processes and Living Things:
  Green Plants / Reproduction)
  (Primary Resources)

  

• "Label the flowers ,
  including the rose, daisy, daffodil, tulip, sunflower, lily, foliage, and vase."
  (enchantedlearning.com)

Lesson plans :

• Scientists Regrow 30,000-Year-Old Plant (22nd February, 2012) - a lesson plan with audio
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  

Poems :

• Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake (Wikipedia)

• Because You Left Me A Handful of Daffodils - a poem by Max Garland
  (The Library of Congress)
  
  

• I wandered lonely as a cloud (repeatafterus.com)
  

  by William Wordsworth (Read and listen) - (repeatafterus.com) "For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils."

  William Wordsworth, British poet (1770-1850)

Videos :

• Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower - "From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'."
  (vimeo.com)

Songs :

• In An English Country Garden by Jimmie Rodgers (YouTube)
  + LYRICS
  flowers / insects / spiders / snakes / songbirds...
  (artists.letssingit.com)

• Songs about flowers (alaskajim.com) - UPDATED

• April Showers by Al Jolson :
  "Though April showers may come your way,
  They bring the flowers that bloom in May."
  (Proverb : 'April showers bring forth May flowers')

• Bed of roses by Bette Midler or Bon Jovi :
  "I'm tired of trying to be free.
  Gonna lay down like a sigh in my bed of roses.
  Bed of roses I believed my life would be."

• Daffodils (William Wordsworth) - (geocities.com/holidaysfun)
  

• Kill Yourself by Stormtroopers Of Death :
  "Dig yourself a hole in the ground
  Push up daisies six feet down"

• We Are The Champions by Queen
  "... it's been no bed of roses"

• Poison Ivy by The Rolling Stones

• Rose Without A Thorn by Marque
  (Proverb : 'There's no rose without a thorn')
  (lyrics007.com)

• San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
  by Scott McKenzie ou Bob Dylan
  
  

• She bangs by William Hung :
  "'Cause she walks like she talks
  And she talks like she walks...
  I go crazy 'cause she
  Looks like a flower
  But she stings like a bee...
  if it looks like love..."

Idioms and Proverbs :

• Kill Yourself by Stormtroopers Of Death :
  "Dig yourself a hole in the ground
  Push up daisies six feet down"

• April Showers by Al Jolson :
  "Though April showers may come your way,
  They bring the flowers that bloom in May."
  (Proverb : 'April showers bring forth May flowers')

• Bed of roses by Bette Midler or Bon Jovi :
  "I'm tired of trying to be free.
  Gonna lay down like a sigh in my bed of roses.
  Bed of roses I believed my life would be."

• A bed of roses - Meaning (answers.com)

• We Are The Champions by Queen
  "... it's been no bed of roses"

• Rose Without A Thorn by Marque
  (Proverb : 'There's no rose without a thorn')
  (lyrics007.com)

Cards :

• America the Beautiful - Animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson
  (jacquielawson.com)

  

• Happy Easter : Card 1 + Card 2 (Jacquie Lawson's cards)