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St Patrick’s Day is on March 17. It is observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick (AD 387 – 461). The Irish have observed the anniversary of his death as a religious holiday since the seventeen century. Today, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated as a secular holiday. This article examines the symbols of this holiday and provides ideas for Saint Patricks Day gifts.

The symbols of St. Patrick’s Day include the shamrock, the color green, the leprechauns, and anything Irish. The main symbol of this holiday is the shamrock, which is also the symbol of Ireland. According to Irish folklore, St. Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to illustrate the idea of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The color green is associated with this holiday probably because green is the color of the shamrock. Green clothings are worn by the Irish and non-Irish alike for the celebration. Even the Chicago River is dyed green for the celebration.

Another symbol of St. Patrick’s Day is the leprechaun. According to Irish folklore, a leprechaun is a merry little elf no more than 2 feet tall, wearing a green hat over his red hair. He is a cobbler who makes shoes for other fairies. Leprechauns are believed to possess a hidden pot of gold. If you can catch a leprechaun, he will have to tell you where his pot of gold is hidden. Hence, the leprechaun is believed to bring in Irish good luck and fortune.

Another important Irish symbol is the Claddagh, consisting of two hands gently clasping a crowned heart at the center. The heart is the Irish symbol of love. The hands are for friendship, and the crown is for everlasting loyalty. Thus, the Claddagh symbolizes love, loyality, and friendship. The Claddagh was designed by an Irish fisherman named Robert Joyce who was kidnapped by the pirates. He was sold as a slave to work in a goldsmith’s shop. While working as the goldsmith’s assistant, he created the first Claddagh ring to symbolize the love he had for the woman back in Ireland. When he finally regained his freedom in 1689, he returned to Ireland and found out the woman he loved was waiting for him to return, just as he had been waiting for her all those years. Nowadays, the Claddagh has become a popular Irish symbol, and not just for St. Patrick’s Day.

When selecting gifts to family members and friends for this holiday, you probably would prefer gifts that incorporate some of the Irish symbols discussed above. Some of these gifts are highlighted below:

1. Saint Patricks Day Fortune Cookies:
You can send a dozen exquisitely hand-decorated fortune cookies contained in a lovely gold rimmed wheel. These cookies are decorated with green shamrocks, and faces of the leprechauns. In addition, a message of good fortune can be found inside each cookie. You can send these delicious cookies and bring some Irish luck to your recipients.

2. Chocolate Dipped Oreos:
Similarly, You can send a box of Oreo cookies dipped in fine gourmet Belgian chocolates. These cookies are decorated with hand-crafted royal icing leprechauns and Shamrocks, and Saint Patrick’s Day candy sprinkles. These cookies will sure make great Saint Paticks Day treats.

3. Irish-Themed Coaster Set:
St. Patrick’s Day is about everything Irish. You can send a personalized Irish-themed coaster set to family members and friends, so they can proudly display their Irish heritage while protecting their furniture. You can choose among the Celtic designs and the Claddagh. These practical gifts are a great reminder of your Irish heritage.

4. Personalized Irish Picture Frames:
You can also send a personalized Irish picture frames to highlight your favorite picture. You can select designs from bright and bold green Celtic patterns, to traditional white scroll and cheery clovers. The picture frame will be a great way to add a little bit of Irish to your home dcor.

In summary, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by Irish and non-Irish alike as a fun holiday. You can bring some Irish luck to friends and family members with fortune cookies, chocolate dipped oreos, or a personalized Irish gift.

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Buying flower bulbs to plant and grow is an exciting experience that begins in the fall and continues through the spring. Dutch flowering bulbs are usually delivered to American ports by the month of September for fall planting. Major Dutch bulbs offerings include Dutch Amaryllis and African Amaryllis; daffodil bulbs and the famous, Tulip bulbs.

Amaryllis flower bulbs grow the showiest blooms and are pre-cooled to force fast flowering in 3 weeks after containerizing. Dutch bulb importers of Amaryllis offer a larger variety of selections and more bulbs to tempt the buyers. The African growers of Amaryllis bulbs appear to be enslaved to the Dutch Amaryllis importers distribution network, however, the African flowers that emerge on the Amaryllis stems are superior in many respects to the Dutch Amaryllis. The African Amaryllis blooms appear to offer clearer colors, more compact flower stalks, leaves that grow as the flowers appear, and more numerous flower stalks and grow from smaller bulbs. The large array of bloom colors from amaryllis includes red, pink, lavender, orange, yellow, white, green, maroon, red stripe, white stripe, pink stripe, and bi-color. Double numbers of petals on Amaryllis flowers are fast growing to be very popular choices to buy, since the petal count is increased to 12, instead of 6 that grow on most Amaryllis bulb flower stems, looking very similar to a huge carnation flower.

Daffodil flower bulbs are important Dutch bulbs for fall planting, because of their reasonable market cost, the ease of planting, and the growing of flower stalks in the Spring in various colors of yellow, white, orange, and the rare pink daffodil. Daffodil bulbs are easy to naturalize to bloom again every year.

Tulip bulbs are a native flowering plant of Turkey, but long ago tulips were hybridized on a large commercial scale by Dutch bulb growers. The cost of Dutch tulips has not always been inexpensive to buy, but tulip buyers today still love the spring flower colors of red, pink, orange, yellow, blue, purple, white, and bi-color. Cities and government organizations anxiously buy tulip bulbs in huge numbers during winter seasons to grow in beautiful landscape displays for the Spring.

Agapanthus bulbs are often called ‘Lily of the Nile’, and Agapanthus grows profusely along the Nile River in Egypt, and the blooms captivated the ancient African plant explorers who dug the bulbs for shipping back to European gardens. Blue and white colors of Agapanthus rhizomes have been hybridized in recent years to intensify colors, and some Agapanthus plants are cold hardy down to zero degrees F., whereas, the older clones of native Agapanthus were considered to be tropical in nature and not very cold hardy, so they were not introduced for planting in more Northern locations until recently, when gardeners from more Northern States experimented with new Agapanthus hybrids and determined their cold hardy tolerance.

The Canna lily rhizome has been long considered to be tropical in nature, with very little cold hardy resistance. The early American botanist and explorer, William Bartram, wrote in his book, Travels, in 1773, the discovery of Canna indica in Alabama near Mobile, Canna indica is surprising in luxuriance, presenting a glorious show, the stem rises six, seven, and nine feet high, terminating upwards with spikes of scarlet flowers.” Bartram also discovered the native Canna flaccida, growing near Fort Frederica, Georgia, located on the Island of St Simon’s. Canna lily colors are broad, red, white, pink, lavender, orange, yellow, speckled, bi-color and others. Some Canna flower growers plant cannas with variegated leaf forms that are striped with red, green, yellow, white, and pink. Dutch distributors of canna rhizomes still flood retail box store, garden centers with Victorian-age” canna bulbs of poor quality; varieties that had declined, run out”, 50 years ago, and they should have been discontinued and not presented to buyers at a garden center nursery.

Ginger lily rhizomes grow flowers with fragile, delicate blossoms many looking like miniature orchid flowers. The foliage of Ginger lilies is interestingly variable, growing in colors of green, yellow, maroon, and stripes of yellow or white. Interest in planting ginger lilies has surged in 20 years, because of the realization that many ginger lilies are cold hardy, surviving temperatures as cold as zero degrees F. The foliage and the flowers are pleasantly aromatic.

Daylilies are actually not bulbs but rhizomes, but are sold extensively as daylily bulbs. Thousands of named varieties of Daylily bulbs have been easily hybridized by legions of backyard gardeners and the selection improvement and flower quality is absolutely astonishing. The improvement has resulted in growing double flower daylily, miniature daylily, cold hardy daylilies, and compact clumping or large clumping daylily plants. It is staggering to realize all these many colors red, white, yellow, orange, purple, pink, and bi-color originated from an original native plant a seedy, yellow daylily growing wild on the forest edge.

Elephant Ear bulbs are very variable, some growing into bulbs and others into rhizomes. Gardeners have always been fascinated that the Elephant Ear plants grow large in the landscape into huge clumps with that unforgetable tropical appearance. Great interest in Elephant Ear bulbs has resulted in recent years by a nationally tested demonstration that Elephant Ear bulbs are cold hardy enough to survive temperatures of zero degrees. Curious leaf patterns appear on hybrid Elephant Ear plants, and the extensive variegated patterns that appear on the leaves add a stunning, mysterious attraction from their random markings and splashes of yellow, white, and maroon on the surfaces of various leaf sizes, some large enough to hide the body of a mature man or small enough leaf to place in the palm of the hand. Elephant Ear bulbs can grow as large as the human head or the size of a quarter. Offset bulbs are abundant from Elephant Ear bulbs in the fall as the plants grow dormant to regrow when replanted in the spring. In the wholesale trade of Elephant Ear bulbs, it is a common practice to divide them into two major commercial categories, the Alocasia, and the Colocasia, based on many taxonomical growth characteristics.

Crinum Lily bulbs offer to an adventurous hobbiest or gardener an antique garden bulb selection that has been reintroduced as improved crinum clones by the brilliant inductiveness of chemist, Lester Hannibal of Fair Oaks, California. Lester Hannibal back crossed and intercrossed many native crinum lily species to offer the gardener an excellent, cold hardy crinum, an interspecific hybrid”, that can be grown as far North as Philadelphia, PA, zone 6, and to survive intense freezes of below zero temperatures. Many of Lester Hannibal’s crinum flower hybrids were a re-creation of obsolete but popular commercial crosses that were made by Cecil Houdyshel in the 1930′s, but largely improved upon from the original Powellii” forms with clear, white and pink colors, an increase in the number of flowers in the umbel, extended flowering periods, an eliminatio of drooping flowers, an intensification of fragrance and early flowering after sprouting from the germination of the seed. The milk and wine” crinum lilies were named, because the flowers were white (milk) and wine striped colors. Crinum colors are burgundy, red, pink, white, greenish-yellow, and orange. Crinum bulbs increase by growing into clumps of multiple offsets from the central mother bulb, or by planting the seed of some cultivars or species.

-Rare, Hard-To-Find Flower Bulbs of Merit-
Many rare minor flower bulbs are unavailable to buy anywhere, except by possibly exchanging plants with collectors and hobbiest. The Amazon lily, Encharist grandiflora, blooms with six white, daffodil like petals, and a green or glowing yellow cup radiating from the center. This delicate flower can be remembered from days past for its wonderful charming fragrance. The Bird of Paradise is known for the two tropical forms, the Strelizia reginae, the most common: brilliantly colored flowers with orange, red, and blue glaring blossoms; and the Strelizia nicholae that grows large, showy, white flowers. The Blood Lily, Scadoxus mutliflorus, forms baby-head sized globular flowers with red filamented petals and radiate fragile threads of red that are affixed to the to the center of the bloom, great for container culture. The Red Butterfly lily, Odontonema strictum, won the perennial plant award of the year in Florida in the year 2000, and butterflies and hummingbirds flock to visit the fiery red spikes, beginning in mid-August and continuing until the first hard freeze. The Calla lily, Calla palustrus, has been hybridized with many other Calla lily species to grow into many splendid colors, but the new hybrids are not as popular as the white, fragrant, winter-blooming, Calla aethiopica; and the yellow calla, Calla aethiopica. Clivia lilies, Clivia minata, are choice heavy shade-requiring plants that produce gigantic clusters of orange flowers, cup shaped, with a yellow throat, and often will re-bloom two or three times from large bulbs. The Gloriosa lilies, Gloriosa rothschildiana, a climbing vine that clothes itself with recurved, star-like flowers that are favored and admired by florists and flower arrangers, because the blooms last so well. The Inca Lily, Alstomeria aurantiaca, has become naturalized in America, as an escaped bulb from the tropical jungles of Peru. The Alstromeria flowers last well as a cut-flower, and waxy, greenish-red funnels begin blooming vigorously in the spring. Lycoris are a charming group of flower bulbs that called Spider Lily”, and they bloom in floral colors of pink, yellow, white, and red, Lycoris radiata, which is the most widely grown. The Pineapple Lily, Eucomis bicolor, grows into flowers that are shaped like miniature pineapple fruits in colors of white and rusty-red. Scilla flower bulbs are grown in large numbers as bedding plants, many Dutch varieties are small and make good cut flowers, but the best cold hardy Scilla is the Scilla peruviana that forms and grows into glowing, purplish-blue flowers that either grow as well as bedding plants, or containerized plants. Voodoo lilies, Amorphophallus bulbifer, are strange and bazaar leafy bulbous plants, both in leaf and flower, with a suggestive look of snakes, cobras, and other vermin that may be lurking beneath the leopard-spotted menacing leaves. Zephyranthes are called rain lilies”, and softly bloom in colors of pink, Zephyranthes grandiflora; yellow, Zephyranthes citrina; white, Zephyranthes atamasco; and a mind-numbing number of Zephyranthes bulb mongrels that are distributed by a retired breeder in San Antonia, Texas, who apparently has nothing better to do, than paralyze all the worlds earnest taxonomists into the task of assembling the records of his Mexican-American bulb-children lineage into a staggering Encyclopedia publication.

Patrick A. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, has an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and has cultivated flowering bulbs for over three decades.

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Starting a young horse under saddle requires a lot of groundwork to build the strong foundation for riding that you want. Ground driving is one of those steps of training that should be done before you ever step foot in the stirrup. If your horse has been introduced to gentling, sacking out, leading, yielding to pressure, and wearing a saddle, he is ready to ground drive.

You should accustom your horse to giving to rein pressure, first of all. Outfit your bridle with a plain snaffle bit (O-ring or full-cheek is preferred) that has a thick mouthpiece, as that will be most gentle on an inexperienced mouth. If you have no bitting harness or surcingle, a western saddle will work just fine. To teach the horse to give to rein pressure, you will tie his head around on one side at a time. The right rein should be completely loose, with enough drape in it as to not contact the bit at all when the horse turns to the left, and tied up to the right-side off-billet ring on the saddle. The left rein should be tied to the left stirrup at the exact length where there is contact on the bit if the horse’s head is facing straight ahead, but where there is no rein pressure at all if he gives his head and turns to the left slightly. Then the horse can be turned loose in an arena or round pen to figure things out. You should stay nearby in case a rein comes untied or other mishap.

The horse may turn in circles, pull straight ahead, mouth the bit, or ignore it. You may need to adjust the rein tighter or looser. But the result you want is for the horse to turn his head to the left and find a release of pressure and learn to give to it. If he is constantly stiffening against the rein and not yielding to it, he needs more time. If he stands still with his head turned left, or turns in circles to the left, he is learning to yeild, and this is what you are looking for. Then switch sides so that the right rein is tied to the right stirrup, and the left rein is tied up loosely. This can be done in short sessions for several days, or until the horse seems comfortable and smart about giving to the rein pressure on each side. When the horse will turn his head towards the pull of one rein, he is ready to begin ground driving.

Long reins can be made from poly ropes with snaps at the ends, or even light-weight lunge lines if you don’t have long driving reins. Run the lines through the appropriate rings on the surcingle, or else through the stirrups of your western saddle. This will help keep them up and away from the horse’s front feet and prevent him from getting tangled up. You can pass the right side rein over the back of the saddle until you are ready to begin driving. Then, standing behind the horse and holding both reins, use voice commands and rein cues to guide him into a walk. Stay in an enclosed arena or round pen until your horse becomes familiar and responsive to the reins. You should practice all aspects of control with ground driving, such as moving forward, turning, stopping, and backing up.

The experience of ground driving will prepare your young horse for a rider and make him much more comfortable and controllable when you are actually in the saddle. It may not guarantee a smooth transition into riding, but he will have the knowledge of reining and stopping which may save you a lot of trouble once you step into the stirrups. Ground driving will help contribute to a great start for your young horse.

Kerrie Tischer is the owner of LiveryStable.net If you’re in the market to sell or buy a horse, LiveryStable.net is the place to start. They offer horses for sale as well as detailed information on riding, selecting a good horse and much more.

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