The sleeping beauty flower

 The fairy tale of "The Sleeping Beauty" is a well known loved story about a curse. At the very beginning it centres on the baby princess with a celebration. Fairies are gathered to bring gifts to the princess, and all is a happy joyous moment. Then a dark presence of a sinister fairy who put a curse on the princess and entire kingdom. As this happened, the distressed king made sure to burn every single spinning wheel to prevent the curse happening. Many years passed. The princess grew to be a very beautiful young woman, and it was then on her birthday that she explored an unknown tower while playing hide and seek.  

 The story is adventurous and magical. The princess is named Aurora in the Disney film animation. She's also named Briar Rose in earlier book form. This is the very plant that she represent. The Sleeping Beauty is also a tale of romance. Her name in the Grimm Brothers version of the story is Briar Rose, very apt and enchanting.

The briar rose is a pretty flower belonging to the hedge plant variety, which can become prickly and dense growing into walls. This is the same plant that shrouded the entire castle, protecting and hiding the sleeping princess. A prince ventured there and was so determined to locate her. Before him, many brave men tried and failed, as the sharp thorns of briar roses killed them. The prince was able to chop away at the briar hedge wall, and found an opening. Briar roses grow pink flowers and berries called red hips. The leaves are perfumed of apple scent.  This is a tale of rebirth, immortality and growing.  

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Cinderella flowers

 Of all the most famous plants featured in the story of Cinderella is the pumpkin. That round orange funny vegetable of the squash family, popping up all over the field patch where it grows in abundance. Pumpkin flowers are yellow and star shaped. They appear along the vines of pumpkins and can be eaten. There are different varieties and they've been given names such as "Cinderella Pumpkins", the typical big orange pumpkins that resemble the magic pumpkin coach in the Cinderella story. These are also called "Winter Squash". For exciting Cinderella pumpkin recipes then visit Specialty Produce.

Pumpkins are all associated with many Autumn, Harvest Festival, Halloween and Thanksgiving. In Cinderella story, the fairy godmother turned the pumpkin into a gorgeous stagecoach. There' plenty of magic and nurturing of the fairy godmother. The pumpkin itself, a vegetable that can grow many in a good season, delivers Cinderella to the ball. 

The original story of "Cinderella" was written by Charles Perrault in 1697. In the original version, not the modern version today, the most essential plant was a hazel tree. Cinderella's father once gave her a hazel twig, that she buried in soil at her mother's grave. The twig became a tree, and Cinderella spoke to it. She felt comfort with the hazel tree that was a connection to her mother's grave. The hazel tree represents the spirit of her mother, who continues to nurture and protect her. She was the original fairy godmother.

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