How are Flowers quite pretty lookin, when they live and grow up in Dirt??

Answer 1

Use of word 'Dirt' with a capital D can raise objection.

All plants grow from the soil ( And not Dirt. ).

The soil is our mother Earth.

So where is the contradiction ? the use of word Dirt in the question implies something Dirty .

There is nothing dirty about soil ( Mother Earth )

Plants take only water and minerals from the soil and not soil particle . Even if it were so , soil particles are not dirt or dirty per se . It is man who makes it dirty by his activities.

In fact soil has its own fragrance that is more pronounced when it receives the first rain after a prolonged hot and dry season .

If you wish to wonder , then wonder at the fact of forgiving nature of mother earth that continues to shower the man with her bounties in spite being abused .

Wonder at the diversity of flowering plant --The number of species of flowering plants is estimated to be in the range of 250,000 to 400,000. The number of families is about 462.

Ponder over what the nature has given you ( Man in general) and how you repay .

Answer 2

I like the answers about why flowers have evolved the way they have, but to better address the question, really, it *is* amazing how any flower, pretty or ugly to the eye, can transform out of dirt, isn't it?
How? No different than humans or anything else living. They begin with the miracle of life. There's more than just dirt that does it - so, it takes a flower seed in this case. Within that seed is where all the magic lives. It just takes the right environment to awaken it. Dirt, go figure. I guess mud pies are worth something after all.

Answer 3

Dirt? Taint dirt tis soil.

Soil is fantastic stuff. It is knowledge of the soil in different climatic conditions and its relationship with the fauna and flora that is vital for economic exploitation of the environment.

The soil that is important is what is known as top soil. This has an important constituent known as humus, which is built up by soil organisms processing decaying living matter. In the rain forests the soil is poor, that is why clearing the forests is so devastating.

Plants make their own food and the soil provides the nutrients and minerals for them to grow and develop.

Actually plants don't need soil provided that your compost or growing medium provides all the minerals they require they will grow. Having said that I am aware that some plants, like some trees, need a symbiotic relationship with fungus in order to grow.

Most flowers are colour specific, and often flowers of the same colour will appear at the same season, presumably to attract a particular insect. Not all flowers rely on colour, pear blossom, smells like rotten meat. Others offer a reward, nectar. ( Bees find more nectar in dandelions than in apple blossom, so if a grower puts bees into his orchards he has to be sure that there are no competing flowers around.) Some orchids take the biscuit because they resemble the sex organs of the female bee, and rely on the services of a horny drone.

They also obviously have evolved to appeal to humans who will spend hours, tending them, propagating them, admiring them, giving them to wives and girlfriends, displaying them, and laying them down in honour of their dead.

Answer 4

When pretty stuff dies, it crumbles into little bits, and flowers pick the little bits out of the dirt. That's why they start out looking like weeds. They have to get together a lot of them little pretty bits to make a flower.

Answer 5

Ask a Buddhist practitioner who meditates on the lotus. He or she can tell you how a lotus flower that grows out of the mud can blossom above the muddy water surface.

;)

Answer 6

Evolution. Bees and other pollenators prefer pretty flowers, so the ugly ones die off.
(You'd expect the entire human race would be beautiful now then, eigh? I suppose we can blame beer-goggles for that)

Answer 7

To attract the various insects which are very much part of Nature and the procreation of the flora and fauna.

Answer 8

Same goes for a lot of fabulous ladies

Answer 9

Things turned out lucky that way.
P.S. Tell Earl he should not not taken the fall for his ex.

Answer 10

Coz god looks after them!! helps them bloom frm the obsticals that r in their way!