<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://gardenerstips.co.uk/blog/flowers/seeing-double-the-awe-factor/">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/4730849528_dfc06813fd.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Double flowers are generally ‘Gardener bred’ and not naturally available in the wild.</p> <p>Doubles are harder for insects to pollinate and therefore single flowers have survived and evolved more readily.</p> <p>Double flowers were the aim of many Victorian breeders and plantsmen as they sought the awe factor.</p> <p>These blousy double Peonies have this Awe factor with both colour, double petal form and a tremendous scent.</p> <p><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1087/4730206365_25e0a9398d.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span id="more-8415"></span>Read more about <a href="http://gardenerstips.co.uk/blog/flowers/single-and-double-flowers/">single and double flowers</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2283&awinaffid=81944&clickref=&p=http://www.thompson-morgan.com/plants1/search.html?section=all&search=<b>double%20flowers</b>"> Thompson Morgan</a> have a supply of double freesia and snowdrops in addition to many other flowers to grow from seed.</p> <p><strong>History of Double Flowers</strong></p> <ul> <li> Double flowers are the earliest documented form of floral abnormality.</li> <li>Theophrastus mentioned double roses in his Enquiry into Plants, written before 286BC.</li> <li>Pliny also described double roses in 1st century BC.</li> <li>In China, double peonies were known and selected by around 750AD.</li> <li>Around 1000AD double varieties of roses were cultivated to form the China rose. Today, most cultivated roses bear this double-flower trait.</li> <li>Herbalists of the Renaissance recognized double flowers and began to cultivate them in their gardens.</li> <li> John Gerard created illustrations of many double flowers beside their wild-type counterparts in 1597.</li> <li>A double-flowered variety of Marsh Marigold was discovered and cultivated in Austria in the late 16th century, becoming a valued garden plant. <em> (source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-flowered">wikipedia</a>)</em></li> </ul>
