Red Gerber Daisy - Do It Anyway
The Gerber or Gerbera daisy is a genus of plant from the sunflower family 'Asteracea.' The flower was named in honor of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.
There are approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa, and tropical Asia. The Gerber daisy is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as a cut flower. It's also very important commercially and is the fifth most used cut flower in the world.
This is one of my mom's favorite photographs and is also popular with my customers.
The Mother Teresa poem, "Do It Anyway" reads as follows:
"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build it anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway."