History Main / FillItWithFlowers

* In the 1994 short film ''Film/HomeAwayFromHome'', written and directed by Maureen Blackwood, a Ghanaian single mother ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUeoqX04DvQ Ellen Thomas]]) lives in a dreary housing development in London. Extremely homesick, she builds a traditional mud hut in the backyard. Her very "modern", snarky children, especially teenage Fumi (Ashabi Ajikawo), are at first embarrassed, then enchanted. Fumi begins sleeping in the hut and dressing more traditionally, including wearing ''kente''. Unfortunately, the white neighbors are scandalized. They destroy the hut and scrawl "SAVAGES" on the sidewalk. Fumi, overcome with rage, recruits her siblings to help her fill the backyard with huge, showy, colorful flowers, both as a gift to her mom and retaliation to the racist neighbors. This was shown on the PBS series ''Alive TV'' (originally ''Alive from Off Center''), which featured a very wide variety of experimental short films.

[[caption-width-right:300:She's got a [[VisualPun green thumb]].

[[caption-width-right:300:She's got a green thumb.]]

Depressed by this landscape, a (usually) female character decides to rectify the situation. She wants to plant flowers throughout the land, to transform it into an Eden of multicoloured blooms.

Related to HopeSproutsEternal. See also FlowerMotifs.

* In the 1994 short film "Home Away From Home", written and directed by Maureen Blackwood, a Ghanaian single mother ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUeoqX04DvQ Ellen Thomas]]) lives in a dreary housing development in London. Extremely homesick, she builds a traditional mud hut in the backyard. Her very "modern", snarky children, especially teenage Fumi (Ashabi Ajikawo), are at first embarrassed, then enchanted. Fumi begins sleeping in the hut and dressing more traditionally, including wearing ''kente''. Unfortunately, the white neighbors are scandalized. They destroy the hut and scrawl "SAVAGES" on the sidewalk. Fumi, overcome with rage, recruits her siblings to help her fill the backyard with huge, showy, colorful flowers, both as a gift to her mom and retaliation to the racist neighbors. This was shown on the PBS series ''Alive TV'' (originally ''Alive from Off Center''), which featured a very wide variety of experimental short films.

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* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/lily-s-proposal Lily's Proposal]], a phenomenon that causes the world to bloom with flowers whenever TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is imminent. It's an atypical example of the trope in that while the trope typically focuses on hope and new growth, Lily's Proposal signals the end, that people should accept their inevitable doom and spend the time they have left in peace.
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* In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', Firion has the dream to fill the world with [[SomethingAboutARose wild roses]]. The wild rose itself is both a metaphor for people living free from oppression of tyrants like his ArchEnemy TheEmperor as well as a throwback to the watchword of the [[LaResistance Rebel Army]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII''. Wishy-washy hero of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Cloud Strife, who cannot find a reason to continue fighting, finds strength in Firion's dream and it helps inspire him and later Terra to keep fighting.
* Most of ''Videogame/{{Okami}}'' is about Amaterasu's quest to sweep the blight from Nippon and restore the flowers and growing plants. Even enemies turn into flowers when she's defeated them.

* In the epilogue of the Massacre ending of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', [[spoiler:after Nanashi becomes the new Creator God]], the first thing he makes is a huge field full of flowers out of the sunless and dying city of Tokyo.
* One of the main focuses of ''VideoGame/PikminBloom'' is to populate the (at first) barren in-app map with trails of flowers by walking in the real world. The flowers disappear from the world after a week, encouraging players to keep going out.
* Mariel from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' tries to bring back greenery to Filgaia by planting and caring for as many flowers as possible. This is because she has an Elw, so has a strong bond with nature but also because [[spoiler: she's atoning for her brother's mistake in creating the Guardian Blade and the Holmcross Project, both of which caused immense devastation to the planet.]]

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/lily-s-proposal Lily's Proposal]], a phenomenon that causes the world to bloom with flowers whenever TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is imminent. It's an atypical example of the trope in that while the trope typically focuses on hope and new growth, Lily's Proposal signals the end, that people should accept their inevitable doom and spend the time they have left in peace.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}}'': When Yi plays her father's violin, the music covers the Buda statue with white flowers. At first, she thinks that Everest did that, but the Yet signals it was she - and the violin he altered with his magic.

* ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': [[spoiler: After Crista is gulped by Hexxus by her own will, branches start sprouting on his body. Encouraged by Pips, the fairies get together to turn Hexxus in a tree, which is naked except by a small green portion with flowers. One of the flowers opens, freeing Crista, and flowers start blooming at her passage, hinting she really took Magi Lune's place. After Zak is restored to his normal size and reunites to his human friends, he turns and sees the fairies covering the tree and all the ground around it with plants and flowers.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'': During the credits, Lucille,Maude,Charles,Raoul,Émile and Francoeur fly on an airship over the flooded Sena to drop chemically altered seeds on the water. The river gets full with giant sunflowers that suck the excess of water.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'': Begun by Avatar the good wizard as he and Weehawk make their way into Scortch One. Avatar is still suffering from the jolt that cute fairy Elinor slew Peace, then defected to the forces of Scortch, so he distracts himself by magically creating colorful flowers amid the bleak and gaunt tenements. Weehawk the elf has his hands full steering this dotty old wizard toward their objective: a showdown with wicked wizard Blackwolf.

* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': This is of course the objective of Mary Lennox. She finds her aunt's old garden, neglected and dead-looking after ten years, and sets about trying to restore it. [[spoiler: The sight of the garden restored to its former beauty, and his son walking again, is what brings her uncle out of his HeroicBSOD]].

* In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' Firion has the dream to fill the world with [[SomethingAboutARose wild roses]]. The wild rose itself is both a metaphor for people living free from oppression of tyrants like his ArchEnemy TheEmperor as well as a throwback to the watchword of the [[LaResistance Rebel Army]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII''. Wishy-washy hero of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Cloud Strife, who cannot find a reason to continue fighting, finds strength in Firion's dream and it helps inspire him and later Terra to keep fighting.

* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'': During the credits, not only Lucille and Maude but also Charles, Raoul, Émile and Francoeur fly on an airship over the flooded Sena to drop chemically altered seeds on the water. The river gets full with giant sunflowers that suck the excess of water.

* ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': [[spoiler: After Crista allows herself to be gulped by Hexxus, branches start sprouting on his body. Encouraged by Pips, the fairies get together to turn Hexxus in a tree, which is naked except by a small green portion with flowers. One of the flowers opens, freeing Crista, and flowers start blooming at her passage, hinting she really took Magi Lune's place. After Zak is restored to his normal size and reunites to his human friends, he turns and sees the fairies covering the tree and all the ground around it with plants and flowers.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'': During the credits, not only Lucille and Maude but also Charles, Raoul, Émile and Francoeur fly on an airship over the flooded Sena to drop chemically altered seeds on the water. The river gets full with giant sunflowers that stop the flooding.

* ''WesternAnimation/Abominable'': When Yi plays her father's violin, the music covers the Buda statue with white flowers. At first, she thinks that Everest did that, but the Yet signals it was she - and the violin he altered with his magic.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': In "The Bitter Rose", a widowed godess possessed the eponymous rose and didn't permit anything else to grow in a mountain [[TheLostLenore out of grief for her deceased husband]]. Many years later, Orko picks up the rose to give it for his girlfriend Dree Elle; the rose is destroyed accidentaly by Skeletor's minions, but somehow, [[ThePowerOfLove Dree Elle revives the flower when she touches it]]. Deeply touched by the true love between the small trollans, the godess covers the mountain with flowers.

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* Bud McQuade, of Redding, Connecticut, planted daffodils because his wife loved them and kept on planting and caring for them in her memory. When he died at 103, a neighbor bought his property to keep the tradition and some forty thousand daffodils alive.

* In the ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' trilogy, Kelsier's DeadToBeginWith wife Mare had had this intention in the face of a history of a thousand years in a CrapsackWorld. She had a picture of a flower (no one alive had ever seen one) that she carried to her death and bequeathed to Kelsier. The picture later passes on to Vin, who gives it to Sazed when he's facing a religious crisis. And in the end, [[spoiler: Sazed [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence becomes a God]], and uses the picture, among other information, to recreate the world as it once was. The surviving characters awaken to find themselves in a field of flowers.]]
* Done somewhat unintentionally in the ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}''. Garion's cousin Adara asks him to make a bush bloom to prove his magic. He refuses because doing so would kill the bush, but takes a twig and creates a flower just for her. The two go back home, leaving the flower forgotten. And many years later, they find it has spread throughout the area, and moreover, has powerful curative properties.
* Two men have a go in ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'': Wizard Suliman wants to make the Waste bloom to counteract the power of the Witch who lives there. As she likes to think of herself as "a solitary orchid" in the desert, [[BerserkButton it doesn't work]]. Howl comes along later and has another try, which is more successful [[spoiler: especially as a romantic offering to Sophie]] but ''still'' doesn't ward off the Witch.

* In ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' when [[spoiler: Aslan is resurrected]], he celebrates by leaping around the area. Wherever he lands, flowers spring up. It's the first sign of Jadis's reign officially coming to an end in Narnia.
* This is of course the objective of Mary Lennox in ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''. She finds her aunt's old garden, neglected and dead-looking after ten years, and sets about trying to restore it. [[spoiler: The sight of the garden restored to its former beauty, and his son walking again, is what brings her uncle out of his HeroicBSOD]].

* In ''Drinking Sapphire Wine'', Creator/TanithLee's second ''Literature/BitingTheSun'' novel, the narrator is exiled to the desert. A bizarre accident waters the land surrounding her craft and brings it to green, fragrant life. She's already witnessed a desert bloom and knows its magic, so she's determined to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_greening keep "My Garden" going]]. The story is how she does it, and the garden's effect not just on her but on the people (and robots) of the dome cities. (The entire project is conceived and initially carried out by the female lead. Male allies help later, but not until after the garden is well underway.)

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': In "The Bitter Rose", a widowed godess possessed the eponymous rose and didn't permit anything else to grow in a mountain [[TheLostLenore out of grief for her deceased husband]]. Many years later, Orko picks up the rose to give it for his girlfriend Dree Elle; the rose is destroyed accidentaly by Skletor's minions, but somehow, [[ThePowerOfLove Dree Elle revives the flower when she picks it up]]. Deeply touched by the true love between the small trollans, the godess covers the mountain with flowers.