From peonies to chrysanthemums to dahlias, the reason why so many fireworks are named after flowering plants is because they burst out of...

TYPES OF EFFECTS PEONY A spherical break of colored stars that burn without a tail effect. The peony is the most commonly seen shell...

With the 5th of November approaching, the distant reports of early fireworks displays can already be heard in the evenings here in the...

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You’d think it’d be easy — they’re giant lights in the sky, after all — but photographing fireworks is ridiculously difficult. In fact,...

Colour in fireworks is produced by pyrotechnic 'stars' which produce coloured light when ignited. The stars contain five basic...