Today is the first day of spring and somewhere, we hope, flowers are blooming, bulbs germinating and seeds sprouting. With its various metaphors of birth and bursting, plant life makes for an apt sexual symbol, which is why this edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, showcases nearly explicit footage of flowers blooming. You don’t need to be Georgia O’Keefe to pick up on the various yonic, phallic and womb-like associations flowers can conjure (note the phrase “to deflower”), so we’ll just let you enjoy these 5 Time-Lapse Videos of Flowers Blooming.

Lilies

Lilies often figure as a symbol for life and resurrection, so the above video is essentially displaced footage of a baby being born.

Crocuses and Daffodils

With crocuses symbolizing cheerfulness and yellow daffodils often standing for respect, the above could stand as a feminist recuperation of the often over-sexualized imagery of flowers.

Roses

Red roses symbolize romantic love, so the spreading folds of petals in the above video shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

Origami Roses

The pink rose usually refers to youth and young love, but with the additional symbolism of origami, a strict Freudian might say that the above refers to a false, constructed sexuality created to cope with the pressures of life in the adult sexual economy.

Orchids

In the West orchids are symbols of love and beauty, in Chinese iconography they stand for fertility, and well, different varieties can be phallic, yonic, womb-like, or all three at once.