Accordind to Ovid's passage, Flora describes her wedding gift from Zephyrus:

"I have a fertile garden in the lands that are my wedding gist, filled with noble flowers by my husband, who said, 'Be ruler, O goddess over flowers.' As soon as the dewy frost is shaken from the leaves... the "Hours" come together clothed in many colors and gather my flowers in lightly woven baskets. Then come the "Graces", twining flowers into garlands... I was the first to make a flower from the blood of the boy from "Therapnae" [Hyacinthus]... You too, "Narcissus", keep your name in my well-tended garden... And need I tell "Crocus" and "Attis" and "Adonis", the son of "Cynyras", from whose wounds I caused the flowers to spring that honor them?'"

Ovid uses Greek mythology in this passage in order to give substance to the Italian fertility goddess. The Greek figures of Zephyrus (son of Eos and Astraeus and brother of Boreas), the Seasons (in Latin, Horae and they were the goddess of nature) and Charites (Latin, Gratiae or Graces who spread the joy of nature) and the youths who were changed into flowers, give a narrative element to Flora, who otherwise has no myths.