CANDYTUFT is a flowering herbal plant of the mustard family, Cruciferae. It is a favorite for both borders and beds in gardens of old-fashioned flowers. The name is supposed to have come from Candia, the early name for the island of Crete. It was brought to England from Crete in the 16th century. The plant […]
Jasmine is a climbing, trailing, or spreading shrub of the olive family. Most of the more than 100 species are natives of the warmer parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Some keep their leaves all year, and some lose them in the autumn. All jasmines have shiny dark-green leaves and bear small white or yellow […]
Hollyhock is a favorite garden flower throughout the United States and many other countries. It is native to China, but has been grown in other places for hundreds of years. The hollyhock belongs to the Mallow family. Among its relatives are marshmallow, cotton, and okra. The stately flowering stalks grow from five to nine feet […]
Verbena (verbe’na). Because of their beautiful and often fragrant flowers, the garden verbena is popular as an annual garden plant. The colors of the flowers range from pure white to rose-colored, carmine, violet, and purple. The flower clusters are commonly about two inches across and contain a dozen or more flowers each. The genus Verbena […]
If the bought plant is in a small planting cell (with diameter 5 cm) it needs to be immediately moved into a pot. If it already grows in a pot – it is possible to leave it alone for 3-8 weeks, and then to move it into a container of a big size. Choose a […]
Wild carrot, also called Queen Anne’s lace, is a member of the carrot family that grows wild. The cultivated carrot that people eat has a European and Asiatic origin. In North America, many carrot plants grow wild common weeds. The name Queen Anne’s lace was given the plants because of their lacy clusters of small […]
Usual indoor plants and flowers are beautiful, they wonderfully look in interiors, they fresh the atmosphere and positively influence on health. But sometimes you need something desirable something unusual, original, something that you will be proud of and surprise visitors at your house. Is it possible to grow up most exotic plants in house conditions? […]
CALLA (kalla), or calla lily, is a beautiful garden flower of the arum family, or Ar-aceae. It is related to the jack-in-the-pulpit and the skunk cabbage. What looks like the flower of the calla is really a leaf like sheath called a spathe. The true flowers are very small and are inside the spathe. In […]
BINDWEED is a plant with long string like stems that twist and grow over other plants. Three bindweeds grow in the United States. They are pests to farmers because they make harvesting of crops difficult. Their many leaves shut out the sunlight from the plants used to make food, causing them to starve to death. […]
Zinnia is one of the most easily cultivated of all the garden flowers. Their bright blossoms may be rose, orange, crimson, scarlet, yellow, salmon, or purple. They stand stiffly erect… Yucca is both a plant and a moth. They have developed a symbiotic relationship and neither can live without the other. Yucca plants are members […]
Jack in the pulpit (jak in the pul’pit) is among the unusual wild flowers of eastern North America. Its striped hood, or spathe, which protects tiny flowers clustered on a club-shaped stem, or spadix, resembles an old-fashioned covered pulpit. The spadix, called “Jack” by custom, is imagined to be a preacher inside. Moist woodlands from […]
The science of botany is one of the oldest areas of study that teaches people to find ways how they may use plants. There are different types of botany. Scientists in this field are Botanists – so what do they do? Those who study Agronomy develop and improve crop plants. Those, who specialize in Forestry […]
Tulip (tu’lip) is any of the flowering plants that make up the genus Tulipa. This genus belongs to the lily family (Liliaceae). There are about 160 species of tulips. They grow wild from Italy and Austria eastward across Asia to Japan. Common garden tulips are thought to have developed from only a few of these […]
AMARYLLIS is a genus of plant that has only one species, the belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna). Many lily like plants of the same family, however, are commonly called amaryllis, including the daffodil, snowdrop, tuberose, century plant, and more than 1,000 others. The belladonna lily, which is native to South Africa, grows from a bulb. Its […]