Hydrangea

Scientific Name : Hydrangea macrophylla
Family : Hydrangeaceae
Common names : French hydrangea, Big leaf, Snowball and Japanese Hydrangea
Flowering Period : Summer
Colour : Blue, Dark Purple, white, Green, Pink

Hydrangea is a shrub with big, medium to dim green, abundant foliage with round ball shaped cluster of flowers. These shrubs are easy to grow and flowers well in areas with gentle winters. A native of Japan and Korea, the shrub has many varieties and hybrids. One of the extraordinary characteristics is that the same plant can create both pink and blue flowers depending on the ph factor or the aluminum content of the soil-blue in acidic soil and pink in alkaline soil. The blooms stay long as cut flowers.

Dahila

If ever there was a flower that knew the intelligence of variety, it is the Dahlia. While its colors are incomplete to the warm ranges of red, orange, yellow, pink and white, its flowers come in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes. Dahlias are grouped into six size categories:

• Giant - more than 10 inches in diameter
• Large - 8-10 inches in diameter
• Medium - 6-8 inches in diameter
• Small - 4-6 inches in diameter
• Miniature - 2-4 inches in diameter
• Mignon - Less than 2 inches in diameter

On top of that, they are grouped into 11 bloom categories. These include:

• Decorative
• Cactus
• Fimbriated
• Ball
• Waterlily
• Anemone
• Collarette
• Orchid
• Peony
• Single
• Novelty

Each variation of the dahlia petal is loveliness. Their petals can be prickly, wispy, round thin or a semi dozen other variations. Even the color ranges from one solid color to a painted mixture of two or three colors.

Dahlias like well, drain, humus wealthy soil. They also like full light. While dahlias are not cold hardy, they do advantage from being grown in a cooler climate with abundance of rain fall.
Dahlias bloom from mid summer all the method up to frost. Many times their displayed will become more stunning as the weather cools. Dahlias create a better display if they are correctly deadheaded and haggard.

Calla

Calla (kal'a), or calla lily, is a beautiful garden flower of the arum family, or Ara-ceae. It is related to the jack-in-the-pulpit and the skunk cabbage. What looks like the flower of the calla is actually a leaflike sheath called a spathe. The true flowers are extremely small and are inside the spathe. In the common calla the spathe is pure white. There are also yellow and pink varieties.

The calla grows from a bulb. This bulb has to be planted in rich well-watered soil. Often it is located in loam or soil mixed with manure. In most parts of North America it is grown indoors or in a greenhouse. In California and southern Texas it can be grown outdoors and is planted in parks in great flower beds.

The most ordinary tropical calla comes from the banks of the Nile River in Egypt it is called calla lily, Ethiopian lily, or common calla. The plant has a 10-inch (25-centimeter) white leaf. The calla lily causes a burning annoyance to the mouth and stomach if eaten.

Orchids

Orchids belong to the family Orchidaceae. Some are pleasingly colored, some dull, some curiously speckled and with stripes. Some look like groups of gay butterflies as the clusters flutter in the breeze, and some look like inquisitive moths. One species was likened by its early Spanish discoverers to the Holy Dove which descended at Christ's baptism. Greenhouse spec-imens are among the most required after of cut flowers and are of many colors and shapes. The tropical orchids are mostly air plants attached to the trunks and branches of trees. Their long roots are bare to the air from which they soak up moisture and food.

Orchids of temperate regions have their roots in the soil as do most ordinary plants. While not so luminous as their tropical relatives, they are very beautiful. Among the many orchids which occur in the United States some of the more colorful are the lady's-slippers, of more than a few colors, the fringed orchids, the pogonias, calypso and tway-blades. In most orchids, self-fertilization is not possible. The pollen must be brought to the stigma from a different plant by some insect. So bright are the methods used to achieve this that a study of these methods is fascinating? Many tropical orchids are now willingly raised from seeds and brought to flower in greenhouses. Several species have been much hybridized. New and beautiful forms with characteristic forms and colors never found in nature have been originated in this way.

Lime

The lime tree rarely grows superior than 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3.7 meters). The fruit is significant as a source of lime juice and oil of lime, which are used to taste beverages and food. Lime trees belong to the regret family, Rutaceae.

Slaked lime has a wide diversity of uses. It serves as a fluctuation in the production of steel. It also is used in the cleansing of aluminum, copper, and zinc. Lime "softens" water by removing sure minerals from it, and it plays a precious role in the treatment of sewage as well many farmers extend lime on their fields to neutralize acid in soil, and homeowners frequently use lime on their lawns to stop the enlargement of moss. Lime also helps.

Narcissus

A big genus of flowers of the amaryllis family, inhabitant to Asia and Europe, is called narcissus. Included are the daffodil, the poet's narcissus, the jonquil, and others.

All the species create bulbs, from which the long, narrow leaves happen. These typically appear with the blooms. The flowers are white to yellow, seldom green, solitary or in clusters at the pinnacle of the flower stalk. The flowers of some are very perfumed, while some have no odor. The majority interesting feature of the flower botanically is the "corona" or "cup," which arises in the throat of the bloom and may be long and tubular, or cup shaped, or reduced to a ring in a number of forms.

Narcissus should be planted near the beginning—before the end of September. They should be at smallest amount three inches unconnectedly and covered with about four inches of well-drained soil of medium texture and fruitfulness. The paper white narcissus may be planted in a dish overflowing with small stones or fiber. It must be well watered and reserved in a cool place waiting well rooted. Then it can be located in a sunny window. Many other varieties are full-grown in greenhouses. They are outstanding house plants from Christmas through Easter. Some varieties become recurrent outdoors and, if uninterrupted, will multiply for many years.

Poppy

A poppy is any of a number of flashy flowers, classically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They contain a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found rising unusually or in large groups; many species are also full-grown in gardens. Those that are grown-up in gardens include large plants used in a varied herbaceous boarder and small plants that are grown in astound or alpine gardens.

The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some contain dark center markings. The species that have been refined for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens bounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped compilation of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are wrinkled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals frequently lie flat before lessening away.