Saturday, March 29, 2008

Tulip

Tulipa commonly called Tulip is a genus of about 100 species of bulbous flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. The native range of the species include southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the east to northeast of China. The centre of assortment of the type is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many mixture cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers.

Tulips initiate from mountainous areas with moderate climates and need a period of cool dormancy. They do best in climates with long cool springs and early summers, but they are often grown as spring blooming annual plantings in furnace areas of the world. The bulbs are classically planted in late summer and fall, normally from 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 in.) deep, depending of the type planted, in well draining soils. In parts of the world that do not have long cool springs and early summers, the bulbs are often planted up to 12 inches deep, this provides some guard from the heat of summer and tends to force the plants to stimulate one large bulb each year instead of many smaller non blooming ones. This can expand the value of the plants in warmer areas a few years but not stave off the squalor in bulb size and ultimate death of the plants.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Camellia


Camellia is a type of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, subject to eastern and southern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–250 extant species, with some storm over the exact number. The kind was named by Linnaeus after Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel.

They are evergreen shrubs and small trees 2–20 m tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, thick, serrated, typically silky, and 3–17 cm long. The flowers are large and obvious, 1–12 cm diameter, with (in natural conditions) 5–9 petals; colour varies from white to pink and red, and yellow in a few kinds. The fruit is a dry pill, sometimes subdivided into up to 5 compartments, each compartment containing up to 8 seeds.

The genus is normally adapted to acidic soils, and does not grow well on chalk or other calcium-rich soils. Most species also have a high rainfall prerequisite and will not endure drought. Some Camellias have been known to grow without much rainfall.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Rose

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of natural roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a cluster of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, rarely reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants