Gardenia

A favorite shrub, the gardenia has extremely fragrant creamy-white flowers and sleek, dark-green leaves. The genus Gardenia is supposed to have been named after Alexander Garden, a physician in Charleston, South Carolina, through colonial days. Gardenias are an associate of the family Rubiaceae and belong to the genus Gardenia. There are over 200 type of Gardenias. One species is of main importance: Gardenia jasminoides containing many cultivars. Gardenia jasminoides is inhabitant to China although most named cultivars have arisen in cultivation.

Gorgeous, dark of bright green, conflicting leaves on a shrub that can grow 6'-8' with almost equal spread. Leaves are glossy and rubbery. Mature shrubs typically look round, and have a average texture. Blooms in mid-spring to early summer, in excess of a quite long season: this is not a bloom-all-at-once-and-it’s-over shrub! Flowers are white, turning to soft yellow as they age, and have a waxy feel. They have a influential, sweet fragrance, and can perfume an whole room. Air currents waft the scent during the warm summer garden.

Lilacs

Lilacs grow finest in full sunlight, nonacid soil, and anywhere there is high-quality drainage. They require a winter freeze to offer a dormant, or rest, period. Single shrubs, given plenty of room, produce full and tall, attainment a height of 10 to 25 feet. For utmost bloom, however, they have to be kept to a moderate height. Pruning back young growth to keep the center open also helps flowering.

Lilacs belong to the olive family, Oleaceae. The name of the genus, Syringa ("little pipe"), was agreed it because lilac stems were once hollowed out and worn as pipe stems. Syringa is also the common name for an unrelated shrub, the mock orange. The scientific name of the common lilac with purple flowers is Syringa vulgaris; of the Persian lilac, a smaller shrub by means of white flowers, Syringa persica.