Charming Flowers

Excellent for rockery & covering wasteland, plant loves poor soil. Nasturtium is an annual that you can grow for pretty foliage and pretty flowers, but it can also be eaten. Suitable for hanging baskets also. Flowers are yellow, orange, maroon, scarlet. The peppery-tasting leaves are sometimes used in salads. The brilliant yellow, orange, or red flowers are funnel-shaped and have a…

Called as 10 O’clock flower, it opens when the sunshine is bright by office time & closes as offices close by the evening. Most gorgeous colors are yellow, scarlet, crimson, rose, pink, magenta. A truly beautiful, low-growing groundcover type plant is called the portulaca (Portulaca grandiflora), sometimes known as the sun rose or moss rose. Portulaca plants are native to…

These bright blossoming flowers are a favorite of many gardeners. Once established these plants can bloom for many years and will continue to grace your garden with bright and beautiful colors. Begonias have succulent stems; shiny, rounded, green or reddish-brown leaves and grow in a mounded habit. They bloom with 1-1/2-inch single or double flowers in shades of red, pink, or…

Pansy is easy to grow in the winter season. It doesn’t need much sunlight, normal sunlight is sufficient to grow it. It looks more beautiful in a hanging basket. There's more to those little faces than you might realize, including plenty of symbolism and significance to your favorite cool-season flowers. Pansy plants are cheerful, blooming flowers, among the first of…

Snapdragons are tall, stately stalks, the upper reaches of which are covered with small, colorful blooms. The color range among snapdragons is wide; an amazing variety of pinks, peaches, yellows, blues, purples, whites, and many combinations thereof. Planting snapdragons out can be among the first late winter gardening tasks. This fragrant specimen can handle frost, so start planting snapdragons early…

Camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. Their leaves are alternately arranged, simple, thick, serrated, and usually glossy. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous, one to 12 cm in diameter, with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias. The Camellia flowers have a characteristic glossy leaf and are classified as…

The Nephrolepis, or Lemon Button Fern, is one of the most pleasant small ferns an Indoor Gardener can grow. Once it finds its place in your home, and you establish its care cycle, its pretty much care-free. A small fern that grows to about a foot high and not much more across, it boasts tiny arching stems. The plant usually…

Instead of simply adding another piece of furniture to cover that empty corner by the wall, why not go for this exotic looking plant that can grow anywhere between 3 feet- 8 feet in height? Areca Palm wins hands down as a choice for an indoor plant, because it has has multiple stems emerging from the base, arched green leaves…

Have a bare wall either vertically or horizontally that needs covering? Then consider this plant; it’s a climbing ornamental plant, that adds a touch of green and reduces your cooling costs as well in the bargain! If you are wondering how it manages to stick to the wall, then here’s the answer; it secretes calcium carbonate which serves as a…

Wow! Such a beautiful plant! We absolutely love the full shape and wonderful foliage on this houseplant. Growing in it's natural habitat - this native to south and central America plant grows in swamps up to 20 metres tall, which is surprising considering how well it's adapted to become an easy to care for indoor tree. The Mexican fortune tree…

It is best known for treating skin injuries, but it also has several other uses that could potentially benefit health. Aloe Vera is also called the “Miracle plant”. There are good reasons for this. It’s renowned worldwide for having medicinal properties  that  rejuvenate, soothe and heal the human body. Aloe is a stemless succulent plant with thick and fleshy leaves…

Blooms are carried in small clusters of two to five, each flower is 4-5cm across and may be single or double, sometimes with ruffled petals. The colors of blooms are white, magenta or any pink shade and sometimes they are attractively bicolored. Their blooms are often lasting several weeks. Here’s a popular, fragrant flowering shrub that has always signaled the…