Charming Flowers

This perennial gets its name from its flowers. They appear on tall stalks, blooming from the top down rather than from the bottom up, similar to sparklers. Blazing star is a favorite nectar plant for butterflies like monarchs as well as many other pollinators. After the exuberant growth of spring and early summer, our gardens can slow down and sag a bit,…

Dianthus usually comes in a number of varieties and produce fragrant with notched petals.They popularly appear in pink, purple and white. Best grown in spring making your garden/balcony pleasant and eye-catching.  The dianthus, carnation radiates a sweet and exotic odour, which provides gardens and balconies with unique flair. Dianthus is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in…

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…

Although desert rose is a beautiful, low-maintenance plant, it can become long and leggy in time. Pruning will avoid this problem by creating a bushy, fuller-looking plant. Caring for desert rose plants requires a full sun location and well-drained soil. Properly mimicking their native regional conditions will garner plenty of rose-like blooms on an architectural marvel of a plant. The…

The plants are often cultivated outdoors in western North America and in colder regions in greenhouses. Bottlebrushes grow into big shrubs or small trees. Bottlebrush plants  get their name from the spikes of flowers that bloom at the ends of the stems, bearing a strong resemblance to a bottle brush. Grow them as shrubs or small trees that grow up to…

Cyclamen is a petite flowering plant that has sweet-scented, small blooms on long stems that stretch up above the foliage. It is a tuberous perennial, meaning it dies down to its thick roots (tubers) during its summer dormancy period and then regrows quickly each fall. Its flowers come in shades of pink, purple, red, and white. It's commonly grown as…

A fabulous plant from its foliage to its extravagant flowers. The silver-tinged leaves are very decorative even when plant is not in bloom. The exotic, two-color flowers are the source of the common name “fireworks”. The pink spikes with purple florets create an explosion of color guaranteed to brighten up any room.  Terrific for partly shaded locations such as porches,…

Aglaonema or Chinese Evergreen is very low maintenance indoor houseplant for even those who lack green thumb. This Rolling Nature Aglaonema Red is stylish, exotic and versatile. Red Aglaonema plants are easy-to-care-for indoor plants. Their deep red leaves or light pink and green foliage look stunning in any interior. This plant can survive in a low humidity environment, but it…

So there are several plants to cover the walls or empty spaces in your home as mentioned above. But how about one to adorn an empty table or desk? Why not do it with this love tree? ( the literal name of this plant in Greek!). It has dark green ,shiny heart shaped leaves which look great on a tabletop…

Rubber Plants serve as great decorative plants indoors and add a lot of aesthetic value to your home. Growing them is not as difficult as it seems. Though they can grow into full length trees if kept in your gardens, they are easy to tend to indoors as well. Rubber plant is an evergreen tropical plant that can grow up…

It’s been grown in India from as far back as 5,000 years. No wonder then, that Indians harbour a deep cultural and religious attachment with the plant from time immemorial. In fact in the Ayurvedic approach to medicine, it has been revered for it’s medicinal properties in curing several diseases ; dried leaves have also been used as mosquito repellents…

Aechmea fasciata (Urn Plant or Silver Vase Plant) makes a great houseplant because it’s beautiful and low-maintenance. Aechmeas make great houseplants and their large pink blooms can brighten your home for months. The silver vase plant forms an upright vase-shaped rosette of arching silver green leaves with spiny edges. The silver coloring comes from the whitish scales called trichomes that…