Charming Flowers

Typically used as houseplants and in shaded summer beds, begonias have tropical and subtropical origins. Some are grown for their asymmetrical, patterned and variegated foliage, and others to add color to shady garden areas with their bright blooms. The Begonia is a showy flower with fleshy leaves that are green or bronze in color. The flowers come in many colors,…

Bee balm is a great addition to a pollinator garden. The flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees; and the seed heads will attract birds in the fall and winter. The bee balm flower has an open, daisy-like shape, with tubular petals in shades of red, pink, purple, and white. Bee balm plants are perennial, coming back year after year to…

These plants are similar to daisies but have bright yellow-orange flowers with a black center. Growing as annuals or short-lived perennials, black-eyed Susans are native to prairies and open woodlands and are attractive to both birds and butterflies. Black-eyed Susans are native to North America and one of the most popular wildflowers grown. They tend to blanket open fields, often surprising…

In spring or fall preferably, locate a nice sunny spot to plant your erigeron, it can really support the blooming. In summer, planting can still be performed, but take care to water more regularly. To nicely cover a surface, plant around 8 or 9 flowers to a square yard (1 m²). Erigeron is a herbaceous perennial that is also known as…

A popular ‘everlasting’ flower, easy to grow, produces a mass of small globular flowers. Typical colour is purple. Others include orange, pink & off white. Gomphrena is a cheery little clover look-alike that for centuries has graced classic cutting gardens. American gardeners have relied on its pleasing bachelor button flowers since the early 1700s. With pink, purple, or white gumball flowers, globe amaranth has…

The pink flower clusters with curling tendrils of Coral Vine are also impressive in floral arrangements. Coral Vine is a crowd and bee pleaser for sure. Coral Vine or Berberidopsiscorallina is a plant from Chile. This evergreen climber produces long, pendulous red flowers, and it can reach heights of 15 feet. It should be grown in a shady area that…

Looking for a tree with broad, big glossy like leaves arranged on a thin trunk? Your search ends here. The fiddle leaf fig plant is fetching a great demand for itself nowadays because of its elegance and beauty. The plant can add style and drama to the dull space or the corner of your room. This classy plant requires very…

This plant can survive lots of neglect and growing conditions that will kill many other plants, such as substantial shade. It has arching, lance-shaped, deep green, glossy leaves that can reach around 2 feet long and 4 inches wide. When grown outdoors, it sometimes produces insignificant cream and purple flowers near the base of the plant, but the blossoms usually do…

The Lucky bamboo is an easy to grow plant which can thrive in soil or water. The plant having a name starting with the word“ Lucky” itself is a dead giveaway! Call this “good luck plant” it has opened up a whole new way for people afraid of or who carry the “brown thumb” badge with them, along with adding some green with…

Don’t go by the common name! It’s the official tree of Bangkok and as a houseplant is renowned for its elegant growth and can easily withstand poor growing conditions and rid your home of formaldehyde gases. This elegant plant has slender branches that arch gracefully from a light gray trunk, with dense, glossy dark leaves. When grown indoors, the plants…

The Dragon Tree houseplant is an excellent collection to your indoor plants as they have a tough root system and can survive under almost any condition. They are extremely easy to grow indoors and look absolutely gorgeous because of their colourful foliage. They act as natural purifiers and grow up to 6 feet in length. It is advisable to keep…

Frosty ferns are very misunderstood plants, both in name and care requirements. They frequently pop up in stores and nurseries around the holidays (probably due to their wintery name) but many buyers see them fail and die soon after they come home. When growing frosty fern plants is that they need at least 70 percent humidity. This is much higher…