Charming Flowers

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…

Easy to grow from plant or seed, sweet alyssum is a cool-season flower that can be set out in early spring once all danger of frost has passed (in frost-free climates, sweet alyssum can also be grown throughout the fall and winter). Sweet alyssum is a colorful carpet of tiny flowers that can be used to blanket your garden or landscape. Lobularia…

Crocosmia are summer blooming bulbs with exotic, brightly-colored flowers on wiry, arching stems. The buds open one-by-one from the bottom up and are magnets for hummingbirds. Typically planted in the spring, these warm-weather bloomers usually don’t survive cold winters if the bulbs are left in the ground. The Crocosmia is also known as the montbretia. These plants have a tendency to become…

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…

Growing hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) in the garden is a goal of many gardeners who remember these impressive flowers from their youth. Hollyhocks add drama and height, making an impressive backdrop to shorter perennials. Alcea is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks.  They are native to Asia and…

A large genus of useful evergreen perennials. Ericas vary in growth habit, from low spreading and ground-cover to taller more bushy plants. A wide range of flower colours are available, from white through to all shades of pink and red to mauve. With careful selection heathers can be used to provide long-lasting colour in the garden, from spring to late…

The tree can grow up to 15 meters. It is evergreen and has compound medium green leaves in clusters of seven. This tree depends for mechanical support on other rainforest trees. The tree is multi-trunked and flowers bloom at the treetop. The umbrella plant is a multi trunk tree that can grows over 15 metres tall outdoors and has to be…

Prayer plants make an amazing addition to your collection of indoor houseplants. They have dark green leaves with light green/white and red strip running down its spine. This plant gets its unique name because of the unique nature of its leaves. They fold in an upright position at night, resembling that of folding hands in prayer. The Red Prayer Plant…

The Dumb Cane plant is a strong species that will thrive in any light conditions other than direct sunlight. Its easy to care for style and resilience to neglect make it a wonderful house plant. Dieffenbachia amoena is a very popular house plant due to its easy going nature. Plants that receive too little light or too little water will…

The Aluminum plant does occasionally flower, but the tiny white blooms are not ornamental. You will want to remove them as soon as they bloom to conserve energy for the impressive foliage growth. The Aluminum plant is an easy going house plant that is generally simple to please. So long as the Pilea cadierei plant gets the water and sunlight…

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…

Peacock houseplants (Calathea makoyana) are often found as part of indoor collections, though some gardeners say they’re difficult to grow. Peacock plant care includes keeping the soil consistently moist. The foliage of the Calathea peacock plant can be damaged by fluoride in water. Collect rainwater for watering peacock houseplants, or use bottled, distilled water without fluoride. The Calathea Makoyana or…