Plant Story - Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) Plant Story - Lily of the Valley scientific name Convallaria majalis is a sweetly...
Showing posts with label garden flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden flowers. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Sunday, 2 April 2017
The Plant Story Of Merry Periwinkle, Vinca The name periwinkle is an old English name for a group of plants native to Europe and the Middl...
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Bougainvillea is one of the most common and most recognizeable tropical ornamental plants. "Oh look, there's bougainvillea!" A...
Sunday, 27 September 2015
The garden flowers of the central U.S. are mostly not native. The garden store was robbed: it was a violet crime. sweet violet, Viola odora...
Sunday, 9 August 2015
Cornflower? Why would they call it a cornflower? That is a typical American reaction to the English name for a bachelor button, Centaurea cy...
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Blanketflower, Gaillardia , is a native you probably know as a garden flower. Native garden flowers are not all that common. Recently, talki...
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Iris is a common garden plant all around the world. The genus Iris , in the iris family, Iridaceae, has about 280 species, distributed all a...
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