Popular Flowers for the Garden

To start your own flower garden, it is essential to know what types of flowers you want to grow. It is also necessary to know when the flowers bloom and what their height is. These are all very important questions before you start with the flower garden.

There are endless possibilities of flowers to select from but if you are not sure which types of flowers look best in gardens, read further and you will get to know the popular types of garden flowers.

The following is a list of the most popular types of garden flowers:

Cosmos  

Cosmos belongs to the family Compositae. There are 20 known species of cosmos. These flowers have the capability to grow anywhere from 12 inches to 4 feet tall. These flowers can be used as cut flowers and are often used in flower arrangements. It is one of the easiest to grow flowers and generally is a pest free annual. It is good for hot, dry locations. These flowers are suitable for backgrounds and screens. They attract birds and butterflies.

Zinnia

Zinnia belongs to the family Asteracea. Out of 20 species of these flowers, about 10 species are the garden flowers. These flowers are ideal for indoor arrangements. Zinnias are traditional, old-fashioned flowers, which bloom in a wide variety of colors with large, mixed blooms. Zinnias require fertile and well-drained soil.

                          Morning glory

Morning glory belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. These flowers contain 50 genera and more than 1000 species. These flowers are used to decorate fences and walls. These flowers have heart shaped leaves and are available in a variety of colors including white, blue, red, pink and lavender. This type of flower reaches the height of 10 inches or more.

                     Marigold  

Marigolds are hardy annual plants, which belong to the family Asteracea. Marigold comes in various colors such as yellow, orange, red or a combination of all colors. These flowers bloom in 45 to 50 days from sowing. These are the great plants, which can cheer any garden. Marigolds are healthy, non-fussy plants that bring a lot of sunshine in your garden.

               Sunflowers  

Sunflower is a native of Peru and Mexico and belongs to Asteracea family. Sunflowers are the best to grow in gardens. These flowers have yellowish-orange petal with a black circle in the center. These flowers have the ability to grow as tall as 6 feet or possibly even higher depending on the flower itself. These flowers are valuable from an economic, as well as from an ornamental point of view.

The types of flowers you prefer will have a large impact on the overall result of your garden. The list of popular flowers will give you a guideline if you are unsure of which flowers may be most adaptable to a garden atmosphere.

Which flowers of the above-mentioned flowers you select will ultimately be your choice and regardless of the kinds or colors of your flowers, your garden will be a wonderful piece of work for everyone to admire.

Interesting Flowers

Flowers are the reproductive parts of the flowering plant. They represent a large number of combinations of color, form, size and anatomy. They play an essential role in our day-to-day life to balance our social behavior. They are used to express love and gratitude.

There are vast numbers of flowering plants in this world. If you are interested to know about interesting flowers, then you are at the right place.

Here, let us look at the five most interesting flowers:

Roses:

Rose belongs to the genus Rosa and family Rosaceae. It consists of about 100 species. The genus Rosa is subdivided into four subgenera such as Hulthemia, Platyrhodon and Rosa. They grow as shrubs and climbers. The stem of rose plant bears thorns. Flowers consist of various colors. These plants grow in size as compact, miniature roses and can also grow to the height of about 7 meters. Roses are grown in a garden and occasionally indoors. They are also used as commercial cut flowers and in the preparation of perfumes.

Where Did Roses Come From?

Roses have flourished on earth for millions of years, and were cultivated by man since very early times. The cultivated rose is so old that we don’t even know where it was first grown!

The Egyptians planted rose gardens in their palaces as early as 3000 B.C. The ancient Romans made wine from roses. The Greeks, who called the rose the “king of flowers,” had a legend to explain why the rose bush has thorns.

According to the legend, the god of love, called Eros or Cupid, was enjoying the aroma of a rose one day when he was stung by a bee hiding inside the flower. Cupid then punished the rose by shooting arrows into its stem, and rose stems forever after had thorns.

There’s one natural reason why roses smell so nice, roses don’t have nectar, like most flowers, and rely on their aroma and color to attract insects for pollination!

In the 18th century, people in England often put rose petals in their salads!

Lilies:

Lilies belongs to Liliaceae family and genus Lilium, which consists of about 110 species. They are considered, as the star of summer, due to the reason that they bloom when other flowers fade away. These are leafy stemmed herbs. They form underground bulbs, while some species develop stolons. Most of the species are grown in temperate and sub-tropical regions. They can be also grown as potted plants. The lilies can be used as herbaceous borders, shrub plantings and woodland. There are three types of tulips based on their blooming period such as an early season, mid season and late season flowering tulips. Daylily, Tiger lily, Oriental Trumpet and Asiatic lily are few varieties of lilies.

                 Tulips:

Tulips are perennial, which belongs to the genus Tulipa. They belong to the family Liliaceae and consist of about 109 species. These most popular spring flowers bloom in various colors, sizes and shapes. These flowering plants are grown in gardens as potted plants or as fresh cut flowers. These are spring blooming perennials, which grow from bulbs. These plants can grow from 4 inches to 28 inches depending on the species.

Orchids:

These are the most beautiful, sensual, exotic and expensive flowers that comprise a unique group of plants. Orchids consist of 600-800 genera and 25000-35000 species. These flowers are most commonly valued for cut flower production and as potted plants. An orchid consists of two types such as terrestrial and epiphytes. Terrestrial orchids grow on the ground, while epiphytes grow on trees.

Carnations:

Carnation is a herbaceous perennial plant. They belong to the Dianthus genus. This flower is almost everyone’s favorite. It grows to about 80 cm in height. The leaves are grayish green to blue-green. The flower color is bright pinkish-purple. There are three types of carnations. They need well-drained, somewhat alkaline soil and full sun. These plants are easy to grow as flower garden plants.

 

Vocabulary Focus

8.   Match the words from two columns to create a phrase and make sentences to use them in your own text entitled “Popular garden flowers and their characteristics”. Share your ideas with the partner:

 

to reach	the ability to grow
to require	point of view
to bloom	in various colors
to bring	the height of 10 inches
to fade	of the kinds or colors
to come	a lot of sunshine in the garden
to have	on the overall result
from an ornamental	away
to have an impact	fertile and well-drained soil
regardless	with large, mixed blooms

9. Match the words from two columns to create a phrase and make sentences to use them in your own text entitled “The Rose and its history”. Share your ideas with the partner:

 

to grow	rose gardens
to bear	the garden look attractive
to subdivide	insects for pollination
to use	combinations of color, form, size
to attract	into four subgenera
to represent	thorns
to plant	as commercial cut flowers
to make	as shrubs and climbers

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