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Monday, July 6, 2009

Wild Lavender Flowers

We need you help right now! Anybody know the name of these wild lavender flowers? We saw them as we went walking in the wilderness yesterday. They just caught our attention. Since we always have handy cameras on hand, we took a photo from this lovely creatures!

We greatly appreciate your information about these flowers!

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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Red Petunia From Our Garden

These are the first flowers of our Red Petunia. We love these flowers because they always bloom the whole summer. Sad to say, they don't come back every year. They die during winter time. We always buy these flowers every year! they are simply beautiful!

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Petunia

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Friday, July 3, 2009

Beautiful Blue Sky

Do you love seeing the beauty of nature around us? Do you love to watch the sky and marvel in its vastness and beauty? We always appreciate the beauty of nature even the wild flowers we see in the wilderness. We hope that we will also take care of our Mother Earth by taking care of our nature. Here is a blue sky for you to see. This photo was taken from the sky somewhere in Bavaria, Germany. The farmers are already preparing their field to plant for something. Have a nice day to all!

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Yellow Tulips In Our Garden

Tulips time is over! These yellow tulips are also gone from our garden. They usually grow in the months of March to April. We got different colours of these flowers. Try to search and dig this blog for more tulips photos. We hope that you enjoy viewing this blog!

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Lovely Narcissus jonquilla.

We found these flowers as we visited our doctor last April of this year. There is a garden on the side of the clinic and I took a photo of it! Lovely flowers!

Characteristics of Narcissus jonquilla and its allies clearly evident; flowers are small to medium sized, perianth segments are flat, corona length varies but is usually short and semi-spherical, foliage may be rush-like and dark green as in the species but phenotypic distillation through crossbreeding between divisions has produced a range of foliage types. Fragrance is usually prominent. Flowers may be borne one to several to a stem, depending upon cultivar.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Christ Plant or Crown of Thorns or Euphorbia Milli

I have here a Christ Plant or Crown of Thorns or Euphorbia Milli flowers. I miss the big Euphorbia flowers in my garden back home. Now I have the small flowers in our house. This plant is very easy to grow. It don't requires too much watering. It can stand the heat. I have two colors now, the pink and red ones.

copyright photo by: Euronics


Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia
Species: E. milii

Euphorbia milii (Crown-of-thorns or Christ Plant) is a species of Euphorbia native to Madagascar.

It is a succulent climbing shrub growing to 1.8 m tall, with densely spiny stems, the straight, slender spines up to 3 cm long, which help it scramble over other plants. The leaves are obovate, up to 3.5 cm long and 1.5 cm broad. The flowers are small, subtended by a pair of conspicuous petal-like bracts, variably red, pink or white, up to 12 mm broad.[1] Wat Phrik in the Phitsanulok District of Phitsanulok Province, Thailand claims to be the home of the world's tallest Christ plant.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Pelargonium or Red Geranium in Our Garden

As I bought this red geranium, there was a name on the flower pot that says it's name as Geranien. It is a German word which simply means in English Geranium. I always buy these flowers ever year. Now I found out that there are other kinds of geranium that are winter hard. It means that they will survive the winter and will come back in the next spring time. I want to buy those winter hard geranium, the nest I will go to the garden center. This flower is also called Pelargonium...very interesting! I got here a photo of Red Geranium fresh from our garden!

copyright photo by: Euronics

Scientific Classification:

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Geraniales
Family: Geraniaceae
Genus: Pelargonium

Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants which includes about 200 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly known as geraniums or storksbills. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of a separate genus of related plants often called Cranesbills. Both genera are in the Family Geraniaceae. Linnaeus originally included all the species in one genus, Geranium, but they were later separated into two genera by Charles L’Héritier in 1789. Gardeners sometimes refer to the members of Genus Pelargonium as "pelargoniums" in order to avoid the confusion, but the older common name "geranium" is still in regular use.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Red Begonia Flowers in Our Garden

I have different colors of Begonia flowers in our garden. I guess my favorite are the red one. These flowers are not greedy in giving flowers. See how one whole plant is giving a lot of beautiful red flowers..very lovely!

Scientific Classification:

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Begoniaceae
Genus: Begonia

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Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae. The only other member of the family Begoniaceae is Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands. The genus Symbegonia is now included in Begonia. "Begonia" is the common name as well as the generic name for all members of the genus.

The genus name coined by Charles Plumier French patron of botany honours Michel Bégon, a former governor of the French colony of Haiti.

DESCRIPTION
With over 1,500 species, Begonia is one of the ten largest angiosperm genera. The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa and southern Asia. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant, the male containing numerous stamens, the female having a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas. In most species the fruit is a winged capsule containing numerous minute seeds, although baccate fruits are also known. The leaves, which are often large and variously marked or variegated, are usually asymmetric (unequal-sided).

Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated. The genus is unusual in that species throughout the genus, even those coming from different continents, can frequently be hybridized with each other, and this has led to an enormous number of cultivars. The American Begonia Society classifies begonias into several major groups: cane-like, shrub-like, tuberous, rhizomatous, semperflorens, rex, trailing-scandent, or thick-stemmed. For the most part these groups do not correspond to any formal taxonomic groupings or phylogeny and many species and hybrids have characteristics of more than one group, or fit well into none of them. source: wikipedia

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Flamingo Flowers or Anthurium

I grow Flamingo flowers of Anthurium in our garden before. Now I don't have it anymore. I took a photo of it as we visited a garden center last time. This is a very beautiful flower!

Scientific Clarification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Tribe: Anthurieae
Genus: Anthurium

Anthurium (pronounced /ænˈθjuːriəm/) (Schott, 1829), is a large genus of about 600- 800 (possibly 1,000) species, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). Anthurium can also be called "Flamingo Flower" or "Boy Flower", both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix.

TROPICOS lists 1901 types, although some of these are duplicates. It is one of the largest and probably the most complex genus of this family; certainly it is one of the most variable. Many species are undoubtedly not yet described and new ones are being found every year. The species has neotropical distribution; mostly in wet tropical mountain forest of Central America and South America, but some in semi-arid environments. Most species occur in Panama, Colombia, Brazil, the Guiana Shield and Ecuador. According to the work of noted aroid botanist Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden, this genus is not found in Asia. Some species have been introduced into Asian rain forests, but are not endemic. source: wikipedia

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Beautiful Sunflower

We don't plant sunflower in our garden this year. The last time we planted it was three years ago. Hopefully next year, we can plant some.

Description of Sunflower
What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous florets (small flowers) crowded together. The outer florets are the sterile ray florets and can be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into what are traditionally called "sunflower seeds," but are actually the fruit (an achene) of the plant. The inedible husk is the wall of the fruit and the true seed lies within the kernel.

The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern. Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other; on a very large sunflower there could be 89 in one direction and 144 in the other. This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds within the flower head.

I took this photo as we visited a garden center this month.

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Helianthoideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Helianthus
Species: H. annuus
Binomial name:
Helianthus annuus

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