tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18281859067201886722024-03-19T01:08:16.008-07:00Flower Homespeoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-79114825169467990612014-10-12T02:55:00.000-07:002014-10-12T06:49:26.600-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>National Flowers of World Countries</b></span><br />
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Afghanistan (Tulip)</div>
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Antigua and Barbuda ( Hibisus )</div>
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Bermuda ( Blue Eyed Grass )</div>
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Bhutan ( Blue Poppy )</div>
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Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Lilium )</div>
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China ( Plum Blossom )</div>
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Cyprus ( Cyclamen )</div>
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Czech Republic ( Rosa )</div>
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Dominica ( Bwa Kwaib)</div>
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Ethiopia ( Calla Lily )</div>
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Fiji ( Hibiscus )</div>
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Gibraltar ( Candytuft )</div>
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Greenland ( Niviarsiaq )</div>
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India ( Lotus )</div>
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Ireland (Yellow Rrose )</div>
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Jamaica ( Lignum Vitae )</div>
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Japan ( Cherry Blossom )</div>
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Kuwait ( Arfaj ) Rhanterium</div>
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Pakistan ( Jasmine )</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tulip </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to the Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China.The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains.It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to be displayed as fresh-cut flowers. Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can grow as short as 4 inches (10 cm) or as high as 28 inches (71 cm). The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes or subscapose[further explanation needed] stems that lack bracts. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The showy, generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
Tip of a tulip stamen. Note the grains of pollen
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma of the flower has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers.[further explanation needed] The tulip's fruit is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to subglobose shape.[further explanation needed] Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber.These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Tulip stems have few leaves, with larger species tending to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in early Persia probably somewhere in the 10th century. Early cultivars must have emerged from hybridisation in gardens from wild collected plants, which were then favoured, possibly due to flower size or growth vigour. During the Ottoman Empire, numerous tulips were cultivated and bred. Tulips are called lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, Macedonian and Bulgarian are written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc.The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and is ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashion in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on their turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">References and more ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Helenium is a genus of about 40 species of annuals and deciduous herbaceous perennials in the daisy family Asteraceae native to the Americas. They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly Helenium autumnale) have the common name Helen's Flower and sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making snuff, inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. Larger species may grow up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Helenium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Phymatopus behrensii.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use - mainly from H. autumnale and H. bigelovii. They are useful for late summer and fall bloom, usually in less formal compositions. They are appropriate for native gardens in areas where they are indigenous, and they look wonderfully in bouquets. Annual species are easily grown from seed, and perennials should be divided every year in order to retain their vigor. The soil should be fertile with a generous amount of organic manner in the form of compost, manure or other decayed organic matter in addition to, perhaps, an application of a complete fertilizer in spring. Heleniums should be grown in full sun average to moist soil with good drainage. They are drought tolerant, but should be watered on planting and regularly until established.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Helenium Hybrid has brilliant yellow petals surround spherical brown cones covered with golden pollen. It grows to 0.9 metres (3 ft) tall and takes up about 0.6 metres (2 ft) of space, the hardiness zone rating is 4-9. Its Flowers appear for six weeks from mid to late summer and attract butterflies in droves. It provides a splash of colour when many other perennials are starting to fade, it may accompany ornamental grasses, Phlox and Liatris.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Heleniums need an open sunny position in good soil. They will not grow in waterlogged conditions. </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add lots of compost when planting to increase moisture. This will allow light, sandy soils to retain water and open up clay soils - thereby improving drainage. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keep new plants well watered and water all plants in dry spells. The flowers curl and the foliage flags if they are too dry. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stake taller varieties with hazel or canes and string. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can pick out the growing tips in May to get bushier plants - this is a useful technique with younger plants. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can also take tip cuttings from the new growth in April. Some people also do a Chelsea Chop. But only do this on deep, fertile soil. The chop delays flowering time - so they perform later. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dead head constantly to promote more flowers. This will keep your plants in flower for months and, even if they have a lull, they will re-bloom later.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Heleniums are best divided in spring just as they start into growth. Do not divide them in the autumn because winter wet can kill your divisions.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Use two forks back to back to part established clumps, using the material on the outside because it’s the most vigorous plant material. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can divide down to a single rosette if you need to. Heleniums are robust growers and will make a substantial plant fairly quickly - even from one rosette.</span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Heleniums associate well with later-flowering perennials and grasses. My favourite combination is Agastache 'Blue Fortune' planted with red or orange heleniums. But they grow with a wide variety of plants and these include crocosmias, bronze fennel, Verbena bonariensis, many taller grasses, warmly coloured dahlias like 'David Howard', veronicastrums and monardas. Other daisies in varying colours also work well as long as they are taller and airier. But do be bold and use large blocks of the same helenium - if you have room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helenium </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.saga.co.uk/lifestyle/gardening/plant-portrait/how-to-grow-heleniums.aspx</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hellebores flowers resemble roses,common names,Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius),Christmas Rose (Helleborus nigra),Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis),Lenten Rose (Helleborus x hybridus, H. orientalis),Stinking Rose (Helleborus foetidus)in shape. Long blooming, mostly in creamy shades of white, tinged with green and/or pin, the colors tend to change or deepen as they age. There is a lot of hybridizing going on and more colors are becoming available.
Flower stems shoot up above the foliage, but nod under the weight of the flowers, which tend to bloom face down.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hardiness will vary with species, but most Hellebores are rate USDA Hardiness Zones 4-9. The foliage forms a low clump, but when the plants are in bloom, they reach a height of about 1 ½ - 2 ft. and spread 1 - 1 ½ ft. wide. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are shade garden plants. Hellebores prefer partial to full shade. They can handle spring sun, but plant them in a spot that will become shadier as trees and other plants flush out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blooming depends on both the species and your climate. The Christmas Rose (H. niger) can bloom in December in Zones 7 or warmer, but rarely blooms until spring in colder climates. Most species can be counted on to bloom somewhere between December to April and will stay in bloom for a month or longer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hellebores are one of the first perennials to bloom in the spring and their foliage will remain attractive into the summer, so they are suitable for splashy, mass plantings. They also complement foundation plantings and are ideal for woodland gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Varieties H. foetidus ‘Wester Flisk’ - Red tinge to stems and leaf stalks (1 ½ ', zones 6-9) H. x hybridus ‘Phillip Ballard’ - Dark blue, almost black flowers. (1 ½ ', zones 6-9) H. x hybridus ‘Citron’ - unusual primrose yellow blooms (1 ½ ', zones 6-9)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All Hellebores are shade garden plants, preferring partial shade and a rich, moist soil, high in organic matter. Although they like some moisture, don't let them sit in wet soil for prolonged periods of time or they will rot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seed is available, but it will be for a mix of colors. If you want a particular variety, you will need to purchase plants because they have either been selected or possibly hybridized. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most varieties will reseed, but since they are hybrids, you never know what you'll get. You can move the seedlings to another location in the garden, once they are large enough to handle and have developed true leaves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you want to make it even easier on you and the transplants, collect the seed pods and let them fully ripen and dry. When they split open in early summer, scatter the seeds where you want them to grow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or start them in pots and plant them out when they are large enough to move. Hellebore seeds don't remain viable very long. Always start with fresh seed. Fresh seed can be planted in containers and left outdoors throughout the summer. Keep the soil moist and you should see germination in either the fall or the following spring. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you sow them as soon as they drop from the pods, they will germinate with minimal effort. As they sit, they develop a hard coating and go dormant. It can take a year or more for them to complete their dormancy cycle. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stored Hellebore seeds need to be stratified, before planting. They will do this naturally outdoors, but if you want to start seeds indoors, it will take some finesse. These are directions given to me by another gardener. I have not tired this method myself, but he said he's had variable results, depending on the quality of the seeds. You may need to adjust the time you chill them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-First, soak the seeds in hot water, until they start to swell. This can take a day or two. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-Sow them and keep the pots at about 70 F, for 6 weeks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-Then move them to a cooler spot, at about 50 F. You should see germination within another 4 - 6 weeks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only real maintenance the plants require is a little cleaning up of their fading leaves. If foliage is winter worn, it can be cut back to basal growth in the spring, before flowering. Hellebores don't really require division, but it won't hurt them to be divided, if you want to make more plants. The best time to divide is in early spring, before they flower. It is easiest to dig the entire plant and shake or wash off the soil, so you can see where the buds are on the crown. Make sure each division has at least 2 buds. (H. foetidus and H. argutifolius do not divide well and are best started from seed.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rudbeckia: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia is a plant genus of 23 species in the family Asteraceae.The species are commonly called coneflowers and black-eyed-susans; all are native to North America and many species are cultivated in gardens for their showy yellow or gold flower heads. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The species are herbaceous, mostly perennial plants (some annual or biennial) growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with simple or branched stems. The leaves are spirally arranged, entire to deeply lobed, 5–25 cm long. The flowers are produced in daisy-like inflorescences, with yellow or orange florets arranged in a prominent, cone-shaped head; "cone-shaped" because the ray florets tend to point out and down (are decumbent) as the flower head opens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A large number of species have been proposed within Rudbeckia, but most are now regarded as synonyms of the limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several currently accepted species have several accepted varieties. Some of them (for example the Black-eyed Susan, R. hirta), are popular garden flowers distinguished for their long flowering times. There are many cultivars of these species. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species including Cabbage Moth and Dot Moth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The name was given by Carolus Linnaeus in honor of his teacher at Uppsala University, Professor Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660-1740), and his father Professor Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630-1702), both of whom were botanists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia is one of at least four genera within the flowering plant family Asteraceae whose members are commonly known as coneflowers; the others are Echinacea, Dracopis and Ratibida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia are easy to establish, naturalize well and require little maintenance other than deadheading. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia can be started indoors, from seed. Plant about 6-8 weeks before last expected frost. Perennial varieties will germinate best if kept in the refrigerator or similarly cold place for 4 weeks after planting. Then move them back to a warm spot (70ºF-72ºF) until seeds actually germinate.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rudbeckia can also be direct seeded in the garden once daytime temperatures remain around 60ºF. Of course, plants can be purchased and transplanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are not particular about soil, but do best in soil that is not too rich, with well-draining conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keep plants well watered the first season, to get them established. Once established, the will be quite drought resistant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go easy on the fertilizer. Too much will result in weak stems and plants. A side dressing of compost should be all they’ll need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regular deadheading of the faded flowers will keep the plants in bloom longer. You can let the last flowers of the season remain on the plants to go to seed and feed the birds, but you will also get a good deal of self-seeding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Division is only necessary if the clump gets too large for its space. Rudbeckias don’t generally die out in the center and require regular division.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many species are used in prairie restorations and for ornamental use. Used by domestic stock for forage. An abundance of these plants on a rangeland indicates good health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia
http://gardening.about.com/od/plantprofile1/p/Rudbeckia.htm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Limnanthes douglasii is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Limnanthaceae (meadowfoam) commonly known as poached egg plant or Douglas' meadowfoam. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in wet, grassy habitat, such as vernal pools and spring meadows. It can grow in poorly drained clay soils. The plant was collected by the Scottish explorer and botanist David Douglas, who worked on the west coast of America in the 1820s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plant usually bears white flowers with yellow centers, hence the name "poached egg plant", but flower color can vary across subspecies. It is a popular ornamental plant. It attracts hoverflies to the garden to eat the aphids and is well loved by bees. It is self-seeding, and gardeners are often careful as to where the seeds fall as it will quite happily grow in a lawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are five subspecies: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L. douglasii ssp. douglasii R. Br., is native to the coastal mountains and valleys of southwestern Oregon south to the San Francisco Bay Area </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L. douglasii ssp. nivea (C.T. Mason)C.T. Mason, with mostly white flowers, grows in the coastal mountains of northern California </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L. douglasii ssp. rosea (Benth.)C.T. Mason, found in California's Central Valley and adjacent hills, often has pink veining on its petals </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L. douglasii ssp. sulphurea (C.T. Mason)C.T. Mason, is a rare yellow-petaled subspecies endemic to the Bay Area </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L. douglasii ssp. striata (Jeps.)Morin, has recently been subsumed into this species; it occurs in the Klamath range and the north and central Sierra Nevada</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Poached Egg Plant is used in rock gardens and containers. It is also a good candidate for edging material and as a denizen of the border. The plants grow either erect or spreading, from 15 to 30cm (6 to 12in) high to 15cm (6in) wide. The fragrant, abundant flowers appear from summer to autumn and attract bees and butterflies for the duration. This lovely plant provides a carpet of fragrant golden and white blooms that will grace the front of the border, rockery or path edging. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This beautiful little plant is very easy to grow and often found in the children’s corner of seed suppliers, however this little plant should not be underestimated, it can be a valuable resource for the allotmenteer - Limnanthes douglasii can be employed as both a companion plant to crops and as a green manure. Beloved of bees and adored by hoverflies and other beneficial insects, the plants provide a rich supply of nectar that will bring natural predators of pests, such as aphids, mites, mealy bugs and caterpillars directly to your vegetable bed. They prefer full sun and a cool moist root run and because of this do very well when grown as an edging to paths. If allowed, Limnanthes will self-seed freely and can be left to naturalise, germinating and flowering at different times. This can be imitated by sowing in autumn for flowers as early as April, and from spring to July for a long sequence of summer flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnanthes_douglasii </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.seedaholic.com/limnanthes-douglasii-3.html</span></div>
peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-71477981011322766472014-08-15T09:57:00.000-07:002014-08-15T10:53:48.985-07:00Sparaxis Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sparaxis (Harlequin Flower) is a genus in the family Iridaceae with about 13 species endemic to Cape Province, South Africa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All are perennials that grow during the wet winter season, flower in spring and survive underground as dormant corms over summer. Their conspicuous flowers have six tepals, which in most species are equal in size and shape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sparaxis bulbifera is the commonest in cultivation, with flowers from cream to yellow or purple. S. grandiflora is a similar but larger plant. Sparaxis tricolor has bright red flowers with yellow and black centres. Many named hybrid cultivars were bred from <span style="text-align: left;">S. elegant,</span>S. bulbifera and S. tricolor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A group of species with asymmetrical flowers marked in mauve and yellow, including Sparaxis variegata and Sparaxis villosa, was formerly treated as the genus Synnotia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are easy to grow in Mediterranean climates. They have been in cultivation for a number of years and there are many colorful hybrids grown as well. The genus Synnotia is now included in this genus. Sparaxis can become virused. Plants may continue to bloom, but there can be a color break in the petals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sparaxis (Harlequin) <span style="text-align: left;">flowers are early summer bloomers that perk up walkways and patios. Individual blooms do not last long, but flowers on the slender stems open successively from the bottom up, producing a long-lasting display that will look even more striking when planted close together in large groups. Harlequin flowers grow an average height of about 10 inches high. Use them as an accent in mixed beds and borders, rock gardens and containers. Harlequin flowers also make excellent cut flowers. During the growing season, the soil should be kept continually moist, especially after planting. Corms should be planted in the spring about 2 inches deep. Harlequin flowers prefer full sun in humus-rich sandy soil, but a semi-shaded site will also produce excellent results. Harlequin flowers will also thrive well in relatively poor soil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Little Sparaxis plant care is necessary with these flowers. In wet summer gardens, the corms are best lifted and stored but in well-drained areas, they can be left in the ground. Some species of the genus are not cold hardy. So if you live in colder regions, dig up the corms and store them before the first frost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The corms multiply rapidly if well watered throughout the growing season. Seeds can be sown in autumn and will flower the second spring or the offsets can be divided during dormancy and replanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Sparaxis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparaxis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.plantingflowerbulbs.com/harlequin-flowers.htm</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coreopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Common names include calliopsis and tickseed, a name shared with various other plants.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coreopsis are Native American prairie and woodland plants. Their ruggedness and profuse blooms have made them popular with plant breeders and there are over 100 different species available, although not all are perennial plants. Low maintenance, drought tolerant and long blooming, Coreopsis are work horses in a sunny flower border. Their common name, "tickseed", is supposedly for the seeds resemblance to ticks. That doesn't stop the birds from devouring them, if you leave the seed heads on during the winter. Goldfinches, in particular, enjoy Coreopsis seeds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most Coreopsis are clump forming, holding their daisy-like flowers on tall stems, above the foliage. There the similarity ends. There is a good amount of variety among Coreopsis species. C. grandiflora has bright yellow flowers on tall stems that bloom all summer. C. rosea has finely textured leaves with pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centers. The increasingly popular C. verticillata is called the thread leaf coreopsis because of its extremely fine and ferny leaves. The flowers are also delicate and profuse. A red C. verticillata has recently been introduced.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plant size will vary with species, age and growing conditions, but most Croreopsis grow somewhere between 10--18 inches tall with a spread of about 12--24 inches. They tend to grow in clumps, but many varieties will self-seed throughout your garden. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coreopsis will bloom best in full sun, but it can also be successfully grown in partial shade. The plants may get a bit lankier in partial shade, but they will adapt. In areas with intense dry, heat, Coreopsis may even prefer some afternoon shade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">Most varieties will start blooming in early summer and repeat bloom periodically through to fall. Deadheading the spent flowers will encourage more blooms. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C. grandiflora 'Early Sunrise' - Large, semi-double bright yellow flowers starting in early summer (12--24") </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C. grandiflora 'Golden Showers' - profuse cheery yellow blooms on long stems. (18--36") </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C. verticillata 'Moonbeam - buttery yellow flowers, extremely airy. (12--18") </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C. verticillata 'Zagreb' - Golden yellow flowers. Dependable (12--18"') </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C. rosea 'Nana' - Mauve-pink, dwarf variety that spreads nicely (8")</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">Coreopsis work well in any type of border. Because of their long bloom time, they make great fillers. Coreopsis grandiflora has a strong tendency to self-seed and makes a great choice for cottage type gardens. They pair well with other prairie flowers, like coneflowers and Gaillardia. They also make excellent cut flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The thread-leaf varieties soften both bold leaved plants and hard edges and add airy movement to gardens, but they tend to be short-lived. or edgers. The yellows blend beautifully with the purples and blues of iris, liatris and salvia 'Victoria'. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most coreopsis varieties are very easy to grow and are not particular about soil quality or soil pH. Many can be grown from seed, either started indoors, 4--6 weeks before your last expected frost, or direct seeded outdoors. As mentioned, many will seed themselves, however the hybrid varieties do not grow true from seed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coreopsis will need regular water when first planted, until they are established. After that, they are quite drought tolerant. Deadheading will keep the plants blooming throughout the summer. Some of the smaller flowered varieties are difficult to deadhead and you may prefer to shear the plants, once the first flush of flowers fade. They will fill in quickly. Most coreopsis plants will form tidy clumps, but some of the taller species may require staking to look attractive, especially if grown in partial shade. Although they are rugged plants, they don't tend to live more than 3 to 5 years. A decrease in flowering is a signal it is time to divide the plants or plant some new ones from seed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the most part, coreopsis grow problem free. In damp seasons they many fall prey to snails and slugs and fungal diseases can affect them. To avoid these problems as much as possible, give them plenty of air circulation and plant them in full sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Verbena is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 250 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas and Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The leaves are usually opposite, simple, and in many species hairy, often densely so. The flowers are small, with five petals, and borne in dense spikes. Typically some shade of blue, they may also be white, pink, or purple, especially in cultivars.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The genus can be divided into a diploid North American and a polyploid South American lineage, both with a base chromosome number of seven. The European species is derived from the North American lineage. It seems that verbena as well as the related mock vervains (Glandularia) evolved from the assemblage provisionally treated under the genus name Junellia; both other genera were usually included in the Verbenaceae until the 1990s.Intergeneric chloroplast gene transfer by an undetermined mechanism – though probably not hybridization – has occurred at least twice from vervains to Glandularia, between the ancestors of the present-day South American lineages and once more recently, between V. orcuttiana or V. hastata and G. bipinnatifida. In addition, several species of verbena are of natural hybrid origin; the well-known garden vervain has an entirely muddy history. The relationships of this close-knit group are therefore hard to resolve with standard methods of computational phylogenetics.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How to grow verbena, you’ll want to locate this tough specimen where it gets 8 to 10 hours of sun each day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The verbena flower is not particular about soil, except that it must be well-draining. Poor soil is acceptable for verbena growing conditions. Perennial varieties of the verbena flower are often lost when planted in soil that becomes soggy following heavy winter snow or spring rain. Good drainage can offset this problem. Improve drainage before planting verbena by working in well composted, organic material.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the verbena flower is drought resistant, the blooms are improved with regular watering of an inch or so each week. Water verbena plants at the base to avoid wetting the foliage. However, verbena plant care may not include weekly water if rainfall in your area has reached an inch or more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When planted in proper verbena growing conditions, expect blooms the first season. Continued blooms throughout the summer are possible if the gardener keeps the plant trimmed back. Some are hesitant to remove parts of the plant regularly, but this is often necessary when planting verbena for summer blooms. When blooms slow, trim the entire plant back by one fourth for a new show of flowers in 2 to 3 weeks. Fertilize lightly following the trim and water well. Repeat this step as needed when learning how to grow verbena successfully. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When planting verbena, remember to water, fertilize and trim for long lasting color in the summer garden and beyond.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Verbena has longstanding use in herbalism and folk medicine, usually as an herbal tea. Nicholas Culpeper's 1652 The English Physitian discusses folk uses. Among other effects, it may act as a galactagogue (promotes lactation) and possibly sex steroid analogue. The plants are also sometimes used as abortifacient. Verbena has been listed as one of the 38 plants used to prepare Bach flower remedies,a kind of alternative medicine promoted for its effect on health. However according to Cancer Research UK, "there is no scientific evidence to prove that flower remedies can control, cure or prevent any type of disease, including cancer".</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The essential oil of various species - mainly common vervain - is traded as Spanish verbena oil. Considered inferior to oil of Lemon verbena in perfumery, it is of some commercial importance for herbalism and it seems to be a promising source of medical compounds. Verveine, the famous green liqueur from the region of Le Puy-en-Velay (France) is flavored with these vervains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbena
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peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-24902455663745650312014-07-27T00:41:00.003-07:002014-07-27T01:11:46.994-07:00Fuchsia Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are currently almost 110 recognized species of Fuchsia. The vast majority are native to South America, but with a few occurring north through Central America to Mexico, and also several from New Zealand to Tahiti. One species, F. magellanica, extends as far as the southern tip of South America, occurring on Tierra del Fuego in the cool temperate zone, but the majority are tropical or subtropical. Most fuchsias are shrubs from 0.2–4 m (8 in–13 ft 1 in) tall, but one New Zealand species, the kōtukutuku (F. excorticata), is unusual in the genus in being a tree, growing up to 12–15 metres (39–49 ft) tall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fuchsia leaves are opposite or in whorls of 3–5, simple lanceolate and usually have serrated margins (entire in some species), 1–25 cm long, and can be either deciduous or evergreen, depending on the species. The flowers are very decorative; they have a pendulous "teardrop" shape and are displayed in profusion throughout the summer and autumn, and all year in tropical species. They have four long, slender sepals and four shorter, broader petals; in many species the sepals are bright red and the petals purple (colours that attract the hummingbirds that pollinate them), but the colours can vary from white to dark red, purple-blue, and orange. A few have yellowish tones, and recent hybrids have added the colour white in various combinations. The ovary is inferior and the fruit is a small (5–25 mm) dark reddish green, deep red, or deep purple berry, containing numerous very small seeds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The majority of fuchsia species are native to Central and South America. A small additional number are found on Hispaniola (two species), in New Zealand (three species) and on Tahiti (one species). Philip A. Munz in his A Revision of the Genus Fuchsia classified the genus into seven sections of 100 species. More recent scientific publications, especially those by the botanists Dennis E. Breedlove of the University of California and, currently, Paul E. Berry of the University of Michigan, recognize 108 species and 122 taxa, organized into twelve sections. In New Zealand and Tahiti, section Skinnera now consists of only three species as F. × colensoi has been determined to be a naturally occurring hybrid between F. excorticata and F. perscandens. Also, F. procumbens has been placed into its own section, Procumbentes. Two other new sections are Pachyrrhiza and Verrucosa, each with one species each. The Plant List, a cooperative endeavor by several leading botanical institutions to maintain a working list of all plant species, lists most currently accepted Fuchsia species and synonyms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fuchsias are easy to grow once they are established and they provide continual flower from July until late autumn, when the first frosts arrive. They really come into their own in autumn because they enjoy cooler temperatures and shorter days. The crystal-clear light of autumn also enhances the rich mixture of pinks, reds, peaches and whites adding a jewel-box quality to the October garden. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fuchsia plant care also requires a regular fertilization. Proper care for fuchsias means fertilizing them about every two weeks. They require some good nutrition, but you should limit use of fertilizer during late summer. This is because around this time, the fuchsia flower is getting ready for winter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the weather gets colder, avoid the frost. Keep your fuchsia growing by taking them inside. You can hang them inside an enclosed porch area or even inside your home. You can keep your fuchsia growing all year long by wintering them indoors. Come spring, after the chance of frost, you can put them back outdoors and they will thrive and flourish in the right conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fuchsia plants are not hard to grow and in fact, you will find fuchsia growing quite abundantly in the right areas around your home. The hanging pots will over flow and hang down with beautiful flowers so long as you have provided the right kind of care.</span></div>
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peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-82396789649264739992014-07-19T10:53:00.000-07:002014-07-19T11:14:00.191-07:00Cineraria Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cineraria is now generally treated as a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to southern Africa. The genus includes herbaceous plants and small subshrubs.
In the past, the genus was commonly viewed in a broader sense including a number of species from the Canary Islands and Madeira which are now transferred to the genus Pericallis, including the Florist's Cineraria (Pericallis x hybrida).
The uses for Cineraria include topical application for the treatment of cataracts.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cineraria, Senecio cruentus, have many daisy like flowers covering the top of the plant that can come in shades of dark pink, red, purple, blue, and white. The Cineraria blooms last between four and six weeks</span>.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cinerarias like cool temperatures around 45° to 55° F. When temperatures are to warm, above 60°, the flowers open and die quicker. Cold drafts are another possible problem for this plant. They can cause wilting or yellow leaves to develop. This plant needs consistent water and should feel moist at all times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cineraria need a high light area but should be away from any direct light. They also like a more humid environment. This can be achieved by placing the pot on a tray of pebbles that is filled with water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, Cinerarias do not bloom again once their 6 weeks are up. They are a true annual and only flower one time in their lifespan. It is recommended to discard of the plants after flowering. The plants are grown from seed and will not be able to be leaf propagated. It is best to sow new seeds in midsummer in a cool place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cannonball "Couroupita guianensis", known by several common names, including cannonball tree, is a deciduous tree in the family Lecythidaceae, which also contains the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa). It is native to the rainforests of Central and South America.It is cultivated in many other places. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Couroupita guianensis grows up to 35 m (meters) in height. The clustered leaves vary in length, generally from 8 to 31 centimeters, but reaching up to 57.The flowers are born in large bunches up to 80 m(meters) long. Some trees flower profusely, until the entire trunk is buried in flowers. One tree can bear 1000 flowers per day. They are strongly scented, especially at night,and in the early morning.They are large, up to 6 centimeters wide, and often brightly colored, the six petals in shades of pink and red near the bases and yellowish toward the tips. There is a ring of stamens at the center, and an arrangement to stamens that have been modified into a hood.The large fruit, which is woody and very spherical, measuring up to 25 centimeters wide, gives the species the common name "cannonball tree". A smaller fruit contains perhaps 65 seeds, while a large one can have 550.One tree can bear 150 fruits. The fruit takes up to a year to mature in most areas, sometimes as long as 18 months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tree was named Couroupita guianensis by the French botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet in 1755. Common names in other languages include many translations of the English cannonball tree. Common names include macacarecuia (Portuguese), coco sachapura (Colombia, Panama), bala de canon (Costa Rica), kanonskogelboom (Dutch), arbre à boulet de canon (French), kouroupitoumou (French Guiana), nagkeshar (Bengali), Nagalingam or Lingam (Tamil), sala (Indonesia), granadillo de las huacas (Panama), ayahuma (Peru), and boskalebas (Suriname).</span></div>
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peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-31740926343507262692014-07-06T00:56:00.001-07:002014-07-06T01:25:18.180-07:00Anagallis Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anagallis is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering plants in the family Myrsinaceae, commonly called pimpernel and perhaps best known for the scarlet pimpernel referred to in literature. The botanical name is from the Greek, ana, "again", and agallein, "to delight in", and refers to the opening and closing of the flowers in response to envir </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">onmental conditions.</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are annual or perennial plants, growing in tufts on weedy and uncultivated areas. The stems are prostrate or decumbent. The leaves are opposite, rarely whorled, and sometimes with a few alternate leaves at the end of the stem. They are usually ovate in shape with a cordate base. Some of the species produce flowers of various colors. The flowers are radially symmetrical and have 5 sepals. The corolla consists of a short tube and 5 lobes. The tube may be so short that the lobes appear to be separate petals. They are usually solitary in the leaf axils, but sometimes are on short spikes at the end of the stem. Pimpernel flowers remain open only under direct sun-light. The stamens are opposite the corolla lobes. The staminal filaments have conspicuous hairs. The ovary is superior, globose, and circumscissile near the middle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anagallis prefers a well drained soil. When planting in hanging baskets or container take care not to overwater in the early stages. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anagallis is naturally perennial. If you wish to keep plants over winter, bring the plants indoors as the minimal winter temperature that the plant can survive in is 6 to 8°C. Perfect drainage is a sound precaution against winter loss. Cuttings may also be taken as insurance for overwintering indoors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sow indoors in Spring, January to May Fill individual peat pots, seed-starting cells or flats, or 7cm (3”) pot with a good commercial seed-starting mix. Moisten the mix and let it drain. Surface sow the seeds and cover with a thin layer of vermiculite or 1/16 “ of compost. Do not cover with soil as they need light to germinate. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cover the containers with clear plastic to keep the mix moist while the seeds are germinating and place in a warm location. Keep moist, watering from the base of the container. Germination takes 18 to 21 days at 18-20°C (65-70°F). As soon as seedlings start to emerge, remove the plastic cover and lower the temperature to 15°C (60°F). Germination can sometimes be slow and erratic, don't discard the container too early as a second flush of seedlings may appear later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When large enough to handle, transplant the seedlings into 7.5cm (3in) pots or trays. Handle the plants with care and avoid disturbing the roots as much as possible when transplanting to prevent wilting. Gradually hardened off for 10-14 days before transplanting into the flowering site after all risk of frost has passed. Plant 23-30cm (9-12in) apart in full sun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagallis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.seedaholic.com/anagallis-monellii.html</span></div>
peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-21983536883809085192014-06-29T07:58:00.002-07:002014-06-29T08:13:00.225-07:00Prunus mume Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prunus mume is an Asian tree species classified in the Armeniaca section of the genus Prunus subgenus Prunus. Its common names include Chinese plum and Japanese apricot.The flower is usually called plum blossom.This distinct tree species is related to both the plum and apricot trees.Although generally referred to as a plum in English, it is more closely related to the apricot.The fruit of the tree is used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cooking in juices, as a flavouring for alcohol, as a pickle and in sauces. It is also used in traditional medicine. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tree's flowering in late winter and early spring is highly regarded as a seasonal symbol.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prunus mume originated in the south of mainland China around the Yangtze River and was later introduced to Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.It can be found in sparse forests, stream sides, forested slopes along trails and mountains, sometimes at altitudes up to 1,700–3,100 metres (5,600–10,200 ft), and regions of cultivation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plant is known by a number of different names in English, including Chinese plum and Japanese apricot. An alternative name is ume,from Japanese, or mume, from the scientific name.</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another alternative name is mei, from the Chinese name. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The flower is known as the meihua (梅花) in Chinese, which came to be translated as "plum blossom" or sometimes as "flowering plum".The term "winter plum" may be used too, specifically with regard to the depiction of the flower with its early blooming in Chinese painting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Chinese it is called méi (梅) and the fruit is called méizi (梅子). The Japanese name is ume (kanji: 梅; hiragana: うめ), while the Korean name is maesil (hangul: 매실; hanja: 梅實). The Japanese and Korean terms derive from Middle Chinese, in which the pronunciation is thought to have been muəi.The Vietnamese name is mai or mơ (although mai may also refer to a different plant, Ochna integerrima, in the south of Vietnam).</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prunus mume is a deciduous tree that starts to flower in mid-winter, typically around January until late February in East Asia. It can grow to 4–10 metres (13–33 ft) tall. The flowers are 2–2.5 centimetres (0.79–0.98 in) in diameter and have a strong fragrant scent.They have colors in varying shades of white, pink, and red.The leaves appear shortly after the petals fall, are oval-shaped with a pointed tip, and are 4–8 cm long and 2.5–5 cm wide.The fruit ripens in early summer, around June and July in East Asia, and coincides with the rainy season of East Asia, the meiyu (梅雨, literally "plum rain").The drupe is 2–3 centimetres (0.79–1.18 in) in diameter with a groove running from the stalk to the tip.The skin turns yellow, sometimes with a red blush, as it ripens, and the flesh becomes yellow. The tree is cultivated for its fruit and flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Growing Prunus mume select a site with good sun, a full day of sun is best, but they will bloom in high filtered shade or a half day of sun. Prunus mume is not particular about soil, but will do better if the site is not very wet or dry. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the best growth, you can prepare a bed of improved soil. I recommend putting a layer of compost 4-6 inches over an area at least 25 square feet (5' x 5'), and tilling the compost into the existing soil. Prunus mume will usually do fine in regular garden soil, even if it has a lot of clay. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would dig a hole slightly larger than the root ball and deep enough so that the top of the root ball will be even with the surrounding soil, but not any lower. You can place the plant in the hole while still in the pot to get the depth right. Once the pot is removed, place the root-ball in the hole and adjust the plant for depth and vertical orientation. Step back and view from two angles if you want a trunk that is straight up and down. With time, Prunus mume tends to have a gnarled look, rather than a single straight stem. Staking is usually necessary only if the plant seems loose, or is moving in the wind. Backfill the hole with soil that came out of the hole and firmly pack the soil around the roots. I usually make a ridge of dirt around the root-ball which makes a basin in which water can collect, and slowly soak into the soil. Water well after planting. The first year, the tree needs to be watered 1-2 times/week with a deep watering that gets water down to all the root-ball. The frequency of watering depends on the heat, and how established the plant has become. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Frtilize lightly in March and May in the South, or April and June in the North. Mulch with any organic mulch like pine bark or wood chips. The plant can be trained to a desired shape by pruning and staking. Lower limbs can be cut off to have a tree form. Without pruning, it will make a small tree 25 feet tall and 20 feet wide. Dead branches and crossed branches can be removed in winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Notes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_mume </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.camforest.com/category_s/55.htm</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tigridia: </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tigridia Common names include tiger-flowers or shell flowers, is a genus of bulbous or cormous plants, belonging to the family Iridaceae. They have large showy flowers and one species, Tigridia pavonia, is often cultivated for this. The approximately thirty five species in this family gro</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">w in the Western Hemisphere, from Mexico to Chile. The tigridia flower is short lived, each often blooming for only one day, but often several flowers will bloom from the same stalk. Usually they are dormant during the winter dry-season. Its roots are edible and were eaten by the Aztecs of Mexico who called it cacomitl and its flower "Jaguar flower". The genus name means "tiger-like" and alludes to the coloration and spotting of the flowers of the type species Tigridia pavonia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Species of Tigridia include:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia alpestris </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia bicolor </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia chiapensis </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia dugesii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia durangense </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia ehrenbergii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia flammea </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia hallbergii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia huajuapanensis </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia immaculata </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia inusitata </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia matudae </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia meleagris </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia mexicana </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia molseediana </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia multiflora </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia orthantha </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia pavonia </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia philippiana </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia seleriana </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia vanhouttei </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tigridia violacea</span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thirty species of Tigridia shell flowers are found, mainly from Mexico and Guatemala, and are members of the Iridaceae family. Tiger flowers resemble the gladiola, with 3 to 6 inch flowers in colors of pink, red, white, yellow, cream, orange or scarlet. Triangular shaped petals of solid colors adorn the outer edges of the flower with a center that has a tiger skin or seashell-like appearance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pleated foliage has the appearance of a fan, adding to the beauty of the growing tiger flower. This foliage dies back in fall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Growing tiger flower provides brightly colored, though short-lived, blooms in the summer garden. Also known as Mexican shell flowers, the species is botanically named Tigridia pavonia, as the center of the flower center resembles a tiger’s coat. Tigridia shell flowers in the garden appear in succession, for 2 to 3 weeks, offering a spectacular showing of the beautiful blooms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plant Tigridia shell flowers in the garden in spring. Tiger flowers are semi-hardy and can be damaged at temperatures of 28 degrees F. and below. Those in zones with cold winters should lift the bulbs and store them during winter. In warmer areas where bulbs are not lifted, tiger flower care includes division every few years. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When planting Tigridia shell flowers in the garden, plant them 4 inches deep and 4 to 5 inches apart. You may also want to plant them in masses throughout the garden for a colorful summer show when they bloom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigridia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/tiger-flower/growing-tiger-flowers.htm</span></div>
peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-36021894692207577072014-06-25T08:58:00.001-07:002014-06-25T09:00:31.566-07:00Ruta Graveolens Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ruta graveolens commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace — is a species of Ruta grown as a herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula. It is now grown throughout the world as an ornamental plant in gardens, especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. It also is cultivated as a medicinal herb, as a condiment, and to a lesser extent as an insect repellent.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blooms appear in these approximate colours: Yellow and Painter yellow. The blooms display an average of 4 petals. Leaves appear approximately as a Teal green and Celadon Green colour. It is a flowering edible herb that typically grows as a semi-evergreen, which is defined as a plant that is evergreen in mild areas but otherwise deciduous. Common rue is known for growing to a height of approximately 1.46 feet (that's 45.0 cm in metric) with a forb habit. This plant tends to bloom in late spring. This plant is a great attractor for butterflies, so if you are looking to attract wildlife Common rue is a great choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Surface sow seed (needs light to germinate) in peaty soil at 68°F (20°C) to germinate in 7-28 days. Transplant to full sun and fertile soil that is not too wet (keep well watered until it is established). This plant enjoys rocky soil. Try to plant in a location that enjoys partial sun / full sun and remember to water moderately. Use Zone 6 - Zone 11 as your guideline for the appropriate climate for this plant. Ensure your soil is peat-rich and has a ph of between 6.6 and 8.5 as Common rue is a weakly acidic soil - weakly alkaline soil loving plant. Keep in mind when planting that Common rue is thought of as very hardy, so this plant will tend to survive through freezing conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rue was thought to protect against plague, and since people also rubbed their floors with fresh rue to repel fleas, it probably actually did protect them. Like other bitters (wormwood, for instance), rue has been used to get rid of worms. The rutin in rue is antispasmodic and thus good for intestinal cramps and coughs. However, an excess of rue causes vomiting, can interefere with the liver, and can even be fatal; don’t use during pregnancy. Fresh leaves can cause dermatitis in senstive people, especially on hot sunny days when the essential oil is strongest. It can also interact negatively with blood thinning agents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruta_graveolens </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://myfolia.com/plants/1324-common-rue-ruta-graveolens</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Schizanthus also called butterfly flower, fringeflower, poor-man's-orchid, is a genus of plants in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are annual or biennial herbaceous plants, with attractive flowers and they belong to the Schizanthoideae subfamily of the solanaceae. The genus includes species native to Chile and Argentina, many species are adventitious in other parts of the world such as New Zealand and the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Annual or biennial, glandulous-pubescent herbaceous plants, with alternate, pinnatilobate or bipinnatisect leaves and attractive flowers, arranged at the end of stems. The flowers are zygomorphic and hermaphrodite. The calyx has 5 parts, with linear or spatulate segments. The corolla is bilabiate; the superior labia is tripartite, with the central lobe complete and notched and the two laterals bifid. The inferior labia is tripartite with the central lobe notched, almond-shaped and the laterals are complete. The androecium is formed of 4(5) didynamous stamens, the two or three inferior stamens are reduced to staminodes. The fruit is a pluriseminate boll, dehiscent by two bifid valves. The basic chromosome number is x=10.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The species currently recognized in Schizanthus are the following: </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus alpestris </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus candidus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus grahamii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus hookerii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus integrifolius </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus lacteus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus laetus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus litoralis </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus parvulus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus pinnatus S</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">chizanthus porrigens </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Schizanthus tricolor</span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is best to grow Fringe flower and other members of the Schizanthus genus indoors from seeds. They should be sown at a depth of 3 mm in a rich soil of pH 6 to 7 about 2 months before the last expected frost of spring. It should take about two or three weeks for the Schizanthus seeds to germinate in the dark at a temperature of 15 to 23 degrees centigrade. Once growing, transplant the Schizanthus (Fringe flower) seedlings outdoors in the middle of spring a couple of weeks after the last chance of a frost. They should be grown in a sunny part of the garden and spaced from 25 cm (small Schizanthus species), 40cm (medium varieties) or 60 to 80 cm (large Schizanthus varieties) apart. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is not easy to look after Schizanthus species. To get a nice bushy growth the plants should be pinched back at the tips when they reach 8cm, and again when they reach 16 cm in height. The young plants should be supported with stakes. Water regularly to keep the soil moist, but avoid getting water on the leaves and flowers. If you require more Schizanthus plants then it is best to grow them from seed or to purchase them from a garden center.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus (from the Greek "Kistos") is a genus of flowering plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, containing about 20 species (Ellul et al. 2002). They are perennial shrubs found on dry or rocky soils throughout the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal through to the Middle East, and also on the Canary Islands. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Together with its many hybrids and cultivars is commonly encountered as a garden flower.
The common name rockrose is applied to the species, a name also shared by the related genera Halimium, Helianthemum and Tuberaria, all in the family Cistaceae. The common name gum cistus is applied to resin bearing species, especially C. ladanifer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They have showy 5-petaled flowers ranging from white to purple and dark pink, in a few species with a conspicuous dark red spot at the base of each petal.</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus albidus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus chinamadensis </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus clusii </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus creticus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus crispus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus heterophyllus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus incanus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus ladanifer – Gum Rockrose </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus laurifolius </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus libanotis </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus monspeliensis – Montpelier </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus Cistus munbyi </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus osbeckiaefolius </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus parviflorus</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus populifolius </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus psilosepalus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus salviifolius – Salvia Cistus </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus symphytifolius </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus varius</span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are thermophilous plants, which require open, sunny places. This plant genus is peculiar in that it has developed a range of specific adaptations to resist summer drought and frequent disturbance events, such as fire and grazing. In addition, it can form both ectomycorrhizas and arbuscular mycorrhizas. More than 200 ectomycorrhiza-forming fungal species belonging to 40 genera have been reported so far to be associated with Cistus.As with many other Cistaceae, the species of Cistus have the ability to form mycorrhizal associations with truffles (Tuber) and are thus able to thrive on poor sandy soils or rocks. Cistus ladanifer has been found to have mycorrhizal associations with Boletus edulis, Boletus rhodoxanthus, and Laccaria laccata. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cistus are the only host of Cytinus hypocistis, a small parasitic plant that lives on the roots and is noticeable only for a short period of time when in flower. The presence of the parasite does not seem to hurt the host population. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Uses In popular medicine, infusions of cistuses are used to treat diarrhea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Loasa is a genus of ornamental <span style="text-align: left;">flowering plants, from Chile and Peru,</span><span style="text-align: left;">which belongs to the</span> family Loasaceae. These plants are usually prickly herbs, or subshrubs, and they are native of tropical America.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are elegant colors flowers, very curious in their structure but the plants possess one quality which must forever banish them from the pleasure garden.the whole plant is covered with hairs, which, on being even slightly touched, eject a poison into the flesh, causing a painful blister, the effect of which does not pass off for several days. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The flowers of Loasa are both beautiful and curiously formed, but the plants have a stinging property. They grow well in any loamy soil, and are easily increased by seed sown in spring. Flowers are produced in June and July. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Their height is about two feet. Besides the annuals there is a half-hardy climber and attaining the height of ten or twelve feet.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The chief kinds are Loasa (Eucnide) hispida, lemon-yellow, marked with green and white; L. nitida, trailing, yellow, with red base; and L. vulcanica, white, with red and white centre. All bloom in August and September.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They grow for 2-3 ft. in height, and have deeply lobed leaves, with serrate (notched) edges, and measure from 3-6 in. in width. The flowers which are showy and borne in the axils of the leaves, are produced in small clusters or sometimes singly. They measure 1 in. in diameter and are red, white or yellow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although these plants are very attractive they are not widely cultivated, because the leaves sting to such an extent to cause acute pain for several days. The meaning of the name Loasa is unknown. It is the old original South American name for the plants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The seeds are sown, early in March, in a greenhouse with a minimum temperature of 55 degrees in a compost of equal parts of loam leafmould and silver sand, which is passed through a sieve with 1/8-in. mesh, and pressed down lightly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As soon as the seedlings have formed two pairs of leaves they are potted singly in small pots and, later on, transfer to 5-in. pots. When well rooted in these they are gradually hardened off and planted out of doors in June. They require a warm sunny position, preferably against a wall or fence. Ordinary garden soil is suitable, but it must be deeply dug and enriched with well-decayed manure. The climbing kinds are supported by pea-sticks or planted against a trellis, to which the shoots readily cling.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They may also be grown in a greenhouse; the seedlings are raised and treated in the manner already advised, but they are set in large pots or tubs and the shoots of the climbing kinds provided with stakes or wires. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">References: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.homegardendesign.info/loasaflowers.html </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loasa </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://chestofbooks.com/flora-plants/flowers/The-Flower-Garden/Loasa.html#.U6Ei6JRdWzE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.mygardenjuice.com/encyclopedia/labellum-to-lythrum/loasa-chile-nettle</span></div>
peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-52514291518817269832014-06-15T01:41:00.000-07:002014-06-15T01:53:11.387-07:00Parnassia Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Parnassia: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The genus Parnassia, also known as Grass of Parnassus or bog-stars, are plants in the family Celastraceae. The plants occur in arctic and alpine habitats, as well as in dune systems and fens, swamps, wet meadows, open seepage areas, moist woods, and across the Northern Hemisphere. It is actually not a grass, but an herbaceous dicot. The stalk of the plant can reach up to 8 inches (200 mm), the leaves up to 4 inches (100 mm) and the petals can be up to 1.4 inches (36 mm) wide. The flower has five white petals with light green venation. There are five three-pronged sterile stamens, each tipped with drop-like, false nectaries, which (along with the visual cue of veins) attract pollinating flies and bees. The flower blooms in late summer, around July, and into October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The species is often found in wet calcareous habitats with low fertility, low canopy cover, and high plant diversity.Parnassia glauca is considered to be an indicator species of fens.Such habitats are often becoming rare, and so species of Parnassia may have high conservation value. For example, Parnassia palustris is threatened and legally protected in Michigan. while Parnassia caroliniana is considered imperiled in North Carolina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Parnassus flowers are the symbol of the clan MacLea, also known as the highland Livingstone clan, which is said to be the favorite flower of St. Moluag, the Irish missionary whose staff the clan chiefs hold. Three Grass of Parnassus flowers appear on the Flag of Cumberland, a British county, as that flower grows on Cumberland's lofty fells.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. asarifolia </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. cabulica </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. caroliniana </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. californica </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. cirrata </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. fimbriata </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. glauca </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. grandifolia</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. kotzebuei </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P. palustris</span></li>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When growing Grass of Parnassus from seed it is best to grow outdoors in its final location. The plants like to grow in swampy (or very moist) conditions and are able to grow in a sunny or lightly shaded part of the garden. Ideally the soil should be ever so slightly acidic to neutral (pH 6 to 7) and rich. The Parnassia seeds should be sown on the surface of flats using fresh seed at the end of summer. The flats should then be sunk into a shady part of the garden. Germination can take from one to six months. Once the Grass of Parnassus seedlings have grown to a stage where they have five leaves they should be transplanted into peat pots and relocated to an area of light shade; the pots should be watered from below. In the autumn the plants can be transplanted into the garden at about 15 to 20 cm apart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;">It is easy to look after Parnassia, they like the soil to be moist or swampy so water regularly. Additionally the plants should be mulched in the spring to keep the plants cool. It is recommended to divide the plants every three or four years to maintain vigour. If you require more grass of Parnassus plants then they can be propagated by division immediately after flowering has finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnassia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.gardenershq.com/Parnassia-grass-Parnassus.php </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kohleria is a New World genus of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. The plants are generally tropical herbs or subshrubs with velvety stems and foliage and brightly colored flowers with spots or markings in contrasting colors. They are rhizomatous and commonly include a period of dormancy in their growth cycle. The genus was recently revised by Kvist & Skog (1992) and was recognized as having 19 species distributed in Central America and South America. Recent phylogenetic work by Roalson et al. (2005) indicated that the epiphytic genus Capanea is derived from within Kohleria, and the two species of Capanea were subsequently transferred to Kohleria. The genus Pearcea is closely related.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because of their colorful and exotically patterned flowers, as well as a general interest in the many tropical flowering plants that were being introduced from the Americas, kohlerias were very popular in England and Europe in the 19th Century. Many species and hybrids were lavishly illustrated in horticultural magazines such as Curtis's Botanical Magazine under the discarded or erroneous names of Achimenes, Gesneria, Isoloma, Sciadocalyx, and Tydaea. These species and hybrids almost entirely disappeared in the early 20th Century, and plant breeders have only recently begun to work extensively with this genus again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several species are widespread, variable, weedy, and tend to hybridize in the wild, and numerous names have been described that are synonyms of other species or are hybrid taxa. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria affinis (syn. Capanea affinis) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria allenii </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria amabilis </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria hirsuta </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria inaequalis </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria spicata </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria tigridia (syn. Capanea grandiflora) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria villosa </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kohleria warscewiczii</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These tropical beauties are easy to grow and are prolific bloomers. They have an upright growth habit and can quickly grow 1-2 ft (30-60 cm) tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kohleria needs plenty of bright light to bloom. Keep out of direct sunlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spring through fall, water thoroughly and allow the top 2 inches (5 cm) to dry out between waterings. In winter, water just enough to prevent leaves from wilting. Rhizomes store water so it's more tolerant of dry soil than wet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prefers relative humidity above 50%, but will tolerate lower levels. Use a room humidifier or a humidity tray to maintain moist air. Don't mist this plant because the hairy leaves will trap moisture, which will cause spots and possibly botrytis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Average room temperatures 65-75°F/18-24°C. Don't expose your plant to temps below 60°F/16°C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Feed every 2 weeks spring and summer with a high-phosphorus liquid fertilizer (such as 10-30-10) diluted by half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Divide rhizomes in spring and pot separately. Or take 4-inch (10 cm) leaf tip cuttings with at least 1 pair of leaves attached and root in moist potting mix. Cover the whole thing with plastic or a glass cloche to hold in moisture. Cuttings root easily in about 4-6 weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">References:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohleria</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.guide-to-houseplants.com/kohleria.html</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Bomarea: </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bomarea is a tuberous member of the the family Alstroemeriaceae. There are about 100 species, some of which are non-climbing, growing more like a ground cover, although the majority are climbers. They are found from Mexico on South, through the tropics and into the Andes, down to Southern Chile, and are mostly plants of the forest understory, where they grow through adjacent vegetation in lightly shaded conditions. Some species are coastal, growing in the fog belt of Chile, so, not surprisingly they do very well in Coastal California. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other species can only be found in the high altitude Páramo of South America. Bomarea is related to Alstroemeria where both flowers and leaves demonstrate this close relationship. The most current phylogenetic studies support these two genera as distinct. Morphologically, these two genera can be differentiated with capsule and seed coat characters. Alstroemeria has explosive capsules with a brown seed coat whereas Bomarea does not have explosive capsules and the seeds are covered by a red fleshy sarcotesta layer. The beautiful flowers of this genus are produced in a dense umbel at the end of the growing shoots. Each umbel can be composed of as many as 30-45 flowers if well grown, with flowers consisting of three outer tepals and three inner, sometimes of contrasting colors.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Growing from seed is not difficult. Collect seeds when the capsules have mature. Rub and wash away the red sarcotesta layer as it inhibits germination. Sow the seeds in a well drained mix (1:1 organic:inorganic is good) and keep the soil moist. It takes about 3 months for seedlings to appear. In the Bay Area, seeds mature in the fall and if sown in October, they will sprout in January. It is anecdotally thought that if the seeds dry out, they will not germinate. Once seedlings have grown 3-4 leaves, they can be spit up and repotted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seedlings will remain about the same size in a small pot for years but once they are put into a larger pot (such as a 1 gallon (~3 L) pot) they will take off and flower in 2-3 years. The best and largest blooming comes from plants that have established in the ground for several years. Growing plants do better with occasionally fertilizing. Division of plants can be made although it severely weakens the parent plant. But if a division is necessary, make sure that the new division has some growing points (see photos below) with at least one storage tuber. The tubers are only for storage and no new plants can be grown just from the tubers alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Reference:http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Bomarea</span><br />
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peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-28530661608312107542014-06-08T01:39:00.001-07:002014-06-08T04:15:26.207-07:00Calochortus Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Calochortus is a genus of plants that includes herbaceous, perennial and bulbous species. The genus includes approximately 70 species distributed in North America from south west British Columbia to northern Guatemala and east to Nebraska and the Dakotas. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific coast.Of these, 28 species are endemic to California.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The genus Calochortus includes Mariposas (or Mariposa lilies) with open wedge-shaped petals, Globe lilies and Fairy lanterns with globe-shaped flowers, and Cat's ears and Star tulips with erect pointed petals. The word Calochortus is derived from Greek and means "beautiful grass".</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The diversity of Calochortus species is reflected in the wide range of English common names applied to the flowers. Unfortunately, the common names do not align cleanly with the scientific subsections above. But here is a quick guide: </span></span></div>
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<li><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Mariposa Tulips </b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">are large, upright, bowl-shaped flowers, often with intricate color markings and sometimes hairs. Calochortus venustus is an example. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Pussy Ears</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> or </span><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Cat's Ears</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> are small, upright flowers with very hairy tepals. Calochortus tolmiei is an example. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Globe Tulips</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> or </span><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Fairy Lanterns</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> are nodding, roughly spherical flowers. Calochortus amabilis is an example. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Star Tulips</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> are small, upright flowers that resemble miniature Mariposas, although they usually have fewer markings. Calochortus uniflorus is an example.</span></li>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Calochortus produce one or more flowers on a stem that arises from the bulb, generally in the spring or early summer. Unlike most other Liliaceae, Calochortus petals differ in size and color from their sepals. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flowers can be white, yellow, pink, purple, bluish, or streaked. The insides of the petals are often very 'hairy'. These hairs, along with the nectaries, are often used in distinguishing species from each other.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since most Calochortus species come from Mediterranean-type climate of the western USA, they grow during the cool, rainy winters, bloom mid to late spring, and are dormant in summer when they must be kept dry. The exceptions are the high altitude species (such as C. leichtlinii and C. gunnisonii) which are dormant in winter, emerging soon after the snows melt to bloom from mid to late summer. The alpine species generally need cold conditions in the winter and cool summers, but, since their growth cycle is in summer, they do need summer water. The Mexican species are also dormant in winter, when they should be kept on the dry side, and grow during the summer too, blooming in late summer or fall. They can tolerate a much warmer summer than the alpine species for most are from subtropical regions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bearing this in mind, therefore, it is absolutely essential to know what sort of region your Calochortus come from if you are going to be able to grow them successfully.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The majority of Calochortus species can take light frosts, even those from Southern California and the coastal regions. Those from the foothill regions of the major mountain ranges of the West can tolerate temperatures down to about 15 deg. F (10 deg. C), at least for short periods of time. ALL of the species I grow (including C. obispoensis and C. catalinae, both considered to be quite tender) have taken temperatures as low as this with only minor damage to the foliage, but the lowest temperatures they have endured were not sustained over several days. Once again, knowing the region your species come from will assist you in estimating their hardiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calochortus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Calochortus
http://thebulbmaven.typepad.com/the_bulb_maven/files/Calochortus.doc</span><br />
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peoplelofpakistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193594722278525781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828185906720188672.post-84370398261133825212014-06-05T09:49:00.001-07:002014-06-05T10:45:32.823-07:00Lewisia Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lewisia is a plant genus, named for Meriwether Lewis who encountered the species in 1806. The native habitat of Lewisia species is north facing cliffs in the western part of North America. Local Native Americans ate the roots, which have also been used to treat sore throats. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A plant destined for rock garden or container, it is relatively a no-muss-no-fuss plant once happily in its niche; a mostly sunny site, quick-draining soil and being kept sufficiently dry in winter pretty much all that’s really required. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Native Lewisias all have the fleshy leaves of their dry country succulent brethren; some have that lightning bolt of intense color typical of the plants of the desert, others more pale and delicate appearing. Each is uniquely lovely and will add a special cheer to your garden with a limited amount of care.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All species of Lewisia are edible. Lewisia rediviva has a large edible root and as a result became a food source for local Native Americans. The root is peeled before boiling or steaming; cooking the root reduces its bitterness. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For gardening, Lewisia species are usually planted in rockeries because this mimics their natural habitat. Rockeries also provide the free drainage that Lewisias need to prevent their roots rotting. They may also be planted in pots, though they need to be well drained and protected from sustained wet weather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They grow best where humidity is low during the summer and require good air circulation around the plant's crown to prevent fungal disease. The blooming and growing seasons of many Lewisias is prolonged if given some afternoon shade. Although their fleshy leaves make them drought tolerant, they can be watered freely during the growing season. Those that have a dormant period should be kept drier during their dormancies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are nineteen species and several varieties of Lewisia, including </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>L. cotyledon</b> - Originating from the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon and south into the north coast ranges of California, it makes up the vast majority of Lewisias available for sale, its hardiness and ease of cultivation and hybridization make it a favorite of plant enthusiasts of all sorts, and this Lewisia can be an easily successful specimen in gardens well beyond its native range. Though its appearance would make one think it wanted to bask in full sun, L. cotyledon actually prefers a little shade during the day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its flower color can vary from plant to plant as well as among the many blossoms of a single plant. The flowers can be white to yellow to fiery orange to electric pink as well as in a variety of combinations of these, often with the exuberant color reminiscent to that of cacti. Wide, fleshy evergreen leaves form a basal rosette with the small multi-petaled flowers rising above numerously atop thin stems. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>L. columbiana</b> – From the high, rocky reaches of British Columbia to northern Oregon east of the Cascades, L. columbiana and its many naturally-occurring variations are a more diminutive and delicate-appearing group than their showier relatives. The basal rosette of leaves still fleshy and succulent, still evergreen, but instead of being broad they are narrower and much longer than wide. The flowers tend to be fewer-petaled and small, in a more open spray above the leaves, usually white with dark pink stripes or a more solid light lavender to magenta, forming a lovely drift of color when in full bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>L. rediva</b> – Not commonly found commercially, this tiny jewel makes its home in all manner of arid, rocky locations in the west. In early spring emerge short, thin fleshy leaves, small and indistinct. What follows is the surprising appearance of oversized flowers of pale to deep rosy pink, nestled close to the leaves. By summer all above-ground growth has died back, only the underground taproot patiently remaining until revived by the following spring’s rain. Sharp drainage, winter dry and a waterless spell in summer while dormant, this Lewisia can be successfully grown in our lowlands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisia </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://portlandnursery.com/plants/natives/lewisia.shtml http://www.wildgingerfarm.com/GrowLewisia.htm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.flickr.com/</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The orchid genus Disa consists of 169 terrestrial orchid species in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, Yemen and Réunion.Disa bracteata is naturalized in Western Australia, where the local name is "African weed-orchid." </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some species of Disa are cultivated as ornamentals, most notably the species Disa uniflora, a spectacular red orchid also known as "The Pride of Table Mountain." </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They were named after Disa, the heroine of a Swedish legend, by the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plants grow from a fleshy tuberous root which is mostly used for the artificial sweetener maltodextrins and may attain a height of 90 cm. The flowers grow in racemes or solitary. The petals and the lip are small. The lip is nonresupinate, so the flower appears upside down compared to most orchids. The flowers consist essentially of the sepals. The flowers are colored in the whole range of red. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Flowers pollinated by butterflies have evolved twice, for example the pollination of Disa uniflora by the Table mountain Pride Butterfly Aeropetes tulbaghia (Satyrinae) </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Flowers with conspicuous deception, pollinated by carpenter bees, have evolved twice. - Long-spurred flowers, pollinated by long-tongued flies, have evolved four times. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Night-scented flowers, pollinated by moths, have evolved three times. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This shows that a few pollinators in a region can force plant into diversification through repeated forward floral shifts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some Disa species are pollinated by sunbirds and have pollinaria that stick to the feet of the sunbirds when the perch on the inflorescence. Once very rare in cultivation, Disa uniflora is gaining in popularity as a cut flower. However, they are difficult to grow, because of the needed mineralogical composition of the potting soil. Also, as most species grow in very wet environments, they can be easily killed by rot in cultivation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Disas require rather different conditions than many other orchids. But meet their needs and they grow fast! Forget everything you know about growing other orchids if you want to keep these: in particular, they are NOT epiphytes! Also, the conventional wisdom that most orchids die from overwatering does not apply. One could reasonably consider Disas to be water plants, as they are sometimes found completely submerged in nature during certain seasons, and they generally grow right next to streams. You should water them at least daily, set them in buckets of water, or even construct flow tables that keep water flowing past their roots constantly. They should never, ever dry out or they will die. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You need very pure water for these plants: they grow in mountain streams. So unless you want to go to the grocery store to get distilled water every day, invest in a reverse osmosis system. (Your other orchids will appreciate it, too!) </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monitor how well your reverse osmosis system is working, changing its membrane as necessary; you want a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) meter to read less than 200-300 ppm, even after fertilizer is added. They also like an acidic pH; use peat moss or sphagnum moss in the potting mix to achieve this. (They often like to be overpotted in plastic mesh pots, too.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since these plants get so much water, you may sometimes need to treat bacterial and fungal diseases. But whatever chemicals you use need to be at low concentrations, because the plants require pure water! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Disas don't like root temperatures above 70°F (21C). Otherwise, they are pretty forgiving about temperatures: they can withstand (very) light frost and temperatures over 100°F (37C), on occasion! Higher humidity should help them withstand high temperatures. Ideally, they should have cool temperatures, below 70°F (21C) by day, and 10-15°F (6-8C) cooler by night. Cool root temperatures are especially important. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They like bright light; direct sunlight is okay, if you can provide it without overheating the roots. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They seem to care a lot about air circulation, so use some fans! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After blooming, the plant will die back, but hopefully you'll already see a number of new shoots growing out of the pot. You should pot these up separately, as the old plant will rot! Also repot them any time they don't appear to be doing well, as it gives you a chance to cut off any rotting roots.</span></div>
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