Foxglove Flower

Foxglove is the common name for about 20 to 30 species of summer flowering for short lived perennial herbs in the genus Digitalis, family Scrophular iaceae. They are native to Europe and northwest Africa to Central Asia. The common foxglove, D. purpurea, grows to a height of 150 cm (5 ft). Its leaves are alternate, lance shaped, up to cm (1 ft) long, and hairy above with soft white hairs below. Leaves are tapered at the base to form winged stalks. The flowers droop on erect racemes, and the fruit capsule with numerous seeds.

Common foxglove is found in cleanings, in burned areas, and in fully dry pastures, and it is often grown as an ornamental. Many varieties have been originated through breeding, with flowers varying from white to deep rose in color. The dried leaves, the source of the drug digitalis used for heart trouble, have been used medicinally since the 13th century.

Growing tips

Site and soil preferences: Virtually any soil is fine. It should ideally being quite rich, but avoid wet and dry extremes, and grow in light shade.





Sowing: The optimum time to sow seed is as it matures on the plant in mid to late summer, before the end of August. A single seed capsule will provide hundreds of seeds, a few of which can be sown in ordinary seed compost, in containers, and placed somewhere cool and moist. The seedlings will produce large, early flowering plants for next summer. If you're relying on nature to do the work for you in borders, thin out the seedlings on the ground to enable them to reach a decent size. In a wild garden, don't intervene; higgledy-piggledy is fine.

Other Flowers:

• Orchids
• Olive Tree
• House Plant
  

Evening Primrose Flower

This kind of rose is planted in North America, but now found in Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. This plant is preferred planted because the parts of this plant can be a medicine, the parts that are use for medicinal as seeds, leaves, oil of seeds and root.

Evening primroses constitute about 80 species of herbaceous plants in the genus Oenothera, family of Onagraceae. O.biennis, the best known species, is a robust, biennial weedy herb. Its root are large and fleshy, often 5 cm (2 in) in diameter at the crown, and its stems, 0.9 – 1.2 m (3 – 4 ft) high, are usually simple or branched. Its yellow flowers open in the evening. Native to the western Hemisphere, O. biennis has been introduced into most of Europe.

This plant is called as Evening Primrose because its flowers open at night, that is not normally of other flower that open their gloom in the morning. This plant can be pollinated by night time insects, such as the nocturnal sphinx moth. Evening Primrose has long been used as a relish for wine and to dispel the ill effects from drinking too much. Evening Primrose was also known as “King’s Cure-All” for at least five hundred years. The traditional uses of Primrose as a soothing remedy for coughs associated with colds and had also been used for mental depression.

The entire plants are edible and the entire plant has also been used as a poultice for wounds. The roots has been rubbed on muscles by Native American people to give them strength. The primary chemical constituents of this herb include of gamma linolenic acid (GLA), essential fatty acids (oleic, palmitic, stearic), prostaglandins, calcium and B vitamins.

Other Kind of Flowers:

• Orchid Plant
• Snapdragon
• Narcissus

Foxglove

Foxglove is the common name for about 20 to 30 species of summer flowering for short lived perennial herbs in the genus Digitalis, family Scrophular iaceae. They are native to Europe and northwest Africa to Central Asia. The common foxglove, D. purpurea, grows to a height of 150 cm (5 ft). Its leaves are alternate, lance shaped, up to cm (1 ft) long, and hairy above with soft white hairs below. Leaves are tapered at the base to form winged stalks. The flowers droop on erect racemes, and the fruit capsule with numerous seeds.

Common foxglove is found in cleanings, in burned areas, and in fully dry pastures, and it is often grown as an ornamental. Many varieties have been originated through breeding, with flowers varying from white to deep rose in color. The dried leaves, the source of the drug digitalis used for heart trouble, have been used medicinally since the 13th century.

Growing tips

Site and soil preferences: Virtually any soil is fine. It should ideally being quite rich, but avoid wet and dry extremes, and grow in light shade.

Sowing: The optimum time to sow seed is as it matures on the plant in mid to late summer, before the end of August. A single seed capsule will provide hundreds of seeds, a few of which can be sown in ordinary seed compost, in containers, and placed somewhere cool and moist. The seedlings will produce large, early flowering plants for next summer. If you're relying on nature to do the work for you in borders, thin out the seedlings on the ground to enable them to reach a decent size. In a wild garden, don't intervene; higgledy-piggledy is fine.

Other Flowers:

• Orchids
• Olive Tree
• House Plant
  

Orchid Plants Flowering

Orchids plant comprise about 7 percent of all flowering plants. Some taxonomists recognize as many as 35,000 species in 1,000 genera. Other taxonomists recognize only about 20,000 species, but even this number ranks the orchidaceae as the largest family of flowering plants.

Orchids are perennials, with only one species, Zeuxine strateumatica, known to be an annual. They are also typically herbaceous, but some forms may be viny or somewhat woody. Orchid rootstock may become thickened to form overwintering tubes or pseudobulbs. From early classical times through the Middle Ages, terrestrial orchids plant with testiculate tubers were associated with human form the Greek word for testicles, orchids.

Snapdragon

Snapdragons is a shrub flowers and have a reddish color flower. This flower can be cultivated in multi culture are such as in tropical or subtropical season. This flower also can be a artistic flower for room decorative and a party decoration flower.

Snapdragons are a genus, Antirrhinum of flowering plants in the figwort family, Scropphulariaceae. The common snapdragon, A. majus, is the most popular species used in gardening. It is an annual or perennial that grow 90 cm (3 ft) tail and has white to purplish red flowers up to 3.75 cm (1.5 in) long. Hybrids have many intermediate shades of color

Common snapdragons are grown in flower beds and are popular in cut floral arrangements Children like to pinch the base of the flower, causing it to snap open and shut.

Narcissus

The genus Narcissus of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, comprises about 26 species of spring or fall flowering herbs popularly called daffodils, narcissus, or jonquils. Native to Europe and North Africa, they all grow from a bulb that produces several long, narrow leaves and a single flower stalk. The flowers are usually white or yellow, with a narrow, tubular base (hypanthium), three petals and three pellike sepals (perianth), and a central cuplike appendage (corona, cup, or crown) that may be of contrasting color. Typically a Daffodil has four to six flattened, grass like leaves, and its flower stalk bears a single flower with a long, trupetlike corona. A narcissus is similar, but its flattened flower stalk bears four to eight flowers with short coronas. A jonquil has two to four marrows, cylindrical, rush like leaves, and its flower stalk bears two to six relatively small flowers with short coronas.

The narcissus is a plant popular for its cheerful looking, fragrant flowers. Soleil d’Or (top) and Geranium (bottom) are two varieties.