WOODVIOLET (viola papilionacea).
Viola typically have heart shaped scalloped leaves, though a number have palamate leaves or other shapes. The vast majority of viola species are herbaceous and a substantial number are acaulescent in habit, meaning they lack any noticeable stems and the foliage and flowers appear to rise from the ground; the remaining species have short stems with foliage and flowers produced in the axils of the leaves.
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REDFLOWER CURRANT (ribes sanguineum).
The redflower currant is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceale, native to western United States and Canada ( British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California ). It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2metres tall and broad. The bark is dark brownish-grey with prominent paler brown lenticels. The leaves are one to three inches long and broad, palmately lobed with five lobes, when young in spring, they have a strong resinous scent. The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on dangling racemes one to three inches long of five to thirty flowers, each flower is five to ten millimetres in diameter with five red or pink petals. The fruit is a dark purple oval berry about one centimetre long, edible but with an insipid taste.
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LAWNDAISY ( bellis perennis ).
It is an herbaceous perennial plant with short creeping rhizomes and rosettes of small rounded or spoon shaped leaves that are from three quarters to two inches long and grow flat to the ground. The species habitually colonises lawns and is difficult to eradicate by mowing hence the term `lawn daisy`. Wherever it appears it is often considered an invasive weed. The flower heads are composite in the form of a pseudanthium, consisting of many sessile flowers about three quarters to one and a quarter inches in diameter, with white ray florets ( often tipped red ) and yellow disc florets. Each inflorescence is borne on single leafless stems three quarters to four inches, rarely six inches tall. The capitulem or disc of florets is surrounded by two rows of green bracts known as `phyllaries`.
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COMMON DANDELION (taraxacum officinale).
The dandelion is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant. It can be found growing in temperate regions of the world, in lawns, on roadsides, on disturbed banks and shores of water ways and other areas with moist soils. It is considered a weed especially in lawns and along roadsides but it is sometimes used as a medical herb and in food preparation. Common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of silver tufted fruits that disperse in the wind. These balls are called `blowballs` or `clocks` in both british and American English.
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VIOLA TRICOLOR (Johnny Jumpup).
This is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short lived perennial. It has been introduced into north America where it has spread. It is the progenitor of the cultivated pansy and is therefore sometimes called wild pansy; before the cultivated pansies were developed, `pansy` was an alternative name for the wild form.
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GERANIUM (pelargonium).
Occurs in a large number of growth forms, including herbaceous annuals, shrubs, subshrubs, stem succulents and geophytes. The erect stems bear five petaled flowers in umbel like clusters, which are occasionally branched. Not all flowers appear simultaneously but open from the centre outwards, this is a form of inflorescence is referred to as pseudoumbels. The leaves are usually alternate and palmately lobed or pinnate, often on long stalks and sometimes with light or dark patterns.
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BOUGAINVILLEA.
Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes and trees with flower like spring leaves near its flowers. They are native plants of south America from Brazil west to Ecuador and south to southern Argentina. Bougainvillea are relatively pest free plants but they may suffer from worms, snails and aphids.
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WALLFLOWER (erysimum).
Erysimum is a genus of flowering plants in the botanical family brassicaceae, that includes about 180 species, both popular garden plants and many wild forms.
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LILACBUSH (aubrieta deltoidea)
Aubrieta is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family. Common names include lilacbush, purple rock cress and rainbow rock cress. It is native to south eastern Europe, but is grown worldwide as an ornamental plant and it grows wild in some areas as a garden escapee. This is a small herbaceous perennial forming carpets of green spoon shaped to oval shaped leaves, some of which are lobed. The showy inflorescence bears small flowers with four lavender to deep pink petals. The fruit is an inflated, hairy silique up to two centimeters long.
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