FLOWERS ( wild and garden ) #3.

 

 

MELLA FLORIBUNDA ROSE.

 

Floribunda roses are excellent roses for landscaping as they are shorter than hybrid teas and they produce clusters of blooms from spring until the first frosts. There are over a hundred species and thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America and North Western Africa.

 

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ROBERT GERANIUM.

 

Geranium Robertianum, commonly known as Herb-Robert, Red Robin, Death come quickly, Storksbill, Fox Geranium, Stinking Bob, Squinter-Pip, Crows Foot, or in North America Roberts Geranium is a common species of Cranesbill native to Europe and parts of Asia, North America and North Africa. It grows as a procumbent to erect annual or biennial plant up to fifty centimetres high, producing small, pink five petalled flowers from April until the Autumn.

 

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STAR - GRASS.

 

These plants are perennial herbs with corms or rhizomes, Some have tubers. The above ground herbage is a layered cluster of lance shaped, linear or hairlike leaves, sometimes sheathed together at the bases. The flowers are borne on a short, stemlike scape in a raceme or umbel arrangement or sometimes singly. The flower has six yellow tepals which may be hairy especially on the undersides. Occasional flowers have four or eight tepals.

 

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ROSE SPIREA.

 

Active growth period spring and summer. Flower colour purple with dark green foliage. Growth form rhizomatous and growth rate is moderate. Maximum height seven feet. Growth requirements are coarse textured soil.

 

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COASTAL PLAIN JOE PYE WEED.

 

( Eutrochium Dubium )

 











This is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the eastern United States and Canada, primarily the Atlantic coastal plain from Georgia to Nova Scotia. Eutrochium Dubium is a herbaceous perennial plant herb sometimes as much as 68 inches tall. Stems are sometimes purple, sometimes green with purple spots. The plant produces numerous flower heads in flat topped arrays, each head has four to ten dark purple ( rarely pink or white ) disc florets but no ray florets.

 

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CRETAN BRYONY.

 

Bryonia Cretica is a flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae. This species was first described in 1753. It is a perennial plant.

 

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RUBUS CANESCENS.

 

Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with 250-700 species. Raspberries, Blackberries and Dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of these plants have woody stems with prickles like roses; spines, bristles and gland tipped hairs are also common in the genus.

 

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ALBERTINE ROSE.

 

( Rosa Albertine )

 

The name Rosa is derived from the latin and botanic name of the flowering shrub rose and also refers to the colour pink in many Indo - European languages.

 

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FIELD BINDWEED.

 

(Convolvulus Arvensis )

 

The leaves are spirally arranged, linear to arrowhead shaped 2.5cm long and alternate, with a 1-3cm petiole. The flowers are trumpet shaped 1- 2.5cm diameter, white or pale pink, with slightly darker pink radial stripes. It is often unwelcome in gardens as a nuisance weed due to its rapid growth and choking of cultivated plants. Plants typically inhabit roadsides, grasslands and also along streams.

 

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St JOHNSWORT.

 

( Hypericum )

 

There are 490 individual species in the genus. Hypericums vary from herbaceous annual or perennials 5 - 10cm tall to shrubs and small trees up to 12 metre tall. The leaves are opposite, simple oval, 1 - 8cm long, either deciduous or evergreen. The flowers vary from pale to dark yellow, and from 0.5cm in diameter, with five ( rarely four ) petals, most having prominent stamens.

 

 

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