Popular ornamental plants for rooms, balconies and gardens

Popular ornamental plants for rooms, balconies and gardens

Tulips

Tulips are lily plants with a long history. The Middle East is the home of today's garden tulips, which came to Europe in the sixteenth century and sparked a true "tulip frenzy" from Holland. Today there are thousands of varieties. The range of long-stemmed, so-called "garden tulips" is almost overwhelming. There are early, medium and late blooming species and of these in turn countless varieties, single and double blooming.

sunflowers

The sunflower belongs to the large sunflower family, is a stately summer flower and a useful plant at the same time, it is bee pasture, and the dried leaves and stems are used as fodder. The quality of the sunflower oil obtained from the kernels corresponds to that of olive oil and has a long shelf life. There are numerous varieties of the well-known Helianthus annuus, for example the “Macrophyllus Giganteus” variety has impressive flowers and can grow up to three meters high. The dwarf varieties "Yellow Knirps" and "Zwergsonnengold" are much smaller, they are between 40 and 60 cm high.

Geraniums

There is hardly a more thankful, evenly beautiful flowering plant for sunny locations than

the pelargoniums from the Geraniaceae family, the cranesbill family. In everyday language they are usually called "geraniums", which is botanically incorrect. The genus is particularly rich in the Cape of Good Hope. The species from which our many geranium varieties were obtained through breeding come from there. What blooms in our gardens and on balconies are mostly the Pelargonium Zonale hybrids, also called belt geraniums: Its leaves, which give off a characteristic spicy scent when rubbed, are known to have a brownish appearance Zone. The flowers are always monochrome and originally strong red.

Tagetes

This daisy family has been known for centuries, since then the breeders have changed the shape and size of the flower and, last but not least, the flower color. Tagetes flowers are now also available in white, cream, bright yellow and orange. The modern marigolds are also multi-flowered and lack the typical strong marigold odor. The marigolds grow wild in the warmer regions of America as arable weeds and on rubble sites. The descendants of Tagetes erecta, Tagetespatula and Tagetes tenuifolia are of horticultural importance - there is a large range of them.

Hyacinths

Our hyacinth, a lily plant, was already cultivated in the sixteenth century, especially in Holland, which is still the hyacinth center today. From here will be

the onions are shipped worldwide. The numerous varieties that emerged from Hyacinthus orientalis are roughly differentiated according to the color of the flowers: there are white, pink, rose-pink, blue and yellow varieties. All hyacinths thrive in full sun. They are planted outdoors in September / October. To get hyacinths, which are just as popular in the garden as on the windowsill, to flower early, you can drive them forward. Cultivation in hyacinth jars is particularly popular.

Calla

Drachenwurz is the popular name for the marsh cala, a real arum plant. It needs a partially shaded location in swamp and garden ponds, and with too much sun it easily withers. The dragon root has a fleshy rhizome that must be planted horizontally. You plant in very wet swamp soil, the water level can be 5 to 10 cm. The beautiful white calla flowers appear from June. Propagation: Separate rooted shoot tips, move in autumn or spring.

jasmine

This hardy olive plant, which comes from China, opens as early as January, or in a mild winter as early as December, yellow flowers on long, tendril-like branches. The popular winter jasmine is a real straddle climber that needs support. It is best to pull it up in loose scaffolding or let it hang down over terrace walls or stairways. The winter jasmine belongs in a sheltered, sunny place. Propagation by cuttings.

Roses

Today you rarely see a garden without roses. Indeed, with their unique blend of elegance, delicacy and power, roses offer a magic that hardly anyone can ignore. They also outperform most other garden plants in terms of the number of flowers, the duration of the flowering period and the longevity. The rose petals also show an astonishing variety in color and shape, size and fragrance. Fossil finds prove that wild roses existed more than thirty million years ago; its origin is believed to be in Central Asia. About two hundred game species are known, all of which have their home in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of the tried and true

Garden varieties are genetically closely related to wild species, but differ from them in the fact that they have flowers, which are larger, have more petals or have a stronger color. Over the millennia, breeders have made a tremendous selection.

Anemones

Flowering anemones or anemones from the buttercup family come in white and shades of pink, red, blue and purple. The flowers open when the sun is shining and eventually open even when the sky is overcast. The spring bloomers are particularly grateful and interesting for gardening enthusiasts. There are different varieties of the well-known wood anemone from our forests and bushes. The wonderfully blue Apennine anemones and the beautiful mountain anemone from Greece, the anemone blanda, grow from rhizome tubers, but they need winter protection. Both thrive best under light groups of trees or overgrown in lawns. Propagation of all these anemones by dividing the tubers.

Cloves

A summer garden without carnations is hard to imagine. The original home of the carnation from the carnation family is the Mediterranean. From here, the three hundred or so species, from which innumerable breeds have emerged, came to Central Europe. Many species with simple, double and colorful flowers were already known in the Middle Ages. In the past one paid sinfully expensive prices for new carnations - in 1897 the breed “Mr. Lawson “a whopping $ 1,000 price tag!

Lilies

Today there is an assortment of at least two thousand hybrids from the lily, family Liliaceae, which differ in shape, size and richness of color. According to the different flower shapes, a distinction is made between trumpet lilies, golden ribbon lilies, tiger lilies and Turkish lilies. The best-known species and varieties: The pleasantly fragrant, up to 180cm high golden ribbon lily gets its name because of the golden-yellow stripe in the middle of the white petals. The Madonna Lily was once brought from the Middle East by the Crusaders - it adorns gardens and religious representations as a symbol of purity.