Common names: Alstroemeria, Peruvian lily, Inca lily

Description: The main stems of these cut flowers are 2 to 3 feet long and branch into four to six short pedicels; each holding two to four flower buds.

Colors include yellow, apricot, orange, salmon, pink, red, mauve, lavender, purple, cream, white and bi-colors. Alstroemeria typically last one to two weeks.

Common names: chrysanthemum, mum

Description: Many flower forms are available. Stems may carry one flower or multiple blooms. There are also spoon-shaped, quill-shaped, threadlike or spiderlike florets. Used as both cut flowers and blooming plants, their colors include pink, yellow, red, white, bronze, magenta and purple.

Common names: carnation

Description: Flowers are 2 to 3 inches wide on 1- to 2-foot stems. Miniature carnation varieties feature several small flowers on one stem. Colors include white, yellow, pink, red, salmon, fuchsia, deep purple, light green, bi-colors and flecked. The fragrant cut flowers live up to three weeks. Carnations are also popular as potted plants because of their long blooming season.

Scientific name: Zamioculcas zamiifolia

Other names : Z.lanceolata, Z.Caladium zamiaefolium,

Comon name: Zamioculcas, ZZ plant

Family : Araceae

Origins : Zanzibar

Considered to be the follower of the prehistoric plants,the plant adapted during the time at the most diversified climate conditions.

Even if it appreciates light and grows exceptionally in spaces with a lot of light,it will tolerate without efforts a darker place or with artificial light.It doesn`t need a lot of water,it likes to be wet rarely and not excessively.During the hot season wetting it once at 4-5 days is enough.

Tricks and tips:During winter wet the flower even more rarely,getting it a colder space with a lot of light.Do not spray it with chemical polishing substances.Wipe the leaves with a soft sponge,after you place it in warm water(the sponge)

Usual name: Cosmos

Family:Compositae (added also in family Asteraceae)

Origin: South America, Mexic, Central Europe

The ideal place where to plant the cosmos is an aerated place from your garden with a great exposure to the sun. The cosmos is a plant wich love the sun and its light.

The warmth is also an important factor. The cosmos need 20-28 degrees but them hang on at over 30 degrees.

The Cosmos need abundant watering, the dryness being the worst enemy of this plants.

If the soil is poor, or to earthen, is recommended to use a layer of muck, or some fertilizer manure.

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The Rose is a plant that apartain to Rosaceae family. It is spread in majority of Earth regions. 400 species apartain to Rosa gene, and their anchestry are derived from the hills of Central Asia.

Due to its dispersion in places with different type of climate, results a large gamut of roses, everyone having specific characteristics.

Tips for roses:

- choose a neutral land, reach in alimentary matters, but with a good permeability for water.

- the soil must be worked two times per year (summer and springtime) with a deep dig.

- for a great flowering during the summer, the rose need a place with at least 5 hours with sun every day.

Excessive temperatures (50 degres and more), associted with a drought affect negatively to the roses flowers. The petals bloom out, and than die down. To prevent this, give them water every day during the summer, before the sunrise.

African Daisy is a cousin of sunflower. African Daisy flowers reach around 30 cm height. The leafs are small, disposed alternated, with abnormal outsides and their color is green. The flowers are ornamental and are attractive for their contrast between the petals and central aye.

African Daisy can be cultivated in shiny gardens, but can be also cultivated in windowboxes.

African Daisy needs powerful light to flower. On cloudy weather, the flowers are closing their petals, but in sunny days, they offer a superb outlook.

Advice: Water excess affect African Daisy.

Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, two-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, pink,red or white colors. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.

It has around 30 species in the wild, extending to tropical Asia, Madagascar,Africa, and America. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.

Gerbera is commercially important. It is the 5th most used cut flower in the world (after tulip, chrysanthemum, carnation and rose). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives.

Gerbera is popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The cross is known as Gerbera hybrida. Thousands of cultivars exist. They vary greatly in shape and size. Colors include red, orange, pink, white, and yellow. The center of the flower is sometimes black. Often the same flower can have petals of several different colors.