Flowering flowers

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.
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The orchids are spread on entire Earth. the majority of them in Central America and South America, Madagascar, India or Malaezia.

Some of them are particular with meridian or temperate climate from Australia, New Zealand, North America or Europe.
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Scientific Name: Osteospermum
Usuale Name: African Daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Origin: South Africa

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.
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Gerbera is a genus of ornamental flower from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Gerbera was named in honor of the naturalist Traugott Gerber.

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.
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