Flowering flowers

Flowers, womans best friend

Cosmos – garden flowers

Jul-16-2008 By Types of flowers

Cosmos - garden flowers Scientific name: Cosmos

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.

Tulip

Jun-26-2008 By Types of flowers

Tulip

Family: Liliaceae
Aspect: Bush
Period of flowering: April-May
Exposure: Excesive sun
Watering: Middle

Around 100 species of plants apartains to tulip genre. Tulip has flowers with 6 petals.

The tulip needs sunny places and the soil must be fertile. The bulbs need to be planted in September. The watering must be intense when the flowers begin to rise.

The Rose

Jun-26-2008 By Types of 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 orchid

Jun-7-2008 By Types of flowers

The orchidThe 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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Cactus

Jun-7-2008 By Types of flowers

Cactus and hot is distinctive and unusual plant, which is adapted to extremely aridenvironments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cactus is so well known.
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