Garden Alphabet #90: B is for…Blackberry
Garden Alphabet #90: Blackberry Monrovia Black Satin Blackberry in my garden today. The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the Rubus genus in the Rosaceae family, Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet #89: T is for…Tomato
Garden Alphabet #89: Tomato Tomato “The tomato is the edible, often red fruit of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. Both the species and its use as a food originated in Mexico, and Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Calliandra
Garden Alphabet: Calliandra The genus comprises herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs and rarely small trees growing 0.5–6 m tall, with bipinnate leaves. The flowers are produced in cylindrical or globose inflorescences and have numerous long slender stamens which give rise to the common names powder-puff, powder puff plant, Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin)
Garden Alphabet: Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) The genus is named after the Italian nobleman Filippo degli Albizzi, who introduced it to Europe in the mid-18th century, and it is sometimes incorrectly spelled Albizzia. The specific epithet julibrissin is Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)
Garden Alphabet: Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) Sarcodes is a monotypic genus of a single springtime flowering plant in the heath family (Ericaceae) containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Sempervivum [Photo]
Garden Alphabet: Sempervivum Sempervivum /sɛmpəˈvaɪvəm/,[1] is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the Crassulaceae family, known as houseleeks. Other common names include liveforever and hen and chicks. They are succulent perennials forming mats composed of tufted leaves in rosettes. In favourable conditions Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Hosta
Garden Alphabet: Hosta Hosta (/ˈhɒstə/,[5] syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies (particularly in Britain) and occasionally by the Japanese name giboshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Hollyhock (Alcea)
Garden Alphabet: Hollyhock (Alcea) Hollyhock (Alcea) Alcea, commonly known as hollyhocks, is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae.[1] They are native to Asia and Europe.[1] Hollyhocks are Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)
Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile) Agapanthus /ˌæɡəˈpænθəs/[2] is the only genus in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae.[3] The family is in the monocot order Asparagales. The Continue Reading
Garden Alphabet: Common Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
Common Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) Mesembryanthemum crystallinum is a prostrate succulent plant native to Africa, Sinai and southern Europe, and naturalized in North America, South America and Australia.[1] The plant is covered with large, glistening bladder cells or water vesicles, reflected in Continue Reading