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Showing posts with label beautiful orchids. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2015

10 Striking Green Flowers -- Perfect Addition to Your Garden

Green flowers for your garden. Why not? There are some green flowers that are easy to grow for the average gardener. Other need diligent care to grow. A few are not flowers at all, but large green bracts that resemble blooms. Check out the list to learn more about these striking green flowers.

Green Cymbidium Orchid

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Cymbidium orchids are prized for their long-lasting sprays of flowers, used especially as cut flowers or for corsages. There are two main types of cymbidiums - standards and miniatures. Cymbidium also appears in a cascading form with small flowers blooming on long pendulous spikes. These orchids come in various colors, including shades of green from pale yellowish green to dark green. Several species and hybrid cultivars of Cymbidium orchid can produce up to 30 dazzling flowers on a single spike.

Green Chrysanthemum

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Chrysanthemums are popular Fall flowers that make for long lasting cut flowers. Most green chrysanthemums are grown commercially. Chrysanthemum 'Feeling Green' is one good example of green chrysanthemum. This variety has a pompom flowerhead with tightly packed petals. It produces small, apple green blooms.

Hydrangea Mini Limelight



This is a new dwarf form of the popular Limelight Hydrangea. Just 3 to 5 feet high and wide, Mini Limelight is ideal for containers. The flowers appear in summer, a pleasing shade of lime-green, then turn vintage shades of pink in autumn.

Bells of Ireland

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Bells of Ireland (Moluccella laevis) is highly prized for bouquets, so it's a perfect addition to your garden. It produces bell-shaped blooms in late Summer that are arranged vertically on a stalk, along with luscious pale to emerald green leaves. The gorgeous, slightly fragrant green "flowers" are actually calyxes surrounding tiny white blooms.

Corsican Hellebore

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Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius) is a lovely evergreen perennial with stout green stems reaching 90 cm-1.2 m (3-4 ft). Each leaf is divided into three leaflets where leaf margins are coarsely spined. It blooms in late winter, with clusters of apple-green cup shaped flowers appear hanging below three leaflets.

Green Carnation

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Most carnations in florist shops have been dyed. But there are several varieties of natural green carnation that are grown commercially. Green Carnation 'Prado' is one of them. 'Prado' is a robust perennial with pale yellow, double flowers 10cm across, strongly clove-scented, produced throughout the year.

Clematis florida Alba plena

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Clematis florida Alba plena is a very special species of clematis. This beautiful double flowered variety of clematis has pale-green rosette-like blooms that turn to pure creamy white as they mature. Flowers are of 8-10 cm across with white tepals arranged in a very regular rosette pattern.

‘GREEN STAR’ Gladiolus

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The 'Green Star' Gladiolus is a beautiful green flower that is easy to grow. This striking gladiolus cultivar has very large, showy flowers the color of lime sherbet. With their tall, sturdy stems and unusual colouring, these magnificent gladioli are traditional favorites for adding vertical elements to flower arrangements.

‘Zinnia - Jade

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Zinnias are charming, old fashioned annuals that are easily grown from seed. Most species have upright stems, but some have spreading stems. The flowers come in various appearances, from a single row of petals, to a dome shape. Likewise, Zinnias come in different colors including white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red, purple, and green. Notable green cultivars include Giant Lime, Jade, and Tequila Lime.

Green Rose

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'Rosa chinensis Viridiflora' is the only genuine green rose in existence. The Green Rose (Rosa chinensis viridiflora) is a natural mutation of a Chinese rose producing what appears to be small, spikey roses. The strange blooms are made up entirely of sepals rather than petals. A small bloom is surrounded by bluish green sepals that take on a bronze tone after opening.

Monday, May 11, 2015

The World's 10 Most Exquisite and Unusual Orchids

Orchid flowers are among the most beautiful in the world. In all, there are 880 genres and 250000 different species of orchids. Their blooms are noted for their radiant colors and unique structures. Take a look at the 10 most exquisite and unusual orchids that adorn the world around us.

1. Flying Duck Orchid

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The Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) is a small orchid native to eastern and southern Australia. The flower looks like a duck in flight, its wings swept back, head and beak held high and proud. The flower is reddish-brown, measuring 15 to 20 mm long.

2. Lady's Slipper Orchid

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The Lady Slipper Orchid is Britain's rarest and most impressive orchid. The unique flower features a the slipper-shaped pouches (modified labellums) in which the pollinating insects get stuck. The eye-catching flowers come in different colors such as red, pink or purple.

3. White Egret Orchid

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The White Egret Orchid (Habenaria radiata)is an exquisite species of orchid found in China, Japan, Korea and Russia. The white and fringed flower resembles a snowy egret, spreading its fluffy white wings and is ready to take off. The flower is divided into three main lobes. The elongated center lobe looks like a tongue while the petals split into wings.

4. Cowl Carrying Maxillaria

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The Cowl Carrying Maxillaria (Maxillaria cucullata)is an unusual orchid species found in Mexico and south to Ecuador The exquisite 4 to 9 cm long triangular shaped flowers features a dark red to black lip. The 4 to 9 cm long flowers range in color from yellow to pink to dark red.

5. Curled Odontoglossum

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The Curled Odontoglossum (Odontoglossum crispum) is a gorgeous epiphytic orchid characterized its curled petals and red-violet blotches on its petals. The petals usually form a star-shaped flower that may vary from plain white to pale rose in color. Most orchid growers say that this orchid is one of the most beautiful orchid and one of the most difficult to grow.

6.Bee Orchid

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The Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) resembles a female bee resting on a pink flower to attract the attention of male bees to mate with the flower. It is one of nature's great mimics. Each flower has a lip resembling a bee, and three large, pink, petal-like outer sepals; the two other inner sepals look like antennae.

7. Moth Orchid

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The Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis fasciata) is an exquisite and unusual orchid species for the sole reason that it looks like a little bird’s head guarding the nectar of the flower. Its fragrant flowers come in all colors except blue.

8. Tulip Orchid

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Anguloas, also called Tulip Orchid, is a small orchid genus found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. So called because the flower resembles a tulip. The flowers have a waxy appearance and appearing only partially opened. The bloom varies in color from yellow, white, green and red.

9. Dove Orchid

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The Dove Orchid (Peristeria elata) is commonly found to grow across much of South America. What so distinct about this orchid is that there seems to be a hand-carved dove sitting in the middle of its flower.

If you look inside, you can see that the column and lip are fused in the shape of a dove--the head and beak are formed by the anther cap; the neck by the arching column, and the wings and tail by the three-lobed lip. The flower itself appears as brilliant white in color with a hard waxy texture and can span 2 inches in width.

10. Naked Man Orchid

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The Naked Man Orchid (Orchis italica) is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean. The unusual flower has petals resembling a naked man in all his glory. The flowers range in color from light purplish-white to deep purple, and they are all clustered densely.