The morning glory is a multi-stemmed ornamental annual vine with summer-blooming, trumpet-shaped flowers in purple, pink, blue, or white. Here is a purple one with a bud ready to bloom at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Blue Morning Glory Flower and Bud
Boston fern is a common ornamental plant frequently grown as a houseplant in cold climates. Nephrolepis exaltata is a tropical sword fern (in the family Lomariopsidaceae), native to humid forests from northern South America through Mexico, Florida, and the West Indies, where it can grow up to 7 feet tall.
Here is one growing outdoors in Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Boston Fern
Seen at the Fremont Botanical Garden, Datura wrightii, or “Sacred Datura”, is the name of a flowering and poisonous ornamental plant of the Nightshade Family (Solanaceae), endemic to southwestern North America.
Sacred Datura
Some sunflowers might not be eaten by bees because they lack pollen, a critical food source for bees. In the United States, most sunflower seeds sold for ornamental purposes produce pollen-less flowers. Sunflowers grown for cut flowers are also usually sterile.
Here are images of sunflowers that have not been eaten by bees and look wholesome.
Unspoiled Sunflower
An Unadulterated Sunflower
Hibiscus is a large genus of flowering plants in the Malvaceae or mallow family. The Malvaceae family includes many plants grown for their ornamental flowers and vegetable and fiber plants, such as okra and cotton. Perennial and annual hibiscus and other closely related members of the mallow family are grown as ornamentals in South Carolina.
Hibiscus
Mandevilla sanderi, the Brazilian jasmine, is a vine belonging to the genus Mandevilla. Grown as an ornamental plant, the species is endemic to the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Captured in Santa Monica, California.
