Plants and flowers galore wait for you at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Here is a red sign adding color to the white African Lily flowers.
Cluster of White flowers at Chapultepec Park
African Lily at Chapultepec Park
Flowers in the Park
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Mixture of Plants
The Terrace Gardens are the historic heart of Duke Gardens. Topped by a wisteria-covered pergola, the Terrace beds are filled each season with marvelous combinations of bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Container plantings complement the landscape designs.
Mix of Colors
Flowers at the Ark
Walking around Ark Encounter Park, one can see a lot of plants and flowers, which add softness to the walkways.
Flower Combination at the Ark
Abundant Goldenrods
Goldenrod is a prevalent plant. It is found across several continents, including Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. Goldenrod is the flower of several states, and this particular species is Kentucky’s state flower.
Solidago, or Goldenrod, is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the aster family with up to 120 species and numerous cultivars. It displays small, bright yellow flowers in dense clusters on top of tall stems from July through September.
Goldenrods Against the Sky
Goldenrods Against the Clouds
Bunch of Sunflowers
Apart from a single sunflower, a bunch of these makes the image more striking. A group of flowers is called a “bouquet”. However, botanically speaking, it is called an “inflorescence”. An inflorescence is a collection or aggregation of flowers on an individual plant. Inflorescences often function to enhance reproduction.
Bunch of Sunflowers
Sunflowers Ready to Bloom
The reproductive phase of a sunflower begins in June and ends in July or August, and the blooming phase lasts around 20 days. You can tell the seeds are ripening when the back of the sunflower head turns yellow. The bud may initially have a star-like appearance, but once the reproductive phase is complete, you’ll see your bud transform into the tall-stemmed, yellow-bloomed plant you know so well.
Sunflower Yet to Bloom
Sunflower Waiting to Bloom
Sunflower Almost Ready to Bloom
Hibiscus
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
White Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas, one of the most beloved landscape plants, are revered for their large dramatic blooms that add long-lasting color to the garden in summer and fall. These romantic shrubs come in many white flowering varieties, adding timeless beauty to any yard. The color white complements most other hues, helping to cool down the landscape during the heat of summer.
White Hydrangeas
White Hydrangea Closeup
Bonsai Trees
The word “Bon-sai” (often misspelled as bonzai or banzai) is a Japanese term which, literally translated, means “planted in a container”. It has been around for well over a thousand years. The ultimate goal of growing a Bonsai is to create a miniaturized but realistic representation of nature in the form of a tree. Bonsai are not genetically dwarfed plants, in fact, any tree species can be used to grow one.
The Triangle Bonsai Society displayed an amazing array of bonsai carefully pruned plants in the Doris Duke Center at Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham, North Carolina. The 2-day exhibit included more than 40 bonsai created in multiple styles from a wide range of plant species, including maple, azalea, pine, elm, juniper, bald cypress, crabapple, ficus and more. We will post some images from our visit there on July 6, 2024.
A Bonsai Tree
Phlox
Phlox is a genus of 68 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. They are found mostly in North America in diverse habitats from alpine tundra to open woodland and prairie. Some flower in spring, others in summer and fall. Flowers may be pale blue, violet, pink, bright red, or white.
Phlox
Tetrapanax
This amazing tropical-looking favorite is grown as a dieback perennial. The fast-growing, thick, fuzzy, upright stems of Tetrapanax papyrifera are clothed with large, equally fuzzy, green castor bean-like leaves emerging from an underground rhizome. Rice paper plant will spread underground in good soils
Tetrapanax
Rose Plant Against the Sky Clouds
Captured a rose plant against clouds in the blue sky at J C Raulston Arboretum
Rose Plant Against the Sky Clouds
Variety in the Landscape
The blend of flowering plants and grass type elements add to the variety of landscape at J C Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina
Flowers and Grass
Aloe
Aloe is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or “true aloe”. It is called this because it is cultivated as the standard source for assorted pharmaceutical purposes.
Anthurium
In addition to orchids at the Conservatory at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, there are other interesting plants. Anthurium is a genus of about 1,000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf.
Crown of Thorns Flower
Crown of Thorns, (Euphorbia milii), also called Christ thorn, thorny plant of the spurge family, native to Madagascar. It grows as a shrubby plant with the stem and branches covered with prominent 1″ sharp grey spines. The common name refers to a legend that this plant was used as the thorny crown worn by Jesus at his crucifixion.
Miltonia Orchid
Miltonia’s region of origin extends from the Andes in Colombia to Peru and Ecuador. Miltonia is an epiphyte. In its home region the plant grows on the fringes and in open spaces in mountain forests on moss-covered branches. Miltonia is also called the ‘pansy orchid’. There are hundreds of species which vary greatly in terms of shape and size. Captured a few at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in North Carolina.
Bright Orange Guzmania
Guzmania conifera has a bright orange and yellow pine-cone-shaped flower head with deep green leaves. Guzmania is a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in the bromeliad family. There is another plant in this family that is edible and can be found in grocery stores all over the United States. That’s right, pineapples are also bromeliads!
Not Only Orchids
The Orchid Conservatory at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden has more than orchids. Guzmania is a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in the botanical family Bromeliaceae. They are mainly stemless, evergreen, epiphytic perennials native to Florida, the West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America, and northern and western South America.
Orchid Baskets
Baskets with orchids and other plants add to the display at the Orchid Conservatory at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont North Carolina.
