The Guide Lxia Flower

A genus comprising about thirty species of small non-hardy South African bulbous plants. They are not spectacular, but they do possess great elegance and charm, with their small, inch-wide, star-like flowers borne on thin wiry stems. They are much appreciated for cutting and will last long in vases. Above all, they are interesting for their remarkable range of colours, which includes many tints not usually found among other flowers, particularly in the colours such as orange, pink, scarlet, crimson, yellow, and even green and black. They are warm-climate plants, and while the corms may tolerate slight frost they will not survive outside in areas where the ground becomes deeply frozen for long periods. They also make excellent pot plants. The corms are small and should be planted in October–November, mulching the soil surface with a good layer of straw, salt hay, leaves, ashes, or peat if it is likely to freeze during the winter, but removing the protective layer when surface growth appears. Flowering begins about mid-summer and is long-lasting; the small star-like blooms are closely arranged on erect spikes. The foliage is linear, graceful, and grass-like. All the species given here are attractive, especially the so-called green-flowered species, Ixia viridiflora. Corms offered for sale are generally a mixture of hybrid origin, with a very wide selection of colours. Named varieties in separate, distinct colours are, however, also available commercially. Propagation is easily effected by dividing the dormant corms, which should be treated in the same manner as tulips—removed from the soil after flowering, dried, stored, and replanted the following autumn. Ixias can also be raised from seed sown in a warm greenhouse in spring, but several years are necessary to produce flowering-sized corms.

The Flower Types Of Iris

This name indicates a race of exquisite dwarf iris hybrids which have all the characteristics of the tall typical Iris germanica in miniature. They are real gems for small beds, the rock-garden, pots, dry walls, etc., where they form compact cushions. They flower in March— April. Crosses have been originated between the species germanica, I. pumila, and I. Chamaeiris and have the same cultural requirements as Iris germanica.

A Guide about Indigofira Flower

Indigofera is a large genus with wide distribution throughout the Far East, particularly in China and the Himalaya areas, while some species are native to Australia. The genus includes about three hundred species of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbaceous perennials. The best-known is Indigofera tinctoria, not as a decorative garden plant, but valued and cultivated since ancient times for the dye, indigo, which the plant provides. This use was first recorded by Marco Polo. Indigofera tinctoria is indigenous to southern India, where it is widely cultivated.

It is mainly the shrubby species that are of garden value. These are hardy deciduous shrubs with small attractive freely produced pea- like flowers, and much-divided elegant foliage. They are plants with few demands, asking only for a fertile not-too-heavy soil, good drainage, and either sun or partial shade. Indigoferas can be propagated from seed sown in coldframes or in an unheated greenhouse in spring; by means of soft cuttings taken in late spring or early summer and inserted in sand in a warm greenhouse; or by means of semi-woody cuttings taken in July—August and inserted in a sandand-peat soil in frames.

Indigofera amblyantha Craib.

Native to China. A deciduous shrub up with pinnate leaves generally composed of ten leaflets. The flowering period is particularly long, from June to October, with an abundance of small pink blooms borne in erect racemes  The plants require a light pruning in spring.

Indigofera decora Lindl.

Native to China. A dwarf deciduous shrub with pinnate leaves and inflorescences in the form of erect 6-in.-high racemes, each bearing some rather large pinkish-white pendulous flowers. An elegant, attractive little plant that remains in bloom until the end of summer. Although the above-ground part of the plant is not resistant to very severe cold, it will, like Indigofera gerardiana, re-grow from the roots if the upper part is frost-killed.

Indigofera gerardiana Baker

Native to the Himalayas. The best-known species in general cultivation in gardens. Although normally hardy, the above-ground part of the plant may be killed by very severe frost. As in the case of Indigofera decora, new growths are invariably produced from the base in spring. If the current season's growth is not killed back by frost, severe pruning is necessary in spring (leaving only  buds at the base of the growths), as the current season's flowers are produced on the new growths. A deciduous shrub of modest proportions, much-branched and with a luxuriant mass of foliage. The leaves are pinnate and composed of leaflets, each leaf about long, and the individual leaflets I in. long; light green in colour and graceful in appearance. Inflorescence a raceme long, axillary, and bearing some  individual pea-shaped purple-pink flowers. Blooming is very prolific, from mid-summer until autumn.

Indigofera pendula Franch.

Native to China. One of the tallest species normally cultivated in gardens. Habit wide-spreading and expansive. Leaves pinnate. Distinguished from other species by the pendulous inflorescences, long, freely produced from late summer until autumn. The individual blooms resemble those of broom (Cytisus) and are very numerous, opening from the base of the raceme upwards. They have a most pleasing reddish-purple colour.

Indigofera potaninii Craib.

Native to the Kansu province of China. Discovered in 1885 by the Russian botanical explorer Potanin, but not introduced into Western gardens until 1912. A wide-spreading deciduous shrub with pinnate foliage long and consisting of up to seven pairs of leaflets. Pink flowers are borne in axillary racemes long. Particularly free-flowering from June onwards.

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A Guide About Helichrysum Flower

The best known of the helichrysums is the annual species Helichrysum bracteatum, whose flowers have the dubious distinction of being equally attractive dead or alive. They are, in fact, the classic Victorian everlasting flowers, used frequently during that period to make wreaths for cemeteries—an arrangement of the dried flowers often protected under glass. They were also used for decoration inside during the winter, and to many the flowers certainly recall massive ormolu clocks, velvet runners on the mantelpiece, antimacassars, and heavy glass paperweights in which a single flower was perpetually imprisoned. The French gave the flowers the appropriate name, Immortelle, for they certainly last a remarkably long time: each blossom retains its colour and form almost indefinitely. The plants and the flowers do, however, also have a more cheerful role, and in the summer garden a bed of the multi-coloured H. bracteatum hybrids can be extremely attractive. Devotees of present-day flower arrangements have also lately discovered the value of the blooms in their compositions.