Flowers

American pipit (Anthus rubescens)

IDENTIFICATION - American pipit size is about 15.5-17 cm in length. It is known as American Pipit in North America and called Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens) in Eurasia. It...

The Most Beautiful Vivid Green Magpie

The most beautiful green magpie (Cissa Chinensis) is a member of the crow family, about the size of...

Tasmanian Thornbill: A Gem of Temperate Rainforests

Habitat: The Tasmanian Thornbill (Acanthiza ewingii) is found in temperate rainforests and wet sclerophyll shrubberies in Tasmania and...

The Fascinating Silver-eared Mesia

The silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris) was once placed in the large Old World babbler family Timaliidae. This family...

Greater Blue-eared Starling – The Gorgeous Mystery Bird

The greater Blue-eared starling or “greater blue-eared glossy-starling” (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) is so spectacular to look at that the...

Thick Fleshy Leaves Creeping Sedums Plants

Sedums, also known as stonecrops,  are succulents with thick, fleshy leaves filled with water. There are an enormous number of them, most of which...

Butterfly Orchid: The Petals Looks Like Antennae

This is not a butterfly taking a rest on a piece of shrubbery. This is a “Psychopsis papilio” much known as the butterfly orchid,...

Grow Hyacinth Flower For Fragrance and Colors

Hyacinth Flower is a small genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. To grow Hyacinth Flower actually perfume the room,...

Rose of Sharon comes in Number of Varieties Shades

Rose of Sharon "Hibiscus syrfiacus" is the chief value of this shrub, also known as “shrub althaea,"  which lies in its late summer bloom....

The Pink Lady Slipper Flower

The Pink Lady Slipper Flower is also known as the moccasin flower. It is very own much admired and often misunderstood wild native orchid...

The Little Wild Rosa Canina

Rosa canina is a wild rose. The fact that most roses in our gardens have ample petals? While wild roses have a handful of...

Jasmine: The Evergreen Flower That Captivates Through the Seasons

Jasmines may twine to some extent, but as a group, they’re really in the category of shrubs. Some have long, arching stems, and are...

Cosmos Flower: Ideal Plant For The Back of Your Garden

The most common varieties are hybrids of Cosmos bipinnatus, a half-hardy annual with daisy-like flowers sometimes as large as four inches across, and beautiful...

Pachysandra Terminalis: An Excellent Plant Around Tree Trunks

Pachysandra Terminalis Few ground covers make such a thick, dense evergreen bed as Pachysandra Terminalis. It doesn’t do its job overnight, but wait, for as...

Snapdragon – Perennials Grown Half Hardy Annuals

Snapdragon (Antirrhinum Majus) are perennials grown as half-hardy annuals. Flowers grow on spikes of varying heights, from six inches to four feet. Rocket varieties...