My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Blue and Purple Asters or Starworts
Aster
Evolution teaches us that thistles, daisies, sunflowers, asters, and all the triumphant horde of composites were once very different flowers from what we see to-day. Through ages of natural selection of the fittest among their ancestral types, having finally arrived at the most successful adaptation of their various [...]

December 31st, 2008 | Tags: Autumn Landscape, Composites, Daisies, Double Flowers, Economical Method, Floral Kingdom, Florets, Flowers And Insects, Green Leaves, Mutual Adaptation, Natural Selection, Natural Tendency, Nectar, Petals, Purple Asters, Small Wonder, Stamens, Thistles, Tubular Flowers, Tyro, Vital Organs | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Pruning is an important and necessary step in growing roses. Pruning keeps the plant healthy. It promotes new growth, removes dead, broken or diseased canes and trains roses to a desired shape. Pruning encourages flowering, either more blooms or larger blooms, and is essential to keep modern rose varieties blooming repeatedly all summer long.
When to [...]

December 30th, 2008 | Tags: Anvil, Blooms, Buds, Canes, Climbers, Early Spring, Growing Roses, Hybrid Roses, Hybrid Tea Roses, Leather Gloves, Necessary Step, Old Fashioned Roses, Pair Of Scissors, Previous Year, Pruning Roses, Pruning Techniques, Roses Pruning, Stems, Types Of Roses, When To Prune Roses | Category: Flowers | Leave a comment

Tall or Giant Sunflower
Helianthus giganteus
Flower-heads–Several, on long, rough-hairy peduncles; 1-1/2 to 2-1/4 in. broad; 10 to 20 pale yellow neutral rays around a yellowish disk whose florets are perfect, fertile. Stem: 3 to 12 ft. tall, bristly-hairy, usually branching above, often reddish; from a perennial, fleshy root. Leaves: Rough, firm, lance-shaped, saw-toothed, sessile. [...]

December 28th, 2008 | Tags: Champlain, Common Sunflower, Daisy Pattern, Fleshy Root, Florets, Flowering Plants, Generic Name, Gulf Of Mexico, Horde, Lake Huron, Native Prairies, Northwest Territory, Peduncles, Preferred Habitat, Segur, Stalks, Sunflowers, Swamps, Territory South, Wet Meadows | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Verbenas are long blooming annual or perennial flowers that possess the virtues of heat tolerance and an extremely long bloom season. Many perennial verbenas are relatively short lived, but their vigor and heavy flowering make up for this defect. They do well grown as annual flowering plants also, since they bloom quickly during the first [...]

December 26th, 2008 | Tags: Bloom Season, Coastal Region, Color Ranges, Flower Color, Flowering Plants, Heat Tolerance, Humid Climates, Mid Summer, Ornamental Features, Overcrowding, Perennial Flowers, Perennials, Piedmont Regions, Poor Air Circulation, Regions Of South Carolina, Remarkable Length, Summer Flower, Verbenas, Vigor, Virtues | Category: Flowers | Leave a comment

Wild Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
Flower–Red outside, yellow within, irregular, 1 to 2 in. long, solitary, nodding from a curved footstalk from the upper leaf axils. Petals 5, funnel-shaped, but quickly narrowing into long, erect, very slender hollow spurs, rounded at the tip and united below by the 5 spreading red sepals, between which the straight [...]

December 24th, 2008 | Tags: Bombus, Bumblebee, Bumblebees, Compound Leaves, Gulf States, Leaf Axils, Linnaeus, Long Tongue, Northwest Territory, Petticoats, Pistils, Preferred Habitat, Punchinello, Rocky Ledge, Rocky Mountains, Rocky Places, Sepals, Sphinx Moths, Stamens, Upper Leaf | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment