- BONSAIS
- Obtaining Your Bonsai
Growing Bonsai from Ground Layering
Growing Bonsai from Air Layering
Growing Bonsai from Cuttings
Growing Bonsai from Seed
Grafting
Bonsai Containers, Soils, Location
Air, Humidity, and Temperature
Feeding
Light
Watering
Repotting Bonsais
Shaping Bonsai
Healthy Bonsai
Bonsai Landscapes
Bonsai - Diseases and Pests
Taking Care of Bonsai
Chinese Style Bonsai
Mame Bonsai
Bonsai Styles
Suiseki
Bonsai Trees
Artificial Ageing of Bonsai
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Most of the world's plants are flowers. Not only garden and wild flowers, but many trees and every herb, shrub, grain, fruit, and vegetable is a flowering plant or "angiosperm." The blooms may not all be as big and beautiful as those of a rose, but all flowering plants have flowers, and all serve a purpose. Flowers are not just for show-they are sexual, and contain male parts that make the pollen to fertilize the eggs or "ovules" made by female parts. Only when these come together can flowers create the fruits and seeds from which new plants will grow.
All flowers were wild once but through history gardeners have adapted them to the garden by selecting seeds and grafting plants together to bring out particular qualities. Their efforts have created a huge range of beautiful new plants, including roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, tulips, and many more. There are now more than a million kinds of garden flower, although wildflowers are becoming rare as human activity restricts the places where they can grow. Many wildflowers, such as the lady's slipper orchid, are now in danger of becoming extinct.
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