Seeds, Fertilizer, Varieties

Whether your garden is cottage-style or formal, you can find flowers for every season. The most popular types of flowers are easy to grow and add beauty to your landscape.

Camellias are winter and spring bloomers that symbolize love or infatuation based on the flower color; pink camellias express longing while white indicates innocence.

The Scots rose features white petals with a prominent yellow pistil in the flower’s center. It slightly resembles a spray rose, at least in size, because the Scots rose is significantly smaller than most rose species. Its petals are also wide open and don’t cover each other; it doesn’t have the interconnected curls of multiple rose petals or what we think of as a typical rose shape.

What also distinguishes the Scots rose is its hip, or fruit, which is a blackish-purple color. Most rose hips are red or reddish-orange, but the black Scots hip is used as a basis for a purple dye. It’s combined with alum to create a deep purple color used to make a traditional tartan cloth.

Martha Stewart, however, says the black hips of the fragrant Scottish rose make yellow dye; perhaps she has access to some secret otherworldly process, but if so, she’s keeping the recipe to herself. If the delicious-smelling lure of such a simple-looking flower appeals to you, there are added benefits of planting roses next to lavender, the source of yet another transcendent fragrance.

Source: housedigest.com