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Definition of Ornamental Plants:
Plants grow all over the world in different sizes, shapes and appearance. Some provides us with food, shelter or building materials, while others provide us with only visual delight. Ornamental Plants are also referred to as garden plants has beauty as its main trait. They are usually grown in the flower garden for the display of their flowers.It is a plant primarily grown for its beauty either for screening,accent, specimen, color or aesthetic reasons. Common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, stem and bark.

History of Ornamental Plants:
The history of ornamental gardening started at least 4,000 years of human civilization.Egyptian tomb paintings of the 1500 BC are some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design.It depicts depict lotus ponds surrounded by symmetrical rows of acacias and palms.
Ornamentals, in horticulture, include both woody and herbaceous plants used primarily as amenities.

Important countries producing and consuming flowers and plants:
1- Netherlands 2- Italy 3- Germany 4- Switzerland 5- Denmark 6- Belgium 7- Sweden 8- Japan 9 – England 10- Australia 11- France 12- Spain 13- USA
As can be seen, the Netherlands ranks first among all countries and the rest of the countries are next.

In terms of consumption position, ornamental flowers are divided into three categories:
Annual Plants:
Ornamental plants used as flowers in the green space. These plants are usually not cold tolerant and have a relatively short life span. Like petunia and sage.

Perennial Plants:
Plants that can grow in the open for more than a year. Such as: chrysanthemums and permanent lilies.

INDOOR PLANTS:
Plants that can be stored only in the limited space of apartments and greenhouses. Like fig leaves and photos.

The effect of flowers and plants on the human psyche:
Research shows that buying flowers, planting flowers and plants, and looking at flowers in general evoke feelings of happiness, peace and freshness, positive thinking, and avoidance of sadness.

The color of the flowers is very important. Flowers with soft colors such as pink, white and purple, lead a person to calm emotions, and flowers with warm and bright colors such as red, yellow and orange, move the human sense to excitement and vitality.

The Canadian Ornamental Plants:
The Canadian Ornamental Plant Foundation was chartered by the federal government in 1964 to promote selection, testing and distribution of better ornamental plant cultivars. The procedures have provided breeders of new cultivars with the means of getting worthwhile new introductions into trade and, thence, to the general public. Much research into the development of cold-hardy plants takes place at Agriculture Canada Research Stations across the country. Successes include a cultivar of Alstroemeria, a member of the amaryllis family, developed at the Saanichton Research and Plant Quarantine Station, BC; Northline (a silver maple), Autumn Blaze (a white ash), Wascana (a hybrid linden) and Baron (a box elder), all developed at the Morden Research Station, Manitoba, for prairie use; and 2 new winter-hardy rose cultivars (Charles Albanel and Champlain), developed at the Ottawa Research Station.

Cyclamen Africanum

Cyclamen Africanum

code: 702 Tubers produce roots from the top, sides, and bottom Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Rosettes of heart shaped, mid-green leaves with pale green marbling bear pink flowers with 5 reflexed petals and dark pink bases to each petal, which appear prior […]

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Lychnis Alpina

Lychnis Alpina

code: 700 This diminutive European alpine Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE Common name: Alpine Catchfly, Alpine campion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm This diminutive European alpine, very rare in Britain, has dense terminal clusters of twenty or more tufted, dark rosy purple flowers in late spring, held on short sticky stems

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Lychnis Alpina Alba

Lychnis Alpina Alba

code: 699 It will often self sow in well-drained locations Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: White Alpine Catchfly, White Alpine campion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This pretty diminutive addition to the sunny rock garden forms a low, tufted mound of narrow, grassy leaves, bearing clusters of tiny white

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Lychnis Cognata

Lychnis Cognata

code: 698 It was collected by Crug Farm Nurseries from Odaesan Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Orange Catchfly Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20+ This new, rare, clump-forming very hardy perennial plant displays its large, deeply notched, pleasingly soft tangerine-pink flowers from mid summer. It was collected

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Lychnis Coronaria 'Hutchinson's Cream'

Lychnis Coronaria ‘Hutchinson’s Cream’

code: 695 Grey woolly leaves with cream splashes Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Bloody William Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm The delightful, variegated form of Lychnis coronaria alba. Grey woolly leaves with cream splashes and pure white flowers. Not all plants will be variegated so select the best variegated

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Lychnis Chalcedonica The Flasher

code: 694 This is the first ever release of these few seeds that have been collected Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA VARIEGATA Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20+ A completely new novelty form of the well-known “Maltese Cross”. Deepest scarlet flower open in compact bunches

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Schizostylis Mixed Colours

Schizostylis Mixed Colours

code: 693 This South African Gladiolus relative provides valuable colour Family: Iridaceae Common name: Hesperantha Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm From clumps of sword-shaped leaves arise stems of cup-shaped flowers from white, through pinks to deepest vermilion. This South African Gladiolus relative provides valuable colour from August right

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Scilla Peruviana

code: 692 This lovely, easily grown Family: Hyacinthaceae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 38 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Stout stems hold heavy heads of bright blue flowers over clumps of green strap-like leaves which arise from slowly enlarging bulbs. This lovely, easily grown, very long lived and exceptionally large-flowered plant does not come

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Physaria Newberryi

Physaria Newberryi

code: 687 This uncommon alpine makes compact rosettes… Family: Brassicaceae Common name: Newberry’s Twinpod Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm This uncommon alpine makes compact rosettes of silver-grey leaves from which radiate several thin, prostrate stems carrying terminal bunches of fragrant yellow flowers. When these mature they produce quite

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Phyteuma Confusum

Phyteuma Confusum

code: 686 found in the wild in the eastern Alps Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Rampion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Forming small clumps up to 6 inches high, this lovely alpine, found in the wild in the eastern Alps, bears compact heads of attractive mauvey-purple

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Phyteuma Orbiculare

code: 685 This plant is also widespread across Europe from the Pyrenees to the Balkans Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Round-headed Rampion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm From an overwintering rosette, thin stems arise in spring bearing fascinating flowerheads composed of tubular petals, curved upwards into ‘claws’ and of

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Phyteuma Scheuchzeri

code: 684 A truly delightful Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm A truly delightful rare campanula relative bearing unusually attractive spiky blue flowers on short stems which hold bright-green, heart-shaped leaves. Sowing advice: Sow finely and evenly in a cold frame, cool greenhouse or cool propagator at

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Allium Heldreichii

Allium Heldreichii

code: 680 This rarely-seen plant is found in rocky spots on Mount Olympus Family: Aliaceae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 Deep pink, up-facing, long bell shaped flowers open in a dense ovoid umbel above semi-evergreen leaves. This rarely-seen plant is found in rocky

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Allium Tanguticum

Allium Tanguticum

code: 679 Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants Family: Alliaceae Common name: Lavender Globe Lily, Nodding onion Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy biennial Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 In early summer large, dense clusters of lavender/purple flowers, which look amazingly like lollipops, open above dark green narrow leaves

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Anemone Tomentosa

Anemone Tomentosa

code: 677 Sow seeds IMMEDIATELY you receive them Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Grape leaf Anemone Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters This lovely Chinese species gives a valuable late summer and autumn display of large rose pink flowers in profuse clusters on long stalks, which make perfect cut flowers.

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Anemone Virginiana

code: 676 It flowers from early till late summer Family: Ranuculaceae Common name: Tall anemone, Tall Thimble-weed Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm This easy-to-grow perennial has numerous greenish-white to citrine-yellow cup shaped flowers on strong upright stems high above the green, deeply cut and clustered vine like leaves,

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Aquilegia ‘Burnished Rose’

code: 674 is completely trouble-free, improving yearly Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: European Columbine, Rose Granny’s Bonnet, A. vulgaris ‘Burnished Rose’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Selected here many years ago, sprays of icing pink pom-poms hover gracefully above the burnished, bright golden foliage. This lovely form looks fabulous

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