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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.

Purple Spire® Columnar Crabapple

Purple Spire® Columnar Crabapple

code: 5096 Height: 20 feet Spread: 8 feet Hardiness Zone: 3a Other Names: Roseybloom, Crabapple Group/Class: Spire Series Brand: Jefferies Nurseries Description: A beautiful landscape tree with sparse pink flowers in spring and purple fruit in fall; compact, columnar habit of growth with interesting dark purple-green summer foliage; best used as a solitary, needs well-drained […]

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Red Flowering Dogwood

Red Flowering Dogwood

code: 5088 Cornus florida ‘var. rubra’ Height: 30 feet Spread: 35 feet Hardiness Zone: 7a Description: A simply breathtaking small specimen tree when in bloom, featuring large yet dainty pinkish-red blooms in spring and excellent wide-spreading form; extremely fussy, requires rich, well-drained acidic soil and adequate precipitation, best with some shelter Ornamental Features Red Flowering

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Forest Pansy Redbud

Forest Pansy Redbud

code: 5083 Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ Height: 25 feet Spread: 30 feet Hardiness Zone: 6a Other Names: Eastern Redbud, Judas Tree, Love Tree Description: A spectacular spring bloomer, with very showy pink to purple flowers held tightly on bare branches in early spring; coarse heart-shaped leaves emerge deep purple and stay that way; an incredible

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Limber Pine

Limber Pine

code: 5053 This is a very attractive, native pine. Shows adaptability to a wide range of soil conditions. Give this tree room it will become quite large with age. Fast growth becoming open and airy with age. Hardy to -30°F Maximum Elevation: 11,000 Feet Disease, pest, and problem Less troubled by pests and diseases than

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