Plants

Garden flowers

The flowers people grow on purpose, which nearly always came from somewhere else. A tulip is a Central Asian mountain plant, a dahlia is Mexican, a rose is a hybrid of species from three continents, and an ordinary English border is a small map of the world.

The dahlia was grown by the Aztecs for its edible tubers and its hollow stems, which they used as water pipes, and its flowers were an afterthought. It reached Europe in 1789 as a possible substitute for the potato, failed at that, and became one of the most bred flowers in the world instead.

• African Daisy Osteospermum sp.
• Anemone Anemone sp.
• Apricot Prunus sp.
• Astrantia Astrantia major
• Aubrieta Aubrieta sp.
• Blanket Flower Gaillardia sp.
• Bloodflower Asclepias curassavica
• Chamomile Matricaria chamomilla
• Chocolate Lace Flower Daucus carota
• Columbine Aquilegia sp.
• Cranesbill Geranium sp.
• Daffodil Narcissus sp.
• Dahlia Dahlia sp.
• Dancing Lady Orchid Oncidium sp.
• Daylily Hemerocallis sp.
• Dianthus Dianthus sp.
• Echeveria Echeveria sp.
• Egyptian starcluster Pentas lanceolata
• Epimedium Epimedium sp.
• Fernleaf Yarrow Achillea filipendulina
• Flowering Quince Chaenomeles sp.
• Flowering Tobacco Nicotiana sp.
• Fortnight Lily Dietes iridioides
• Geum Geum sp.
• Giant Waterlily Victoria sp.
• Grape Hyacinth Muscari sp.
• Hellebore Helleborus sp.
• Japanese Anemone Anemone hupehensis
• Kohleria Kohleria sp.
• Lady's Mantle Alchemilla mollis
• Love-in-a-mist Nigella damascena
• Marguerite Argyranthemum frutescens
• Mexican Sunflower Tithonia rotundifolia
• Opium poppy Papaver somniferum
• Palm Arecaceae
• Paper Daisy Rhodanthe sp.
• Peony Paeonia sp.
• Persian Buttercup Ranunculus asiaticus
• Plains Coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria
• Poet's daffodil Narcissus poeticus
• Poppy Papaver sp.
• Pot Marigold Calendula officinalis
• Powdery Alligator-flag Thalia dealbata
• Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum
• Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
• Rhododendron Rhododendron sp.
• Rose Rosa sp.
• Sacred Lotus Nelumbo nucifera
• Salvia Salvia nemorosa
• Salvia Salvia sp.
• Siberian Iris Iris sibirica
• Southern Star Tweedia caerulea
• Spiderwort Tradescantia sp.
• Strawflower Xerochrysum bracteatum
• Striped Squill Puschkinia scilloides
• Summer Snowflake Leucojum aestivum
• Tassel Flower Emilia sp.
• Tea Tree Leptospermum sp.
• Tulip Tulipa sp.
• Viola Viola
• Water Lily Nymphaea sp.
• Winecup Callirhoe involucrata
• Yarrow Achillea sp.
• Yucca Yucca sp.
• Zinnia Zinnia elegans