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Flowering shrubs do it all: attract pollinators, create privacy, and offer brilliant splashes of color. ... The Most Beautiful Shrubs to Plant in Your Garden magicflute002 - Getty Images
The McKee Botanical Gardens, which first opened in 1932 as the McKee Jungle Gardens, features 10,000 native and tropical plants along with one of the largest collections of waterlilies in Florida ...
As it would be impossible to narrow our list to the top 10 most beautiful flowers in the world (or even top 20—we could never!), we quizzed VERANDA editors to curate our very own roundup of 40 ...
Weigela florida 'Wine & Roses': included in the periphery are dwarf Indian hawthorn, English lavender, and sword fern. Several of the species are very popular ornamental shrubs in gardens, although species have been mostly superseded by hybrids (crosses between W. florida and other Asiatic species).
Hamelia patens is a large evergreen perennial shrub or small tree in the family Rubiaceae, that is native to the American subtropics and tropics. Its range extends from Florida in the southern United States to as far south as Argentina. [3] Common names include firebush, hummingbird bush, scarlet bush, and redhead. In Belize, this plant's Mayan ...
Justicia brandegeeana, the Mexican shrimp plant, shrimp plant or false hop, [2] is an evergreen shrub in the genus Justicia of the acanthus family Acanthaceae, native to Mexico, [1] and also naturalized in Florida. It grows to 1 m tall (rarely more) with spindly limbs. The leaves are oval, green, 3–7.5 cm long.
The prettiest flowers in the world include rare camellias, expensive roses, common daffodils, elusive orchids, fragrant lilacs, and an exquisite sacred lotus.
Most are deciduous but a few species from the south of the genus' range are evergreen. The leaves are opposite, simple, with serrated margins, from 0.5-6 inches (1–14 cm) long. The flowers are white, with four petals and sepals, 0.5-2 inches (1–4 cm) diameter, and commonly (but not in all species) sweetly scented.