Reproductive stems, encased in dried bracts and sepals, mature early the following spring and upon anthesis, flowers become fragrant (like baking cloves) and are pollinated by Bombus spp. Fruit ...

Q. At about this time a year ago I bought a small but nicely coloured poinsettia. In the spring I removed it from its mini-pot and replanted in a more reasonably sized (13-cm wide) pot and set it ...

Flowering Dogwood grows 20 to 35 feet tall and spreads 25 to 30 feet. It can be trained with one central trunk or as a multi-trunked tree. The flowers consist of four bracts below the small head ...

Not everyone has a suitable site in their homes for a poinsettia to fully colour its bracts (leaf-like structures) following 10 weeks of 10-hour days. The actual flowers are the tiny yellow, berry ...

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: How to colour bracts on poinsettia. The easy route to achieving at least some colour on a poinsettia is to find a place in your house where lights are not often turned on ...

I’ve found that the bracts facing the window, away from artificial light, develop the best colouring. Q. I’ve been given a Rieger begonia, a house plant I’m not familiar with.

Not everyone has a suitable site in their homes for a poinsettia to fully colour its bracts (leaf-like structures) following 10 weeks of 10-hour days. The actual flowers are the tiny yellow, berry ...

Its bracts "bloom" May-December on new wood. Heavy pruning, lack of water and fertilizer low in nitrogen encourage blooming. Here are the most frequently asked questions about bougainvillea with ...

ANGUS STEWART: This bloom has spectacular textured bracts surrounding a cone-shaped head of tubular flowers. And same here. You've got this symmetrical head of tubular flowers and it's beautifully ...