2 | Chapter 10: Ornamental plants Flashcards
____
- Also referred to as garden plants.
- Primarily grown for its beauty either for screening, scent, specimen, color, or aesthetic reasons.
- Provide height, privacy, and beauty for any garden
- Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that improve on the original species
Ornamental plants
Some plants found in the bible (5)
Gourds
Flowers
Palm Trees
Pomegranates
Mustard seed
The history of ornamental gardening started at least 4000 years of human civilization. ____ of the 1500 BC are some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design. It depicts lotus ponds surrounded by symmetrical rows of acacias and palms.
Egyptian tomb paintings
Constructed about 600 BC by _____ to please his homesick wife. Was part of the seven wonders before it was destroyed in an earthquake around 100 AD.
Needed to pump water from the river to the top of the structure.
King Nebuchdnezzar
The English garden can also be called a ____. It developed in the 1700s as a reaction to the formal French style. It presented an idealized view of the natural world.
landscape park
Gardening in China is at least as ancient as in Egypt. The garden was the living embodiment of a painting or a poem.
Many plants and object had symbolic meanings:
_____ is strong and resilient
____ is long-lived and persistent
____ represents purity
Plants were essential elements. Some common garden flowers come from China: Chrysanthemum, peony, flowering plum, roses, camellia
Bamboo
Pine
Lotus
Ornamental plants:
Family _____
Rose cultivation began 5000 years ago.
The first distilled essential oil was ____ (from the Muslim Golden Age, where distillation was invented)
Europe and western Asia had their own cultivated roses
Family Rosaceae
Attar of roses
Ornamental plants | Family Rosaceae:
Cultivated roses from China were introduced into Europe in the 1600’s at about the same time the tulip and other exotic flowers were introduced into Europe by the Dutch.
Rose Breeding involves ____ of many species and cultivars. Napoleon’s wife, _____ decided to grow every type of rose, specifically old garden roses.
The first modern rose was ___, the first “hybrid tea rose”
Hybridization
Empress Josephine
La France
Ornamental plants | Family Rosaceae:
Three main Rose Categories:
Old Garden Roses
Wild Roses
Modern Garden Roses
Ornamental plants:
Family ____
_____ are native to central Asia, places like Afghanistan and Kazakhistan
They are ____, storing food over the winter when Bulbs are palnted in the wall.
Family Liliaceae
Tulips
perennials
Ornamental plants
Family for Orchids ____
The Bee Orchid ____
The Fly Orchid _____, the two yellow “eyes” are the pollen masses
Known as the Dancing Lady Orchid _____
Family Orchidaceae
Ophrys apifera
Ophrys insectifera
Oncidium spp
Family ____
The Nightshades _____
Family Solanaceae
Petunia spp.
Family ____
The Daisy family
Family Asteraceae
Family ____
The alternanthera family
Family Amaranthaceae
