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Common name: China Pink, Dianthus, Indian Pink
Botanical name: Dianthus chinensis
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Dianthus amurensis, Dianthus heddewigii, Dianthus laciniatus

China Pinks are short-lived perennial garden plants, native to China and northern parts of India, blooming in several colours. They are extremely popular garden plants in India. The small single flowers have four to six slightly overlapping petals that have smooth or often cut and fringed edges. The pretty petals in the shades of pink and red and white are gathered at the base into a strong green tubular calyx. Stamens protrude out and the anthers are blue. The plant grows in well drained soil, in beds, pots, borders in sunny areas and can easily be multiplied by seeds.

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Common name: China Pink, Dianthus, Indian Pink
Botanical name: Dianthus chinensis
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Dianthus amurensis, Dianthus heddewigii, Dianthus laciniatus

China Pinks are short-lived perennial garden plants, native to China and northern parts of India, blooming in several colours. They are extremely popular garden plants in India. The small single flowers have four to six slightly overlapping petals that have smooth or often cut and fringed edges. The pretty petals in the shades of pink and red and white are gathered at the base into a strong green tubular calyx. Stamens protrude out and the anthers are blue. The plant grows in well drained soil, in beds, pots, borders in sunny areas and can easily be multiplied by seeds.

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Common name: China Pink, Dianthus, Indian Pink
Botanical name: Dianthus chinensis
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Dianthus amurensis, Dianthus heddewigii, Dianthus laciniatus

China Pinks are short-lived perennial garden plants, native to China and northern parts of India, blooming in several colours. They are extremely popular garden plants in India. The small single flowers have four to six slightly overlapping petals that have smooth or often cut and fringed edges. The pretty petals in the shades of pink and red and white are gathered at the base into a strong green tubular calyx. Stamens protrude out and the anthers are blue. The plant grows in well drained soil, in beds, pots, borders in sunny areas and can easily be multiplied by seeds.

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Common name: Carnation
Botanical name: Dianthus caryophyllus
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)

Dianthus, its botanical name, means divine flower. Carnation was the flesh-pink colour Elizabethan portrait painters used as a background wash. Available in a huge range of colours, almost all except blue. Carnation blooms are edible. With petals pulled apart, they can be used to sprinkle color & spicy scent over the surface of a leafy salad, perhaps also with the addition of a few honeysorryle trumpets & nasturtiums. There are folklores associated with carnations, and one is supposed to be making a statement by the color of carnation one is wearing:

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Common name: Sweet William
Botanical name: Dianthus barbatus
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)

Sweet William is a species of Dianthus native to the mountains of southern Europe, with a variety in northeastern China, Korea, and southeasternmost Russia. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial herb, growing to 30-75 cm tall, with green to glaucous blue-green tapered leaves 4-10 cm long and 1-2 cm broad. The flowers are produced in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems and have a spicy, clovelike scent. Each flower is 2–3 cm diameter with five petals with serrated edges. In wild plants the petals are red with a white base. There are varieties with red, pink and white flowers. The plant is widely used in borders, rock gardens. Sweet William flowers attracts birds, bees and butterflies. Many legends purport to explain how Sweet William acquired its name, but none is verified. It is variously said to be named after Saint William of York, William the Conqueror, or Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Another etymological derivation is that william is a corruption of the French oillet, meaning "little eye". Sweet William is a favourite name for lovelorn young men in English folkloric ballads.

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Common name: China Pink, Dianthus, Indian Pink
Botanical name: Dianthus chinensis
Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Dianthus amurensis, Dianthus heddewigii, Dianthus laciniatus

China Pinks are short-lived perennial garden plants, native to China and northern parts of India, blooming in several colours. They are extremely popular garden plants in India. The small single flowers have four to six slightly overlapping petals that have smooth or often cut and fringed edges. The pretty petals in the shades of pink and red and white are gathered at the base into a strong green tubular calyx. Stamens protrude out and the anthers are blue. The plant grows in well drained soil, in beds, pots, borders in sunny areas and can easily be multiplied by seeds.

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Common name: Balsam, Garden balsam, Rose balsam, Spotted snapweed
Botanical name: [Impatiens balsamina. L
Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)

Native to Southeast Asia, this erect, sparsely-branched, tender annual plant is a species of impatiens. These plants which grows upto 18 inches tall have thick-juicy stems and medium spiky edged light green leaves. Flowers can be single or double around 2 inches diameter, bloom singly or in small clusters from the leaf axils, close to the stem and the colour ranges from white, pink, rose, red, violet, bicolour etc. Each blossom has a columbine-like spur on the back. Sometimes called Touch-Me-Not as seeds explode from ripe pods when touched.

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Common name: Garden balsam, Bi color rose Rose balsam.
Botanical name: Impatiens balsamina
Family: Balsaminaceae

Native to Southeast Asia, this erect, sparsely-branched, tender annual plant is a species of impatiens. These plants which grows upto 18 inches tall have thick-juicy stems and medium spiky edged light green leaves. The attractive flowers of this variety are double and beautiful mix of red and white. They bloom on the leaf axils, close to the stem.

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Common name: Delta-shaped Aloe
Botanical name: Aloe deltoideodonta
Family: Asphodelaceae (Aloe family)

Delta-shaped Aloe is considered a small clumping Aloe. When the plant becomes too large, it forms large clusters of new shoots or "pups" around its base. It has dark-green leaves with tiny white streaks and some spots. The short, triangular shaped leaves are lined with very small soft teeth. Flowers are pinkish-red.

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Common name: Swan's neck agave, Foxtail Agave, Dragon-Tree Agave, Spineless Agave
Botanical name: Agave attenuata
Family: Agavaceae (agave family)

Swan's neck agave is a species of agave sometimes known as the "lion's tail", "foxtail", “elephant’s trunk”, for its development of a curved stem, unusual among agaves. Native to the plateau of central Mexico, as one of the unarmed agaves, it is popular as an ornamental plant in gardens. The stems typically range from 50-150 cm in length, and eventually old leaves fall off, leaving them naked and visible. The plants have a large rosette of thick fleshy leaves generally ending in a sharp point. It may take up to 10 years to bloom. Swan’s neck agave's flower spike is a thing of wonder, and will either produce greenish-yellow flowers or thousands of small plantlets, on its' entire length. Each plant stalk blooms only once. Unlike other members of it's family this plant doesn't die after flowering. Agave attenuata are best propagated by digging pups produced at the base of older plants and seeds germinate readily when they are fresh.

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Common name: Silver Vase Bromeliad, Urn Plant
Botanical name: Aechmea fasciata
Family: Bromeliaceae

Silver vase is an epiphytic Bromeliad from Brazil. Aechmeas are among the most beautiful of all Bromeliads for indoor decoration. Large, colorful blooms rise high above the vase-shaped rosette of leaves. These plants are definite eye catchers. The original plant is light to medium green with silvery bands - a variegated form with white to cream stripes running down the leaf is also available. The pink, spikey inflorescence lasts for months; individual blooms are purple and last only a day. After flowering, Bromeliads produce side shoots (offsets), which may be removed while young and rooted for additional plants.

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Common name: Aeonium
Botanical name: Aeonium spp.
Family: Crassulaceae (orpine family)

Aeonium is a succulent plant which branches from near the base, forming clumps with a shape like a branched, ornamental candlestand having several sockets for candles. It has rosettes of leaves on a stable stems. Yellow, star-shaped flowers appear on larger plants, contrasting with the dark leaves. They are borne in conical clusters at the end of one or more stems. After flowering, these stems will die, but new branches will replaced them. Aeonium is a genus of about 35 species of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Crassulaceae. Aeoniums are native to the Canary Islands, but some are also found at Madeira, in Morocco and in eastern Africa (for example in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia) Low-growing Aeonium species are A. tabuliforme and A. smithii; large species include A. arboreum, A. valverdense and A. holochrysum. They are related to the genera Sempervivum, Greenovia, Aichryson and Monanthes, which is easy to see from their similar flowers.

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Common name: Donkey Tail, Burro Tail
Botanical name: Sedum morganianum
Family: Crassulaceae (sedum family)

Donkey Tail is a native of Mexico. It makes an attractive, succulent plant for hanging baskets. The spindle-shaped leaves have a silver-blue cast to them. Pendulous branches may reach 3 feet or more in baskets. The common name refers to its growth habit which produces long trailing rope-like stems with leaves packed close to the stem. It rarely flowers, but when it does it produces pink to deep red flowers. It is best grown as a hanging basket or in a wall pot. Needs good drainage, partial shade and protection from the wind. This is a tender sedum, often grown as a houseplant. This plant is easily propagated from stems or just a single leaf dropped on sandy soil. It will root and sprout new "leaflets" in just a few days.

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Common name: Marsh Dewflower, Marsh dayflower
Botanical name: Murdannia lanuginosa
Family: Commelinaceae (dayflower family)

Marsh dewflower is an annual, emergent plant that invades water edges and marshes, often growing emersed. It forms dense mats of vegetation which out-compete native vegetation. Plant stems are succulent, root at the nodes, and grow prostrate along the ground. Leaves are alternate, lance-shaped, and up to 3 inches long. The flowers occur at the ends of the stems or arise from the position between the stems and leaves (leaf axils) Flowers can occur singly or in clusters of 2 to 4. All flowers occur on short flower stalks and consist of 3 purple, blue, pink, yellow, or nearly white petals that are approximately 1/3 inch long.

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Common name: Mimicry Mesemb, Mimicry plant
Botanical name: Pleiospilos spp.
Family: Aizoaceae (ice plant family)

Mimicry Mesembryanthemums is a rather loose term used to describe a group of South African succulent plants of a number of different genera in the family Aizoaceae. The genus Pleiospilos, when grown properly, is one of the most stone-like of the Mimicry Mesembs, resembling not rounded pebbles like the Lithops but angular rough pitted chunks of rock. The name is Greek and means full of dots, referring to the usually dotted surface of the plants. All species come from the Karroo desert in Cape Province, Africa and are almost stemless plants with one to three pairs of usually angular thick leaves joined at the base. In some species there is a chin-like ledge on the underside of the leaf. This genus is comparatively easy to grow and will reward good culture by producing its large flowers, usually yellow, regularly every fall.