ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

LETS GAIN SOME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ORNAMENTAL PLANTS !!!

WHAT IS ORNAMENTAL PLANTS ?

Plants grow all over the world in different sizes, shapes and appearance. Some provides us with food, shelter or building materials, while others provide us with only visual delight. Ornamental Plants are also referred to as garden plants has beauty as its main trait. They are usually grown in the flower garden for the display of their flowers.It is a plant primarily grown for its beauty either for screening,accent, specimen, color or aesthetic reasons. Common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, stem and bark.

EXAMPLES OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

           

San Petro Cactus                              Hatiora Salicornioides                  Epiphyllum Oxypetalum

TYPES OF POTS TO PLANT ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

To plant the ornamental plants, can use different kind of pots apart from the regular pots that selling in nursery. It makes our garden and plants look beautiful and unique.  For example, can use coconut husk, old glass bottles, old wooden furniture to make pots. By this, can save money to buy pots and at the same time this pots can reduce the pollution. This is because coconut task and the tree trunks are biodegradable. 

         

BENEFITS OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

• Helpful to Cool Your Surrounding Environment - if the ornamental plants that can propel the front wall of your house, it will reduce the sun exposure. Thus the room in the house or the yard outside the house will feel cool with natural.

• Helpful to release tension - many ornamental plants are chosen because they appeal to the sense of smell, in addition to their visual appeal. So it can reduce tension and give soothing effect. Apart from that, ornamental plants and trees planted at the sides of the roads help drivers to reduce stress so it can protect drivers from severe car accidents by serving as a barrier to prevent cars from somersulting or other worse cases.

• They are grown for food -  Some chilies are grown as ornamental plants. An example is capsicums or Doret Nag, officially the hottest chili in the world.

• Used for decorations - during occations such as weddings and anniversaries. A common example is rose.