Learn the Names of Flowers and Plants (Part Two)

Would you like to learn more new names of flowers and plants? The picture dictionary can help you. Also, try other means to add fun in the learning.

This article will show you 16 different flowers and plants. I took all the photos in the 2014 Hong Kong Flower Show.

If you read Part One and Part Two, you have come across 31 species. Feeling overwhelmed? I hope not so. As we all know, there are many other beautiful flowers and plants waiting for your discovery and appreciation. So, there comes the question: How can we remember so many flowers and plants, recalling their names and appearances correctly at least?

To facilitate and consolidate the learning, it is an essence to add some fun elements.

Various means to learn the name and appearance of flowers and plants:

1)      Read the picture dictionary.

2)      Pay frequent visit to parks that label flowers and plants.

3)      Pay frequent visit to flower shops or exhibitions that label flowers and plants.

4)      Have a field trip to take photos for a particular flower or plant. You can go alone or with some friends who are willing to help you search the target.

5)      Paint the flower or plant and write down the name of the species when you sign your work.

6)      Collect postcards, pictures and posters of flowers and plants, and use them to decorate your wall. Don’t forget to copy their name to the front side.

7)      Organize your photo collection. Let each species has an individual album or video and send it to your friends for sharing. The communication will stamp the name and appearance to your mind easier.

8)      Buy the seed and grow the flower or plant. Successful experience in gardening will provoke you to get yourself familiar with other new species.

9)      If gardening is impossible, try flowery arrangement that takes up fewer spaces. You will be aware of more species easier during the ingredient preparation.

10)  Buy flowers and plants to decorate your home. You can assign one flower vase for each species. Stick the name on the vase until you can remember the host name.

The learning will be more efficient if you can incorporate it with some fun activities and hobbies, communication and sharing with other people. Let the learning process enrich your life. A hunger of learning will appear, urging you inwardly to learn more to satisfy your appetite. The enhancing knowledge level will make you more alert to the background beauty and appreciate the Nature even better if you can name the flowers and plants effortlessly.

Take the small step to learn the flowers and plants, be able to recall their names and appearances at least, and unfold the magical impact that built up throughout.

Author’s note:

Flowers and plants can work well with animals to form wonderful sights. If you have no idea what I am talking about, click into the article below and enjoy the amusing blends.

When Animals and Flowers Fall in Love Together

Learn the Names of Flowers and Plants (Part One)

Flowers and plants are beautiful. While enjoying the sight, do you know their names? Learn from the picture dictionary and understand the benefits.

I took all the 15 photos in the 2014 Hong Kong Flower Show.  

 

Knowing the names or not will not affect the beauty and the life cycle of the flowers and plants, hence, you may ask, “Why should we bother to know their names?” The knowledge will do good to us in a couple of ways.

Get familiar with something could help us appreciate its existence. We incline to give the things more attention and cherish them better. We do care and this boosts the harmony between humans and the Nature. We tend to become more environmental friendly and generate more delights from the mere sight. It’s a blessing if the lively and beautiful sight can make your day.

We may go further to learn more about the flowers and plants by knowing the names and growing the appreciation. The desire of knowledge leads us digging out their facts, which are often interesting plus surprising. Clink into the link below to learn more about tulips. We can’t help feeling life is so amazing and wonderful. The touching feel is precious and inspiring. It will help us pay more respects on life and its splendid creator.

The Beauty of Tulips (with Some Interesting Facts)

Some people may learn to grow the flowers and plants they like. It’s a good hobby that requires investment of time, money, space and care. Start small and be patient to have the progress step-by-step. Fruitful result is attainable. To bring down the cost, you can try growing flowers in plastic bottles. Click into the link below and the article will show you that this economic and go green method is definitely feasible.

Use Plastic Bottles in Gardening

If you are artistic enough, the combination of flowers and their containers could be a piece of art for interior design, making your home more unique with its stunning beauty.

When you have master gardening, you may like to extend the hobby into a business. Clink into another link for details on how to realize this dream.

Hobby to Business (Selling Flowers)

Knowing the names of flowers and plants is an initiative step to open the door of a wide variety of possibilities to improve our life. This small step may bring forth something good and profitable, ranging from internal appreciation to external benefits.

Take some time to learn and be better off. In Part Two, we will discuss further on this small and yet magical step.

The Beauty of Jellyfish (with Some Interesting Facts)

Seeing the same jellyfish picking various colors, I couldn’t help asking, “Are they transparent in color?” Let’s learn more about this superb species.

I took the jellyfish photos at Sea Jelly Spectacular in the Ocean Park Hong Kong. The five photos below are showing the same group named freshwater jellyfish, which are small in size and colorless.

Not all jellyfish are colorless. For example, the purple jellyfish (scientific name is Pelagia noctiluca) vary in colors worldwide. The colors could be pink, mauve, golden yellow and tan.

Jellyfish have many different types, living in the ocean worldwide, from the surface to the deep sea.  Jellyfish have other interesting facts that are worthy of our knowing.

Interesting facts of Jellyfish:

1) It is one of the world’s most ancient animals, exist at least for 500 million years or even longer, say 700 million years.

2) Sizes vary from a few millimeters to over two meters.

3) Some types can sting; whereas, others cannot.

4) Box jellyfish have deadly poison that can kill a human in 30 seconds.

5) Lifespan varies typically from a few hours to several months. However, there is an unusual type reported. Turritopsis nutricula, another name is the immortal jellyfish, can revert to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. This reverting ability can go on non-stop if there is no interruption to the life cycle and hence, the lifespan of the immortal jellyfish is a mystery. Naturally, Turritopsis nutricula becomes an object of study for it may hold the key to human immortality.

Jellyfish looks simple, with the bell, jelly-like bodies and tentacles. This marine life moves by squeezing water out from beneath its body, and sinking happens when there is no squeezing. Jellyfish in the aquarium look so fascinating that it is the living proof of the beauty of Nature.

References:

a) Wikipedia.

b) Visual Factfinder: Natural World published by Bardfield Press.

Author’s note:

The earth is being polluted continuously. Some marine creatures are lovely to look at but they may under the threat of mass death. Seal pups are a typical example. Click into the article below to learn more about the tragedy happened so far.

Over 500,000 Seal Pups Drowned to Death

If you have the opportunity to pay a visit to Hong Kong, you may want to see jellyfish in person. There are more things to enjoy from this theme park. Click into the article below to have an idea what the gimmicks are.

Hong Kong Travel Guide: Ocean Park Hong Kong