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.

Use Plastic Bottles in Gardening

Whoever loves gardening or would like to take it as a hobby, try to use plastic bottles as pots, you will be surprised by the benefits and the effect of this unusual adoption.

Many people would like to take gardening as a hobby, but they don’t have too much money and space to start with. The best they can do is plant potted flowers or plants, and some may have a headache to allot space to place the pots.

Why not start with plastic bottles? Take a look at the list of benefits; you will notice that using plastic bottles can save money and space, allow you to be more environmental friendly and facilitate home decoration.

1)      Plastic bottles are easy to get. Soft-drinks, water are sold in this kind of container. If you don’t consume any bottled drinks, you can ask your friends and neighbors to save you some.

2)      Come from your own consumption or from others, plastic bottles can be counted as “free”, definitely cheaper than buying a new pot.

3)      Most of the plastic bottles are transparent, but there are some brands offering different colors. It can be colorful without your additional painting or decoration.

4)      Plastic bottles have different size. You can move the plant from a small bottle to a bigger one easily.

5)      The plastic bottles are light than pots, and we can make an opening easily with a cutter. But they are tough enough in bearing heavy weight. 

6)      When you move the plants from the small bottles to bigger ones, you will have to cut open the plastic bottles. Clean them for they are still qualified for recycling.

7)      Bottled plants are wonderful decorative materials. Hanging them individually or in groups as a curtain, either way beautifies your home, and the latter one saves place or even serves as a partition wall.

8)      The various shape, size and color options of the plastic bottles, together with the color of flowers and plants are perfect for color matching. You can easily arrange a combination in your delight.

After knowing the benefits, let’s take a look at an actual sample. The two photos were taken in the Hong Kong Flower Show 2014. It is a proof that we can extend the lifespan of the plastic bottles to help us develop our gardening hobby and beautify our home at a lower cost with minimum space taken.

A good hobby is beneficial to one’s life. It is worthy of investing time, money and energy on gardening. Maybe you can become an expert and develop your planting hobby to a profitable business as the article suggested below. Anyway, enjoy yourself. 

Hobby to Business (Selling Flowers)

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15 Ways to Give Plastic Bottles a New Life