Cano Cristales The Rainbow River

Beautiful And Amazing Water Gardens Photos

Water gardens, also known as aquatic gardens, are a type of man-made water feature. A water garden is defined as any interior or exterior landscape or architectural element whose primarily purpose is to house, display, or propagate a particular species or variety of aquatic plant. Although a water garden’s primary focus is on plants, they will sometimes also house ornamental fish, in which case the feature will be a fish pond.

Although water gardens can be almost any size or depth, they are typically small and relatively shallow, generally less than twenty inches in depth. This is because most aquatic plants are depth sensitive and require a specific water depth in order to thrive. The particular species inhabiting each water garden will ultimately determine the actual surface area and depth required.

Top 10 Beautiful Gardens From Around The World

Are these really "The 10 Most Amazing Gardens in the World"? Well, they may not be the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but they are sure each an amazing sight. Hopefully they can at least provide some Travel Inspiration, if not some landscaping and gardening inspiration. Please let me know what gardens I missed by commenting in This Thread.

1.Versaille Versailles, probably the world's most famous garden, was built for Louis XIV and designed by André Le Nôtre.

2.The Garden of Cosmic Speculation Strange landforms abound in Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

3.Boboli Gardens The Bobobli Gardens, behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy were groundbreaking in the early 18th century for their open design.

4.Rikugien Gardens "Rikugien literally means 'six poems garden' and reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems."

5.Claude Monet Gardens in Giverny The pool with nympheas, in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny.

6.Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C. The Butchart Gardens at Todd Inlet, which lie around 14 miles from Victoria B.C., covers more than 55 acres of the 130 acre Butchart Estate.

7.Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Table Mountain looms in the distance of this vista from Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in South Africa.

8.Yu Gardens - Shanghai The 400-year-old Yu Gardens were built in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Jia Jin, and restored in the 1960s.

9.Exbury Gardens - New Forest, England Amazing colors reflect on the calm waters of Exbury Lake.

10.Mirabell Garden in Salzburg The world-famous Mirabell Gardens were built along a north-south axis and oriented towards the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Salzburger Dom cathedral.

Top 10 Most Exotic and Beautiful Cacti

Cacti are nature’s most exotic and beautiful plants. Most cacti are seen in the arid and desert areas but they can be grown almost anywhere with little care and space. A cacti garden can enliven your yard and give an original look to your home. The following are some of the notable cacti gardens worldwide.

1. Opuntia microdasys

This Opuntia species comes in three forms. They are easy to tell apart by the color of thier glochids. (Glochids are the tiny little spines that cover the plant.) The most popular form of O. microdasys is the form with white glochids. There is a form with yellow glochids that often has monstrose growth. And finally there is a form with cinnamon-colored glochids. All three are often sold as "Bunny ears" and increase in size in the same order that they are listed here. While the white form has glochids that often are too soft to penetrate the skin, the cinnimon form is quite viscious and can be very unpleasent to bump into. The yellow falls somewhere in-between.

2. Austrocylindropuntia subulata monstrose

The monstrose form of A. subulata is a curious little thing that looks like a bunch of chubby thumbs all stuck together with warts on it. I suppose it is just this odd appearance that makes it popular at stores. People are likely to buy it for "shock value." At the same time the little stem pieces break off fairly easily and each piece will quickly grow to its own plant.

3. Grafted Gymnocalycium Cultivars

This is actually two cacti in one! The top part is a Gymnocalycium that lacks chlorophyll and that gives it the bright red color. However, because the plant has no chlorophyll, it cannot survive on its own. This is why they are grafted on a green stalk below. The green stalk is typically a Hylocereus species.

4. Echinopsis chamaecereus

cultivar Just like the Gymnocalycium above, this Echinopsis cultivar is another plant that lacks chlorophyll, which makes it yellow and unable to survive on its own. The green stalk below is also typically a Hylocereus species.

5. Stenocereus pruinosus

I'm not sure exactly what makes this species so popular. Perhaps it is easy to grow from seed. But this species shows up for ID quite frequently because most plants are sold as juveniles. And with columnar cacti, most young plants look very different than the adult plants. Because of this, you could have an adult plant and a young plant sitting side by side and not even realize they are the same species.

6. Pilosocereus pachycladus

If you have a columnar cactus that is blue in color, there is about a 90% chance that it is going to be P. pachycladus. The unusual blue color of this plant and the fact that it is easy to grow make it a perfect candidate for big commercial growers. There are other blue columnar cacti out there, but your plant came from a nursery that does not specialize in cacti, this is almost certainly what you have.

7. Cereus peruvianus

While not a verified species, this plant is very popular in cultivation and is often passed along as a large landscape cutting. Many monstrose forms of this plant exist as well.

8. Cereus tetragonus

"Fairy Castles" Much like C. peruvianus, C. tetragonus is widespread, but the true identity of this plant is unknown. It may even be a mutation of C. peruvianus. It does not occur in the wild and I have yet to encounter anyone who has had flowers on their plant. It seem then that this plant was selected for its tight, upright growth, small size, and ease of care. This might be one instance where the common name is more appropriate than the scientific name.

9. Echinopsis species

Many Echinopsis species are grown because they are quite hardy and easy to care for and they produce some of the most showy blooms of all cacti. It is not uncommon for an Echinopsis stem to be completely hidden by a mass of large flowers at the end of long floral tubes. Many hybrids of this genera are sold, but some true species are just as popular, if not more popular than hybrids.

10. Epiphyllum hybrids

A popular houseplant that often gets handed down from generation to generation, I often get ID requests for "a cactus that my grandmother gave me". Often, these plants are grown in low lighting conditions and therefore do not bloom for many years. Then for whatever reason, the plant will put out a few flowers and totally amaze the owner! While these flowers can come in a variety of colors, all of them are quite showy. There are few true species out there, but the majority of these plants are hybrids.

Top 10 Most Beautiful Flowers In The World

Flowers are reproductive portion of any flowering plant (i.e angiosperm family). Flowers present a multitude of combinations of colour, size, form, and anatomical arrangement. These days flowers play a very important role in our daily life to balance our social behaviour. Flowers are commercially available in the markets all around the year as these are used to enhance your love expression and happiness. Flowers are used as gifts, gratitude, celebrations and for congratulation. Not only this flowers are also used in sad moments of life i.e mourning, apology or in funerals. In many cultures flowers are an integral parts of wedding ceremonies. Let us look a collection of 10 most beautiful flowers in the world. These may trigger a feeling of happiness and help you to change your mode as flowers help us to stay calm and relaxed.

1.Most Beautiful Lonicera – Honeysuckle Flower Pictures

Lonicera – Honeysuckle flower trivia: Lonicera was named after Adam Lonicer, a Renaissance botanist. Honeysuckle Weeks is a famous actress from England who was born when honeysuckle flowers bloomed, hence her beautiful first name.

2.Beautiful Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple

Abutilon flower trivia: Common names of Abutilon are: Chinese Bell Flower, Chinese Lantern, Mallow, Indian Mallow, and Flowering Maple. Even though some Abutilon has maple-like leaves it is not related to the maples.
Abutilons are quite resilient garden flowers plants, they don’t only thrive in subtropical areas but also can withstands moderate frost down to about -10°C.

3.Most Beautiful Gerbera And Daisy Flower Pictures

Gerbera flower trivia: Gerbera is part of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Gerbera flower is named after German naturalist Traugott Gerber.
Gerbera plants have a large Capitulum (flower head) that looks like a single flower but it contains hundreds of individual flowers.

4.Beautiful Asclepias – Milkweed Flower And Seed Pod Pictures

Milkweed flower trivia: Asclepias (milkweeds) are made up of over 140 known species. The name Asclepias comes from Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. Milkweed is named after its milky juice.

5.Most Beautiful Dogwood – Cornus Flower Pictures

Dogwood (Cornus) flower trivia: The name dogwood comes from dagwood, as in “dags” in daggers, skewers. The 30-50 species of dogwood are mostly woody shrubs and trees.

6.Most Beautiful Purple Flowers Pictures

Purple color trivia: Purple was the favorite color of the hippies in the late 1960s. Psychedelic black light paintings were created by combining fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to make fluorescent purple. This shade of purple was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix therefore is called psychedelic purple.

7.Most Beautiful Fuzzy Poppy Flower Buds Pictures

Red poppy flower trivia: Throughout ages in different cultures red poppy flowers have been the symbols of sleep and death. Sleep was associated with poppies because of their opium content, death because of their (commonly) blood-like red color.

8.Beautiful Oriental Hybrid Flower Pictures: Lilium – Stargazer Lily

Lilium – Stargazer lily flower trivia: Stargazer Lilies are toxic to both humans and cats when swallowed.
The symptoms upon ingestion are: nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. In certain cases anaphylaxis (acute multi-system hypersensitivity reaction) may occur.

9.Beautiful Chrysanths: Pictures Of Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemum flower trivia: Chrysanthemums ( chrysanths, mums) are perennial flowering plants native to Asia and Northeastern Europe.

10.World’s Most Beautiful Weed? Lantana Flower Pictures

Lantana flower trivia: Lantana flower is also called Baho-baho, Lantana camara, shrub verbenas or lantanas.
Due to the flower having yellow and pink colors next to each other it received some funny nicknames: “ham ‘n eggs” and “bacon ‘n eggs”.