Different Kinds Of Flowers
A Brief Look At The Different Kinds Of Flowers
A list of different kinds of flowers can consist of almost anything you want it to. Flowers can be grouped into all sorts of categories, including size, colors, leaf shape, growing habits, flowers for special occasions, and even flowers having a symbolic meaning.
Florists often classify different kinds of flowers in terms of the message you are sending, when you order flowers for another person. A seed store or nursery may ask you if you are looking for annuals, biennials or perennials. Are you looking for flowers that would be found blooming in old-fashioned English garden, or a selection of wildflower seeds? So, what to look for as far as different types of flowers are concerned is somewhat up to you. That said; let's pick a few categories at random.
Tropical and subtropical flowers would include many orchids, hibiscus, bougainvillea, torch ginger, the anthurium and the bird of paradise. Or just pick up a book about traveling in Hawaii and you'll see many more. Flowers for the old-fashioned garden might include foxglove, stock, hollyhocks, and delphinium. Then you have your flowers grown from bulbs, tulips, daffodils, crocus, or hyacinth which, by the way, you could also classify as spring flowers. An eclectic group of flowers including the dogwood, rhododendron, bluebonnet, bitterroot, magnolia, the golden poppy and 40 or so others, when grouped together, make up a category called our State flowers.
Florists very often choose flowers to allow their floral arrangements to express a particular meaning, or sentiment. There is of course the ever popular bouquet of red roses, signifying love or affection. White flowers such as the camellia or calla lily are often put in mourning bouquets. Seed companies will often take a bit more of a structured approach in describing the different kinds of flowers they have to sell. They will put then in different categories such as hardy perennials, ground covers, annuals, water thrifty flowers, late-summer flowers, and deer-resistant flowers, just to name a few. What seed catalogs do best of course, is describe a number of varieties of one flower type, including growing habits and where they can or cannot be planted, making the selection of just the right kind of flowers for your garden a little easier.
Guidebooks which describe wildflowers seem to do a better job of getting things right as far as identifying a particular blossom is concerned. They narrow down your search by looking at petal shape, leaf shape, color, single blossom, double blossom, clusters, and even "odd-shaped" categories. Even then, the wide variety of different kinds of flowers makes categorizing them in nice little bundles hard to do. Maybe the best kinds are the kinds your lover likes best. If beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, the different kinds of flower that most appeal to you may be as well.