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Amaryllis
Amaryllis have long been popular plants as they flower easily and produce big and showy trumpet-shaped flowers, which brighten up any dark corner of a room, especially in winter. |
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Azalea
Potted azaleas have a long and prodigious history, as both year-round and seasonal blooming plants. |
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Begonia
Begonias are tender perennials, grown for their colorful flowers and foliage. |
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Calla Lilies
Calla lilies are not the first flowers associated with bulb plants but they share the house with potted tulips and daffodils in the spring. |
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Campanula
There are over 300 species of campanulas, commonly known as bellflowers. It takes its name from their bell-shaped flowers-campanula is Latin for "little bell". |
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Chrysanthemum
They are long flowering, long lasting, easy to grow, relatively disease and pest free plants that can produce flowers at any time of the year by light manipulation. |
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Cyclamen
In the home, potted cyclamen needs plenty of light without direct sunlight. It prefers cool atmospheres. |
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Gardenia
These beautiful plants can take your breath away when in full bloom but it can be challenging to get them there. |
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Geranium
Potted geraniums are Ontario's third most popular potted plant and the world's favorite indoor/outdoor potted flower. |
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Gerbera
Gerberas are also wonderful potted plants as well as decorative garden plants. Ontario's potted gerbera production has grown from virtually nothing only a few years ago to become Ontario's 8th most important potted flower crop. |
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Hydrangea
Hydrangeas come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and colors, from climbing vines to small trees. |
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Kalanchoe
Although native of Madagascar, the Kalanchoe has over 125 species and is cultivated all over the world. It is the most popular and also one of the loveliest representatives of the Crasulaceae family. |
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Lily
Within the potted lily market, beautiful trumpet-shaped white Easter lilies account for virtually all of the indoor potted plant production. |
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Miniature Rose
Miniature roses are actual roses, which have been bred to grow into compact plants with equally small flowers. |
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Phalaenopsis Orchid
If one can grow African violets or Boston ferns, then orchids should fit into the same environment. |
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Poinsettia
Most of those are sold during a six week period between November and December. It is hard to believe that the first potted poinsettia was introduced for indoor decoration in only 1923. |
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Sunflower
Sunflowers are bold, exuberant declarations of adulation and are the flowers associated with the star sign Leo. Characteristically, the sunflower plant has 'human-like' dimensions. |
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Violets
Ability to thrive under conditions commonly found in most homes, and its usefulness as a specimen plant, center piece, or feature in dish gardens. |