Star tickseed

Common name: Star tickseed

Scientific name: Coreopsis pubescens

Family: Asteraceae

General characteristics:
☘️Plant height ranges from 30 - 45cm
🍀Foliage are deep green in colour
🌼Flowers are golden yellow
🌼Blooming time usually in mid summer
Uses
📌Garden uses:
🍁Can be used as borders.
🍁Good plant for areas with poor, dry soils
🦋This attracts butterflies.
⚱️Can be grown in containers and planter boxes.

🐛Pests and diseases:
🐞No serious insect or disease problems.
🍂Crown rot may occur if grown in moist, poorly drained soils.

Dwarf morning glory/ Blue daze

Common name: Dwarf morning glory/ Blue daze

Scientific name: Evolvulus glomeratus 

Family: Convolvulaceae

Plant Characters:

☘️This is an evergreen subshrub
☘️Grows in a low, spreading mound, up to 2-3 ft in diameter, but no more than 1 ft tall.
☘️The stems become woody as they age. 
☘️Leaves and stems are densely downy, covered with a light gray fuzz.
☘️The egg shaped leaves are about a 0.5 in wide and 1 in long.
🌸The funnel shaped flowers are born individually in leaf axils near the stem tips. They are about 1 in across, with five pale lavender or powder blue petals and white throats.
🌸Evolvulus blooms profusely and almost continuously, but each flower lasts only a day, opening in the morning and closing by afternoon.
🌸The cultivar, 'Blue Daze' is widely available.
👉Garden Uses
Hanging baskets, containers, small area ground cover or trailing over stone walls.

Awl-leaf arrowhead

Common name: Awl-leaf arrowhead

Scientific name: Sagittaria subulata
Family: Alismataceae

Plant Characters:

🌳This is a perennial herb up to 40 cm tall.
🌿Leaves are submersed or floating, narrowly linear to ovate, not lobed.
🌾Inflorescence floats on the surface of the water
💧Sagittaria Subulata species have long and narrow leaves when kept under water (Arrowhead shaped).

💧Water: Sagittaria subulata grows best in medium-hard to hard water with a pH-value within the moderately acid to alkaline range.

🌡️Temperature: Optimum growth temperature for Sagittaria subulata is 18 to 26°C (64 – 79°F), but it can withstand temps from a very low 15°C (59) to 29°C (84°F).
This seems to be not sensitive to temperature change

🌞Light requirement:
🌞Sagittaria subulata require moderate to strong light.
🌞Intense lighting will bring out reddish leaf apexes.

🍞Substrate: Fine-graveled sand is best for these delicate plants.

🌱🌱Planting density: 4-5 plants for every 15cm (6 inch)

♀️ Propagation: They propagate by sending runners everywhere around the mother plant. With a good substrate (rich in Iron), added CO2 and a strong lighting, this plant will grow very quickly to cover the bottom of your tank.

🔺Problems: The plant leaves will become yellowish if proper conditions are not met (especially if it lacks Iron).

💸Uses: Sagittaria subulata is used in aquariums as mid-ground or foreground plant. Planted as a standalone this aquarium plant can be striking.

Snake Jasmine (जूहीपानी)

Common name: Snake Jasmine (जूहीपानी)

Scientific name:Rhinacanthus nasutus
Family: Acanthaceae

Plant Characters:

👉slender, erect, branched, somewhat hairy shrub 1–2 m in height.
👉The leaves are oblong, 4–10 cm in length, and narrowed and pointed at both ends.
👉The inflorescence is a spreading, leafy, hairy panicle with the flowers usually in clusters.
👉The calyx is green, hairy, and about 5 mm long.
👉The corolla-tube is greenish, slender, cylindric, and about 2 cm long.
👉The flowers is 2-lipped; the upper lip is white, erect, oblong or lancelike, 2-toothed at the apex, and about 3 mm in both length and width; and the lower lip is broadly obovate, 1.1-1.3 cm in both measurements, 3-lobed, and white, with a few, minute, brownish dots near the base.
👉 The fruit (capsule) is club-shaped and contains 4 seeds.
🌱Medicinal uses:
(⚠️Warning: Unverified information)
📌In India the fresh root and le
📌The seeds also araves, bruised and mixed with lime juice, are a useful remedy for ringworm and other skin affections.e efficacious in ringworm.

📌The root-bark is a remedy for dhobie’s itch.
📌In Sind it is said to possess extraordinary aphrodisiacal powers, the roots boiled in milk being much employed by Hindu practitioners.
📌The roots are believed in some parts of India to be an antidote to the bites of poisonous snakes.

Lilypad begonia

Common name: Lilypad begonia

Scientific name: Begonia nelumbiifolia

Family: Begoniaceae

Plant Characters:

• Begonias are tender perennials
• They prefer partial shade

Propagation:

• Begonias can be propagated from leaf, stem or rhizome cuttings in addition to being sown from seed.

Leaves: coarse leaves, evergreen

Flower Color: white

Cardwell lily

Common name: Cardwell lily

Scientific name: Proiphys amboinensis

Family: Amaryllidaceae

Growth habit:

• It prefers open, lightly shaded places.
• It grows quickly after the arrival of the wet season
• The plant prefers a fairly well shaded position.

Uses:

• A good container plant. Needs lots of water in the growing season.

Propagation:

• Propagated by seed or lift the bulb

Narrow leaf angelon

Common name: Narrow leaf angelon

Scientific name:Angelonia angustifolia

Family: Plantaginaceae

Distribution: Native to Mexico, Central America and Tropical South America.
Characteristics
Growth:
perennial

• fast-growing
• The plants usually grow to a width of 10 to 30 centimetres.

Leaves:

• Deciduous
• Simple leaves are opposite
• Lanceolate with dentate margins.
• Leaves have a glabrous surface.

Flowers

• spikes of light purple labiate flowers

Cultivation
Soil and Climate

• prefer a sunny situation
• Prefer sandy loam or gritty loam
• pH between 5,5 and 6,5
• The plants tolerate temperatures only above at least 1°C.

Care and special practices

• The plants need little to no maintenance if grown under suitable conditions.
• Allow the soil to become slightly dry in between watering.

Fertilizer application

• Give compost at planting.

Propagation

• By seed or by cuttings.

Pests and diseases
Insect pests
Aphids:

• Symptoms:Honeydew, galls and distorted leaves are a sign for an infestation with aphids.
• Management:Use an insecticide or control biologically, e.g. with parasitic wasps or predators such as Aphidoletes aphidimyza.

Diseases:
Botrytis Rot:

• Rot on leaves, shoots, flowers or fruits indicated an infection with grey mould (botrytis).

Management:

• Remove and destroy affected plants.

Apply fungicide.

• Improve ventilation and hygiene and avoid injuring the plants to prevent infections.

2. Powdery mildew:
Symptoms:
A powdery white coat on the plants indicates an infection with powdery mildew.
Management:

• Remove affected plants and apply a fungicide.
• To prevent infection improve ventilation, keep the roots moist and do not water the plants from above.

Downy mildew:
Symptoms:

• White tufts or white covering on the lower surface of the leaves indicates an infection with downy mildew.

Management:

• Remove affected plants and apply a fungicide.
• To prevent infection improve ventilation, keep the roots moist and do not water the plants from above.

Rhizoctonia root rot:
Symptoms:

• Withered seedling or rotting roots and discoloured leaves on older plants indicated a fungal infection (rhizoctonia).

Management:

• Remove affected parts and apply fungicide. Prevent infection by improving hygiene