Ornamental From Wikipedia

Ornamental From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
An ornamental plant is a plant grown for its ornamental qualities, rather than for its commercial or economic value. They are usually grown outdoors (in public or private gardens and parks), but also indoors (house plants).

The cultivation of ornamental plants is very old and dates back to ancient times, humans have always tried to beautify and make more welcoming their surroundings.

The most common ornamental plants are grown for their flowers, however, their ornamental qualities may be related to other characteristics such as color and appearance of the foliage or bark, their port (tree , vine, bush, ...) that can be changed in size, especially in the case of the topiary art, or culture conditions (bonsai), but also fruits, stems, scent that they emerge ... In some cases it may be an unusual character, such as spines prominent and somewhat murderous Rosa sericea f. pteracantha.

Ornamental plants may belong to different categories depending on the desired effect and the location where you want to grow it. They can be herbs, annuals, biennials or perennials, woody plants, trees, shrubs shrubs. They can be grown in open ground in the greenhouse or conservatory, or in pots. In all cases, the approval of gardeners and visitors who are looking for. Ornamental plants can be grown in a goal for the landscape or cut flower.

Some ornamental plants become, under the effect of a particular action of the gardener. This applies, for example shrubs cultivated for topiary who would lose their character ornamental in the absence of regular sizes. It is also of grass to be mowed frequently.

Plants and ornamental trees are distinguished from plants for economical production, which are the subject of agriculture or forestry. This should not preclude a particular species can be both the subject of an economic culture and appreciated in a garden for its ornamental qualities. For example, lavender is typically an ornamental plant in gardens, but can also be cultivated for the production of essential oil of lavender.