When you see daffodils, you just know that spring is nearly upon us. With their trumpet-shaped flowers, these cheerful chaps herald in the new season in their own way. They are perfect for a spring bouquet but will also brighten up any garden – as if someone had poured out a pot of gold all over it.
A tree that stays green year-round, that’s one way to survive those last cold winter months.
Herbal tea not only tastes nice, but it is also healthy. Fresh herbs can help against all kinds of ailments, like a cold or a dry cough, but they are also great just to relax and unwind. Did you know that it’s very easy to make fresh herbal tea yourself? Especially when the herbs are from your own garden!
It’s not quite spring yet, but here at Noviflora, the first spring flowers are already popping up. Of all the spring flowers, violets are still our favourite. They come in all shapes, sizes and colours, and you can mix and match to your heart’s delight. Let’s take a look!
Its nickname ‘the Christmas rose’ might be confusing, because the Hellebore hardly has anything in common with a rose. But if you look closely to the flower bud you will see similarities with its real relative: the Ranunculus.
The summer has officially come to an end. Days are starting to feel dull and dreary, and looking out of the window isn’t actually going to cheer you up with plants and trees standing there in their past glory. But classic red plants, like the Skimmia, will ensure there is still plenty to see when you take a look outside.
When autumn arrives, most gardens are often a faded glory. But this doesn’t mean you have to look at bare branches right through to spring. There are lots of plants which will simply stand up to the cold, such as Brassica.
Moss can be compared to a green carpet, that somehow looks enchanting and mysterious. There are multiple kinds of moss, different in colour and texture, each with its own purpose. Great for in the garden, or how about a moss painting to green up the indoors?
Summer’s end doesn’t have to mean the days of endless backyard flower parades are over. There is one hardy plant that refuses to give in to the shorter days, and continues to surprise us with its many coloured blooms even as the air gets crisp. Four reasons to celebrate our beloved ball chrysanthemum.
You can usually smell it before you even see it: lavender! It’s a smell everyone loves. In fact, people were so crazy about lavender that when the washing machine was first invented, the demand for laundry detergent that smelled like lavender was so overwhelming that all the lavender was picked from the fields.
