Types of Gladiolus Flowers (with Pictures and Names) – Identification

Gladiolus are funnel-shaped blooms that grow on tall flowering spikes and have showy blooms. The bright floral displays of red, purple, pink, orange, white, yellow, and multi-colored flowers that flowering perennial gladiolus plants create in garden landscapes are stunning. Furthermore, the vertical blooming flower stalks of the lovely gladiolus flowers are adorned with plain, frilly, … Read more

Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus Dioicus): Pods, Bark, Leaves, Identification and Care (Pictures)

The pinnate green leaves, greenish-white flowers, and enormous reddish-brown seed pods of the Kentucky coffee tree (also spelled coffeetree) make it an appealing medium-sized deciduous tree. The Kentucky coffee tree has an irregular oval crown with open branches that provide partial shade and is native to the Midwest. In the winter, the tree’s scaly gray-brown … Read more

Zelkova Trees: Types, Leaves, Bark (Pictures) – Identification

The zelkova tree has beautiful gray peeling bark, huge ovate leaves with serrated margins, and a spreading, rounded or vase-shaped crown. It is a tall ornamental shade tree. In the spring, clusters of non-showy yellowish-green flowers appear on the broadleaf deciduous zelkova tree. The zelkova tree produces small green drupes when it blooms that mature … Read more