Flowers for the garden
Iberis or candytuft
Iberis
Annual and perennial herbaceous plants, sometimes subshrubs, 10 to 40 cm high. Leaves entire or pinnately divided. Flowers small, white, pink or lilac, gathered in umbel‑like racemes.
Plants
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Deciduous shrubs
Ilex crenata (Japanese holly)
Ilex crenata
A species of the genus Ilex in the family Aquifoliaceae. An evergreen tree or shrub with a dense rounded crown. Leaves leathery, dark green, crenate-serrate. Flowers white, axillary. Fruits – globose black drupes
Indoor plants
Impatiens
Impatiens
The name of the genus comes from the Latin words im (in) - not, without and patiens - bearing, enduring pressure: referring to the ability of the ripe fruits to burst open at the slightest touch.
Indoor plants
Impatiens Petersa
Impatiens petersiana
Differs from I. Waller by more vigorous growth, longer leaf petioles and leaf blades, and purplish-red coloration of stems and leaves. Native to West Africa.
Indoor plants
Impatiens Vallera
Impatiens walleriana
Bushy herbaceous plant. Stems erect, sometimes becoming prostrate with age, succulent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, up to 10 cm long, 4 cm wide, light green or reddish, broadly ovate or ovate, toothed.
Flowers for the garden
Indian Duchesnea, Indian cinquefoil
Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke
Perennial plant with leafy, hairy, creeping stems up to 100 cm long, resembling a strawberry in appearance.
Climbing plants
Indian yam
D. alata L.
The edible tubers reach 2 m in length. The stem is four-winged or sharply four-angled, with small tubers in the leaf axils.
Indoor plants
Indoor grapefruit
Grapephruit
In indoor conditions it grows to 1.5–2 m. Flowers are large, white with a pinkish tint, strongly fragrant, solitary or borne in clusters
Flowers for the garden
Inflated lady's-slipper
С. ventricosum
Occurs in deciduous and mixed forests, on forest glades in the temperate zones of the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Far East, reaching the Kuril Islands, northeastern China and Japan.
Flowering shrubs
Intermediate forsythia
Forsythia intermedia
A medium-sized shrub, 2-4 m tall and wide, broad, upright in growth, branch tips drooping, fast-growing.
Deciduous trees
Intermediate rowan
Sorbus intermedia (Ehrh.) Pers.
a species of the genus Sorbus of the Rosaceae family. A medium-sized deciduous tree 10-20 m high. Leaves elliptic or oblong-ovate. Fruits ellipsoid pomes of brick-red color.
Flowers for the garden
Ipheion
Ipheion
Herbaceous, perennial bulbous plant, bulb small, ovoid; its outer scales extend to the base of the stems. Several stems, 15—30 cm high. Many leaves, they are broad-linear, almost flat, glaucous, as long as the stems. Fl…
Indoor plants
Ipomoea
Ipomoea
Ipomoea from Greek 'ips' - worm and 'homoios' - similar - referring to the structure of the underground rhizome of many original species. Until recently the name Ipomoea was associated only with balcony and garden horti…
Indoor plants
Iresine
Iresine
A perennial plant up to 40 cm tall. Bushes pyramidal. Leaves oval or lanceolate, pointed, petiolate, arranged oppositely. The whole plant is red or brownish-red in color.
Flowers for the garden
Iridodictyum
Iridodictyum
Perennials with a small bulb, composed externally of net-fibrous scales and internally of one large fleshy tunicate scale and several small rudimentary scales in the center of the bulb.
Flowers for the garden
Iris
Iris L.
Perennial herbaceous rhizomatous plants. They have two types of shoots: vegetative and generative. Vegetative shoots are perennial underground rhizomes, buried in the soil or located on the surface, consisting of separa…
Flowers for the garden
Iris Alberta
Iris albertii Regel
Leaves broadly sword-shaped, purple-violet at the base. Flower stalk up to 60 cm tall, branched in the upper part.
Flowers for the garden
Iris Timofeeva
Iris timofejewii Woron.
A rare Caucasian species. It grows in large, dense tufts 30-40 and even 70-90 cm across on very dry, calcium-rich, sun-exposed mountain rocky slopes of southern aspect.
Flowers for the garden
Iris cherepitchaty
Iris imbricata Lindl.
Close to I. albertii. It differs from it by the fawn-yellow color of the flowers (rarely, plants with bluish flowers occur), by broader leaves with tips that do not wither during the growing season, and by boat-shaped, …
Flowers for the garden
Iris furcata or forked iris
Iris furcata Bieb. = I. babadagica Rzazade et Goln
Grows on dry, sun-exposed mountain terraces. Plants with a single-flowered scape are often encountered, frequently mistaken for I. pumila.
Flowers for the garden
Iris scariosa (Leather iris)
Iris scariosa Willd.
Iris scariosa (I. scariosa Willd.) - description, species, photos, care, cultivation, transplanting, pests, propagation - Iris
Conifers
Irish ivy
Helix hibernica
Irish ivy (Helix hibernica) - a brief description of the species for Your Garden
Deciduous trees
Iron tree
Parrotia С. А. Меу.
Iron tree (Parrotia С. А. Меу.) - brief description of the species on Your Garden
Deciduous shrubs
Iskrovaya leaf
Photinia davidiana
Iskrovaya leaf (Photinia davidiana) - a brief species description on Your Garden