We all realize that keeping and having colorful flowers has a positive effect on our temper and incentive. Though, some flowers become susceptible in winter due to the cold conditions. In other words, most flowers hibernate, but some flowers have a high endurance in winter. You can take care of winter flowers in the work environment or at home. So you can achieve perfect energy and feel from these green creatures. In this article, we will present 10 winter flowers and plants.
Significance and advantages of keeping Flowers and Plants
Researches indicate that keeping flowers and plants at home and at work cause calmness. It also mitigates stress and improves employee productivity. Here, we consider the significance and advantages of keeping flowers and plants:
Air cleanliness
Flowers filter air chemicals. It means, they remove air pollution, and this in itself assists you to stay away from airborne illnesses.
Anti-cold
Flowers can destroy 30% of the viruses in the air. That’s why flowers are anti-cold.
humidity
Plants can humid the atmosphere. If you live in a dry environment, taking care of plants can assist in increasing humidity to attain a healthy environment.
sleep quality
Another advantage of maintaining flowers and plants is that they cause you to experience a higher quality of sleep, in other words, plants increase the quality of your sleep. This is because plants set free oxygen over the night.
Increasing creativity
One of the most substantial advantages of keeping flowers and plants at home and at work is to increase the giving of notions and enhance people’s creativity. The remarkable point about plants is that their various colors make people or employees feel admirable, and this will assist to improve their performance.
decrease irritating noise
If you live in a crowded and noisy city you may have intense headaches when you come back home. Flowers and plants will clear up this trouble for you. In addition to absorbing carbon dioxide, plants can make your room cooler and more relaxed. As a consequence, they improve your focus and accurateness.
State of mind
When you are a little angry or dishearted or maybe in a stressful condition, paying attention to the flower or its green leaves will assist you to become relax a little and deduct your negative feelings. That is why green flowers and plants are utilized in hospital environments. Even this is not restricted to green flowers and plants. Colorful flowers are very efficient in the patient’s temper and can expedite the patient’s recovery process.
Enhancing people’s mental health
Maintaining flowers and plants and taking care of them can enhance mental diseases such as depression and make people pleasant. actually, keeping and looking after flowers and plants causes a person to discover an incentive for his life.
Decrease in blood pressure
People who have high blood pressure can handle this illness with flowers and plants. As we all understand, stress is one of the reasons for high blood pressure. On the other hand, flowers and plants enhance relaxation. For this reason, we recommend that you refrain from stress by maintaining flowers and plants.
In the above part, we talked about the advantages of maintaining flowers and plants in the work environment and at home. In this part, we will present ten winter flowers and plants:
Ten Winter Flowers and Plants
Ornamental Cabbage
Ornamental cabbage is one of the most well-known winter flowers. This pretty plant is tough to cold and you can plant it in the garden in winter. This flower grows in sunny and calcareous soil. The ornamental flower does not endure dehydration and requires routine watering. Otherwise, the leaves of this plant will get yellow. The cultivation period of this plant is on Tir.
Pests of this plant contain greenflies and larvae of white cabbage moth, for smashing aphids they used to contact or systemic toxins. Also, for destroying Cabbage white butterfly larvae they applied larvae or diazinon.
Oleander Flower
To mention another flower and winter plant, we can refer to the oleander flower, which is constantly green and has a remarkable endurance against the cold. The height of this flower attains to more than 2 meters. Oleander has long leaves but is toxic and it has odiferous flowers. For this reason, and effortless reproduction as well as having various colors, this flower is widely used in landscaping and adornment.
Disadvantages of Oleander
Oleander is a toxic plant. If the Oleander plant burns. It releases a poisonous substance and will create poisoning through breathing. Also, this plant leads to cardiac arrest, which if left uncontrolled will lead to death.
The narrative of the death of Napoleon’s soldiers from the Oleander plant
In the Napoleonic War, soldiers used oleander trees in place of kebab brochettes, which poisoned them and murdered them.
Some points about Oleander
Other names of the oleander plant are kisheh, Khar zahrj, sam alhamar, haban, sherang, vorod alhamam. This plant has compound flowers in red, white, and pink colors.
Where can Oleander be found?
Oleander is found around the Mediterranean and Asia, such as Iran and Japan. The leaves of this plant are narrow and slightly fetid and sharp. If the dog eats, it will die. Also, insects do not bring together around this plant because this plant is toxic.
What are the features of Oleander?
Here, we consider a short overview of the features of oleander:
- Oleander assists to treat inflammation of the body immediately.
- Oleander leaf juice extract is used to treat an illness named scabies. This toxic plant is also very effective for mitigating knee pain.
- This plant is utilized as a tool to destroy hurtful insects.
- Oleander is a toxic and perilous plant. However, this plant has many features, because of this it is used in medicine production. This flower should only be consumed by the doctor’s instructions. Otherwise, this plant will be destructive.
Features of Oleander for health
- Easing itching.
- Healing headaches.
- It is used as a remarkable mask for facial skin.
- Decreasing joint pain.
Disadvantages of Oleander for health
It includes a deadly toxic:
As we referred to, oleander is a very toxic plant. Its consumption should be prescribed by a doctor and if it is consumed, it must be under the control of a doctor.
It leads to cardiac arrest:
This plant has a poisonous substance that affects the heart, making an irregular heartbeat and finally, it leads to death.
Violet Flower
Violet is a cold plant that is planted in late summer and autumn and it blooms from early winter to Ordibehsht. One of the issues that have made this flower so famous is that it is accessible in different colors and it grows in various environments. You have to water it constantly to have suitable growth. In addition, this winter plant has incomparable beauty. It has many medicinal features, for this reason, it has many followers.
Advantages of Violet
Violet has sweet-smelling flowers that have features such as antifungal, anti-inflammation, and antiseptic. The brew leaves of this flower are used instead of aspirin. It relieves respiratory illnesses such as nasal congestion, cough, and sore throat. In the UK, violet leaves and flowers are utilized to cure breast and stomach cancer. It decreases blood pressure.
Wallflower
Another title of this plant is Stux or Matiola. It is an annual plant and is famous for its pleasing smell. This plant is contemplated one of the best flowers for winter due to its great tolerance to cold. This winter flower is found in different colors of pink, purple, white, red, lilac.
What is the meaning of the Wallflower?
This flower indicates honesty, beauty and delicateness, satisfaction, and long and very sweet life. Evening primrose is one of the most suitable plants for winter.
As we declared above, this flower has a very aromatic smell, so it has considerable usage in the perfume industry.
Daisy is a plant that has a low growth with a height of 30 to 50 cm and has excellent endurance to air pollution. For this reason, we suggest you plant it in large and populated cities. The flowers/blossoms of this plant have a lot of scents after drying and it is employed in the food industry.
This plant is remarkably famous due to the production of pearl-like round fruits in late autumn and winter and it is used as a decorative plant.
Narcissus/ Amaryllis Flower
Narcissus is a kind of onion plant and it has different kinds. Narcissus blooms in winter. This flower has strong endurance and does not need much protection. This flower with a yellow crown and white petals is very aromatic. Narcissus is unaffected by cold and we can be pleased with this kind of flower in winter at work and at home
Types of Daffodils are:
- Petit Four (Narcissus ‘Petit Four’)
- New Baby (Narcissus ‘New Baby’)
- Crewenna (Narcissus ‘Crewenna’)
- Red Devon (Narcissus ‘Red Devon’)
- Valdrome (Narcissus ‘Valdrome’)
- Sir Winston Churchill (Narcissus ‘Sir Winston Churchill’)
- Tahiti (Narcissus ‘Tahiti’)
- Ziva’ Paperwhite (Narcissus papyraceus ‘Ziva’)
- Toto (Narcissus ‘Toto’)
- Ice Follies (Narcissus ‘Ice Follies’)
- Rapture (Narcissus ‘Rapture’)
- Mary Gay Lirette (Narcissus ‘Mary Gay Lirette’)
- Dutch Master (Narcissus ‘Dutch Master’)
- Poet’s Narcisuss (Pheasant’s Eye Daffodil)
- Professor Einstein (Narcissus ‘Professor Einstein’)
Features of daffodil oil:
Narcissus oil has many features. These contain the following:
- A remedy for headaches and dizziness.
- enhancing digestion function.
- Exterminating infections and illnesses of women.
- It Strengthens eyesight.
These flowers have slender-shaped, dark green leaves. This flower has aromatic flowers 2.5 to 3 cm long. Cyclamen is one of the cold flowers and in this season it is accessible in florists. The Cyclamen flower does not necessitate much attention, but the soil of this winter flower must always be humid and the light should bright indirectly on it.
Cyclamen flower keeping conditions
This winter flowers require average light, cool to slightly warm air, always humid soil, normal air humidity, and a little acidic soil.
Cineraria
This flower is one of the perfect cold flowers. This plant grows in various colors such as blue, pink, red, purple, and white. Cineraria requires a lot of water and humidity. Cold and dry weather is urgent to keep it fresh. The Cinnamon flower has a short lifetime. The lifetime of this plant is one to two months. Nevertheless, they affix color and novelty to the home.
What are the requirements for maintaining and breeding the Cineraria plant?
As we declared earlier, this pretty winter plant requires a lot of water. On sunny days this plant necessitates more water but on frozen days, this plant requires less water. In addition, wetting the leaves should refrain.
This plant requires durable soil. High nitrate nitrogen fertilizer is advised.
If this winter plant is retained at a temperature of fewer than 13 degrees with high moistness and a sunny area, it will have a maximum long lifetime.
What are the pests and illnesses of Cineraria?
Among the pests that this plant faces are aphids, mites, and thrips, which can be smashed by applying toxins. illnesses contain verticillium wilt, Rhizoctonia, and pythium, which can be destroyed by fungicides.
Hellebore
Another wonderful winter flower and plant is the Hellebore flower, whose scientific title is Helleborus and it is a member of the Ranunculaceae family. However, this plant has a fragile appearance, it is very tough against the cold. This plant is always green. This plant has a lifetime of several years and does not require much consideration.
The essential temperature of this plant is between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius and it is appropriate for growing in cold and cool districts.
Areca Palm
Areca Pal flower has very great endurance and the plant height of this flower is less than 15 cm. This plant has tiny, needle-shaped leaves. This plant requires ordinary watering and it is an appropriate plant for winter. The land of this plant should always be humid.
Conclusion
In this article, we attempted to familiarize ten appropriate flowers for the winter season and obtain inclusive and thorough information for the audience. We hope that by reading this article, you will be capable to select your beloved flowers and plants and be pleased with the existence of these green and living things at home or at work. You can also send these flowers to your friends and beloved ones all over Iran to make a pleasant and stimulating environment for them.
Sources: en.wikipedia
