Edimentals is a new term for growing flowers and vegetables together. Gardens today are often too small to have a separate ‘veg patch.’
21.06.2024 - 14:41 / growingfamily.co.uk / Catherine
Welcome to an exploration of flowers that start with the letter “B”. From the stunning Begonia to the vibrant Bluebell, this list covers a wide range of flowers, each with its own unique charm.
You can use this list of flowers beginning with B to inspire your baby name search, your floral arrangements, or your plant knowledge. Or you can simply enjoy the lovely flower pictures!
This article covers 30 gorgeous names of flowers that begin with B. Every flower on the list has key facts, an image, plus any common names and symbolism (we’ve got more resources on flower symbolism in our birth flowers guide).
If blue flowers are your thing, Baby Blue Eyes delivers. Its small, bright blue flowers have a paler centre and five petals. Grow it in partial shade or full sun.
Baby Blue Eyes symbolises innocence, purity, and trust.
Much loved by florists, Baby’s Breath has tiny white or pink flower clusters on delicate stems. It grows well in sunny locations and is perfect for a cottage garden planting scheme.
Baby’s Breath symbolises innocence, purity and everlasting love.
The more well-known name of this electric blue flower is cornflower. It’s easy to grow from seed and will spread itself around the garden with minimal effort from you.
Bachelor’s Button symbolises many things, including love, hope, patience, fertility, pride, and wealth.
The buds of these flowers start off balloon-shaped, transforming into star-shaped blooms when open. This ornamental plant is native to East Asia, and popular with pollinating insects.
Balloon flowers symbolise love, friendship and happiness. The five points of each flower can also represent the five senses, or the five elements in Chinese philosophy.
If you like your flowers that start with B to have a
Edimentals is a new term for growing flowers and vegetables together. Gardens today are often too small to have a separate ‘veg patch.’
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This year Chelsea Flower Show was full of interesting trees and shrubs with lots of dreamy woodland-edge planting in dappled light underneath leafy canopies. Native trees such as hawthorns, hazels and silver birch were the favoured choices in many of the show gardens, with a mixture of native and non-native ornamental plants selected for resilience and sustainability. In Ula Maria’s Forest Bathing Garden, white foxgloves, cow parsley and other umbellifers like Baltic parsley (Cenolophium denudatum) and valerian (Valeriana officinalis) were mixed with the simple shade-loving grass Melica altissima ‘Alba’ while Tom Stuart-Smith showcased intricate tapestries of interesting foliage in different shapes and textures. In other gardens, orange was a popular colour in many shades, from deep rusty orange irises to pale orange geums, especially in Ann Marie-Powell’s exuberant Octavia Hill Garden. As always, the Grand Pavilion is the ideal place to discover new and interesting plants showcased by some of the country’s leading nurseries.
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