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Garden flowers The queen

Garden pansy of flowers
Have you ever noticed that some garden flowers Roses have been grown
look very much like wild ones, but are bigger for thousands of years.
Most garden roses are
and brighter? The reason for this is that all garden Wild much bigger than their
plants originally came from the wild. They look pansy wild relatives. They can Garden roses
different now because gardeners, not nature, keep flowering for often have
decide which plants to breed. months, rather than many petals.
just a few weeks.

Putting on a show Flowers with a face Wild roses have
Like many garden plants, these polyanthuses Wild and garden pansies just five petals.
are hybrids. This means that their wild both have flat flowers that
ancestors were not polyanthuses look like faces. If you look
at all, but different plants. The closely, you’ll see that
wild primrose is just one the face is made up of five
of the polyanthus’s petals. The garden pansy
distant ancestors. has bigger petals that overlap.

Wild poppy
Garden poppy

Sowing themselves
Wild poppies live all over
the world, from the Arctic
to the tropics. Garden
poppies are easy to grow,
and new plants often
Look for wild spring up year after year.
primroses growing in
shady hedgerows and at
the edge of woodlands.
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