17 Ornamental Plants for Your Garden

Like those beautiful flowers, ornamental plants can make your garden more enchanted. Ornamental plants are always improved each year. The plants that grow in the wild are planted as the collections for the garden. Here are the lists of ornamental plants for your garden.

1. Tamarind

ornamental plants – Tamarind Tree

This tree usually planted on the sidewalk. Tamarind has strong stem and generally used as bonsai also. This African tropic plant begins to be famous as a decoration plants. Tamarind can grow up to 50 feet. It has small brown acidic fruit. This tree can be planted beside your wall or pond.

2. Japanese Bamboo

ornamental plants – Bamboo Tree

Japanese Bamboo is categorized as Gramineae family. This plant is originated from Japan and China. They can grow up to 20 feet.  This thick bamboo usually planted beside the wall. This bamboo can be used as natural fence. They can be planted between the rocks formation on your garden.

3. Dragon Tree

ornamental plants – Dragon Tree

Dragon Tree is a sub tropic plants originated from the Canary Island. Dragon tree or Dracaena draco can grow up to 40 feet. It has thick leaves with the smooth surfaces colored in green. The Dragon Tree is the perfect choice to be planted in your garden corner. It can be used as the central plant by adding a variety of bedding plants.

4. Banyan Tree

ornamental plants – Banyan

This tree can be located in most of tropic nations. This tree can grow enormously huge up to 16 feet. Banyan leaves are colored in dark green and oval shaped. They can produce their roots that hanging in the air. Banyan tree can grow in a dry soil, good drainage and sufficient sunlight. Banyan tree usually planted to get an artistic effect and they can be a good decoration plant for Japanese style garden.

5. Rubber Banyan Tree

ornamental plants – Rubber Banyan

This banyan species has a big stem and it can grow taller. Rubber Banyan Tree or Ficus retuca originated from the subtropical area in the Southern part of China. This plant is suitable for Japanese style garden and usually planted as the main tree with the small plants accent around it.

6. Yellow Bamboo

ornamental plants – Yellow Bamboo

This yellow colored bamboo is originated from China and Japan. They can grow up to 18 feet and the diameter is 8 cm. It has dark green leaves. Yellow Bamboo or Phyllostachys sulphurea has curvy leaves structures combined with golden yellow stem. This beautiful bamboo is suitable to be planted in group. Your fish pond will get extra natural scenery with this plant.

7. White Cedar

ornamental plants – cedar

This tree shaped like a pyramid and they can grow up to 40 feet. White cedar’s leaves are dark green and yellow on the tip of the leaves. The stem is reddish-brown. White cedar or Thuja occidentalis can be planted on the sideline along your fence. This plant will give a strong effect for giving directions before we enter the garden.

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ornamental plants – Mediterranean Cypress