These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...
The pollen-producing system of a male flower is known as the stamen. For pollination to occur, the pollen needs to be moved ...
In fact, each flower features a fifth stamen that serves as a perch for your garden's bee and butterfly friends to rest on ...
Posey: Have you been sniffing the flowers? Ivy: Well, obviously, they smell beautiful. Posey: Well, you've rubbed all the pollen off from the stamen onto your nose. Ivy: The petals don't rub off ...
We discover the different parts of a flower, the stigma, the anther, the stamen and the petals and how some flowers go to sleep at night and open in the day!
The flowers of white mountain heather have a red base and reddish stamen, and the stems are covered in scale-like leaves. White mountain heather is a shrub that grows best at high altitudes.
Before the pumpkin itself, the plant bears flowers. Male flowers have a stamen with pollen on it and others have a small bulge — the beginnings of a pumpkin, the analog of an egg — under a ...
Outside, we're sowing flowers for next year, and winter vegetables for this year. Inside, get your hydroponic starts growing ...
"It's such a striking plant with it's interesting flower structure having distinctive star petals with green veins and then a pink coloured nose cone in the centre and yellow stamen." This time of ...
remove an open male flower and pull off its petals, leaving only the pollen-covered yellow stamen on the stem. Dab that pollen onto the center of each open female flower to pollinate it.
The color you might be seeing in gardens this late summer may be from the beloved salvia. It adds so much to our viewing ...