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  14 Unique Flowers for Your Garden There are many plants that boast floral beauty, but to qualify as having  unique flowers , a plant must go beyond the call of duty: Its blooms must be  unusual  in one way or another. In some cases, it will have bicolored flowers; in others, the blooms will be unusually large or oddly shaped.  Growing these plants  is a wonderful way to set yourself apart from your neighbors.   01 of 14 Bird of Paradise   Bird of paradise  isn't only bicolored, but also uniquely shaped. A tropical plant  indigenous  to South Africa,  Strelitzia reginae  grows in the jungle, where it can enjoy hot and humid conditions. It's perennial only in  USDA plant hardiness zones  9 to 11, so Northerners will have to grow it as an  annual . It becomes five feet tall in the wild and sports leaves like those on banana trees. Grow it in  full sun  to  parti...

  Claremont Flower Show still popular, but organisers hoping to attract a new generation of exhibitors   Josef Neuschwanger and Sister Frances McShane prepare their exhibits for the Claremont Spring Flower Show. Key points : The Claremont Flower Show has been running almost continuously since the end of World War II There are concerns about the future of flower shows, with exhibitors getting older and gardens getting smaller Hobart Horticultural Society president Andrea Gerrard says flower shows are a chance to share flowers with others When Josef Neuschwanger found himself looking after the garden owned by his then parents-in-law, he thought he had better learn a thing or two about camellias. "It had 160-odd camellias in it … I didn't know anything about them," Mr Neuschwanger said. It was the start of a love affair with the flowering shrubs. Mr Neuschwanger now has 173 camellias in his own garden, and has been a regular exhibitor at the Claremont Flower Sh...