Give your valentine the jewels of the garden, the popular pentas shrub (Pentas lanceolata). These treasures can be admired year after year. The Greek words mean five petals and spear shaped. The leaves are shaped like a lance or spear. This is a bedding plant that comes with flowers the colors of expensive jewels: amethyst, lavender, ruby red, pink tourmaline and white diamonds surrounded by emerald green foliage. The flowers are grouped in clusters of tiny five petaled blooms. A group of little blooms make a 2- to 4-inch-wide cluster. I like this bloom because it reminds me that although each of us is a separate flower, we are all still connected and thrive by being together.