Aloe
Aloe is a popular plant, especially known for its curing qualities and extraordinary therapeutic effects, being used medicinally rather than culinary. It’s a fact that Aloe is a real natural remedy.
Aloe is part of Lilaceae/Aloeaceae Family, of which height is from 10 to 100 centimeters. It’s native to subtropical, hot and droughty areas. There are numerous species, maybe more than 300 of Aloe around the world. We believe that the most famous is Aloe Vera, having also a great nutritional value. This is the type of Aloe which is used in most commercial products with aloe content available today. They have in common the thick leaves, covered by a waxy coating, which is avoiding the water to be eliminated through.
Aloe Growing
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Anual Vinca With heat, drought and poor soil tolerance, annual vinca (latin: Catharanthus roseus), also known as Madagascar periwinkle, is a very popular annual in South Carolina and not only.
HEIGHT/SPREAD
The plants grow 1 or 2 feet high and about the same in width. There are new spreading types that are wider and lower.
Most vinca have a dense, rounded form and is a wonderfull plant for you garden.
GROWTH RATE
Vinca is grown as an annual. It will often return in following summers from self-sown seed. Annual vinca is not the same as the perennial periwinkles (Vinca minor or V. major) that are grown as groundcovers.
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It’s Christmas time! For a successful fete, you need to open your mind, to relax and be happy! You can also transform your Christmas tree and arrangements in some real peaces of art! This will rejoice your quests. Here come some advices for you to assort a Feng shui style to the Christmas celebration.
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The Christmas tree has become one of the most beloved Christmas symbols, it’s a reason for children to be happy, for the family to join and to enjoy. The tree decoration is a ritual for the Christmas Eve. It’s then when comes Santa Clouse, offering gifts and happiness to the quiet and wise children. He uses to say: “Behave yourself!”.
We have some advices for you to decorate the perfect Christmas tree:
First, it’s not indicated to use too many colors of the tree decorations. It will be perfect to limit on tow colors: red and golden, for an warm and intimate atmosphere, white and blue in a ceremonious air, white and golden or silver combination color is to complete a simple and discreet Christmas design. We recommend you to decorate the Christmas tree with contrasting colors, to distinguish your design.
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Christmas tree
A Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions in the world associated with the celebration of Christmas. It is normally an evergreenconiferous tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, and is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful ornaments during the days around Christmas.
Traditionally, Christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until Christmas Eve (24 December), and then removed the day after twelfth night (6 January); to have a tree up before or after these dates was even considered bad luck and even a sin. Modern commercialisation of Christmas has however resulted in trees being put up much earlier; in shops often as early as late October. A common tradition in U.S. homes is to put the tree up right after Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November) and to take it down right after the New Year.
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Poinsettias
This flower is one of the most used present in Christmas Eve.
The length of time your poinsettia will give you pleasure in your home is dependent on the maturity of the plant, when you buy it, and how you treat the plant. With care, poinsettias should retain their beauty for weeks and some varieties will stay attractive for months. But you have to now first that is a beautifull flower for not a long time.
After you have made your poinsettia selection, make sure it is wrapped properly because exposure to low temperatures even for a few minutes can damage the bracts and leaves. The leafs are very fragile.
Unwrap your poinsettia carefully and place in indirect light. Six hours of light daily is ideal. Keep the plant from touching cold windows.
Keep poinsettias away from warm or cold drafts from radiators, air registers or open doors and windows.
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The Christmas flowers and arrangements have got a special connecting role to the Christmas celebration. The flowers allays say something, especially Christmas flowers which say the most touching greetings, sending off warm feelings, fondness, love and generosity, because Christmas means gifts, luminosity, embraces, peace and a new beginning.
There are many types of Christmas arrangement: Christmas tree, Christmas table arrangement, Christmas coronet for entrance, doors or tables, Christmas candles arrangement, Christmas arch, candle natural holder etc.
You can buy some special arrangements from the flower shops or you can make them by yourself. It’s a special moment, it’s not difficult and we guarantee that you’ll love it. This would be a reason to join the family and to give a beautiful activity to your children.
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The doorway and the shop window are the strongest points for a business, especially for a
flower shop. The doorway includes the exterior wall, the doors and the outdoor advertising elements. People has to admire and hold back the doorway, it has to inspire them hospitability and quality. Thus a looker can become a visitor and maybe a client. On the sign board you have to write “
FLOWER SHOP” and the name of course, that has to be short, in evidence, noticeable and easy to hold back.
Put the coming door behind the shop window, so this one can take the entire image.
The shop window is a must, letting the light to come in and its arrangement is very important for the visitors to enjoy and want the same decoration at their places too. A beautiful shop window reflects the neatness, subtlety, imagination, professionalism of the florist.
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The flower combination bouquet is on top, even it’s most difficult to make, because the florist needs knowledge about color, proportion, contrast.
It’s a round bouquet made with 5 orange flame or Prima Donna roses, 1 gypsophila, 4 green santinis, 3 aspidistra leafs.
Steps for you to make it:
* Bring those flowers close to you
* Keep them into water and, while are you using them, maintain the flower up, thus the hydration process will deploy.
* Is easier for you to make the bouquet in the left hand and with the right one to add the flowers one of another.
* First you’ll take the biggest and with right stem rose and put it in centre.
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A flower shop is the perfect place for flower and flower arrangement marketing and those who work here – florists, flower artisans or flower designers – can offer you qualified and useful pieces about flowers and carrying them.
To choose the best place for your expectant flower shop business, we give some advices for you to follow, if want to.
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Cannas are easily grown tender perennials with architectural foliage and brash flowers that inject a dash of exotica. They can be grown in shape and colour to the end of the summer season.
The most popular kinds of canna tend to have gladiolus-like flowers perched high above the large, paddle-like leaves. In addition to those listed below, keep an eye out for new hybrids that keep coming on the market. Cannas generally grow 1.5m to 2m (5ft to 6ft) high, with a spread of nearly 60cm (2ft).
Water cannas
These can be grown as marginal aquatics in plastic baskets around the edges of a pond. In the west of England they often survive in ponds all year, but in colder parts of Britain they need to be removed in winter and protected from frost, as with border cannas.
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Rose
The roses are charming, but very sophisticated and pretentious flowers too. There are some tricks to prolong the rose’s life:
· It would be good, if it’s any possibility, to be conserved in a cold place, even the fridge, but not near the other products, for a few hours, after bought them.
Cut the stem at a very sharp angle under the water and than let the water to flow over the stems for 3 minutes.
Soften the base of the stem into mint oil before put in the vase.
· Add some lemon drops into flower’s water or a little salt.
· Introduce the roses till flower in a tall and full of water vase than leave them in a dark cold place even for 24 hours.
· For bacteria to be destroyed, add a drop of disinfecting substance in flowers water.
· The roses need to stay in tall vases, filled with warm water.
· You have to change the water daily.
Tulip
The tulip’s availability, as a cut flower, is from 8 to 10 days. The tulip doesn’t bear the water privation and the warmth. For a better hydration, you need to cut the white base of the stem under the water and put it in a cold, without draught space, into cold and fresh water. To maintain the water’s freshness and the flower’s natural colors, attach some small branches of Tuia. You can also put a metal coin. To avoid the tulip’s declension, you have to fill the vase with water or to wrap the flower into a paper, because the stem will turn towards the light.
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With the wide range of colours available, tulips are often useful for formal displays in public places. They make a real impact when planted in large numbers. Densely planted, single colour displays intensify the effect of the colour and shape of the flowers, although they can also be effective when planted in smaller groups and work well in containers. And, beloved of florists, tulips make a wonderful display when used as cut flowers.
Tulips are one of the bulbs that we automatically associate with spring. The recognisable flower shape and often intense colouring provide a vibrant display. They are a loud, proud reminder that winter is over.
Mid spring flowering
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Irises are named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow and grow wild throughout the northern hemisphere, from high Himalayan bogs to arid Greek hillsides and the banks of British canals.
Iris
Recommended varieties
Irises are incredibly useful upright perennials that can be grown in many different areas. Chose well and you’ll have irises in flower for six months, from November to June. You’ll also get a wide colour range from rich blues to flashy yellows and extraordinary combinations such as butterscotch yellow and violet. Many also have beautiful, intricate patterns.
Botanists divide irises into two key groups: the rhizomatous, which have rhizomes on or just beneath the soil, and those that grow from bulbs. The first group divides into two further sections, the beardless and bearded (with a distinctive little beard in the flower centre), all of which can get very confusing. The best way to decide which ones you want to grow is to visit specialist nurseries and check their colours and growing conditions.
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Roses are probably the most misunderstood and undervalued plants in the modern landscape. Most people seem to believe that all garden roses are troublesome, frail plants that need to be pampered and fussed over with weekly sprays and frequent fertilizing.
There are many different types:
Hybrid Teas: This is the flower that everyone pictures when we think about what a rose should look like. The classic spiral centre and individual long stem make this the most popular of the rose classes. The modern hybrid tea can be an excellent garden plant, as breeders are concentrating on improving disease resistance and overall garden performance. Many people believe that fragrance has been bred out of the modern rose, but there are many excellent tea roses with strong perfumes and more being introduced each year. Rose breeders realize that people still want fragrance in their gardens. Hybrid Teas are great for the formal garden, but should not be limited to this use. If you don’t want be bothered with fussing about roses, be sure to seek the advice of an experienced rose grower who can advise you on the healthy and hardy varieties for your climate.
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