The morning-glory is a clambering plant, native of South America, with beautiful and fragile multicolor funnel-shaped flowers. These flowers always bloom at morning time, there comes their name. Also morning glory flowers have the capacity to self protect against the hot sunbeams. Continue Reading »
The bonsai tree pruning is for styling and shaping it, up keeping the shape, breaking an unpleasant and wrong growth bonsai branch, or favoring the buds apparition.
Shaping the bonsai tree
One of the pruning operations and the main one when you decide to shape the bonsai tree is that which is consisting in removing the branches for making a design. Don’t forget about the triangle style when you begin to cut and also keep in mind a design schedule that is for following every spring. Continue Reading »
Bonsai pruning is one of the most important things in bonsai care. By doing the pruning you’ll give to the bonsai tree the shape that you want, you can shorten it and get the bonsai tree stem thickening too. Continue Reading »
Make an arrangement from some aromatic flowering plants, which is a decoration as well as a therapeutic remedy for your mind and spirit. It’s a scent mixture that is increasing your good humor. The floral arrangement is made by Myrtle, scented geranium, Marjoram, Rosemary and Dianthus.
Buy from a flower shop a plastic flower pot and a pendent wrought iron flower pot support with lateral holes or perforated model. The flower container has to be smaller than the iron support, so that the pendent plants will outspread their stems through the holes and also overhang the support. Continue Reading »
You can catch the passerby’s eyes with this original idea. Imagine a clod of flowers just in the centre of your home garden, which is in a rustic style. Complete the natural and rural ambient by using a metallic or wooden wheelbarrow in stead of the common pot or flower box or container.
Perforate the wheelbarrow base and also wallpaper it inside using the plastic foil which is keeping the soil in. Then put in a pebbles and sand coating for an optimum drainage and just above a king of natural penetrable mattress. Only after this procedure you’re allowed to add the soil which has to be appropriate to the needs and growing conditions of the flowers and plants that you want to plant in. Continue Reading »
We are recommending you to garnish your shady places of your home garden with Hydrangea, a flowering summer plant, very alike lilac for spring season. Hydrangea macrophylla is the most widely grown species for its large flower heads.
Description
Hydrangea genus includes 70-75 species of flowering plants native of North and South America, especially of southern and eastern Asia. Continue Reading »
Description
Ginseng is a perennial plant, from genus Panax and family Araliaceae, native of Eastern Asia, Siberia and North America. Ginseng root has a forked shape, very alike a man foot, thus the etymology of the term.
There is more than one type of Ginseng (American Ginseng, Chinese Ginseng, Siberian Ginseng etc.) and each Ginseng species has its particularities. Not all of them are medically efficient.
By Traditional Korean/Chinese Medicine, Panax Ginseng (Asian Ginseng) promotes Yang energy, improves circulation, increase blood supply, revitalizes and aids recovery from weakness after illness, stimulates the body. There are two types of Panax Ginseng: white ginseng and red ginseng. Continue Reading »
This is a beautiful and fresh floral arrangement in ikebana style.
Freesias are sympathy flowers, fragile, perfumed, elegant and pure, especially white freesias. We chose to use freesias for what we’ve just said and for their shape and simplicity of stem, without many leaves. Continue Reading »
Ikebana – meanings and characteristics
First of all, ikebana is an art, the Japanese art of making floral arrangements. Ikebana means “making the flower live in water” and also “revitalizing the plants” and the entire nature, changing the only decorating aspect of the floral arrangements. What’s more important than the esthetic line is carrying into effect philosophical and abstract ideas of life and nature as the divine creation. Each ikebana flower arrangement is a specific world, a point of nature just by means of naturalness, simplicity and purity. It’s the harmony of vases, stems, leaves, branches and flowers. One single branch arranged in a specific ikebana container could be a Japanese floral arrangement. In this art are preferred the buds in stead of full-blown flowers, the winding stems in stead of right ones, asymmetry for symmetry, quality for quantity of flowers. Continue Reading »
June 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the South Carolina Festival of Flowers held annually in Greenwood, S.C. The Festival’s Steering Committee, Event Chairmen and countless volunteers are working hard planning for the program of events occurring the month of June.
Park Seed Company, famous for its Trial Gardens, will be open to the public and featured along with a number of private home garden tours during this year’s main festival weekend, June 22-24. Continue Reading »
On the southeastern coast of Sicily, the scenic city of Noto holds a unique festival at the end of May called the Infiorata. Artists work with a special organic soil to outline a scene on the sidewalk which is filled in with specially prepared flower petals, along with other organic seeds and dried legumes. The process is much like making a stained glass window, with the leading being the small earthen dam and the glass represented by the flowers. [read more]
Source: goeurope.about.com
The Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden is an eight-acre public garden, built between 1997 and 2001 as a project of Stephen F. Austin State University and the SFA Mast Arboretum. It is also an example of public/private cooperation to develop a garden for future generations. Private donors, the City of Nacogdoches, area nurserymen, volunteers, and the Azalea Society of America also joined in the effort to make the garden you see today. Each year the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden is featured during Nacogdoches Azalea Trail events and tours each March and April.The garden design was a joint effort of Dr. David Creech and faculty members of SFA Horticulture and Barbara Stump (M.S. Agriculture, SFA, 2001).
Situated in a 50-year-old Loblolly Pine forest, the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden is a delightful and restful azalea garden, which showcases collections of other new plants being introduced by growers in Texas and across the South. The sandy loam soil of the LaNana Creek floodplain makes this a prime location for display gardens of plants that thrive in acid soils: [read more]
Source: www.azalea.sfasu.edu
Dear Azalea is a flowering shrub, part of genus Rhodendron, family Ericaceae, native of the regions of China, Japan, even SUA, with mild winters and moderate summers.
Many people are purchasing red Azalea or any living color to turn it into Azalea bonsai and decorate the house with. Continue Reading »
If you’re looking for the perfect nosegay to carry on your wedding day, gather a bouquet of ideas from the floral finery held in the hands of top celebrities from yesterday and today.Taking hold of her father’s arm, “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston clutched a bouquet comprised of pale Dutch Vendela roses accented with sprigs of green hydrangea as she walked down the aisle toward Brad Pitt. In all, the Hollywood couple was surrounded by 50,000 blossoms on their wedding day, the arrangements created by L.A. Premiere Flowers. [ read more ]
Source: www.lovetripper.com
Many people are considering bonsai simply as a tree, but it’s not. Bonsai is a peace of Japanese art, the recreation of nature in a miniature style, a secret wish to exalt the nature and also to bring the nature into the living space, just accomplishing the outside growing conditions.
You can have your own bonsai, but you have to love it and put your entire feelings in caring it, because you have to know that bonsai is a pretentious and very spoilt tree.
Not all the plants can become bonsai, but the trees, shrubs or bush plants. It’s not so easy to make a bonsai, especially to care, but you can live with that because it is longeval (can live for few hundreds years) and a real natural inheritance. Here are some steps for you to fallow for a best bonsai tree care. Continue Reading »