Because we have spoken about Ivy medicinal effects, we want you to know about the effect on breast and skin breast too.
For natural and fresh breast, never orange-peel breast skin, use the combined Ivy infusion in cool compresses.
Introduce 2-3 handfuls of dried Ivy leaves in ½ l water and let it to macerate for a few hours. Then filter and put apart the extract, using just the remaining plant. The already used Ivy leaves have to be put in 1 l water and boiled, at spunk, for 3 hours, in a caped vase. Then cool and also filter it. Mix the first extract with the boiled solution and you’ll obtain a natural treatment for skin breast. Can keep it at the fridge and expires in 3 days.Cover your breast with cool compresses of Ivy combined infusion and for 30-60 minutes. Repeat the treatment at 2 days, during 3 weeks at least.
Cellulite, orange-peel skin or cottage cheese, is unattractive part of the body, the particular part that most women hate. There are several anti cellulite methods, but we want to point out that no treatment is working without massage, exercises and diet. So, learn to do well and healthy.
Ivy (Hedera helix) is a climbing evergreen woody plant with palmately lobed juvenile leaves, being able to climb to at least 25-30 m on trees or rock or hand made wooden or any material surfaces. Ivy stems and leaves are used in making the bouquets and flower arrangements for its evergreen foliage. The specialists appreciate Hedera helix also as useful and medicinal plant, because of its influence in removing the cellulite. Continue Reading »
For a Christmas blooming of your Amaryllis plant, follow through these steps:
• After the flowering period, cut the floral stems, keeping the leaves living by watering the soil (the soil has to be always moist).
• Stop fertilizing it since August. Continue Reading »
You’ll need one mature bulb (having some roots) and a pot so bigger than the bulb, so that remains about 5 cm between it and the borders of the pot, purchased sandy-loam soil mix (or homemade soil mix: one part leaf mold, one part coarse sand and one part loam) and a stick as a pylon for the floral stem. Continue Reading »
Amaryllis is a flowering plant native of South Africa, pretty, elegant and interesting. Amaryllis is one single species flower, also known as The Belladonna Lily or naked ladies, because of its tall stems and precious flowers, very alike lily.
Description
Amaryllis is a bulbous plant with green leaves, arranged in two rows, and funnel-shaped flowers, with varied colors from white to intense red, even parti-colored flowers. As a peculiarity, Amaryllis flower stems are already growth when the leaves are just appearing. The plant generally flowers in minimum 7 weeks for being planted in pots indoors. Continue Reading »
Pelargonium is a widespread flowering plant, native to Southern Africa, cultivated as houseplant (as a natural decoration of the apartments, houses, verandas as well as gardens and terraces, during summer).
Description
Pelargonium, commonly known as geranium, is a genus of 200 species of perennial, succulent and shrub flowering plants. Pelargonium leaves are palmately lobed or pinnate, light or dark green colored, and the flowers have a different shave for different species, ranging star-shaped to funnel-shaped, with several colors, from white to orange and deep purple.
One of the most cultivated species is Pelargonium zonale (Pelargonium hortorum) because of its variety of colors. Continue Reading »
The Juniper is a coniferous evergreen plant, varying in shape and size from columnar or low spreading shrubs, with long trailing branches, to tall trees (20-40 m tall). The most used part of the Juniper is the berry-like cones and they take two years to mature. What’s more important, the Juniper berries (Juniperus communis) are useful natural elements (as a spice) and also real help in the traditional fight against the water retention. Continue Reading »
The nature is not canceling to surprise us with its deep secrets. There are over 100 plants in the European flora with caring and remedial effects on the face skin.One of these is the Wild pansy (Viola Tricolor), a plant with fragile little flower, yellow-violet colored. Viola Tricolor is a very efficient plant, treating the majority problems of your face skin because of its antitoxic therapeutic activity. The specialists especially recommend it to the persons who’re dealing with greasy, acne, easy irritable skin, having an allergic sensibility or premature signs of aging.
The cosmetic treatment with Wild pansy consists of a combined infusion. You have to macerate 3-4 plant spoons in ½ l of water for 8-10 hours then filter. Keep apart the extract and boil the already used plant in another ½ l of water for 5 minutes then filter this one and let it cool. Finally mix it with the wild pansy tea prepared before. Thus you’ll obtain about one l of Viola Tricolor combined infusion which has to be drunk during a day. The treatment lasts minimum 30 days. Continue Reading »
There are some particular methods of preserving flowers, buds or leaves: drying, pressing and preserving with glycerin.The flowers drying process consist of eliminate the water from all the flower or plant cells.
• So you can naturally dry the full-blown flowers, leaves or buds, by making small bouquets (from 3-5 stems, because the many they are, the higher risk of mould) which have to be tied with the head downwards on a pendent wire. The secrets is to put the flowers to dry in a shady, but well ventilated space, with a 20-30 degrees temperature, which accelerates the drying, so that the flowers will maintain better the original color. The stems of the dried flowers become usually fragile and could change their shape. To avoid that, you can stick in the stem thin wire.
This procedure lasts 3-4 weeks. Continue Reading »
The green tea is from China, but has recently become widespread all over the world, actually the most used drink, recognized by its natural effects on the human spirit.
Description
The plant of which leaves and buds we make the famous green tea is called Camellia sinensis (“sinensis” means “Chinese” in Latin) or Thea sinensis (the older name), an evergreen shrub or a small tree that is usually trimmed to below 2 m when cultivated for its leaves. It grows at 4000 m altitude in Himalaya. The Camellia sinensis flowers are yellow-white, 3-4 cm in diameter and with 7-8 petals. Continue Reading »
You can make a natural mask all by yourself, using sunflower seeds.
Ingredients: you’ll need one handful of peeled sunflower seeds, one honey spoon and one spoon of coldly pressed plants oil.
Preparation method: grind the sunflower seeds. Melt the honey in a bowl with a little warm water and add the plants oil and the acquired seeds powder and mix them till you’ll obtain a paste that can be easily extended on your face skin. Continue Reading »
You have to take care of your pot flowers and plants in spring. There are some practices for you to follow in this period.
• Spring cut. It consists of chopping from the insertion point the small branches or springs of which position or vigor you don’t like. This is a procedure for shrub plants as Hibiscus, Ficus, Dracaena, Codiaeum, Yucca etc. Continue Reading »
The Moon is a very important factor in the natural process of growing flowers and plants. There is a reference calendar for sowing and particular ages of vegetation process. Continue Reading »
Did you know that …
• When you have to leave your loving pot flowers for a long time, you have 2 possibilities to keep them living. Firstly, put exactly near the pot a bottle full of water. Introduce a flexible tube in the bottle and the end of it in the soil pot, at 2-3 cm depth. Thus the water will slowly pass through the tube, letting the flower to be always well hydrated. Secondly, fill a bottle with water and stick it directly in the soil pot with the mouth downwards. Thus the water will slowly flow. Continue Reading »
The aphis is one of the most pernicious for the plants. You can get rid of it if follow our steps. You’ll need 2 packets of cigarette without filter and 1/2 l of water. Put only the tobacco in water, let it to macerate for a couple of days then percolate it. Put 10-15 drops of this solution on the plant’s base then water it without touching the flowers or leaves. Repeat the practice after 2-3 days. If the aphis is still there, you have to change the soil, clean the pot and then to treat again the plant.
