The white flowers are a reason to relax and enjoy your time in the home garden. The white means purity, innocence and satisfaction. The white flowers are gladding the eyes and soul. Especially when you’re a busy man and you got tired after a full week, the white garden is the perfect answer. If your only chance to admire the home garden is in the evening, we are suggesting you to choose to garnish the garden with white Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana affinis). In Romania, we like to call it the Queen of the night, because of its blooming in evening and also of its special calming effects scent.
Description
Coming from South America, Nicotiana Flowering Tobacco sweetens the hot summer air, without being such a decorating plant. The love and appreciation for Nicotiana affinis comes from the perfume that its flowers are spreading in the air. Flowering tobacco is a flowering shrub which can reach even 1 m in height. The flowering tobacco’s leaves are a kind of silky and the flowers seem like little trumpets very bright colored. There are white flowers as well as pink, purple, red, yellow, violet flowering tobacco’s flowers. Continue Reading »
The flowers are a part of our life, excite and make us happy and also the flowers give us a reason to show the purest and sincerest feelings. A flower will never be associated to the lie, hypocrisy and cheat. By itself, the flower can command respect and also bring to light the deepest emotions.
More often, the flowers are the messenger of love and passion and respect, making the eyes and especially the soul happy. Therefore maybe the wedding bouquet is one of the most important accessories for a bride to be. In the most special moment in a girl’s life, all has to be perfect as she always dreamed. And the wedding bouquet is for the bride, she is carrying it during all day long. That’s way she’s the one who chooses the flowers, her favorite flowers and her favorite colors. Because the flowers will complete the bride and put forward her feelings and her unique personality. Continue Reading »
Related to medicinal and useful plants, we want to present you the benefits of the White water lily (Nymphaea alba L.) and of the Yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
Both of water lily species above are perennial aquatic plants, growing in ponds or stagnant waters with 1.5-2 m deepness (if it’s about white water lily) or 3m, for yellow water lily. Water lilies are rooted in substratum and their flowers and leaves float on the water surface. Continue Reading »
If you have the possibility to turn a part of your home garden into a water garden, please do so. It’s like the heaven on earth. You’ll be surrounded by green, water, fresh air, by nature with all it means.
There are several floating and aquatic plants for you to dress with the water garden. Such plants are: Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), European frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae), Stratiotes aloides, Ceratophyllum demersum.
The water lily is a floating flowering plant too. Nymphaea, by its scientific name, the Water lily is the star of the water gardens and the representative plant and also the most known aquatic plant. Continue Reading »
Unique in its way, the botanical garden situated in Bucharest opened its gates in 1860 on the initiative of Doctor Carol Davila, near by the faculty of medicine.
Situated in the west part of the city, on the right bank of Dambovitza river the garden of 7 ha was arranged by Ulrich Hoffman - the botanist that later on, would also become the first director of the institution. Six years later the leadership of the botanical garden was taken by the well known botanist Dimitrie Grecescu which developed the plants collections and increased the exchanges with the European gardens. Under his lead was published the first catalogue containing 3700 indoor and outdoor species of plants. In 1870 the development of the botanical garden was interrupted, the location serving now as a park for the royal family. In 1874 the botanical garden was moved in the center of the town, near Sutu Palace, close to the University. Continue Reading »
We love roses as if they would be a treasure for home gardens. The roses, either red roses, white roses or pink and yellow roses, are special flowers to decorate and beautify any common garden. You may think that the roses need special care to convert the garden in a splendor. So, are roses difficult to cultivate? Our answer is no. Roses need just a bit of your attention when planting and a little more when blooming, for help them to resist more. Continue Reading »
If you ask us, the roses have to be planted in autumn, not spring, because they have to remake their root water supply during winter.
But if you choose to plant the roses in spring, mulch them. Roses absolutely need to be covered with mulch (organic mulch) to keep high the humidity and moisture level, meaning to add over the roses roots system about 2-3 inches of mulch. This wet coating will protect the rose sprigs from drying and then dieing, by conserving the moisture and keeping down the soil temperature level. Continue Reading »
Let us share with you our love for elegance, simplicity, naturalness and tenderness. Lilies are a part of our preferences when it’s about flowers and classic flower arrangements.
Lilies are so sweet when put together, shaping a floral carpet, a beautiful floral design for your elegant-classic stylized terrace or lightened relaxing rooms.
Very important for the lily flower arrangement to be on top of your design elements is to choose the proper flower container. It has to be a quadratic clay pot with borders so that the lilies to be framed as they would be in a miniature garden. Continue Reading »
The Siam Tulip Festival of Chaiyaphum
The unique geographical landscape of Chaiyaphum Province in the northeast of Thailand gives rise to a range of natural attractions of exceptional beauty. Of these, the fields of pinkish-purple Siam Tulip, or “Dok Krachiao”, come in to full bloom in the early part of the rainy season from June to August.
Also commonly called ‘patumma’, ‘bua sawan’ (heaven lotus), or ‘bua bok’ (the land lotus), the Siam Tulip is a member of the ginger genera - Curcuma or Zingiberaceae.
The unusual form, bright colour and long-lasting quality of the Siam Tulip has made it an increasingly popular choice for floral decorations. It is in high demand and is currently being cultivated in the form of cuttings or ornamental plants for local consumption as well as for export overseas, predominantly to Japan and the Netherlands. read more
The task of making a bridal bouquet may be one of the most challenging jobs for a floral designer. In doing so, he/she has actually taken over the task, which was designated to the bridegroom in ancient times. Originally, on the wedding day, the bridegroom selected and picked flowers from the field, bundled them up and brought them to his bride to celebrate their “best day of life”. Without a doubt, the bride would be delighted with this special gift and carried the bouquet with her for the rest of the day.
Many bridal bouquets today are made without much regard to the origin of this custom. The gathering of flowers and the final composition of the bouquet are left to the florists. Unfortunately, there are occasions when the bouquet is a creation of wire and glue, rather than a bunch made up with spontaneous adoration and appreciation of fresh flowers. Continue Reading »
The custom of enhancing the wedding ceremony with flowers dates from ancient times, but the wide selection of bridal bouquets now available has only been a relatively recent development. The popularity of each has waxed and waned through the past few decades, each evolving special variations over time.
Bridal Bouquets Bouquets framed with large turkey feathers fashionable in the 1920’s, were the inspiriation for this contemporary bridesmaid’s posy. Continue Reading »
Description
Echinacea is a genus containing nine species of flowering plants, part of the Asteraceae family, all of them native of North America. The scientific Latin name of Echinacea is Echinacea purpurea and it’s the most used, but Echinacea has also common names, of which the often known is purple coneflower, but the flowering plant of Echinacea is also called simply coneflower or American coneflower.
Echinacea is a herbaceous, flowering plant, a tallish one, that often reach over 1 or even 2 m in height, with lanceolate to elliptic leaves and purple flowers of which heads are cone-shaped. Continue Reading »
The lily petals are useful for invigorating the face skin that looks tired and for removing the dark circles from under the eyes. The lily bulbs have a disinfectant effect, favoring the wound healing. Also the water obtained from the lily flowers, meaning lily flower essence, is a good natural remedy against the pink eye.
Lily’s flowers are the highlight of the gardening season, beautiful big flowers, elegant. Just imagine your lily home garden, it has to be special and full of color. The gardeners from all over the world just love lilies, because they dress the garden for gala and don’t need so much care. Continue Reading »
In the yesterday article “Wild flower field into your home garden”, we spoke about the species of wild flowers and their exigencies to light, sun and soil.
Today it’s about the wild field, a mix of wild flowers field, the field of dream just into your home garden. Just fill your garden with white, blue, yellow, violet, pink flowers. Your home garden will look like a wild field, an explosion of colors and tones.
As we said before, the wild flower’s needs are a few and can be neglected. These flowers are beautiful, delicate, bright colored, and, what’s special to wild flowers, their tolerance and their capacity to bloom in the worse growing conditions.
If you want a description in a few words, the wild flowers are fresh as a virgin and natural as a lady without make up. Continue Reading »