Water lily garden

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 25-06-2007

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water lily garden

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Roses – the garden treasure

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden, Roses | Posted on 20-06-2007

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rose garden

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. Read the rest of this entry »

The nobility of the Lily garden

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 11-06-2007

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lily garden

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. Read the rest of this entry »

The field of dream

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 08-06-2007

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wild field of love

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Wild flower field into your home garden

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 07-06-2007

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wild flower garden

Wild flowers and shrubs are those which are giving to your home garden a special charm and a natural, living and flaming view. Don’t be afraid to plant wild flowers into your garden, some of them matches very well to the cultivated flowers. Others love the sun or the shady corners or the stony garden.
Wild flowers are proper to many types of home gardens, adapting to the worse weather conditions. Wild flowers and shrub are not very pretentious, they love the unprepared soil, the sun, but there are species which have different needs of water, sun or soil. Read the rest of this entry »

My lawn garden

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 06-06-2007

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lawn garden

First of all, the lawn is a green area, a relaxing land and also an environmental valuable support, a region planted with grass or other greenery and evergreen plants.

When is the most proper time to sow the lawn?
The optimum weather is since the end of April till the beginning of September, when the air and soil temperature are proper for the grass to germinate and grow well. Read the rest of this entry »

Green relaxing architectural garden

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 05-06-2007

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green hedge

Make a resting green place from your home garden, surrounded by hedge and greenery.
If you want a place just for you, far from the curious eyes, and a natural beauty and a green simplicity, build your shady corner in the home garden.

You can choose evergreen plants as cypress or yew, or biennial green plants. Those evergreen hedges are protecting you during winter, but they aren’t beautiful as these which are loosing their leaves. An interesting and special hedge is of hornbeam, also of red beech or maple. They are good-looking in spring, in budding period, and have a nice color in autumn. Read the rest of this entry »

Summer red flowers explosion

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Posted by admin | Posted in Bouquets and flower arrangements, My home garden | Posted on 01-06-2007

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red flowers garden

Red is the complementary color of green, so bright red flower and green in the same pot is a chance to impress the most severe onlooker. The red flowers are, as we said before, stimulating the human system, increasing passion, love and vitality. Of course that matter also the flower arrangement and disposition and the container type.
Don’t be afraid to be original and let your imagination to fly. We want just to give you the proof that you can make surprising flower arrangements all by yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Morning glory arbor

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 31-05-2007

morning glory arbor

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. Read the rest of this entry »

An aromatic flower arrangement for your resting time

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 29-05-2007

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Rosmarinus officinalis

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. Read the rest of this entry »

A wheelbarrow full of flowers

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Posted by admin | Posted in Bouquets and flower arrangements, My home garden | Posted on 28-05-2007

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flower wheelbarrow

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Hydrangea for low light gardens

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Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 25-05-2007

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hydrangea flower

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. Read the rest of this entry »