Learn about the Maintenance of Bonsai Trees. This video is for the beginners but can be a good material even for the advanced.
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Annual flowers complete their life cycle —vegetative plant, bloom, setting seed, to death of the plant — in one growing season. Most annuals need to be replanted each year, but others easily re-sow themselves. Their seed is scattered by wind, weather and wildlife, to pop up the next season when conditions are favorable. These unexpected visitors are called “volunteers” and can be a delight or a source of frustration, depending on your outlook and how rigidly you follow the garden’s original design! Larkspur, cornflower, poppies, desert marigold, calendula, scarlet flax, gaillardia and Johnnyjump - ups are a few flowers that are easy to grow and readily reseed.
There are many types of beautiful flowers that can be grown in the low desert. Use this chart to plan for year round color and interest in your yard. Select plants that will do well in our climate and meet your individual needs. Plants are listed in alphabetical order by their common name. Some plants with more than one common name are listed under each common name. The common name is followed by a letter designating whether the plant is annual (A), biennial (B), or perennial (P) here in the low desert, and then the botanical name for the plant. More about Flower Planting Guide next week.
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Learn the maintenance of Bonsai Trees. Enjoy
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Toshka is a new spray Chrysanthemum that would not look out of place in a trendy florist shop, due to its fashionable colour combination of an apple green centre and contrasting ray florets. read more | source: www.flowercouncil.org
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Ton Verzijl has been running his own flower shop in Holland for a quarter of a century. During this time, he has also been traveling the world training florists and shop personnel. Through the years, he has visited hundreds of wholesalers. With each visit, he sees something that could be done better.
Just as a flower shop tries to entice consumers to buy their products, wholesalers should do the same thing with the florists. In his training, Ton therefore deals with the four “Ps” from the marketing mix – product, price, place and promotion.
Incognito
When he wants to show a wholesaler what his business looks like to others, Ton first visits him incognito as an ordinary customer. This way, he can take a leisurely look at the product presentations and how the wholesaler receives his visitors and talks to customers. “If I arrive in the afternoon for a training session, I see some people looking a bit flustered. “Shoot, you are the trainer,” they call out in despair.” Verzijl says with a hearty laugh. Making people aware that they can do their work better is the first step to actual improvement.
read more | Source: www.flowercouncil.org
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The Los Angeles Flower District is the Los Angeles area’s premiere flower market resource for flower growers, shippers, suppliers, floral wholesalers, distributors, floral designers, event planners and retail florists in the floriculture and horticulture industries. Just a stone’s throw away from downtown Los Angeles, the Flower District and its flower markets and members are convenient to major freeways and only minutes from major cities and commercial centers, facilitating the flow of floral products from field to consumer. read more
Source: www.laflowerdistrict.com
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Learn how to plant Bonsai Trees in this series of Bonsai Trees. Every week Flowers Growing Blog will post new video’s about Bonsai growing. Enjoy.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Some new treats are available for the holidays, but don’t look for them in the candy aisle or bakery — try the florist instead.
These indulgences are eye candy, with names like Christmas Cookie, Santa Claus Candy, Peppermint, Champagne and Plum Pudding. The food-themed names belong to several new varieties of poinsettia developed this year.
University of Florida environmental horticulturist James Barrett said companies in California and Germany that developed the roughly two dozen new strains of poinsettias for this year are responsible for naming the new varieties.
“All the Christmas names related to food are fairly interesting and new for poinsettias because we haven’t had those types of names before,” said Barrett, a professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. [ read more ]
Source: http://news.ufl.edu
History and Legend The Aztecs called poinsettias “Cuetlaxochitl.” During the 14th - 16th century the sap was used to control fevers and the bracts (modified leaves) were used to make a reddish dye.
Montezuma, the last of the Aztec kings, would have poinsettias brought into what now is Mexico City by caravans because poinsettias could not be grown in the high altitude. Continue Reading »
Around 120 million years ago, when the dinosaurs ruled the land, much of the world was covered by primordial forest, and plant life was rapidly becoming diverse, flowering plants were evolving and one of the first of these was the orchid.
As the world underwent many changes species of both plant and animal life died out or were replaced, but the orchid family expanded, populating every corner of the world except Antarctica, living on trees, rocks, in the ground or under it, tropical rainforest or lush grassland, high mountain or bog, they thrived, nothing seems capable of upsetting their evolutionary process , indeed it is generally accepted that in the world today, there are around 35,000 different species of orchid in existence; many myths abound concerning them, the most common of which is that they are parasitical plants, this is not so, orchids grow on trees - true, but they do not feed from them, they use the host merely as somewhere to be.
A truly blue rose has been the Holy Grail of rose breeders since 1840, when the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium offered a prize of 500,000 francs to the first person to produce a blue rose.
Molecular geneticists with Florigene and Suntory achieved the prize that had long eluded conventional rose breeders by combining something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. [ read more ]
Source: www.biologynews.net
Whether you’re a budding native flower grower or your flower business is in full bloom, there will be something for you at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Native Floriculture (CNF) Open Day.
The Open Day, to be held at UQ Gatton campus on August 20, will give commercial native flower growers an inside view of the latest research being conducted by the CNF on native plants - including plant breeding, plant production and postproduction issues. [ read more ]
Source: www.uq.edu.au
The sixth China International Garden & Flower Exposition will open on the Zhongzhou Island of Jimei, Xiamen from September 23, 2007 to March 2008. The sixth China International Garden & Flower Exposition will open on the Zhongzhou Island of Jimei, Xiamen from September 23, 2007 to March 2008.
Construction on the venue, the Xiamen International Garden & Flower Expo Park, is close to completion. With an area of 6.76 square kilometers, it is expected to become the world’s largest park on the sea. Altogether 24 cities from abroad and 44 Chinese cities will show their gardens and flowers. [ read more ]
Source: http://www.flowerweb.com
Did you know that the aromatic Lavender flower is also a remedy? What a pity it is less known than other medicinal and useful plants. We’re presenting you some of the most used lavender home made products.
Lavender powder plant
Grind the lavender plant till you’ll obtain a lavender powder then introduce it in a tight closed glass jar. Put the lavender powder jar in a cool dark place. Take one spoon of lavender powder thrice a day, by keeping it under the tongue for 10-15 minutes and then swallow with water. We want to warn you that the lavender powder is kind a bitter in spite of its sweet scent. That’s why it’s preferred the lavender tincture as a treatment. Continue Reading »