Archive for the ‘Exotic Flowers’ Category
Lavender (Lavender Angustifolia)
• This is a small aromatic shrub whose life is around six years.
• Cut it pass as flowering and payable after the cut.
• Dries in bunches hanging upside down in a cool and ventilated. Once dry, they serve to put in cloth bags to put in closets or shoemakers.
• Make perfume boxes with flowers or pillows mixed with various herbs.
• The essence of lavender is used in colognes and perfumes.
• In plaster, together with the thyme and rosemary, relieves sprains. Use for tea.
• It is grown from cuttings. Short pieces of about 10 cm. semimaduros stems in summer.
THYME (Thymus Vulgaris)
• Shrubs up to 40 inches.
• You need sun, grow well in all soil types and withstands drought.
• Do not pay with nitrogen because it lowers your resistance to frost to be tenderer.
• Like many other aromatic plants, pruning after flowering last year.
• In the kitchen is essential in grilled and stewed meats, soups, pickles …
• You can enter oil sprigs fresh thyme to make oil. Read the rest of this entry »
Acanthocalycium
Cactus that comes from Argentina. Its trunk is spherical although in some species he becomes cylindrical during the growth.
It requires a sun position total, although it does not resist temperatures you cold in winter.
These cactus are very popular in the gardens and collections of cactus due to their spectacular flowering, with flowers that leave a fleecy tube floral and which they only permanence a day.
In the photo the floral tube with the flower on the verge of opening itself can be appreciated.
It is multiplied easily from the lateral piston rods that they appear united to the central trunk and that they can separate without difficulty.
Raphiolepis : Flowers Pure Harmonic
Raphiolepis umbellata is the scientific name of this species, which belongs to the Rosaceae family and is native to Japan. It is a shrub that reaches one or two meters in height during growth.
It has a compact crown, with persistent foliage and bright toothed leaves that may reach 6 inches in length. The flowering season is spring, and it delivers its primary attribute.
Gazania: Flowers in The Sun
Gazania splendens is the scientific name of this species from South Africa that belongs to the Asteraceae family. The leaves are fine and an interesting silvery green color.
The flowers are similar to those of the margarita, but larger. They have a variety of different colors and react to the sun opening in all its splendor. Therefore, sites should be placed in full light.
The Roses: The Most Popular Flowers
The rose is a shrub mainly characterized by its flowers, called roses and thorns covering its stem, family Rosaceae. The rose is considered by many as the queen of the garden and the rose bush is blooming most frequently used in the decoration of it reaching even the concept of a rose garden, a roof garden of roses only.
The variety in the colors of the roses is huge and is that because this flower so prized for its beauty and aroma, has been the subject of many hybrids that have led to today there are about 30,000 species, but the more traditional even have an associated meaning, are a symbol of love red, white symbol of purity, roses represent appreciation, the yellow express joy, but the more superstitious can see some double meaning, most evoke positive feelings, but there are also black and gray roses represent death and sadness respectively.
Geranium Endressii: Another Variant of The Classic Geranium
The endressii Geranium is native to South Africa and belongs to the family Geraniaceae, and it is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial, forming clumps that occurs 45 cm high and 60 centimeters in diameter.
With pink flowers that are dark in normal and white variety in the typology Album, this kind of geranium presents the usual features that can be observed in other members of his family.
The flowering period is specified between spring and autumn, being currently used for garden, balcony, indoor flowerpot or bright. This is an excellent adaptation and plant cultivation easier.
Intense Blood Red Flowers
Are what gives us the Grevillea, a shrub Grevillea rosmarinifolia scientific name and belonging to the family Proteaceae. It is a species native to Australia.
Reach feet in height at most branches being provided with short hair. Its leaves range from 2.5 to 5 centimeters long, featuring dark green hue on the upper side and white on the bottom.
Ariocarpus
- Scientific or Latin name: Ariocarpus spp.
- Common name or vulgar: Ariocarpus.
- Source: South Texas and Mexico.
- Surprising spineless cactus.
- The Ariocarpus have the same shape and texture of rock, and blend very well with the soil in its habitat.
- They have thorns, and the texture of their skin allows them to reflect the hot sun, give them some insulation in the summer.
Chumbera: Cactus is Pure Beauty
Who said the cactus was unsightly and can damage the beautiful decoration of our gardens?. Prickly pear, with desert and arid landscape, we come to outer space to destroy the myth that. Figure we see the portals of all plants.
Prickly pear is a perennial plant belongs to the cactus family. Opuntia ficus scientific name, indica, cactus comes to the arid regions of Mexico. In Spain can be found in the Mediterranean.