• 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.

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• 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.

• Its medicinal properties are varied, for example, relieves colds or digestive disorders …

• To flavor the house cut twigs are stuck into pots of indoor plants.

• Thyme can last up to 4 or 5 years because they lose some of their perfume.

• It kills multiplied by division in spring, layers and cuttings in early summer semimaduros. By seed is slow.

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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.

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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.

We talk about white, fragrant flowers about 2 cm in diameter, arranged in inflorescence. Because of this, it is commonly used in outdoor garden pot.

With a simple and rustic adaptation, is a shrub of easy culture and slow growth. Requires direct sunlight and a deep soil with good drainage. It also tolerates cold well, withstanding heavy frosts.

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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.

They reach a maximum height of 20 inches, having increased irrigation in the summer, but at the same time to avoid excess moisture, it can be very detrimental to this species.

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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.

The usefulness of the roses in the garden is very diverse, can you make them solid, combined with other shrubs and vines can be used as coating and decoration of walls, it is also interesting cultivation in pots and also can be used to decorate home cut flowers in vases and centers and of course is an ideal gift for any occasion as well as other applications for the manufacture of perfumes and even cooking as their petals are edible and used in the processing of delicate dishes.

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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.

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- 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.

- There are six types of Ariocarpus. Example: retusus Ariocarpus, with white flowers; fissuratus Ariocarpus, pink flowers, and trigonus Ariocarpus, chocolate.

- It becomes difficult to find in the wild.

- Leaf: plants without leaves.

- Organ distributed tubercles in roset air, around the large underground stems.

- Flowers: diurnal, white, yellow, red or pink in autumn, in the center of the rose.

- Very slow growth.

- Light: abundant, if possible, under full sunlight.

- Temperature: summer needs.

- Humidity: as low as possible.

- Soil: The soil Ariocarpus choice quite shiny.

- Irrigation: once in summer and every 15 or 20 days in early autumn, according to the period of growth. Fear humidity, you need well-drained substrate. Stay dry in winter.

- Payments: not fertilized.

- Pests: insects.

- Transplant: every three to five years, or in a pot so the roots can grow.

- Propagation: by seed. Seedlings require a temperature difference between day and night to grow. Wait three years before tones.

- Ariocarpus yields require more than 10 years to flower. A graft on flowering Poreskiopsis achieved after three years, but manufacturers often distorted.

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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.

Has oval leaves and green, very thorny cactus traditional interruption, always avoided. Its yellow flowers, red and orange have a large number of petals and actually can be quite striking in any garden.

In connection with treatment, is used to grow plants under full sunlight, and in areas of low fertility. However, the substrate must have good permeability, so that the roots absorb the water needed.

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