Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
The Charm of Hydrangeas
Hydrangea is the name of a plant genus that includes about 100 species of plants from South and East Asia, North and South America. However, they are known by the common name of hydrangeas.
The hydrangea is one of the few plant species that accumulates aluminum, obtained from acid soils. By forming complexes in a flower, this aluminum gives the striking blue color can be seen in some varieties.
The Daisy
Scientific name Chrysanthemum maximum Ram, the daisy is an herbaceous plant of the daisy family. Originally from the Pyrenees, reaching up to 90 cm high, with the usual 20 to 30 centimeters.
Flowers presented between 6 and 10 inches in diameter, with yellow and white hues. The flowering period is spring and summer, usually a species being used outdoors.
Flowers – Betula Alba
- Scientific, or Latin name: Betula alba
- Common or vulgar names: white birch, birch Spain
- Family: Betulaceae (Betulaceae).
- Like the light, but in hot weather does not comply with continuous full sunlight.
- Irrigation: Irrigation should be sufficient. We should continue to mulch is never dry.
Flowers – The Tulips
Tulip is a native plant of Turkey, rounded characters that blooms in spring. This is especially appreciated by the beauty of flowers and a variety of colors, so it is very useful for garden ornaments of every kind.
Plants reach a height of thirty-two feet, but until the spring, stems, leaves and flowers are enclosed in a compressed form in a light bulb. For its part, leaves have a grayish green color and lanceolate.
.- Blooming tulips that, approximately, one hundred twenty days after planting and preserving the beauty and appearance for twenty days. After the flowers fade, and at that time, it is necessary to cut the main stem, which is found and allow to dry crop residues. Furthermore, we must remove the light bulb and let the soil dry, then put it in a container with dry sand, with the top facing upwards in the dark and cold. Thus, in the next planting season this bulb can be used again.
Gardening – Roses
An important first step is to buy a good quality product. If you buy bare root roses should be taken into account the consequences that are not dry. Should look healthy stem and root ball should be moist without wet, it can lead to trouble once cultivated mushrooms.
We do not have to plant a rose bush where there is one for more than 6 or 7 years because the soil is also spending its resources. All plant extracts and with various nutrients and trace elements in soil and often leave the same plant, from time to time, substantial deficiencies and excesses in the land.
Species of Palm
In the world there are only more than 200 genera of palms with more than 2,500 species, but is estimated to have declined since the grouping based on DNA botany.
different species ranging from those who live in humid tropical environments, like Archontophoenix alexandrae, for those who live in areas where water is the most valuable, as the Phoenix dacyilifera. Palm trees are scattered almost all over the world and we can find palm trees in the north planet, Chamaerops humilis, a native of the southern Mediterranean or more, Nikau, comes from New Zealand.
A genus is a group of species (or a species) are identical with flowers, fruit or vegetative characteristics. The soles of the same gender share the same name initial and middle name that distinguishes the species from congeners.
Cactus Flower
Water is the worst enemy of cactus and fresh. If we tend to also water, cactus will rot and eventually to apply the same technique as above. Now we will explain how and when the water in the cactus and fresh:
- In a cactus, regaremos average once a week, also depends on where you live, the eyes-in the summer, but if we see that the earth is moist, not regaremos. A test to see if the ground is dry on the inside, stick a toothpick and if he leaves with no regaremos ground, but if regaremos clean out a little. In the winter of our regaremos cactus, because it will break.
Flowers – Lavender
In the language of lavender flowers can have two senses distinguished and contrasting them.
The first sense he raffle to an ancient tradition that lavender has been used in antiquity against the bites of snakes and instructed on the wounds of dystrophin after left soaking in water. It was therefore considered an antidote but also said that within its forests snakes make the nest, especially asps therefore ancient people approached them with great caution, this belief is derived from its meaning in the language of flowers is better to say “distrust.”
The second sense of lavender is tied instead to warmer feelings and give lavender meant “your memory is my only happiness.”
Roses for Your Valentine’s Day
The origin of Valentine’s Day.
Since the third century, February 14 turned into celebration for lovers. Valentine, patron saint of lovers, is actually a dead priest martyred by the Romans, February 14 270. At that time Valentin incurred the wrath of the Emperor Claudius II who had eliminated the marriage because he found that married men made poor soldiers because they did not abandon their families.
Valentin then encourages young engaged couples come to him in secret to receive the blessing of marriage. He was arrested and imprisoned. While he awaits his execution in prison, Valentine takes a liking to the daughter of his jailer and restores sight. Just before being beheaded, he provides leaves heart-shaped with the following message: “From your Valentine! ”
In some countries, the feast of Saint Valentine comes from a medieval European belief that says that the birds begin to mate February 14.
The original celebration of the Catholic Church, the feast of Saint Valentine was not associated with romantic love before the Middle Ages.
Today, the day of Valentine’s Day, February 14, is regarded in many countries as the feast of love. Couples take the opportunity to exchange sweet words and gifts as evidence of love and red roses are the emblem of passion.
Care of Your Phalaenopsis Orchid.
During our visit to Ostend, to orchitect Luc Gryp of Orchids Eldorado (on the map) asked how the famous orchid, the Phalaenopsis, the best care. He summarized it as follows:
The genus Phalaenopsis comprises some 40 botanical species found in Southeast Asia and northeastern Australia. This orchid owes its popularity to:
▪ the long durability of the striking flowers
· The minimal maintenance, because once a week watering is sufficient
· Easy getting them back into bloom orchid
· Independence of the seasons, which the orchid is available at any time
· Thousands hybrids of Phalaenopsis, which in a variety of colors and shades available
Features
The Phalaenopsis is recognizable by the thick, oval, fleshy, green leaves and silver-gray, sometimes flattened roots, with delicate red or green growth points, which attach themselves to almost any surface. The flower stalk (s) develop among the leaves and can be 30-80 cm long and a flower to 10 cm in diameter, such as the Phalaenopsis grandiflora hybrids.
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