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postheadericon The Daisy

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.

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postheadericon Gardening – Roses

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.

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postheadericon Heliotrope: a unique Peruvian plant

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This plant is native Sacramento rain forests of Peru. Belonging to the family Boraginaceae, is part of a genus comprising over 250 species of annual plants.

Scrub and shrubs are varieties, such as Heliotropium arborescens, Heliotropium compulsory or the Heliotrope peritoneum. Perhaps one of its virtues is the pleasant aroma given off its leaves and flowers.

For proper growth and maintenance, heliotrope be positioned at a slight shadow over the summer and be adequately protected during the cold raw days of winter. The temperature may not fall below 7-10 º C, according to specialists.

As for irrigation, should be abundant in summer and low in winter. The ideal soil is one rich enough in organic material to stimulate a bloom abundantly. The final time of planting should be put in the spring. The image is part of Site Search Plants.

postheadericon Plant gardens

This will require a wall devoted to this hot, focused, and have the means to protect plants, in its early days, frost and intense cold, the acclimatization will occur gradually and after two or three years, even when the cold burn their leaves, the plant will not die and sprout.
Pruning will be needed to achieve a well-balanced foot can cover more or less uniformly, the support provided to it.

Plant gardens

postheadericon Heliamphora, carnivorous plant

Special anatomical open jars with the presence of nectar-secreting appendages, whose function is to attract insects that feed the plant

carnivorous plant

Exposure: You need lots of light, including direct sunshine will always favor that we are not talking about extremely hot temperatures.

heliamphora carnivorous plant

Heliamphora plant

Type of soil: clay type preferably provided that measures are taken to ensure proper drainage.

Heliamphora with carnivorous plant

Watering: Needs plenty of water, especially in summer. It is highly advisable to deposit the plant on a tray with water, as a way of ensuring the constant availability of it to the plant.

Reproduction: The simplest is the rhizome division, recommended for just this time, that is March. Also available from seed.

postheadericon How to save a wilted plant

When a plant begins to wilt, something is wrong. The disease shows many symptoms, appears limp, flat, yellowish, leafless, with dull blades. In each case, the origin is different, even can be caused by several factors at once, but by and large they are growing gaps.

wilted plant

1. It is dry? You’ll notice because it looks straight, loses leaves (mostly small-leaved plants) and the rest are somewhat dry and brown.

Dip in water and land will revive. You take the root ball from the pot and see that most of the land is dry and caked. To retrieve the most effective plant is introduced directly into a container of water without the pot. You leave the floor until you see the root ball is thoroughly wet.

You will do well with plants that need watering qu is therefore difficult to meet their needs, such as azalea, hydrangea or the ferns.
Do not happen again if you play often to check if the substrate is wet, if there are no remains of land in the fingertips to do so, he needs water.

2. Excess water? You’ll notice it is straight, because you miss freucnecia water it with, but that is the cause of wilting.

Remove the root ball and dry land. You take the root ball from the pot and you put a drain on newsprint and paper pulp, such as a paper towel.

We wrap the earth in the paper to absorb excess water, changing it as often as necesrio. From that moment you can expect at least two days before watering again.

You’ll be fine with the diefembaquia coo plants, the aspidistra, or big leaf ficus that need watering more moderate.
Do not happen again if you improve drainage and remove any water for irrigation.

3. Lose leaves? You’ll notice even before the leaves fall, because they begin to turn yellow or brown.

Resort to drastic pruning of the specimen, leaving stems about 10 cm long, if you will that has knots, allowing the plant to resprout and rejuvenate step.
Download to plant the most diseased helps revive, whatever be the origin of their poor condition, as well finds it easier to recover if less stems and leaves to keep.

I will be fine with plants that support a good pruning, as the ficus benjamina, pothos, ivy, azalea, kalanchoe

It will not happen if you make sure that they are not exposed to drafts or sudden temperature changes, two of the most common causes of leaf loss.

4. It does not grow? You’ll notice because roots protrude through the holes in the pot dranje can even protrude through the top. Besides the aerial part (stems, leaves and flowers) appears too large and disproportionate to the pot.

Change the pot plant, the new pot should be only slightly larger than the last. We often make the mistake of passing a very large container, which do not improve their condition.
The pot very small relative to the size of the plant can reach provovar his death, since in this case, control of water and abonaos has to be much more accurate, which is not easy.

You will do well with all types of plants, but is essential in the case of the kentia or chamaedorea to keep growing without danger of capsizing and asplenia, Peperomia, gardenia.

It will not happen if you transplant your plants every spring to a pot only slightly larger. Leave transplanting when they want to continue to grow, then you must renew the top layer of substrate in the same period.

5. Yellow leaves? because the leaves will notice, even the younger ones, are beginning to turn yellow. If a mature leaf yellowing and sporadically, do not worry, it is normal that the plant
renew the older leaves.

Place the plants in a site receives the direct rays of the sun,

excess light is the most common cause of yellowing. It gets more complicated when it comes to plants that need maximum illumination. In this case, you must make sure that the windows have curtains or blinds that allow pass the sun but the light sifting.