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Plants for each garden space
Each garden has its particular characteristics, according to the area where you are. For this reason, we must take into account that each location will need different plants.
In windy areas, the plants tend to become brittle and break down, to avoid this situation, put hedges, screens or cypress.
In places with lots of sun, cacti or succulents choose to support very well all day sun and drought. If this part of the land has sandy soil, little water it and so should your plants will be better.
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Tips to Prevent Botrytis
Botrytis is a fungus that occurs when plants retain considerable excess moisture, as seen in this picture. Can you prevent this problem in our garden?.
We must be particularly vigilant during the winter as frost cause plants are less protected against attacks from fungi and other agents, thus more easily sick.
Garden – Lawn
• The grass is the main consumer of water in the garden.
• The grass requires high maintenance: watering, fertilizing, mowing, profiles, windy, scarification, reseeding, control pests and fungi.
• The grass is contraindicated in Organic Gardening.
• There are other alternatives to cover the ground:
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.
Monstera Deliciosa Monstera – (Philodendron Pertusum)
This plant is characterized by large cracks that have a large leather leaves many species as they grow. He comes from Central and South America, where plants reached more than 10 m high in the forest. In Monstera deliciosa highly incised leaves up to 40-70 cm and 60-80 cm wide and can reach 2.3 m tall and with a potted plant holders.
Light and location: Prefers a shady area and if not foreign direct sunlight
Temperature: Hold the hot and warm temperatures to 10 º if you reduce the amount of water
Benefits of Plants in the House
1. Decorative plants indoor decorative role.
2. Recent scientific research has shown that the benefits of indoor plants beyond aesthetics.
3. The plants in the workplace to reduce stress and its consequences: sickness, early retirement and loss of production value.
4. In the school improve concentration.
5. In the United Kingdom is under investigation for a year a group of students changing their class in the classroom with plants and without them.
Medicinal Plants
Mint or Spearmint
Mint is they who have curative properties in some of its parts (leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, etc.). And serves to calm, control or even cure disease. There are thousands of species that can be considered as a drug, both the trees, shrubs and grasses. Some people say, that all the properties of medicinal plants for some reason or another. They are used as teas, poultices, etc..
Some species can be derived from the 3 groups at once (eg mint), or one or two.
Tips Potted Plants
Everything has a secret and following some basic guidelines, believe me you have nothing to envy to the traditional gardens, whether for reasons of space or housing type, your entire production “green” can be grown in pots. Here’s a handy primer for always have on hand:
One of the biggest problems of the pots is the subject of drainage. My suggestion to keep the drainage holes free: at the bottom of the pot, on / the holes, you should always Canyon gravel, balls of clay mixed with bits of songs or broken stones.
Remember that while potted plants require good substrates, it is not advisable to use such land as garden directly, since you run the risk that the clay is compacted and fungi also suggest you invest in buying herbals.Te substrates prepared to those who mix elements of sand and good drainage as explained above.
There are excellent materials to mix with the substrate, such as coconut fiber and / or per lite, encourage aeration and water retention. If you do not find these materials, works fine river sand with very thick edges whenever the wash properly. The final touch: the area I suggest a layer of gravel on the land. Among other benefits prevent splashing in rain and heavy irrigation.
The best photos of ornamental plants
Surely our fellow-The Green Blog would agree in saying that there is nothing more beautiful and beautiful than nature itself and plants, especially if they are ornamental plants, since we can take home and decorate our home as green possible.
It is also worthy to enjoy the best photos in photography, since the vast majority of them contained the essence of a person, an object, a moment, a landscape …
Therefore, we wanted to make a collection of the best photos of ornamental plants, not only to enjoy the beauty of nature but of ornamental plants. We hope that undoubtedly enjoy it.
The best pictures and photographs of ornamental plants :
Guidelines for renewing the land of your plants
When you notice that your plants lose vigor, are not blooming or radiant must be vigilant and act immediately. Many times we say “our plants are sad, but not enough to express it. They may need a change of land.
growth of plants
Here you commented the findings necessary to undertake this task.
Over time the land of lost wealth pots and porosity, this harms the growth of plants, because the substrate prevents excessively tight root development and therefore the search for water and nutrients.
For this, if you add a portion of garden soil (ground leaves) and other river as the tide will greatly improve the quality of the land. If the plant requires a more acidic pine needles used as de-compressor.
In the case of azaleas and jasmine Cape, known as the superacid, you’d better resort to mob to increase the porosity of the substrate. The advantage of the unpacking is that in addition to give porosity to the plant, also improve the drainage preventing water retention which eventually rot the plant.