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There are places where you can’t grow a live lawn. One of the few but popular opportunities for landscaping hard-to-reach areas is artificial turf. Artificial turf is: The base is a rolled fabric with synthetic grass stems. Adding rubber crumbs, quartz sand, drainage. To make a full-fledged artificial lawn, the […]
In my garden this year, a beautiful crop of apples. I once made the mistake of not really bothering to save the names of the varieties. And only now, when the trees have entered the phase of good fruiting, I realized that in vain. Knowing the variety, you can confidently […]
Rhubarb is a perennial herbaceous plant. They have powerful rhizomes with thickened branches. The stem is often shaped like a flower arrow, tall, straight, or curved. Large basal leaves. Their shape can be triangular, egg-shaped or round, the surface-bubbly or smooth, and the edges-wavy or smooth. The leaves are arranged […]
Zucchini is an annual herbaceous shrub, semi-shrub or whitish plant with a thick, hard pubescent stem. The leaves are large with 5 pointed lobes on long stems, light or dark green, sometimes with white spots, with prickly, rough pubescence. The flowers are bisexual, monoecious, large, yellow; they bloom in June-August. […]
Use baskets with artichoke inflorescences, similar to a large cedar cone, for cooking at a time when they are just beginning to open. Baskets should be dense, in no case sluggish. First, the thin prickly ends of the scales are cleaned from the artichoke, then it is cooked whole. To […]
Onions as a cultivated plant have accompanied humans since ancient times. In ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Middle East, they were revered not only as food and medicinal plants, but also as a necessary element in religious rituals, mummification, and burial. For example, bows were thought to be essential […]
In late spring and early summer, among the blooming alliums, an unusually tender and touching pink beauty blooms-Allium Schoenoprasum. Some amateur flower growers from year to year admire its magnificent flowering, but do not know about its other advantages. Botanical reference book Allium schoenoprasum, sin. A. cepa var. aggregatum-a perennial […]
Lagenaria is a herbaceous vine with a creeping stem up to 15 m (16.4 yard) tall. The faceted stem is covered with a soft felt trunk. The leaves are large, pentagonal, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, whole or 3-5-lobed. The flowers are bisexual (male and female), solitary, 6-7 cm (2.3-2.7 inches) in […]
Once my relatives sent me a photo of an unknown plant marked “unknown with” roses “on the stems”, which pleased them throughout the summer. It was a California beauty-Clarkia unguiculata syn. C. elegans. A remarkable representative of the family Onagraceae, native to the United States (California). The name of the […]
Basil-a beautiful plant, a wonderful healer and a favorite spice, the secrets of growing which I will tell you in this article. A native of Asia, but not all countries immediately appreciated his merits, despite the fact that he was worshipped in Iran, India and Ceylon. By the way, the […]