Today we will meet with the wood owners of “cold” beauty, endowed with silver, gray-green, gray leaves. Such plants are exquisite and look luxurious, as if skillfully made of precious metal. They have the “gentility” of the nature that can be attributed both to their advantage and disadvantage. And here’s […]
Exotic Trees and Shrubs: Photo, Description, Features of Cultivation
In this article the most interesting trees and bushes from various families differing from each other by an origin, external data, ecological requirements, features of leaving are collected. Some of them you may have met in person. With others met in numerous interesting publications. But with some of them you […]
Currants: Types and Varieties, Peculiarities of Cultivation
Genus of currants (Ribes) belongs to the family Grossulariaceae and includes about 150 species native to the cold and temperate zones of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. In culture, only a few of them are represented, however, the breeding process gradually includes previously unused species. Ribes nigrum Ribes […]
Stonecrop in the Design of Autumn Flower Beds: Varieties and Photos
In autumn, when most of the recognized favorites of the Kingdom of flora played its role on the garden stage, this unpretentious, but very decorative herbaceous perennial becomes the main character. Summer blooming handsome has long lost its appeal, and this member of the family Crassulaceae fall every day becomes […]
Perennial Carnations-Wild and Garden Species
Carnations-exclusively motley kind in relation to biology: and where horrible live, and as much as they want. Here is the flower revolution-Dianthus caryophyllus, was grown even before the birth of Christ. She has several garden groups corresponding to her various biological trends. There are garden the Grenadines, prone to perennial […]
Coreopsis: Summer Flower in Autumn Garden
Coreopsis is another wonderful plant from the family Asteraceae, coloring garden all shades of yellow and Golden brown in a gloomy and cloudy days of summer and in early autumn. The flower is a bit like Gaillardia: the same bright yellow baskets with dissected tips of petals (reed flowers), only […]
Classification of Chrysanthemums: Difficulties and Misunderstandings
Gardeners have their own classification, botanists have their own, and this needs to be clearly understood. Many misunderstandings — for example, with “Korean” chrysanthemums – arise from the confusion of horticultural and botanical concepts, in particular “species” and “garden group”. Taxonomy incidents The name Crysanthemum — that is, the “Golden […]