If the bought plant is in a small planting cell (with diameter 5 cm) it needs to be immediately moved into a pot. If it already grows in a pot – it is possible to leave it alone for 3-8 weeks, and then to move it into a container of a big size. Choose a […]
Wild carrot, also called Queen Anne’s lace, is a member of the carrot family that grows wild. The cultivated carrot that people eat has a European and Asiatic origin. In North America, many carrot plants grow wild common weeds. The name Queen Anne’s lace was given the plants because of their lacy clusters of small […]
Usual indoor plants and flowers are beautiful, they wonderfully look in interiors, they fresh the atmosphere and positively influence on health. But sometimes you need something desirable something unusual, original, something that you will be proud of and surprise visitors at your house. Is it possible to grow up most exotic plants in house conditions? […]
CALLA (kalla), or calla lily, is a beautiful garden flower of the arum family, or Ar-aceae. It is related to the jack-in-the-pulpit and the skunk cabbage. What looks like the flower of the calla is really a leaf like sheath called a spathe. The true flowers are very small and are inside the spathe. In […]
BINDWEED is a plant with long string like stems that twist and grow over other plants. Three bindweeds grow in the United States. They are pests to farmers because they make harvesting of crops difficult. Their many leaves shut out the sunlight from the plants used to make food, causing them to starve to death. […]
Zinnia is one of the most easily cultivated of all the garden flowers. Their bright blossoms may be rose, orange, crimson, scarlet, yellow, salmon, or purple. They stand stiffly erect… Yucca is both a plant and a moth. They have developed a symbiotic relationship and neither can live without the other. Yucca plants are members […]
Jack in the pulpit (jak in the pul’pit) is among the unusual wild flowers of eastern North America. Its striped hood, or spathe, which protects tiny flowers clustered on a club-shaped stem, or spadix, resembles an old-fashioned covered pulpit. The spadix, called “Jack” by custom, is imagined to be a preacher inside. Moist woodlands from […]
The science of botany is one of the oldest areas of study that teaches people to find ways how they may use plants. There are different types of botany. Scientists in this field are Botanists – so what do they do? Those who study Agronomy develop and improve crop plants. Those, who specialize in Forestry […]
Tulip (tu’lip) is any of the flowering plants that make up the genus Tulipa. This genus belongs to the lily family (Liliaceae). There are about 160 species of tulips. They grow wild from Italy and Austria eastward across Asia to Japan. Common garden tulips are thought to have developed from only a few of these […]
AMARYLLIS is a genus of plant that has only one species, the belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna). Many lily like plants of the same family, however, are commonly called amaryllis, including the daffodil, snowdrop, tuberose, century plant, and more than 1,000 others. The belladonna lily, which is native to South Africa, grows from a bulb. Its […]
Lilac. A beautiful and fragrant shrub, the lilac is one of the most popular of garden plants. Its pyramidal clusters of blossoms are white, lavender, blue, violet, pink, or purple. There are both single and double varieties—all with glossy green leaves. Lilacs are native to Eastern Europe and Asia. The colonists brought them to America. […]
Myrtle, is an attractive evergreen shrub or small tree. It grows wild in regions along the Mediterranean Sea and temperate regions of Asia. Some people in the United States cultivate it as an ornamental plant. The myrtle has shiny leaves and fragrant white flowers. The leaves, bark, and blue black berries are also fragrant Manufacturers […]
BULB (bulb). A bulb is a thick, fleshy bud that usually grows underground. In many plants, such as the tiger lily, it grows above ground, in the spot where the leaves branch from the plant stem. Bulbs are of two types: the scaly and the tunicate. The scary type bulb as in most lilies is […]
Pink (pingk) is the common name of a large group of flowering plants known to botanists as Dianthus. Many Dianthus flowers are pink, but the name pink is used to describe the scalloped or “pinked” edges of the flower petals. Pinks are mostly natives of Europe and Asia, where many kinds have been cultivated in […]