Archive for January, 2008
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Showcase your plants in the right garden planter to bring out the natural beauty of your plant in your garden. There are lots of planters out there to choose from in different design, style and materials. Add a sophisticated beauty to your yard or garden by using planters. Garden stores provides many different types of planters in different materials for you garden such as ceramic, copper, metal, resin, wicker and wood. Let your flowers bloom and plants thrive with the best design and stylish planter.
Hand Painted Lavender Planter: The Lavender Planter by Burley Clay Products Company comes in a choice of size. This clay planter features Pam Ballard-designed lavender carvings with a lavender finish. Lavender, in the Victorian times, symbolized devotion and loyalty. Today, lavender is valued for its household, cosmetic, and medicinal uses. Made of southeastern Ohio clay. Made in America. Lavender carvings with lavender finish. Designed by Pam Ballard. Comes in a choice of size.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Create a little paradise to your backyard by building a waterfall fountain. Landscape garden waterfall fountains are outdoor framed decorations with beautiful natural designs that makes you relax hearing the sound of water. Creating a landscape waterfall garden is delicate but satisfying and makes your outdoor elegant. Landscape garden waterfall fountains gives attraction to your outdoors. The seemingly real scenery and atmosphere because of its fantastic views and beautiful water sounds.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
MARGUERITE
This marguerite will adorn summer patios, but it does not tolerate frost. The species grows naturally in the Canary Islands where it is warm, but never burning hot, and where there is always a cool sea breeze. This should be remembered when caring for these plants. Marguerites like warmth, but not heat, and under glass they often suffer from hot sunlight. You should therefore definitely put them out-of-doors after the last night frost and make sure that the potting compost does not dry out. They flower with such over-1 whelming exuberance that the plants may I easily exhaust their reserves. Re-pot them in nutritive soil immediately after purchase and give them liquid fertilizer several times during the summer.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
HELIOTROPE
Heliotropes were among the familiar bedding plants in large-scale displays in the gardens of palaces and country houses. The deep colors of foliage and flowers contrasted strongly with the lighter shades of other plants, and complex patterns were created with them. It is still possible to see that kind of summery flower-bed here and there, but they are long past their heyday. Heliotrope is now used for a new craze – that of patio gardening. The plant is, in fact, highly satisfactory as a container plant.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
LION’S EAR
This South African plant starts flowering about three to four months after it was sown. It is better known as a container plant and may be kept in a cool and, if need be, dark place in winter to allow it to sprout again in spring after hard pruning. Firms specializing in plants propagated by seed or cuttings, market flowering plants intended for cultivation as annuals as early as June. Put the plant in a large pot on your patio and you will spend months imagining you are in the tropics. Provide leonotis with a sheltered, warm, and sunny position, and give it plenty of water and fertilizer to keep it flowering. The orange whorls of flowers develop from the bottom upwards on flower stems which may ultimately grow to 6 ft.
The genus Leonotis (Lion’s Ear or Lion’s-Tail) consists of about 30 species of plants in the family Lamiaceae. All but one species, Leonotis nepetifolia (native to both tropical Africa and southern India), are native to southern Africa.
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