Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Lawn and garden water sprinkler system makes the life of a gardener easier. A sprinkler system automates this entire process while eliminating the concern of whether or not your yard is getting the proper amount of water it needs. Installing a sprinkler or irrigation system for your lawn &/or garden is perhaps one of the few home improvement projects that actually makes your life much easier.
Installing sprinklers is not a difficult task if you plan, organize and prepare. You must choose the proper type of sprinkler system, design the layout, install the plumbing and connect it all together. Because most homes do not have enough water pressure to force the water through the entire sprinkler system, the system will have to be divided into “circuits.”
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
DELPHINIUM
The Clear Springs Series is derived from the popular Delphinium Pacific Giant Series but, at a height of 30-44 inches, it is considerably shorter. This is why they are sometimes referred to as Delphinium Dwarf Pacific varieties. These perennial delphiniums are cultivated as annual flowers for cutting. Seeds are planted - in greenhouses - between March and June. The seedlings are subsequently kept in the greenhouse or planted outdoors. The first flowers may be expected by mid-May. You could try it out for yourself. Sow the seeds near the surface and stand the propagator in a dark place during germination. Shelter the plants from the wind if you put them out-of-doors. Delphinium ‘Clear Springs Lavender’ bears lavender-blue flowers. The double, bright-white flowers of Delphinium ‘Clear Springs White’ are closely packed along the stems, which are often flattened at their tips. Because the stems remain shorter than those of larkspurs and are also very sturdy, the delphiniums in the ‘Clear Springs Series’ do not need supports in places sheltered from the wind.
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Flowers of the palest imaginable apricot-orange are enticingly attractive, but beware -the flowers, stems, and rough leaves have very fine hairs which prick one viciously. Those on the flower heads are worst and irritate the skin. That, in fact, is precisely the intention of this Argentinian plant, which uses them to discourage grazing animals. Caiophora is a botanical rarity that is marketed with increasing frequency by specialist seedsmen. The plant is a climber. Its hairy stems cling to any kind of support and may reach a height of 5 ft in a single growing season. Sow the warmth-loving plant indoors early in the year and do not put it outdoors in a sheltered, sunny position until the end of May. From July onwards, it will produce flowers over 1′A in wide in shades of apricot to brick-red, and sometimes whitish in color. Bees love them.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Garderners always wanted to have power garden tools because it could make their jobs easier. Power garden tools can make your long hours of jobs in the garden into minutes. That is why power garden tools have a very strong lure for many gardeners. But because most of the gardeners cannot spare extra money to buy power garden tools, so they still stick to their old tools in the garden. So giving power garden tool to a gardener is a very perfect gift. Here are some of the power garden tools that you can give as a gift to a gardener like leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, chain saws, tiller, leaf vacuums, chipper-shredders, string trimmers and many more.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
The respectable botanist Linnaeus thought the flower of this plant from south-east Asia resembled a clitoris and named the genus Clitoria. The photograph was taken on the island of Ternate in the Moluccas. It was there that botanists discovered the climber and named it after the island (and not after the tripartite leaves). In cooler climates, the plant is best known as a perennial climber for heated winter gardens. It cannot tolerate temperatures below 50 °F. More and more frequently, however, it is also treated as an annual and sown indoors early in the year. From June onwards, the plants may be put out-of-doors in a container or planted directly in the garden against a trellis. In autumn, they die off or are taken indoors. The species and cultivars are rarely on sale and the seed is expensive. Clitoria ternatea ‘Blue Sails’ has double, purple flowers; those of Clitoria ternatea ‘Ultra Marine’ are blue.
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