Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
VENUS’S LOOKING-GLASS
The name Venus’s-looking-glass is fully justified. The small violet-blue flowers are no more than V4 in wide but have an unearthly beauty and look up to the skies like miniature radio telescopes. They are carried on spreading, bushy plants about 8 in high. Venus’s looking-glass is a native plant in many parts of Europe, including Britain and The Netherlands, where it is now rare. It grows mainly on arable land in loose, moisture-retentive, and nutritive soil. All we need do is scatter its seed in ordinary garden soil from April onwards and enjoy the small flowers from June. They do not flower for very long, so it is advisable to sow repeatedly.
As a result of an error by one of the largest seed merchants, the plant is marketed on a large scale under the name of a different botanical genus, Downingia.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
YELLOW COSMEA
Yellow cosmeas originally came from slightly more southern regions of Latin America, not only from Mexico, where Cosmos bipinnatus grows naturally, but also from the warmer regions of Central America and the north of South America. It is consequently even more sensitive to cold and suffers more from cool, wet summers. Its cultivation is otherwise the same as that of the ordinary cosmea, certainly now that recent decades have seen the development of lovely cultivars which are better at withstanding cooler climates. It is best to sow the seed indoors in March-April and not to put the plants out-of-doors in pots, containers, or directly in the ground until the end of May. They will then begin to flower by mid-July, but if you sow out-of-doors in May, the flowers will not appear until August.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Rose garden landscape makes the surrounding of your house more beautiful, graceful, fragrant and very inviting. Making a rose garden contribute to the success of your landscape especially when it compliments your home style. So what are the perfect roses for you rose garden?
Choosing roses for your rose garden is not difficult because there are many varieties of roses but choosing the right rose bushes for your landscape is hard. The problem always lies in choosing the right rose bushes for you landscape because it must compliment to the landscape design that you are trying to achieve. Choose also the rose suitable to the climate in your area.
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
CLIMBING GLOXINIA
Fresh pink flowers, each one up to 3 in long, are formed at the tips of the climbing stems of Asarina rubescens throughout the summer. The Mexican climber itself will grow as tall as the support you provide for it – up to 12 ft in a single season.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
ANNUAL WORMWOOD
Do you ever feel you would like to see what a hedge would look like in a particular place in your garden? You might try it out with Artemisia annua. Sow some seed in situ in spring and six weeks later you will have plants about 5 ft tall. If they are planted side by side at intervals of about 20 in, it will look as if a hedge of conifers has grown up in less than no time. The numerous small flowers are totally inconspicuous. What is important is the light green of the widely branching plants. The greenery forms slended backdrop for summer flowering plants.
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