Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Nowadays, most people prefer to buy cast aluminum sets for their garden. Cast aluminum garden sets are durable and functional. Cast aluminum is very popular as the material to be used on making garden and patio furniture sets. Many designs and shape can be formed using this kind of material that will suit your taste and compliments the garden decors that is already there in your garden. Because cast aluminum carries all the grace and charm of cast furniture and don’t rust nor peeling of paint, most people prefer to buy this in their landscape garden and patio.
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Patio and garden arbors and pergolas adds style and decoration to your backyard or lawn. Patio and garden arbors and pergolas makes your home and outdoor spaces more appealing. This increases the value of your home. It will make your relaxation more comfortable because arbor and pergolas adds a personal touch to your garden. Patio arbors and pergolas do not come in one style or material, and through your choice of style and patio arbor material you personalize your home just that much more. Patio arbors are a great addition to any home, and are likely to be one of the best investments for your enjoyment and comfort you can make.
Manet Arbor with Side Trellis: The Manet Arbor features a classically soaring arch that crests at an even 100 inches. Powdercoated in deep lustrous black for outstanding durability as well as ethereal beauty, the Manet Arbor’s Side Trellis provides a scaffold for Ivy to climb upon.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
COMMON FUMITORY
Fumitory appears like a jack-in-the-box, and you suddenly find it flowering away in odd places: in between paving stones alongside the house, in a vegetable garden, or on a forgotten heap of sand. But once you have taken a good look at it, you don’t want to get rid of it again. This is not as simple as it may seem, because small changes in conditions are enough to drive it away. Try planting this indigenous annual in loose, sandy, but moist and fairly nutritive soil in early spring. It will then be able to flower from June until well into autumn on stems which are 4-20 in long and that like leaning up against one another or other plants. You will need to buy the seed from specialists who include wild flowers in their assortment.
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
TREE MALLOW
With its colorful flowers, about 4 in wide, tree mallows certainly catch the eye in a border of annuals. The plants grow between 20 in and 20 in-5 ft tall, depending on the cultivar and the soil. The plants do best in loose, poor soil, where they grow less tall and flower even more profusely.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Osteospermum is a real maverick among the compositae family. Usually, a border of sterile ray flowers – those of a marguerite, for example – attracts insects to the center of the flower with its tubular florets; these are fertile and develop the seed. In osteospermums, however, the tubular florets are sterile and the seed is formed in the fertile ray flowers. You can see this phenomenon yourself after the plants have flowered. The brownish-black seeds, which are very large and hard, develop into wreaths round the centers of the faded flowers. This characteristic distinguishes Osteospermum from Dimorphotheca, a genus dealt with elsewhere in this encyclopedia, with flowers that in other respects closely resemble those of Osteospermum.
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