Ornamental plant growing

Very often on the balconies, terraces and suburban areas you can find interesting flowers - like petunia, but not petunia. So, this is a kind of petunia - Surfinia. Surfinia is a hybrid of ampelous petunia, which was bred by Japanese breeders twenty years ago. They are distinguished by lush flowers, long shoots and retain decorative even after rain.

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Carnation - one of the most common flowers among modern gardeners. Growing a garden carnation is not a difficult task, but to achieve the most beautiful flowering, some knowledge is still needed. Did you know? In ancient Greece, the carnation was called the "flower of Zeus". Conditions for growing carnations in Carnation Garden have a wonderful aroma and an amazing variety of colors.

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Thanks to the bright and varied colors, different forms of flowers, tulips are the most distinguished flowers from the riot of spring colors. The genus tulip belongs to the lily family. Even in the XVI century, the tulip was brought to Western Europe. Throughout history, tulip species have been described many times, but often due to natural variability and easy crossing, plants of the same species have been described as different.

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Amazingly beautiful flower lobelia does not require complex planting and care. Therefore, gardeners recommend boldly decide on the cultivation of this plant on your site. How to do this, we will explain further. Lobelia: description of a plant Lobelia is an annual, and with a particular care, a perennial shrub or herb.

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Buttercup garden is a beautiful and unpretentious flower in its care, its bud is somewhat reminiscent of a rose, and by its popularity, it even eclipsed a tulip. For a period, the buttercup was forgotten, until the breeders started breeding varieties with bright buds of various shades. Growing buttercups independently from seeds Growing buttercups from seeds is a bit troublesome.

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Ipomoea is a class of flowering plants, which is the largest representative of the class of the Vyunkov family. Did you know? The name comes from the Greek ips - "worm" and homios - "like". The name of the flower appeared because of the strongly twisting stem, which twists like a worm. Proper planting of the ipomoea Ipomoea is propagated by cuttings or seeds.

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Budley is a representative of the Norwich family. Distributed in the wild, it is a plant in the warm regions of South Africa, Asia and America. Gardening is a great addition to your landscape design. For the first time this plant was noticed by the English botanist Adam Baddl, who discovered this species at the end of the 17th century and gave it the name that is used now.

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Annual dahlias can boast a number of advantages in comparison with perennial, which makes them very popular. If you decide to grow them, below you can find out the peculiarities of the annual dahlia and its popular varieties. Annual dahlia: description Most often, dahlias are planted in the ground for many years, but this is not always practical, because annual dahlias have a number of advantages: Flowering in varieties of annual dahlias occurs very early, and at the same time they immediately delight with very intensive flowering.

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Astilbe is an ornamental shrub valued for a long flowering time, a large range of hues and shapes of inflorescences, for preserving an interesting look after the flowering period. Astilba Arends Astilba of this species has about forty varieties and is named after the breeder G. Arends, who bred it. These bushes grow to a meter in height, have dark green leaves with a burgundy border.

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Calibrachoa is an interesting plant that has recently appeared in florist houses. He is easily confused with petunia, which has long been settled in many apartments. In fact, until the 1990s, calarahoa was considered a type of petunia, but later it was proved that at the genetic level it is a completely different plant.

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There are about a hundred species of spirea shrubs. They differ in the crown, shape and color of leaves and inflorescences, but they all share one thing: a gorgeous appearance. For planting plants in your garden or in the yard will be useful to learn about the main types of spirea. Spring-flowering group of spirea A group of spring-flowering species consists of spirea, which blooms on the shoots of the previous year of life, and the flowers are often white in color.

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There is a popular belief that the bell grows exclusively in the fields and meadows, but today there are a huge number of garden bells that can easily be grown on your site and enjoy their beautiful view. The bells are representatives of the Campanulaceae family.

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Monarda is an aromatic and medicinal flower. This is a flowering ornamental plant with two-story bright flowers. Monarda has a lemon flavor. This plant has many names: wild bergamot, golden lemon balm, Indian nettle. Did you know? Essential oil of Monarda has bactericidal properties and anthelmintic activity.

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Escholsiya better known as the California poppy. The plant is appreciated by gardeners and flower growers for its unpretentiousness, variety of color and lush long-term flowering. In addition to the ornamental, the healing properties of esholtia are not in doubt, in traditional medicine the Californian poppy helps both adults and children.

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Phlox is a herbaceous plant, a representative of the family Sinuhovye (Polemoniaceae). Under natural conditions, there are about 85 species, and about 40 are used in gardening. The stem of a plant can be straight, ascending, or creeping. The height of phlox can be either very small (10-20 cm) or rather large (120-150 cm).

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At one time, Shakespeare said: "Her white robe represents naivety." He addressed these words to a daisy, an annual or perennial flower. This plant grows in the form of dense bushes with inflorescences that are red, white and pink. Daisies are one of the first blooming at sunrise, so in some places they are called the "eye of the day."

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Verbena in the garden - the perfect complement to any landscape design. Bright flowers, rich color leaves - all this verbena. The plant comes from tropical regions of America, a representative of the Verben family, which has more than 200 species of various flowers. Different people call Verbena differently: "Hercules' grass", "Venus veins" or "Mercury's blood".

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Phlox - a vast and diverse group of garden flowers, which includes both tall shrubs and low-growing plants, almost creeping along the ground. But almost all phlox - perennial flowers. Gardeners attract beautiful abundant inflorescences of various shapes and colors. Picking up several types of plants, you can secure a blooming garden from spring to late autumn.

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