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| | Synonym: Briza rubra, | | Other Names: great quaking grass, large quaking grass, quaking grass, blowfly grass, shelly grass, shell Grass, | | German: Großes Zittergras | Czech: třeslice větší | | Genus: Briza | Family: Poaceae, | | Mature Height: 0.30 m | Bloom in: V, VI, VII, | | Soil Preferred: humic, penetrability, | Light Required:  | | Other Attributes: grass, type of inflorescence - spike, bed plant, plant for drying, cut plant, |
Plants of Genus Briza:01) Briza maxima L. ( big quaking grass), Ger: Großes Zittergras, Czech: třeslice větší02) Briza media L. ( common quaking grass), Ger: Mittlere Zittergras, Czech: třeslice prostřední03) Briza minor L. ( little quaking grass), Ger: Kleines Zittergras, Czech: třeslice menšíPhoto Gallery DF
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 | Making Sense of Garden Design (Lindsay Gray) (Helen Lachenicht) Amazon / Briza / Book Price: 0.00 $ |  | Large Quaking Grass - 50 Seeds, 1 g - Briza Maxima ORNAMENTAL GRASSES : Grasses provide structure and texture to your garden, offering many shapes, heights and colors. Most will bloom with attractive seed fronds that move with the breeze. Large Quaking (Briza Maxima) An easy-to-grow ornamental grass. Quaking Grass develops graceful amber seed heads that offer a distictive touch to any landscape. A nice addition for dried flower arrangements. Plant in naturalized areas or as a backdrop in your garden. Type: Annual Light: Sun Height: 12-24 Days to Germination: 5-10 Blooms: Summer 50 Seeds, 1 g ... Amazon / Hirts: Seed; Ornamental Grasses / Lawn & Patio Price: 1.69 $ |  | Easy Guide to Landscape Design for the Home Owner (Briza Gardening) (Lynton Johnson) Landscape designing isnt so much about rules that guarantee creation of the perfect design every time, but rather about a series of guidelines and suggestions that will help you save time and money, as well as generally reduce the frustrations resulting from many design forms. Easy Guide to Landscape Design for the Home Owner is a book filled with such guidelines, some for the new home owner to help with the many first time garden situations and pitfalls that tend to arise, as well as some for the more experienced home owner who is being challenged with alterations, changes in garden styles or themes or simply looking at old sites in a new light. Combine this with dozens of ideas, plant and hard landscape suggestions, as well as numerous beautiful photographs, it becomes a book that will help the informed, adventurous, beginner or even laid-back home owner to create beautiful and distinctive surroundings to their homes. Beautifully and simply set out, it takes the home owner through a ... Amazon / Briza Publications / Book Price: 13.56 $ |  | Companion Planting (Margaret Roberts) Companion planting is the age-old practice of planting different plants in close proximity so that they can help one another in some way. These plants complement each other by giving off scent or chemicals that repel insects, or they may attract beneficial insects that are predators to harmful insects. Some plants return micro-nutrients to the soil that can be used by other plants. Did you know? * Nasturtiums planted with pumpkins, squash and cucumbers deter beetles, aphids and other insects that attack the plants. And whats more, they are edible! * Carrots and leeks are excellent companions. Leeks repel carrot fly and carrots repel onion fly and leek moth. The confusion of scents chases the insects away. * Asparagus prevents nematodes from attacking the roots of tomato plants. * Coriander repels insects and can be made into a natural spray to use against red spider mite. * Garlic deters aphids and is a particularly good choice to plant with roses. ... Amazon / Briza Publications / Book Price: 19.00 $ |  | Photo Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (Braam van Wyk) (Ben-Erik van Wyk) (Piet van Wyk) Photo Guide to Trees of Southern Africa is an invaluable identification and reference guide to 300 of the more common tree species in the region, both native and naturalized. Features of the revised edition include: * Descriptive accounts highlighting the most important field identification characters. * Full-color photographs illustrating growth form, flowers, fruit and bark of the various species. * Up-to-date distribution maps showing the range of each species in southern Africa. * Information on habitat preference of each species and uses by man. * Reference to similar and closely related species and how they can be distinguished. * Introductory chapters on biomes and trees; fruit trees; furniture and craftwork; firewood; medicinal and poisonous trees; trees and animals; architecture of trees; identifying trees. ... Amazon / Briza Publications / Book Price: 33.00 $ |  | Healing Foods (Margaret Roberts) Over 2,000 years ago Hippocrates wrote: “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food. Each one of the substances in a man’s diet, acts upon his body and changes it in some way, and upon these changes his whole life depends, whether he be in health, in sickness or convalescent. To be sure, there can be little knowledge more necessary.” Now, as never before, we have to really reconsider these wise words for in our modern fast-paced, stressed, over-wrought and fear-filled lives, we are not coping and we are not glowing with abundant health and well-being. Step by step, and easily accessible, Margaret Roberts showcases the superfoods and warns of the danger foods, and lists the ailments we suffer from, offering comforting natural ways of correcting and rebuilding our health and regaining our vitality. More than 150 common and lesser-known vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices and other food plants that are the building blocks of good health are described in full, covering asp ... Amazon / Briza Publications / Book Price: 39.95 $ |  | Guide to Garden Succulents (Gideon Smith) ... Amazon / Briza / Book Price: 70.22 $ |
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