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Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates (1414 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:53:22 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A lavish guide to planning, planting, and maintaining a Mediterranean garden, featuring an A-Z of more than 1,000 plants and 500 color photos. No image of the Mediterranean is complete without flowering climbers, colorful shrubs, or lush gardens. Now you can enjoy Mediterranean plants in your own garden. With sections on specific plants and general care, Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates will help you to choose and grow the regions most beautiful plants. This book includes: an introductio ...

Subtropical and Dry Climate Plants (901 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 19:03:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Definitive Practical Guide | Climate change, the need to conserve water, the desire for more exotic and dramatic plants-all of these are prompting gardeners to seek out interesting new plants that thrive in subtropical or dry climates and microclimates. This book offers expert guidance and sensible advice on a wide range of plants-native to California, Florida, Australasia, South America, South Africa, Turkey, and the Mediterranean region-that can be successfully cultivated in many regions o ...

Euphorbia lathyris - moleplant (229 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.08 2008 on 11:15:23 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Euphorbia lathyris is also known as the mole plant because of its reputation for deterring the activity of this creature. A native of Mediterranean areas, and has also been introduced into the USA. The seeds have in the past been used for medicinal purposes and for the production of lamp oil. ...

Acanthus mollis - bear´s breeches (956 readers)

Contributed by havlis 22.03 2008 on 16:32:47 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Bear’s breeches is a unique perennial with large, architectural leaves. They are deep green and extremely glossy. Strong plants make long, erect stems with pinkish flowers at the end of summer. It is evergreen in milder parts of Europe. ...

Rosmarinus officinalis - Rosemary (476 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.11 2007 on 09:58:06 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a perennial herb native to the Mediterranean region and cultivated widely elsewhere. There are many varieties of Rosemary, each has its own unique wonderful aroma and appearance, but practically the same medicinal and culinary purposes. ...

Ficus carica 'Italian Honey' - Fig (2030 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.06 2007 on 08:36:53 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

The fig is a picturesque tropical-looking tree or shrub with a dramatic spreading habit. The breadth is often wider than the height of 15-30. The bark is smooth and silvery gray and the deciduous leaves are 3 or 5-lobed and 4-10 long. There are many cultivars available for the home landscape. ...

Clematis viticella - Italian Clematis (1091 readers)

Contributed by amazon 24.09 2007 on 10:09:38 Topic: Plants / Climber Plants Match on Article's text

Clematis viticella - Originating from native to Southern Europe Clematis viticella (Italian Clematis), have finally come up in the world. They thrive both in a hot Mediterranean climate and in the coolness of Northern Europe. Preferring sunny areas they shouldnt be planted in shade or over a north facing wall, but will settle for moderate or even poor soil. These varieties are healthier and less prone to clematis wilt, the most dangerous disease of large-flowered varieties. ...

Myrtus communis - Myrtle (823 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.09 2007 on 10:12:07 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

Myrtus communis or True or Greek Myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree with dense foliage. The 2-inch lanceolate leaves are strongly scented when crushed. Myrtles have been cultivated for centuries and their native habitat is unknown. They are hardy to 28 degrees F. In cooler regions they make an excellent patio or house plant. They can also be trained as a bonsai! ...

Western Garden Book (1765 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.02 2007 on 16:35:45 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking 8th edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of them new--its THE essential book for gardeners in the Western states. ...

Laurus nobilis - Sweet Bay Laurel (1161 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.06 2007 on 10:33:57 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

Bay laurel is a pyramid-shaped tree or large shrub with aromatic, evergreen leaves and shiny gray bark. It can reach 60 in height in its native range, but generally is much smaller (3-10 tall) in culture. The leaves are elliptic, 3-4 long, rather thick and leathery, and shiny dark green. Clusters of small yellow flowers are produced in spring, followed, on the female plants, by shiny black or purple berries about 1/2 long. ...

Jubaea chilensis - Chilean Wine Palm (907 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.08 2007 on 08:11:19 Topic: Plants / Other Match on Article's text

Jubaea chilensis; Family: Palmae/Arecaceae (palm family); Common Names: Chilean wine palm, coquito palm, honey palm. This Incredible Hulk of the palm world, Jubaea chilensis, dominates the landscape with his thick muscular trunk. The straight gray trunks can grow to over 3 ft (0.9 m) in diameter and soar to heights of 80 ft (24.4 m). In older specimens, the trunk typically constricts near the top to form the brutes shoulders upon which rest a proportionally small head that is composed of densely ...

New Garden Design Inspiring Private Paradises (368 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens , New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Ber ...

ABCs Of Bulb Gardening (387 readers)

Contributed by bloomingbulb 13.05 2007 on 12:14:19 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Flowering plants that overwinter and multiply by means on fleshy stems of leaves are called bulbs. The bulbs we grow in our gardens today are native to temperate zones all over the world, the woodlands, meadows and mountains of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North America. The Dutch have been extremely successful over the centuries in collection and hybridizing new species of bulbs and improving them for reliable garden performance. Tulips in particular, once played an important role in the ...