paradise

Potentilla nepalensis 'Emilie' - Cinquefoil

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Mexican Red Bird of Paradise (2878 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 11:31:07 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Title and Article's text

Mexican Red Bird of Paradise flower is an evergreen shrub or small tree in frost free climates. In the tropics it gets 15-20. In cultivation peacock flower is usually 8-12 tall, growing that large even after freezing to the ground the previous winter. Mexican Red Bird of Paradise flower lives up to its name with incredibly showy blossoms of orange and red. The flowers are bowl shaped, 2-3 across, with five crinkled, unequal red and orange petals, and ten prominent bright red stamens that extend ...

Tropical Foliage Plants (567 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:09:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Growers Guide | Previously illustrated with black and white photographs, this reference now provides professionals with a colorful guide to the production of commercial foliage crops. Featuring updated and expanded information, including cultural changes, new technological advances, and eight new foliage crops, the guide now covers more than 70 species of foliage appropriate to commercial environments—anthuriums, bromeliads, ferns, bamboos, birds-of-paradise, and African violets. In addition t ...

Hacienda Courtyards (2316 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.11 2007 on 09:50:52 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Mexican Design Books | Explore the architectural elements and water havens that will inspire your own courtyard paradise. ...

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (782 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:19:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds. Guilds, the author tells us, are groups of plants that function as an ecosystem to provide products for humans, create cover and food for wildlife, nourish the soil, conserve water, and repel pests. A simple example of a g ...

Hot Plants for Cool Climates (1004 readers)

Contributed by amazon 13.04 2007 on 08:53:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Gardening with Tropical Plants in Temperate Zones | The most exciting new trend in garden design is the lush look of the tropics -- no matter where you live! If, like so many gardeners, youre a little bored with pastel flowers and rigid borders, welcome to the jungly garden, where the plants have huge shiny leaves, boldly colored foliage, ferny textures, and flame-colored flowers. Now that garden centers and nurseries are stocking banana plants, elephant ears, giant ferns, and Amazon lilies, you ...

New Garden Design Inspiring Private Paradises (1059 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and 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 ...