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Contributed by amazon 04.04. 2007 10:29:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's textAn inspiring and comprehensive guide, The Sweet Pea Book is for anyone interested in growing these most exquisite of fragrant flowers and using them in the garden. It covers the colorful history of the sweet pea, provides detailed practical advice on seed raising and cultivation, offers ideas for using the plants effectively in the garden, and discusses dwarf sweet peas for small gardens and patios. A comprehensive descriptive list of species and varieties will prove useful to all sweet pea enth ...
Contributed by havlis 17.03. 2008 10:39:46 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Title and Article's textBurlat is an early variety of sweet cherries. The fruit is vivid to dark red, mid-sized or large, very sweet and juicy, with medium firm flesh. As it is very precocious it is not vermicular. ...
Contributed by amazon 04.06. 2007 09:11:19 Topic: Plants / Aquatic Plants Match on Title and Article's textJapanese sweet flag is an aquatic or wetland perennial with semievergreen grasslike foliage. It has narrow, 6-14 in (15-35.6 cm) glossy leaves and looks like thick, lush grass. Location: Japanese sweet flag is native to eastern Asia where it grows in wetlands and shallow water. ...
Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 10:54:27 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textReine Claude Dorée is a French variety of sweet plum with large, round fruit of green to greeny-yellow fruit of delicious, sweet and juicy taste. It ripens at the end of August. ...
Contributed by havlis 12.08. 2011 10:56:00 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Title and Article's textOsmanthus is a genus of about 15-20, while only a few ones are hardy enough to grow down to zone 6. Those are often mistaken for hollies owing to their foliage appearance. Osmanthus is native to Japan and China , some species originate in the south of USA. ...
Contributed by amazon 08.07. 2007 10:14:07 Topic: Plants / Annuals Match on Article's textThe Mosquito Plant is a genetically engineered geranium hybrid with a unique characteristic: it repels mosquitoes! It is easily grown as a potted patio plant, and easily enjoyed for its attractive foliage and sweet lemony scent, as well as for its mosquito repelling powers. It produces a leafy, attractive, foot-tall plant during its first season. ...
Contributed by havlis 17.03. 2008 10:26:35 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textHoneyberry is an edible version of honeysuckle with fruit of similar taste and appearance of blueberry. Modrý triumf is a Czech variety selected for the best taste and heavy cropping. The fruit is sweet or sweet-and-sour, 25-35 mm long, oval, deep blue. The fruit ripens very early, often already in May, about two weeks before the first strawberries. ...
Contributed by amazon 11.10. 2007 08:50:01 Topic: Plants / Other Match on Article's textAlso known as Huang Yu Lan . It is the oil of this michelia that is the essence of JOY, the worlds most expensive perfume. It can grow from a trunk of 16 inch into a giant tree over 30 feet. On the tip of every branch, flowers blossom all year round with yellow-orange petals, diffusing delicate fragrance in the air. Planting a Michelia tree either indoors as bonsai or in your backyard really makes your home a sweet home. Also you could take the flower, home made natural perfume, into car, office ...
Contributed by amazon 08.07. 2007 10:18:30 Topic: Plants / Climber Plants Match on Title and Article's textThe beautiful sweet autumn clematis is a vigorous semievergreen (or deciduous) vine than can climb up to 30 feet. The compound leaves are glossy and deep green. The star shaped white flowers are about an inch and a quarter across and sweetly fragrant. They are borne in numerous branching panicles from late summer through autumn. Vines can be so laden with billowy masses of white flowers that they look like theyre covered with snow! The seed heads are pretty, too, with their silvery-gray featherl ...
Contributed by amazon 07.10. 2007 20:01:58 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textThe Japanese tree lilac has cherrylike bark and grows 25 to 30 feet in height. It extends the lilac season by flowering in mid June, after the shrub lilacs. Its blossoms are initially rose-colored, then quickly turn creamy white, emitting a soft, sweet aroma like that of privet. Hardy in zones 3-7. ...
Contributed by amazon 10.09. 2007 18:58:44 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textGardens by Design Series | Wildflowers bring to many of us remembrance of a lost world of childhood enchantmentof woodlands, riverbanks, and lush fields. In this lovely album, brimming with color pictures and fascinating botanical details, Britains National Trust brings us some of the nations most beloved wildflowers Bluebells, Burnet Roses, Wild Honeysuckle, Snowdrops, Sweet Violets, Marsh Marigolds, and Evening Primroses among them. An ideal book for gardeners, travelers, and nature lovers. ...
Contributed by havlis 02.04. 2008 14:33:07 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textStarking is an apple variety with red-flushed or pure red skin. The fruit is sweet and aromatic. It ripens in October and matures stored in December. It can be stored by March. Pruning is needed for good cropping and if you wish to keep the tree compact. ...
Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 11:15:12 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textLuizet apricot is one f the most suitable ones from our climate because it blooms late which helps it avoid late spring frost. On the other hand it is an early variety with fruit maturing in mid-summer. Fruit is rounded to oval, deep orange with irregular red flushes, very aromatic. Taste is sweet. It has 9% sugar content and 13.5% acid content. ...
Contributed by amazon 06.09. 2006 21:43:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textAmerican Beauty,Dublin Bay,Rocketeer,Betty Boop,High Noon,Pearly Gates with a distinctive name for each of hundreds of varieties, the array of roses that could adorn your garden is both dazzling and daunting. So which ones survive hardily on their own for weeks on end, and which ones wither and die without constant attention? How do you tell a climber from a shrub, and how does each thrive? And dont even start with pruning! ...
Contributed by amazon 28.08. 2007 12:00:07 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textA splashy new plant with brightly colored golden heart shaped leaves and pendulous white and burgundy flowers. Commonly known as Himalayan Honeysuckle, this gold-leaf version is a real show stopper. In the South it is a shrub and in the north it behaves like a perennial dieing back to the ground each winter. In the spring it quickly grows back and blooms all summer long. It is best used as you would a perennial or annual, mixed into a colorful border or used as a patio container plant. Plus the ...
Contributed by amazon 06.09. 2011 11:32:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textStrawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges , grape arbors , and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise Fruit trees , shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful — well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape . Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. Its difficult to find food thats more local than ones own ba ...
Contributed by havlis 05.03. 2008 12:38:40 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textStanley is one of the most tasteful and reliable varieties of plums. The fruit is sweet and juicy, though firm. Flesh is orange-yellow, skin is smooth, deep violet-blue. The fruit is excellent fresh as well as canned, high sugar content makes them ideal for drying. ...
Contributed by amazon 03.01. 2008 09:46:20 Topic: Plants / Tropical and Subtropical Plants Match on Article's textNative almost to the tropics the range includes Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and Northern South America. The genus vanilla produces the worlds most popular spice, a climbing member of the orchid family, the vanilla orchid is both terrestial and epiphytic, it grows in soil and other plants sending out aerial roots that capture water and nutrients. ...
Contributed by havlis 17.03. 2008 10:29:41 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textGolden Delicious is a favourite apple brand. It comes from the USA, 1890. The fruit is sweet, juicy and crisp, of golden yellow to greeny-yellow colour. Its size is dependent on soil fertility. The fruit can be very large. ...
Contributed by abies 06.09. 2011 11:16:25 Topic: Plants / Fruit woods Match on Article's textThe black mulberry is generally considered the best tasting of the various mulberry species . It is grown for its delicious, raspberry-like fruit, mulberries . They have a unique tart-sweet taste and are eaten fresh or can be used just like any berry . ...
Contributed by amazon 30.06. 2007 10:33:57 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on TitleBay 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 02.08. 2007 10:18:45 Topic: Plants / Climber Plants Match on Article's textThe largest fruit in its genus, the giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis L. (syn. P. macrocarpa M.T. Mast.), is often called merely grenadilla, or parcha. The vine is fast-growing, large, coarse, herbaceous but woody at the x, arising from a fleshy root that becomes enlarged with age, and climbing trees to a height of 33 to 50 ft (10-15 m) or even 150 ft (45 m) in Java. It has thick 4-angled stems prominently winged on the angles. The solitary, fragrant flowers, up to 4 3/4 or 5 in (12-12 ...
Contributed by amazon 06.08. 2007 10:17:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThis delightful field guide to wild foods describes more than eighty edible plants that grow in Indiana and adjacent states and gives directions for delicious ways-many originals, all tested in the field- of preparing them. The guide provides a plant perspective of Indiana and a seasonal guide to foraging, which tells what plants to look for at each season of the year. A detailed description and a drawing are given for each plant or plant family, along with its preferred habitats, its distributi ...
Contributed by havlis 05.03. 2008 12:51:56 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's textMimosaceae plants are popular mainly in southern Europe as they are very drought tolerant. Even though they come from subtropical parts of the world we can also grow some of them in our climate. Ombrella® belongs to the hardy group. It was a chance selection from France which was observed and cultivated, and later on patented under the name Boubri. It differs from the species by darker leaves and deeply coloured flowers. ...
Contributed by havlis 04.08. 2008 11:48:19 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textAnother hardy fig that can grow and even fruit in our climate (zone 6) is called Bornholm’s Diamond ( Bornholms Diamant ). Its name and characteristics were derived from a Swedish variety called Bornholm bred on on island of the same name. This one is more tolerant of damp weather which makes it suitable for continental climate. ...
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