Growing Green Other / Books Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques is an essential guide about organic growing and is perfect for absolute beginners as well as experienced professionals. This book introduces the concept of stockfree-organic and shows, through case studies, that when growers abandon the use of slaughterhouse … Contributed by amazon 10.07. 2007 14:39:44 (14575 readers) | |
The Organic Lawn Care Manual Other / Books In the modern suburban landscape, beautiful, green lawns are perhaps the most ubiquitous feature of all. It?s difficult to imagine a friendly neighborhood without broad, clean stretches of neatly shorn grass. … Contributed by amazon 30.03. 2007 11:27:47 (11677 readers) | |
The Green Gardener Other / Books Working with Nature, Not Against It | Maintaining a colorful and productive garden is easy with the advice on how to change gardening ways and embrace green, organic techniques in this handy little book. This illustrated manual includes easy-to-follow information on such tasks as improving the soil, … Contributed by amazon 11.07. 2007 12:23:55 (12030 readers) | |
Acer palmatum dissectum 'Viridis' - Japanese Maple Plants / Conifers Lace-leaf Japanese Maple Acer palmatum dissectum Viridis A green lace-leaf type Japanese Maple. Growing in a round dome will take 50 years to get 10 feet tall. Leaves dissected to mid-vein and green. In Fall colors are red-orange. Spectacular for a bonsai! … Contributed by amazon 18.10. 2007 09:23:45 (42459 readers) | |
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Heuchera x villosa 'Citronelle' - Coral Bells Plants / Perennials Family: Saxifragaceae Origin: Hybrid origin. Bright lime yellow-green foliage. Cream flowers. Exceptionally strong grower for this coloring. Sun to partial shade and well-drained, alkaline, organic soil. Excellent plants for the front of the perennial border or among trees and shrubs. Growing in 4 pot. … Contributed by amazon 04.08. 2008 11:24:51 (28547 readers) | |
Pieris japonica 'Katsura' - lily of the valley Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Lily of the valley shrub is an attractive evergreen shrub with handsome flowers and striking red new leaves. Vase-shaped flowers are pink and hang on pink stamens in slightly pendent, long racemes. “Katsura” is the darkest variety with deep burgundy red new leaves, which turn to dark green in summer. … Contributed by havlis 02.04. 2008 14:13:51 (42473 readers) | |
Ceanothus x 'Blue Sapphire' - blueblossom Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Californian blue lilac | This Californian lilac is an outstanding introduction from New Zealand. In the warmer days of late spring it blooms with profusion of dense panicles of deep blue flowers. Leaves are short, obovate, dark green with reddish brown tint. Branches are chocolate brown, fragile and … Contributed by havlis 07.06. 2008 07:01:38 (51078 readers) | |
Brodiaea laxa 'Queen Fabiola' - triplet lily, wild hyacinth Plants / Perennials Triplet lily is a beautiful and easy cormous perennial. It flowers in end May or June for about 3 weeks. Flowers are star shaped, violet-blue, borne on 30-50 long stems, each bearing about 10 blooms. Mid green leaves are linear. Cut flowers last 2 weeks in a vase, or left uncut in the garden they bloom … Contributed by havlis 22.03. 2008 17:05:19 (63644 readers) | |
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Cornus florida 'Cherokee Daybreak' - flowering dogwood Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Flowering dogwood is quite an unusual shrub or small tree which draws your attention all year round: in the spring it has very showy large petal-like coloured bracts, and its leaves turn to beautiful colours early in the autumn. … Contributed by havlis 11.04. 2017 11:16:29 (13431 readers) | |
Cycas revoluta - Japanese Sago Palm Plants / Other This unique plant resembles a palm tree but is actually a cycad. These living fossils, members of the Cycadaceae family, dominated the landscape during the Mesozoic era over 150 million years ago. Today about 10 genera of cycads still survive. The most commonly grown is the Japanese sago, also called … Contributed by amazon 07.10. 2007 19:06:22 (24014 readers) | |
Prunus lusitanica - Portugal laurel, cherry laurel Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Portugal laurel is a great evergreen plant that is surprisingly hardier that some large-leaved cherry laurels. Origin: S.W.Europe. … Contributed by havlis 17.04. 2014 21:29:38 (18919 readers) | |
Arum italicum - lords and ladies Plants / Perennials Lords-and-ladies is an old favourite among tuberous plants. And as you can tell by the Latin name, it does not come from Bangladesh though it looks rather exotic. The arrow-shaped leaves are very attractive, marbled green with conspicuous creamy white or yellowish veins. They are popular for flower bouquets. … Contributed by havlis 20.04. 2008 21:24:42 (91660 readers) | |
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x Cornus 'Rutgan®' - STELLAR PINK® dogwood Plants / Deciduous Shrubs STELLAR PINK® | Stellar Pink® is another beautiful cross coming from hybridization of flowering dogwood and Japanese dogwood. It was the answer to the so-called dogwood decline in the USA caused by the anthracnose epidemic in the last decades of 20th century. This variety, same as a number of others, … Contributed by havlis 19.02. 2008 08:45:03 (55226 readers) | |
x Cornus 'KN30-8' VENUS® - dogwood Plants / Deciduous Shrubs This dogwood comes from an interspecific hybridization of Japanese dogwood and cornus nuttallii. Dr. Elwin R.Orton from the Rutgers University of New Jersey, USA was the man behind this work that began in 1983 and 20 years later he was able to have his superb plant patented under patent number PP16309. … Contributed by havlis 20.02. 2008 09:27:18 (53382 readers) | |
THE DAYLILY - A plant for all climates Plants / PerennialsIt is not surprising that daylilies have become so popular. They are amongst the most beautiful flowering plants, bloom prolifically over a long period and come in an enormous range of spectacular colours. … Contributed by eurocallis 14.09. 2006 18:07:11 (10990 readers) | |
