Conifers Other / Books Conifers: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care, with Step-by-Step Instructions and Over 160 Beautiful Photographs Mainly evergreen, tough and hardy, conifers give year-round pleasure and provide superb backdrops to your planting. All you need to know at a glance, this handy and superbly … Contributed by amazon 20.09. 2016 16:28:01 (20325 readers) | |
Success with Sun-Loving Plants Other / Books As gardeners become increasingly concerned with both drought and water conservation, plants that love the sun are an attractive option. From white flowering hawthorns to richly scented wisteria, they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, with endless potential for producing stunning planting schemes. … Contributed by amazon 20.04. 2008 21:47:30 (14156 readers) | |
Pests of the Native California Conifers Other / Books This guide synthesizes the most current information available on the pests and environmental conditions that can damage California s conifers, the vast majority of native trees in the state. Authoritative and easy-to-use, it is an essential reference for biologists, arborists, ecologists, foresters and … Contributed by amazon 14.05. 2007 09:00:56 (11950 readers) | |
The Gardener's Guide to Planting and Growing Shrubs, Climbers & Trees Other / Books Choosing, planting and caring for trees, conifers, palms, shrubs and climbers for... Gardener s Guide to Planting and Growing | Shrubs, climbers and trees provide definition to our gardens, softening the hard landscaping with color, texture, and scent. These plants are the mainstay of the garden, providing … Contributed by amazon 29.01. 2008 13:16:54 (17220 readers) | |
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Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' - Columnar Irish Yew Plants / Conifers Taxus baccata Fastigiata is an extremely useful evergreen conifer for sun or shade. Most commonly used for hedging purposes, it has a naturally upright broadly columnar form and takes shearing well. Its dense form and dark green color makes a matte-green dramatic backdrop for a perennial or mixed shrub … Contributed by abies 30.11. 2007 12:32:57 (175163 readers) | |
Grow Native: Bringing Natural Beauty to Your Garden Other / Books Grow Native: Bringing Natural Beauty to Your Garden Learn how to transform your yard into a beautiful landscape using native plants! … Contributed by amazon 03.04. 2016 13:42:40 (24993 readers) | |
Trees for All Seasons Other / Books Broadleaved Evergreens for Temperate Climates | It s simple: broadleaved evergreens are trees that don t lose their leaves. And despite their versatility and beauty, they are often underused. Why? Most people, including knowledgeable gardeners, equate evergreens with conifers—and Christmas trees— … Contributed by amazon 04.02. 2010 11:11:27 (19828 readers) | |
Araucaria araucana - monkey puzzle tree Plants / Conifers Among the most spectacular conifers this monkey puzzle tree is the hardiest. The scale-like leaves are dark green, sharp-pointed. This species is said to be 60 million years old. It dislikes atmospheric pollution and hot and dry soil. It does surprisingly well in our climate, too, if you provide a winter … Contributed by havlis 18.10. 2007 10:35:45 (45882 readers) | |
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Many uses for groundcovers (1) Plants / Other Groundcovers are low-growing plants that form a sod as they develop in a horizontal direction. Some varieties are evergreen and some are even reasonably tolerant of being walked on. An advantage of using groundcovers is that their closely-knit carpet of leaves gives weeds down. … Contributed by pph 11.04. 2007 20:26:16 (18874 readers) | |
Ginkgo biloba - maidenhair tree Plants / Conifers Maidenhair tree is probably one of the oldest species on Earth. It was here some 180 million years ago … obviously it was the time when the Dead Sea was still ill. Its extreme tolerance of various conditions made it survive to our time. One tree can live as long as 2000 years. … Contributed by havlis 12.03. 2008 10:37:07 (36711 readers) | |
Cryptomeria japonica 'Elegans viridis' - Japanese cedar Plants / Conifers Japanese cedars proved to grow happily in our garden where winter temperature dropped to -27°C a couple of times. They showed no damage whatsoever and thrive. This variety has one more plus as opposed to other cryptomerias – it does not change its colour to coppery brown in winter and remains green … Contributed by havlis 21.03. 2015 20:52:45 (44666 readers) | |
Magnolia 'Goldstar' - Goldstar magnolia Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Another rare magnolia is this cross between magnolia acuminata var. subcordata “Miss Honeybee” and magnolia stellata. It gained flower shape fro stellata and colour from acuminate. Goldstar has medium sized flowers with 14 narrow petals, very similar to star-shaped magnolias. The colour is a delicate … Contributed by havlis 27.03. 2008 16:41:39 (46929 readers) | |
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Magnolia 'Elizabeth' - Elizabeth magnolia Plants / Deciduous Shrubs The name of this magnolia hybrid has nothing to do with the British queen. Obviously, it does not come from the UK but the USA. And story tells the following. Quite a few decades ago – in 1957 – Evamaria Sperber planted a newly hybridized seed in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. … Contributed by havlis 19.02. 2008 08:23:02 (45967 readers) | |
Helleborus 'Mrs. Betty Ranicar' - Hellebore Plants / Perennials Helleborus Mrs Betty Ranicar is named after a fine Tasmanian plantswoman, and is an orientalis hybrid that produces crowds of fantastic, heavily double, snowy white blooms that will be a delight amongst vivid spring bulbs in the shady border. Be one of the first to grow such a top quality double Helleborus … Contributed by amazon 10.07. 2007 14:25:52 (24038 readers) | |
Yucca filamentosa - Adam's needle Plants / Perennials Adam’s needle is a great plant which looks as if stolen from sandy deserts in Mexico. Truth is that this plant is native to southern parts of the USA, not necessarily the driest. In both Czech and Slovak republic this plant has been slightly overused over the past few decades in either neglected gardens … Contributed by havlis 25.09. 2016 20:15:20 (12914 readers) | |
Taxus x media 'Hillii' - yew Plants / Conifers Yews could be called common shrubs, where common not only means omnipresent but mainly dull. Well, perhaps for someone. We see yew and predominantly its varieties as very useful and attractive features of gardens of almost any size. They vary by size, shape and even foliage colour. … Contributed by havlis 23.09. 2016 16:28:26 (17753 readers) | |
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