Archive for Gardening
Spring is gardening time
Posted by: | CommentsMany gardeners wait eagerly Every year for spring to life Pls She awakens nature. Garden this year a little Begins Earlier, in February, the first seeds sown. The Garden Year Will Be well planned, Which plants are built Nowhere, to Which Exotics wants to try this in years. The first plants That Can you pull yourself are the chilli plant, they want grow in the spring of the slowest. Radish salad and follow it, they want cans already depending from mid-March to the greenhouse Will Be Built according to the weather.
From there, the outdoor season in the fall of the greenhouse was already Cleared and prepared for the coming season. Only the soil Should be loosened again, then even Had the first radishes to be built. Radish and lettuce are the first plants That Can be built in the spring, the first own vegetables from the garden taste so good again. But now it is Also stressed in the garden, the plants have many, and piqued the cast are sown. Between March and April are all sorts of plants sown and grown Until mid-May, they want Should have developed into small plants are handsome. Until then everything is in the open it takes, but then Begins a quieter time, Can you watch the casting plant in the daily As They grow up.
Feng Shui in the home and garden
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Home and garden can be "designed in harmony according to the Chinese philosophy of nature" Feng Shui. Especially in the plant area has the shape, form, color, and the structure of the leaves have a direct influence on the human condition. Invigorating, soothing or harmonizing may Plant . Act If the garden will be designed according to the rules of Feng Shui, Feng Shui can be useful advice. Such a service offers around the Chamber of Agriculture of Lower Saxony.
The aim of such counseling is to Facilities or to have also created environments that are pleasant and balancing effect on people. In Chinese philosophy, play the two terms Yin and Yang is an important role. A balance is created by equal shares in the soothing yin and the yang demanding.
serve as bases for the optimal balance of the Elements Fire, water, wood, earth and metal. Each of which a certain shape, color and orientation are assigned. Plants as well as decorative objects are placed according to these specifications. It will establish a pleasant atmosphere and balance.
Reviews of lilies
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Lilies are among the most popular Summer flowers. Also available as cut flowers, the decorative flowers are very good. Sometimes it also happens that attach themselves to the clothing lily pollen, and one to the most efficient way to remove. How best to do that but also how to extend shelf life of lilies and other cut flowers should be briefly explained here.
Vase not stand in the sun
Whether for lilies and other cut flowers, the best is there anything to the water cut flower food. The vase itself should of course be first cleaned thoroughly. Flowers from the business should be raised at home with a clean, sharp knife again. The vase with the Cut flowers one should not direct sunlight nor place it in the draft.
Distance from lily pollen
Order from the pollen of textiles Lilies remove, you should prefer in any case "dry" methods. Alternatively, they can be using a tape lift or wegbürsten carefully with a soft brush. One should not try to remove the pollen with water.
Wild Bouquet: Not everything can be picked
Posted by: | CommentsNow in the summer a colorful palette pleased to meadows and fields or on road wheels, the eyes: Daisies, Buttercups, clover, bluebells and many other herbs, grasses and wild flowers. A walk through the woods and fields one gets really want to pick himself a meadow of flowers. But respect can not be all that is growing by the wayside simply take Sun
In particular, a protected and endangered plants you should definitely leave. The so-called "Red List" is not short. These include arnica, Blue star (Scilla siberica)Many ferns, Monkshood (Aconitum napellus), Gentian (Gentiana), Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, irises (Iris), Checkerboard flower (Fritillaria meleagris) and wild orchids (Orchidaceae) .. These and many other rare plants should be blooming then, and be protected! Who is not a specialist in this area should borrow to purchase a field guide for wildflowers or so and go on tour. Such a book should include, above all, the protected and endangered plants.
Not at all must lend a hand by German visitors nature reserves or national parks. It is generally forbidden in general any Plant or remove the fruit. There is only one which we may remember from such a protected area and these are the impressions – you also recorded photographically.
Otherwise – that is found for wild flowers which are often – is the so-called hand bouquet rule. That means only one Ostrich are picked, which must not be thicker than what fits between the thumb and forefinger.
