How to cure the plants: the Lathyrus

Today we will see how to cultivate the Lathyrus, better known as the Sweet pea. Perhaps the name will make you smile a bit ', but I assure you that the flowers are really beautiful, because they look like butterflies. The Sweet pea is a herbaceous annual vine that belongs to the pea family and is native to southern Europe.

The leaves are light green in color, while the flowers that bloom in spring and summer, butterfly-shaped, aromatic and in clusters. Their color is pink, in all its hues, red, lilac, purple, white and yellow. How to Develop the Sweet pea? The seeds should be left in water for several hours, then can be planted in the ground.

How to cure the cacti: the Portulaca

Today we will see how to grow a succulent plant particularly widespread: Portulaca. It is difficult to treat the cacti, which are also suitable for those who do not have the so-called "green thumb". The Purslane is also known as porcelain. This is because it leaves very bright light green. The stems are red and have many branches.

The peculiarity is that its flowers are small, wrinkled-looking petals and bright colors: yellow, red, pink, fuchsia and orange. The Purslane is a succulent native to South Asia and Australia. What are Succulents? These plants are equipped with special tissues that can store water in them.

How to treat plants: Begonia semperflorens

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How to cure the plants: lavender

I think that lavender is one of the most fragrant plants in all. I am convinced that all of you have used at least once in their body products scented with lavender. Our grandmothers were used to take the flowers of this plant, dry them, put them in bags to scent linen drawers. Who still uses small lavender soap? Again, these were very good to scent drawers.

Lavender is a herbaceous perennial plant, native to the Mediterranean areas where it grows wild in the bushes. He leaves with an elongated shape and gray-silver. During the summer it produces fragrant flowers purple-blue, grouped in spikes. The medieval times was much used lavender to scent the body.

The garden plants are evergreen and hardy

The evergreen garden plants are those that never lose their leaves, even during the winter season. Much love for our gardens, they give a green space throughout the year. They are usually woody and can be trees, shrubs, bushes. These plants are prominent in humid tropical climates but also, conversely, in cold climates.

The best known are undoubtedly the conifers: the specimen is the only conifer that sheds its leaves during the cold season is the larch. Others, like the thorns or lilac, behave differently depending on where they live. Evergreen garden plants: species that are evergreen plants in our gardens are so many: there is such as Aucuba which has red berries in winter and live well in the shade, bamboo, boxwood, a hedge that grows very slowly and very used in rose gardens and the botanical gardens, the Cotoneaster, Pyracantha to a thorny bush with orange berries, red or yellow.

How to treat plants: Water Lilies hardy

The lilies are beautiful aquatic plants. Nymphaeacee belong to the family and are found in ponds or lakes. Did you know that we can grow even on the terrace or in the garden? The hardy species, in fact, they adapt well to our climate. The important thing is that during the winter their rhizome is not at risk of frost.

The hardy water lilies bloom in spring and summer, from April to September. the uniqueness of these wonderful flowers is that they open at ten in the morning and close at five in the afternoon. What is needed to grow the hardy water lilies? Need a shower or tub, provided that it is not painted because the paint could damage the water lily.

Flowers and plants at the fair: 2011 in Genoa Euroflora

If you love plants and flowers you can not visit Euroflora 2011. Euroflora was born in 1966, takes place every five years, and is the largest Italian festival in floriculture. Euroflora be held in Genovada Thursday, April 21 to Sunday May 1. The exhibitors will be present at Euroflora producers, nurserymen and florists, not only Italian but also foreign.

There will also be exhibitors together in associations to represent their town or region. The themes for this Euroflora are biodiversity, the environment and man's ability to live in harmony with nature. Euroflora is one of the largest flower festivals in Europe. Do you think that in 2001 had six hundred and seventy thousand visitors! The last edition, namely that of 2006, had as its theme the water you could see waterfalls, fountains, water features and ponds.

How to cure the plants: the Adenium

Do you want a houseplant that produces large flowers, elegant and very decorative? Then you can buy or make gifts, Adenium, a plant native to Africa, where it also reaches 3 meters in height. The characteristics of this plant are the form shrub, oval leaves, bright green, and flowers that can reach 13 cm in diameter.

The flower color is white, pink, pink or red with edges darker than the center. The Adenium is also known as Desert Rose. How to Develop the Adenium? It 's a houseplant that loves the light positions, and then put it in a room where you can enjoy sunshine all day. Remember that this is a tropical plant, so the temperature must be appropriate: in winter the minimum should not drop below 16 °, otherwise the Adenium dies.

How to treat plants: Primula malacoides

There is a map that begins to bloom when the cold winter goes away: it is the Primula. It grows wild in meadows and forests and we are delighted with the yellow color of its flowers. There are several kinds of primroses, suitable for cultivation in gardens but also in flower pots on balconies and windowsills.

Some are also suitable for cultivation in the apartment. The wild species that are in the meadows and woods are acaulis Primula vulgaris and Primula veris or or smell. These two are not suitable for cultivation at home, while a species with brightly colored flowers, which is well suited to growing in the apartment: the Primrose malacoides.

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How to cure the plants: the Daisies

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