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Echinacea: How to Grow
Echinacea can be grown without picking and sown directly into unprotected soil. Sowing in open ground is carried out in the spring, when the soil temperature is above 12 degrees. The soil is loosened before this. The seeds are scattered over its surface and sprinkled with a thin ball of soil.
Diana Dashkevich gardening plants tips Garden 11 November 2023
Subtle plant movements: Nature is amazing
Plants are often seen as things that can't move, but can they? In fact, most plants are not that still - they can move slightly to catch more sunlight or even water.
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Why orchids look so unusual: Nature is amazing
Orchids are beautiful and expensive flowers that have a surprising number of varieties. One of the most unsuual things about them is their diversity of shapes and colors - they can look so different!
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Nasturtium: Growing and Care
Nasturtium loves the sun, so try to place the flowerbed in a place well lit by the sun. This plant needs light, loose, very fertile and neutral soil (pH 7.0).
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Amaranth
The plant loves heat; intensive green growth occurs at a temperature of +30 °C. You can also sow in spring in open soil heated to 15 ° C, to a depth of 2 cm. After 12-14 days, shoots will appear.
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Dried garden flowers: Turn fresh flowers into long-lasting home decor
Garden flowers are extremely beautiful, but they tend to die - and that's when you can dry them and use them as home decor. Some dried flowers look and last better than others, so if you love the appeal of dried bouquets, then you should choose flower varieties wisely.
Kate Yakimchuk decoration tips Garden 10 November 2023
Allium: Growing and Care
Allium is an ornamental onion, which is considered the closest relative of garlic and onions. Perennial plants have been used by flower growers lately. They amaze with the variety of colors and splendor of flower balls. Onions bloom for up to 3 weeks.
Diana Dashkevich gardening plants tips Garden 9 November 2023
Anemone: Growing and Care
Anemones are delicate flowers that do not really like sharp temperatures or drafts. Keep them out of the wind to prevent damage to the rim. During strong winds they can be kept indoors. Cut anemones need clean water.
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Badan: Growing and Care
The flowers are lilac, collected in dense bell-shaped inflorescences. They are divided in the middle into rounded petals. The plant blooms very early, flowering lasts about two months.
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Nigella: Growing and Care
Nigella are tiny (1-3 mm) seeds, in the form of a black trihedron, matte. The taste is bitter at first, and the aftertaste is hot-spicy, sweetish with bitterness. The smell appears when heated or rubbed between the fingers. The aroma is subtle, reminiscent of strawberries, black pepper, and nutmeg at the same time.
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Mattiola: Growing and Care
For planting, choose open, well-lit areas with fertile, fairly loose, neutral soil.
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Motherwort: Growing and Care
The easiest way to grow it is directly in open ground. Seeds are planted in winter or early spring. Before planting, the area is cleaned and thoroughly dug up.
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Flowers that you shouldn't plant together: Gardening tips
When choosing flowers for your beautiful garden beds, remember that some plants don't exactly like growing next to each other. That's why you should choose them carefully, so they won't interrupt each others' growth.
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Dried flowers decorations: Interior tips
Flowers are perfect home decor items, but they tend to go off quickly - so why not use dried flowers instead? This way, you can keep your flowers for weeks or even months, and they will look the same all the time!
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Camellia: Growing and Care
Camellia japonica comes from China and likes a warm, humid environment, but not high temperatures.
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Purslane: Growing and Care
Purslane grandiflora has become particularly popular as an ornamental container plant - its short height and bright, medium-sized flowers make it ideal for growing in outdoor vases, balcony boxes and hanging baskets.
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Primrose
Ear primroses prefer alkaline soil (add ash when planting and add it if necessary), other common species grow well on loam with a neutral or slightly acidic soil reaction, and on moisture-absorbing peaty soils.
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Astancia: Growing and Care
Astrantia bloom for a long time, 40-45 days, and grow quickly. The "Lars" variety has dark pink flowers, quite large, about 5 cm. It develops and blooms best in loose, fertile, moist soils.
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Mahonia: Growing and Care
The soil should be loose and light. You cannot compact it or trample it. This is because mahonia grows slowly, and compacted soil can create additional difficulties, thereby slowing its growth even further. The distance between seedlings is at least one meter.
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Heather
It grows very well on alpine hills, in rock gardens and gravel gardens, where excess water does not linger, snow does not stagnate, and gravel does not allow the roots of the bush to dry out.
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