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Growing Palms - Landscaping-Gardening
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Everybody recognises palm trees, they are the universal symbol for the tropics but many are hardy enough for our temperate climate gardens. Until recently New Zealand gardeners have had only a very limited range of palms to choose from. In the last five years the range has grown enormously as nurseries have been encouraged by gardeners eager to experiment. Although palms are associated with sun and sand most species appreciate light shade when young. Shelter from wind is important if the fronds are t...
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Garden Room Boundaries... - Landscaping-Gardening
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Dependable shrubs and hedges that you can use for fences or as wall between the garden rooms include various types such as:. Forsythia is a spring flowering shrubs that would make the country garden room lovely. Long after the spring months, the flowers will die off but the leaves on this shrub will fill in as a wall nicely. Gordon Goh is author of the free, informative website Simply Flower Garden. Offering quality useful tips for flower garden lovers. The Sundial - Garden Ornament or Exotic Timepiece?
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Tuberous Begonias - Landscaping-Gardening
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If you appreciate plants that have no hesitation in boldly stating their presence with huge, almost artificially perfect flowers, then tuberous begonias are for you. While some may find them rather too overstated, downright brazen even, if you like colour, and plenty of it, with subtlety an option rather than compulsory, then look no further. Description and classification and groups. 1 Cane-like, which have narrow, upright stems with conspicuous leaf nodes and evergreen foliage. 4 Semperflorens, which a...
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Gallica Roses - Landscaping-Gardening
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Gallica roses are a case in point. While the popularity of Old Roses waxes and wanes as each new generation discovers them and then seeks something new, the best of them carry on regardless. Their flowers, which are abundant and often heavily scented, tend toward the pink, red and purple shades. White gallicas are also available and many of the darker flowered types are flecked or otherwise marked with white or pale pink. The flowers appear only in spring and early summer, with perhaps the occasi...The f...
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Fuchsia procumbens - Landscaping-Gardening
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Fuchsia (named after Leonhard Fuchs, a 16th century German botanist) is a genus of over 100 species of shrubs and small trees. Although there are four New Zealand native species (colensoi, excorticata, perscandens and procumbens) and one from Tahiti, the vast bulk of the genus occurs in Central and South America. The most widely grown of New Zealand's native species is Fuchsia procumbens and it too is quite unlike the garden cultivars. It is a low spreading plant with small rounded leaves and can be ...
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Wooden Greenhouses - Landscaping-Gardening
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Wooden Greenhouses are the choice for the traditionalist and the expert gardener. They are commonly made from Canadian Western Red Cedar, which is renowned for it's exceptional long life outdoors as a result of it's effective rot resistance. Wooden greenhouses are the traditional style of greenhouse before the aluminium greenhouses and plastic greenhouses became more popular towards the end of the last century. Lawn Disease And What To Do About It. Working with Landscape Contractors. Having a beautiful a...
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Camellias - Landscaping-Gardening
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Named by Linnaeus in 1735 in honour of the Jesuit priest and naturalist Georg Josef Kamel, Camellia is a genus originating mainly from China but with a range covering a large area of South East Asia. The exact number of species is not clear but it is somewhere around 100. Camellia is an important commercial genus because of one species, Camellia sinensis, the plant from which tea is made. Rhododendron, Rosa or Camellia) is used to produce a multitude of hybrids distinct groups tend to form. Camellias are...
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Cyclamen - Landscaping-Gardening
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Think of cyclamen and the chances are that Mothers Day immediately comes to mind, which is something of a pity. Now don't misinterpret me, there's nothing wrong with mothers or with having a day for them, but it does seem a little unfortunate when such beautiful, adaptable and useful plants become so commercialised that there's difficulty escaping that association. This species is found from southern France to Greece and has large, lobed leaves that are dark green with conspicuous silver-grey mottling an...
