GUEST FROM THE SOUTH - IGLITSA A beautiful shrub with evergreen thorny twigs, dotted with small flowers and red berries, I first saw in the Caucasus. From friends I learned that this is a prickly needle (or Pontic) Ruscus aculeatus, and its leaves turned out to be not leaves at all, but stems. The plant was so ornamental that he could not resist the temptation to try to grow it in his own ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Butcher's needle (or Pontic) - cultivation and care
ZIBOLD'S MAGNOLIA - THE EMPEROR'S FLOWER Over the long history of Korea (and it has more than 4000 years), a huge number of legends and legends have been composed about this plant. Its flower with snow-white petals symbolized aristocratic origin, purity, purity of thoughts, honesty, wisdom, disinterestedness, courage and all the noble and positive qualities of a person that one can think of. This is a tree from time immemorial…
Garden and cottage - read more ... Magnolia Siebold (photo) cultivation, description, planting and care
PITTOSPORUM TOBIRA - CARE AND ADVICE About 10 years ago, at the dawn of my "flower disease", I bought outlandish, unfamiliar plants, preferring fragrant ones. This is how Tobir's pittosporum appeared in my collection, which was written about everywhere as one of the "extremely delicious-smelling". A LONG WAIT A small (about 5 cm) rooted cutting gradually began to grow. A year has passed, the second, ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Pittosporum (photo) growing at home, planting and care
HAZEL VARIETIES IN THE MIDDLE STRIP - GROWING AND CARE From early childhood I love this unpretentious plant with velvety wide leaves and heavy edges of delicious nuts. Almost every day in August-September, my grandmother and I went for nuts to the forest near the dacha, where slender bushes of wild hazel, or hazel, grew in thick undergrowth. The etymology of the word hazel before ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Hazel in the Moscow region - cultivation and care, reviews of varieties
FROM BUDRA CONTINUOUS BENEFITS I have a lot of shade on my site because of the trees. And I want to plant something elegant. Ivy-shaped budra has become a pleasant discovery for me in this regard: the plant is ideal for shady places! This perennial grows as a groundcover and spreads like a green carpet somewhere under an apple or cherry tree. His jackets are dense, wide, reliable. And if you place...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Budra ivy - photo, benefits and plant cultivation