Landscape design

How to properly care for your lawn with garden tools? What tools are needed for a lawn to keep it in good condition for several years? What devices ...

For residents of the middle zone of the heder, unpretentious evergreen ivy is more familiar as a popular ampelous plant for the home. But in the southern regions of the country it is garden ivy. Huge thickets ...

Ferns can be found from coniferous forests to the tropics, in almost all natural and climatic zones. The garden fern is most often indigenous to the same area where ...

Sedum is a plant of various shapes and colors, widely used in garden design. If you do the landing and care correctly, sedum will look like in the photo. Most types of sedum ...

For garden camellias, a comparison was stuck with roses, but only blooming, when all the plants are at rest, in winter. But the similarity of cultures is limited only by the splendor and shape of flowers, care and ...

Among the representatives of the Theaceae family, Japanese camellia or Camellia japonica occupies a special place due to its amazing decorativeness, the variety of existing varieties and the possibility of growing both in the open air and in ...

Cultivated tropical plants are striking in their beauty. Syrian hibiscus is especially often used in street gardening. It has a relatively high frost resistance. In the southern latitudes of the country, tree-like hibiscus even winters ...

The extensive genus of geraniums includes more than four hundred species that grow naturally in many regions of Europe, Asia and America. Types and varieties of perennial garden geranium, as in the photo, ...

Herbaceous hibiscus for mid-latitudes is more suitable than tree and shrub varieties. It is frost-resistant, decorative double and simple flowers are many large sizes. The flower is called hybrid because ...

The tropics have presented many plants for cultivated agriculture. Among them are garden hibiscus, its care and reproduction will not cause difficulties even in the middle lane. Among the many garden varieties ...

Wild varieties of geraniums can be seen in almost all regions with temperate, subtropical and even tropical climates. The perennial garden geranium was introduced into the culture by the ancient Greeks and ...

In the tropics and subtropics of South America, where bougainvillea grows, the culture can climb many meters in height and braid the walls of houses. Some varieties of this spectacular plant take on a magnificent appearance ...

A good lawn should be uniformly green, well-groomed and neatly trimmed. If the means for mechanizing grass mowing are already familiar, then a lawn seeder is not yet often found in ...

In order for the green lawn to retain its freshness in any weather, the grass grows evenly and amicably, the site owner needs a specialized lawn watering system. You can't do without it for several ...

Neat green lawns are a magnificent decoration of the site, a bright background for ornamental crops, a blooming garden and a cozy home. But to turn the grassy area into an owner's pride ...

Long before the appearance of the famous English lawns and green French lawns, the Moorish lawn was an integral part of the palace garden in the Middle East and North Africa. The Muslim Invasion of the South ...

The lawn roller is an essential piece of garden equipment. Although it is not often used at the summer cottage, its absence brings unnecessary trouble, therefore ...

During operation, the lawn soil is compacted, trampled down. This leads to the destruction of natural capillaries on the surface of the lawn, through which air and moisture penetrate into the depths of the soil. ...

Our life is becoming more dynamic and eventful, and modern technologies allow us to quickly achieve the desired results and simplify a number of everyday situations. If earlier land owners did not ...

An increasing number of summer residents are arranging lawns on their plots. Someone has a small piece of greenery near the gazebo, someone arranges a playground on it for children's games, someone combines ...

In an effort to save time and money, many homeowners are trying to create a lawn from existing vegetation. But no matter how much effort is invested, in such a situation it is not possible ...

The grass cover, without receiving additional care, watering or feeding, grows well, and sometimes becomes a problem for the owner of the site. But such unpretentiousness and self-sufficiency is valid only in relation to ...

The fertile tropics have endowed northern latitudes with many ornamental plants. Not sparing time and labor, breeders strive to tame exotic animals to life in extreme conditions. Growing bougainvillea and caring for ...

In the old days, it was believed that the euonymus near the outskirts would drive away evil spirits and would certainly attract peace and prosperity to the house. It is impossible to check the veracity of grandmother's legends, but one glance at ...

Garden balsam is one of the favorite plants of flower growers, because it is not only extremely easy to care for and reproduce, but also attractive in appearance. The scope of the plant is quite wide: ...

Evergreen and deciduous plants, united in the genus Euonymus, are euonymus familiar to many Russians and residents of other countries of the world. Shrubs and small trees do not produce edible ...

Unlike other ornamental plants that lose their attractiveness by autumn, euonymus decorate the site before snow falls or all year round. In nature, there are more than two hundred of these deciduous ...

Autumn will not seem dull if there is an euonymus on the site. The plant represents a shrub, tree, or creeping carpet. Decorativeness in the beauty of variegated leathery leaves, earrings made of poisonous berries. Landing ...

Balsams, or touch-me-nots, are a vast family of plants native to Asia and Africa, but native to virtually every corner of the world. There are several hundred species in the genus ...

Garden azaleas or, as they are commonly called according to the modern classification of species, rhododendrons are a huge family of flowering shrubs that can seriously differ from each other in size, shades ...

In order to discover all the subtleties of traditional medicine, you need to know about the properties of plants. For example, Eleutherococcus spiny is very often used for medicinal purposes. This is a shrub with a height of ...

Choosing ornamental plants for their garden that can give the site a unique and memorable look, summer residents often pay attention to the lush blooming species. Therefore, in the light of day, flower beds and front gardens ...

A variety of types of green beans and grain beans have long been used with pleasure by humans for food, as fodder crops and green manure. But at the same time, it is not forgotten either ...

An amazing tricolor violet flower, not overseas, own, growing in meadows and copses in the middle lane and gradually appearing in Siberia. A discerning villager, looking at a flower, gave ...

From spring to autumn, pelargoniums grown as indoor and garden plants delight owners with lush caps of inflorescences, endure all the hardships and grow beautifully, ...

Spathiphyllum was first discovered and described by German botanist-enthusiast Gustav Wallis back in the 19th century. The plants that attracted the scientist's attention are still common in Colombia and others ...

In colorful photographs of spathiphyllum and in the description of existing varieties, you can see that the spectacular perianth, thanks to which the plant got its name, has a white or barely creamy color. ...

Over the years, the spathiphyllum bush grows, becomes unmanageable, it cannot painlessly replace the ground. At this time, only the top layer is loosened and removed. Meanwhile, the spathiphyllum flower is aging and ...

Spathiphyllums, natives of the humid South American tropics, where plants can be found in dense undergrowth, on swamps and the banks of water bodies, have taken root well in indoor conditions. Plants from the family ...

Gustav Wallis, who discovered spathiphyllum in the jungles of Colombia, probably did not realize that a century later the plant would become one of the most popular indoor crops, and in Russia it would receive a very ...

Unpretentious, easy-to-care spathiphyllums can be found in apartments and offices, they decorate public buildings and plant greenery in educational institutions. Without any tweaks and labor on the part of the owner, ...

Indoor flowers live constantly in conditions that only remotely resemble natural ones. Therefore, the decorativeness of a plant depends on many factors. Spathiphyllum transplant is a mandatory technique in captivity. Root system ...

In order for the spathiphyllum to please with abundant flowering, you just need to pay a lot of attention and care to the plant. But even so, the question may arise why spathiphyllum does not bloom ...

Modern varieties of pelargonium are difficult to compare with the bushes of "grandmother's" geraniums, whose scarlet or pink umbrellas proudly flaunted on the windowsills of city apartments, in front gardens and on balconies. Despite the fact that ...

Pelargoniums with double flowers, resembling garden roses in shape and structure, enjoy the long-standing and unflagging interest of flower growers. At the same time, there are rosaceous varieties among the zonal pelargoniums, and ...

Stellar or stellate pelargonium is an amazing, unlike the classic varieties, a plant that most flower growers have yet to recognize and appreciate. Pelargonium Lotta Lundberg Blooming terry pelargonium ...

Among the numerous groups of geraniums, fragrant pelargonium occupies a special place. This type of plant does not have a beautiful flowering. But the decorative leaves and the scent that emanates from plants with a fleeting touch ...

The catchy inflorescences of pelargonium on the windows surprise few people. Erect bushes of pelargonium or zonal geranium are well known and loved by flower growers, but ampelous varieties are not yet so well known ...

More recently, a blooming geranium bush on the windowsill has been an indispensable attribute of a prosperous family. It was believed that pelargonium is the keeper of the hearth. The unpretentious plant has made room and gave way to new types of flowers. ...

With the onset of warmth, the streets of cities and small settlements, household plots and balconies are transformed due to the lush bloom of a variety of decorative crops. Ampelous pelargonium, as in the photo, with ...

In the courtyard front gardens, on window sills, balconies and even on city flower beds, with the onset of summer, you can see brightly blooming bushes of pelargonium, popularly called geraniums. Thanks to unpretentiousness ...

An enthusiastic florist selects pets so that in a cramped window sill they give beauty that changes from season to season. Not many indoor plants please with winter flowering. Hippeastrum ...

The era of the great geographical discoveries brought the world not only a lot of new knowledge about unknown lands and peoples, but also helped to find and study many families and species of wild ...

Hippeastrum are famous for their luxurious flowers in a variety of shapes and colors. And although the flowering of this indoor bulbous culture lasts up to a month and can be repeated up to three times a year, ...

The two plants from the amaryllis family are at first glance indistinguishable. Both plants release an arrow, decorated with several gramophones of amazing beauty. At first, rare flowers were grown only in greenhouses, where for ...

In the wild, hippeastrum are found in South America, with a number of varieties found in subtropical climates and the tropics, while others prefer rocky slopes where conditions for growth are very harsh. IN ...

A thorny shrub up to three meters in height grows wild in the southern regions of the country. As a garden culture it is used for hedges. Fruits in the form of oblong berries are used ...

The medicinal plant Kalanchoe brought hundreds of years ago is represented by two species - pinnate and Dergemon. In nature, there are about 200 forms of Kalanchoe. Many of them have taken their rightful place ...

Kalanchoe belongs to those plant species that are easy to reproduce in a variety of ways. Moreover, even an inexperienced grower can easily cope with this task. Kalanchoe, the reproduction of which ...

The Kalanchoe plant, which came to us from Madagascar, attracts the attention of many of our compatriots, because it has not only healing properties, but also a beautiful appearance. Among the many species ...

There are about two hundred plants belonging to the Kalanchoe genus around the world. At the same time, outwardly, they can look like real giants, 2-4 meters in height, with strong ligneous ...

Kalanchoe is a favorite houseplant of flower growers around the world. After all, a flower can delight its owners with beautiful decorative flowering almost all year round. More to the merits of this culture, you can ...

At home, flower growers grow many species of such a diverse and at the same time unpretentious plant like Kalanchoe. On the windowsills today you can see the spectacular Blossfeld Kalanchoe inflorescences, sharp, strewn ...

Walking past the windows of a flower shop, it is difficult to resist the temptation when Blossfeld's Kalanchoe bloom magnificently behind the glass. From under the caps of amazing inflorescences of various tones and shades, the compact itself ...

Plants united by the genus Kalanchoe, in nature, are mostly found in the Southern Hemisphere. Kalanchoe Kalandiva is no exception, representing a miniature, luxuriantly blooming subspecies of Blossfeld's Kalanchoe. Like others ...

The widespread distribution of Kalanchoe as a culture began in the late 80s of the last century, when catchy double hybrids, known today as Kalanchoe Kalandiva, were first obtained. With all the variety ...

The fruits of wild (maiden) grapes are inedible, but the vines of this plant are very decorative. By autumn, the leaves of most varieties acquire a chic burgundy or red color of all kinds of shades and beautifully ...

The extremely beautiful capuchin flower is also a medicinal plant. Its entire aboveground part is useful.Medicinal plants have a special saturation with useful substances during flowering. Understanding the medicinal properties ...

When the dill tree is mentioned, the imagination involuntarily draws the image of a giant umbrella plant with fragrant feathery foliage. Indeed, this culture, which has a culinary, decorative and medicinal value, has many times openwork ...

In the ancient world, boxwood was considered a precious plant due to the similarity of wood to amber. For its extraordinary hardness and density, which allows the tree not to sink in water, it was nicknamed "iron". Also ...

The discovery of these amazing plants belongs to William Burchell, an English botanist and naturalist who traveled in September 1811 in the desert in the South African region of Prisca. In a book published later, the scientist ...

Forming a dense, easy-to-cut and shaping crown, boxwood is one of the favorite plants of landscape designers. Based on this evergreen shrub with a dense compact crown and ...

Where a scorching and waterless desert burns out all living things on the surface, for millennia evolution has created plants adapted to the absence of moisture and searing heat. Long known as a species ...

A dacha, a country house, a rural property - everywhere there are buildings that are not pleasing to the eye. The rapidly growing decorative liana of maiden grapes will help to drape the old barn, decorate the veranda and the facade with greenery. ...

Boxwood is a beloved evergreen plant with small leathery leaves, which has long been used in landscape design and to decorate interiors. Now you won't surprise anyone with a flower bed with ...

The boxwood tree and shrub that has recently become fashionable, although not too whimsical, requires certain knowledge. To get the best results, you need to know exactly how ...

At the mention of heather, the inhabitants of Scotland, Norway and other northern European countries present small perennial shrubs 15 to 50 cm high with shoots densely planted with scaly leaves and ...

Many legends about the ancient elves who inhabited Scotland many thousands of years ago, about their ability to make a drink from heather that prolongs life and romantic stories are associated with ...

Boxwood (other names - beech, busk, stone tree) is a beautiful evergreen shrub with very hard wood that can decorate any landscape. This pliable plant easily tolerates ...

Common heather belongs to the monotypic genus of flowering plants. Heather, planting and caring for which when grown in a garden area is not difficult even for novice plant breeders, is unusually hardy ...

Among shrubs and ornamental trees for landscape design and decoration of city streets, a special place is given to the apple tree of Nedzwiecki. She is stunningly beautiful at the moment of flowering, attracts with a mysterious color scheme ...

Even the most unpretentious plants have some characteristics and have their own requirements for planting and care. The agricultural technology used in the cultivation of hyacinths in the garden is also due to the need to create comfortable ...

When hyacinths bloom in spring, they become one of the first and, obviously, the brightest decorations in the awakening garden. Despite the warmth-loving nature in the middle lane, guests from the Mediterranean and ...

To successfully grow a plant such as hyacinth, you need a correct and calculated approach. If you want your plant to be strong and produce beautiful flowers, you should stick to some ...

One of the wonderful green plants of the shrub type, which is very widespread in the garden and park economy, is the spirea. Due to its abundant flowering, low requirement for soil fertility, ...

So, you joined the number of those who decided to plant red-leaved barberry on their site or in the garden. Planting and caring for this plant is not particularly difficult, ...

Honeysuckle is known to many. The inhabitants of our country plant it in their personal plots. The value lies not only in the taste of the berries, but also in their healing properties. Honeysuckle fruits ...

Fences and front gardens have faded into the background after the opportunity arose to plant barberries in summer cottages and gardens. Photos of barberry in landscape design are amazing. ...

The Thunberg barberry, famous for its decorativeness, which naturally grows on the mountainous slopes of a number of Chinese provinces and in Japan, was noticed by gardeners in the second half of the century before last. And ...

Both decorative varieties of honeysuckle and plants producing edible fruits are increasingly being attacked by pests and all kinds of diseases. The previously existing opinion that a shrub with blue berries ...

If you are one of those who have already managed to evaluate all the beneficial properties of the honeysuckle plant, then the question of the reproduction of honeysuckle is probably very relevant for you. Unfortunately, even ...

There are many varieties of honeysuckle. They all have their own characteristics and distinctive features. At the same time, it is possible to single out edible varieties that give a good harvest and decorative varieties intended for ...

Honeysuckle is one of the earliest horticultural crops grown in Russia. Berries of fruit varieties have extraordinary healing properties, and decorative types of shrubs are great for ...

It seems that there is no free space on the site, but spring is coming, and again it is impossible to pass by plants, especially such as spirea. After all, this beauty is noticeable from afar. ...

Honeysuckle is an amazing healing berry that confidently expands its halo of habitat on an ever larger territory of our country and is deservedly popular with gardeners and farmers. Small sprawling ...

Among the many plants for creating a landscape, Tatar honeysuckle occupies a worthy place. There are many reasons for this, one of which is the unpretentiousness of the plant and its rapid growth. However, the cultural form ...

Spireas are deciduous ornamental shrubs, cultivated and growing wild in almost all regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Thanks to the efforts of breeders, the range of natural species has been significantly expanded, ...

Blooming spirea Wangutta does not leave indifferent either experienced gardeners or novice plant growing lovers. And the point is not only in amazing shoots strewn with white flowers, but also in unpretentiousness ...

Natives of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia, hyacinths bloom in early spring, striking with their aroma spreading in the air and a riot of color from white and all shades of blue to yellow ...

An early tasty berry grown at their summer cottage is a real luxury for many Siberians. But not for those who are engaged in the cultivation of honeysuckle and have already managed ...