Sakura is most often associated with Japan and its culture. Picnics in the shade flowering trees have long been an integral part of the meeting of spring in the Land of the Rising Sun. The financial and academic year starts here on April 1, when the magnificent cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Therefore, many significant moments in the life of the Japanese are marked by their blossoming. But sakura grows well in cooler regions - certain types can be successfully grown even in Siberia.
We have prepared a hearty, incredibly appetizing and simply elementary dish for you today. This gravy is one hundred percent universal, as it goes with every side dish: vegetables, pasta, or anything. Sauce with chicken and mushrooms will save you in moments when there is no time or you don't want to think too much about what to cook. Grab your favorite side dish (you can do it ahead of time to keep everything hot), add the gravy and lunch is ready! A real magic wand.
Agriculture belongs to such types human activity, the successful outcome of which is not always directly proportional to the efforts made. Unfortunately, nature does not necessarily act as our ally in growing plants, but often even, on the contrary, throws up new challenges. Increased reproduction of pests, abnormal heat, late return frosts, hurricane wind, drought ... And one of the springs presented us with another surprise - a flood.
With the coming of the season summer cottage works the question arises of growing strong and healthy seedlings our favorite vegetables: cabbage, tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplant and many other crops. Along with this, the question arises - how to grow worthy seedlings and in the future to get from it healthy plants and a decent harvest? For example, I have been growing seedlings for a single season and protecting my garden from diseases with the help biological products Alirin-B, Gamair, Glyokladin, Trichocin.
I will allow myself to confess my love today. In love for ... lavender. One of the best unpretentious, evergreen and flowering shrubsthat can be successfully grown in your garden. And if someone thinks that lavender is Mediterranean, or at least southern, then you are wrong. Lavender grows well and more northern regions, even in the suburbs. But in order to grow it, you need to know some rules and features. They will be discussed in this article.
Having once tasted such a priceless product as pumpkin, it is already difficult to stop looking for new recipes for serving it to the table. Korean pumpkin, despite its pungency and spice, has a fresh and delicate taste. After cooking, you will need to cover the salad and let it brew for at least 15 minutes. My butternut squash is very juicy and sweet, so there is no need to crush it. If the pumpkin is of a different variety, then you can knead it with your hands so that it slightly sips the juice.
Salad, as the earliest and unpretentious green culture, has always been held in high esteem by gardeners. Most summer residents usually begin spring planting by sowing lettuce, parsley and radish. AT recent times striving for healthy eating and big choice greens in supermarkets make gardeners wonder, which of these plants can be grown in their beds? In this article, we will tell you about the nine most interesting, in our opinion, types of salad.
Another "bonus" is always "attached" to the flowering of indoor roses - capriciousness. When they say that it is easy to grow roses in rooms, they are cunning. For flowering indoor roses must be created literally ideal conditions... And vigilant care, attention and response to any plant signals is the main guarantee of success. True, no matter how capricious roses are, you can grow them in a pot format quite successfully. And attentive flower growers should not be afraid of this.
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Despite the fact that the calendar spring begins in March, you can truly feel the awakening of nature only with the appearance of flowering plants in the garden. Nothing testifies to the arrival of spring as eloquently as the clearing of flowering primroses. Their appearance is always a small holiday, because winter has receded, and a new gardening season awaits us. But, in addition to spring primroses, there is still something to see and admire in the garden in the month of April.
Growing rapidly and turning into wild thickets, hogweed disrupts the existing ecosystem and suppresses all other plants. Essential oilscontained in the fruits and leaves of hogweed, cause severe forms of dermatitis. At the same time, it is much more difficult to deal with it than with other common weeds. Fortunately, today a tool has appeared on the free sale that can short term rid your site of most weeds, including hogweed.
Carrots happen different colors: orange, white, yellow, purple. Beta-carotene and lycopene predominate in orange carrots, yellow due to the presence of xanthophylls (lutein); white carrots are high in fiber, while purple carrots contain anthocyanin, beta and alpha carotenes. But, as a rule, gardeners choose carrot varieties for sowing not by the color of the fruit, but by the timing of their ripening. About the best early, middle and late varieties we will explain in this article.
Recommended enough easy recipe pie with delicious chicken and potato filling. Open pie with chicken and potatoes is great hearty dish, which is perfect for a hearty snack, it is very convenient to take a couple of these baked goods on the road. The cake is baked in the oven for one hour at 180 degrees. After that we put it on wooden surface, having previously released it from the form. It is enough to slightly cool the baked goods and you can start tasting.
The long-awaited spring for many indoor plants is the start of active vegetation, and for the majority - and the return of their decorative effect. Admiring young leaves and emerging shoots, one should not forget that spring is also a great stress for all indoor plants. Sensitive and versatile, all indoor crops experience much brighter lighting, changes in humidity and temperature conditions.
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What to give friends and colleagues for Christmas or New Yearto make the gift appropriate and enjoyable? There is a universal, beautiful and at the same time a budget optionthat will delight anyone - a flower. In this article - pot decorating ideas and tips
We have selected the five most popular plants that are given for Christmas and New Years. They have become a kind of symbol of these holidays; they can be given to both women and men. In the house, such flowers will decorate any interior, they are quite easy to care for, attract the attention of guests and raise the mood and vitality of the owners.
These are the champions in popularity, which will be appropriate both at home and in the office. You just need to know some rules of caring for them, and believe me, they will fully thank you with freshness and beauty. So, our colorful "five".
Poinsettia
This flower is called the "Christmas star" for its shape and brightness. Needless to say, it is at Christmas that poinsettia is most often presented as a gift. If you are lucky enough to receive it or would like to accompany this gift useful advice, please note: poinsettia loves bright, but diffused light, you do not need to put it on the windowsill close to the glass - delicate leaves can get sick from such a cold touch.
Many people believe that poinsettia is an annual plant. However, if, after the end of its flowering, you cut the plant to the main trunk and place it in a dark and cool place, only occasionally moistening the soil, then after a few months new shoots will appear, on which Christmas stars will bloom by the next New Year.
By the way, from several plants different color you can get a very picturesque composition that will decorate your festive table or living room interior.
Decembrist (Schlumberger, zygocactus)
The peak of the popularity of this flower falls on the pre-New Year weeks. It is not for nothing that it bears another name - "Christmas cactus", and precisely because of the flowering time: from November-December to the very end of January. The plant during this period is literally covered with buds and flowers! This is an ampelous plant, so make sure that its new owners do not have to puzzle over where to find it during the holidays hanging planter and where to attach it. Perfect option - present together with the Decembrist a low stand, which can be placed in a convenient place in the living room. And such beauty is in sight and place!
The Decembrist is very unpretentious, but does not like extremes in the form of cold, intense heat, prolonged drought in a pot or waterlogging. Observe moderation in caring for it, and by the next New Year a whole hat of delicate flowers will bloom in your house!
Cyclamen
These flowers have become fashionable for a long time, and many lovers of house plants appreciate them for their external delicate fragility and beauty. Cyclamen blooms in winter, in spring it seems to freeze, in the summer heat it is at rest, and in autumn it comes to life, releases new leaves and buds with long legs. When buying, choose a cyclamen with many young buds, which usually “hide” under the leaves.
Cyclamen prefers a cool room with bright lighting, cannot stand being near radiators or fireplaces, as well as spraying. To create the moisture it needs, you can simply keep the cyclamen planter on a tray of damp gravel or near a water source.
Bromeliads
This family has about 2,000 species of plants, among the "relatives" there is also pineapple! If you decide to buy bromeliads as a gift, make a choice between vriezia, gusmania, neoregelia - these are the most popular varieties... Bromeliad loves warmth, but prefers to live away from the direct midday sun.
The most important thing: water this plant carefully, avoiding stagnation of water in the soil, but there should always be water in the outlet, in the funnel of leaves! During the hot season, the leaves of this plant must be sprayed.
The gift will turn out to be excellent: flowering lasts several months and will remind you of the beautiful new year mood a very long time.
What could be a more appropriate gift for New Year or Christmas than coniferous plant in a pot? Yes, live Christmas trees, which are chopped and sold in large quantities in December, do not lose their popularity among consumers, but many regretfully, and sometimes only after a domestic scandal, throw out a crumbling spruce or pine at the end of the holidays.
Potted spruce or thuja can be transplanted in the spring to the house or country cottage areawhere she will delight you for many years. And perhaps you will even have a desire not to buy a pine tree and carry it into the house for the next New Year, but to take or take your family out into the air, decorate a live spruce with colorful lights, toys, and arrange an unusual holiday with health benefits.
Having studied the numerous decor options, we settled on the five most, in our opinion, optimal. It is not difficult to make such a decor, quickly, all the items at hand are available, and the process itself is creative, you can attract children to it, which is very cool in itself.
By the way, if you prefer to choose any other plant as a gift, besides the ones mentioned by us, be sure to make a pot or plant decor, and then even a small and modest cactus will take on a festive look and give a good mood.
1. Lace and knitted "clothes"
If you have "skillful pens" and you know how to hold knitting needles in them, there is nothing easier than knitting a simple canvas from any yarn and putting it on flower pot... The edges can be sewn with threads, picking them up to match the yarn, or made contrasting, you can glue the canvas to the surface of the pot. Buttons or beads, small cones or beads are suitable as an additional decoration.
If you don’t know how to knit, look for leftover lace at home or buy a meter and a half of lace ribbon in the store. Cut the tape into pieces and glue gently to the top, bottom, or middle of the pot. You can gather a lace ribbon with a needle and thread, then this "skirt" will give your gift a fun and homely look.
The color scheme of such "clothes" can be any, it all depends on your imagination and the interior in which your gift will settle.
No time and no desire to tinker with decorating a flowerpot, but the option "straight from the store" does not suit you? No problems. Are there ribbons? If there are no ribbons, you can buy them literally on the way to visit. The main thing is to tie them beautifully on a pot or over a transparent package. You can make a lush bow, build a voluminous knot or several small flower pots tie together with twine, and decorate with a ribbon on top and add a few fir cones under it. The composition will be quite festive!
It is better to choose a bright ribbon, it will look perfect red, reminiscent of the color of the bag with gifts from Santa Claus. You can choose green, if, for example, you bought a poinsettia with a cap of red leaves as a gift. The golden color of the ribbon will add pathos to any potted flower, if you deem it appropriate. A white ribbon will symbolize snow, and you can hang on the plant itself christmas tree toyif you chose a coniferous gift.
3. Inscriptions and drawings
There is no limit to imagination if you have artistic talent, time and a sense of proportion. On the pot you can draw a New Year's landscape, a funny face, figures of Santa Claus or Snow Maiden, birds, angels ... the sea has options! If you don't know how to draw, find a template on the Internet, download it, cut it out, attach it to the pot, and paint over the cut out places. You can even watercolors, then just gently apply clear polish on top.
For minimalist artists, the idea is to write on the pot any suitable words: "Happy New Year", "Happiness", "Congratulations" and others. The main thing in this case is brevity. If you want even more minimalism - draw symbolic letters or initials of the owners of the house. You can make a word from the letters written on several flower pots, putting the pots in the right order. And entertainment will be for guests in new year's eve! Let them wonder what you meant by this or that letter ...
4. Cloth and burlap
Do you have a piece of fabric left after you sewed the sofa and armchair covers? Husband's new Scottish skirt was too short? Was a roll of burlap lying on the mezzanine? Don't throw these treasures away, they can be used to make wonderful flower pot covers.
It is enough to cut a piece of fabric to the size of the pot and sew its edges or simply wrap it with a certain amount of carelessness with coarse twine, twine, jute rope. Cones are also very suitable for this decor, they can be stuck directly into the pot or attached to twine. Such a flower may well become part of the composition. new Year's table, especially if combined with the color of napkins or additional accessories - candles, vases, small New Year's toys.
5. Environmental decorations
This version of the pot decor is doubly good: simple and perfect for the idea of \u200b\u200bplant decorations. new Year's interior... You can use a lot to decorate a pot. For example, cut a dry branch into small round pieces with a pruning shears and glue them to the surface of the pot. You can cut wooden skewers for shashlik into equal parts and lay out a pattern from these parts that will come to mind and fit on the walls of the flower container.
Birch bark, twine, designer cardboard are also perfect for decorating such a gift. Well, on top you can add a beautiful ribbon, a couple of cones, a lace ornament - in a word, everything that we have listed in the previous versions. The ecological decor is good because everything suits him.
On a note!
- When choosing a potted plant as a gift, think in advance if the flowers are loved by your friends to whom you want to give it. If they prefer brightness in everything, they will love poinsettia. For lovers of rigor and minimalism, it is more appropriate to buy a spruce or thuja.
- When decorating a flower pot, take into account the presence of animals or small children in the house where the plant will live. A fluffy bow can attract a cat who wants to play with it at the most inopportune moment and in a very inappropriate place. But loosely glued buttons can fall into the hands of the baby, who will certainly pull them into his mouth.
- Many cats love to play with the Christmas tree rain and even chew on it. If you decide that the decor will not work without such a rain, tie it tightly around the pot or stick it so that the tails that are tempting for the cat do not stick out. By the way, simply by hooking with its claws on such a tip and pulling it, the animal can send your gift to the floor and turn the holiday into chagrin and grandiose cleaning.
- And find out in advance if your friends are allergic to flowering plants! Any surprise is good because it needs to be thought out in advance and carefully prepared.
- When buying a plant in a store, inspect it very carefully so as not to choose a diseased specimen. It will be very disappointing if, after a couple of weeks, only a beautifully decorated pot is left to your friends as a keepsake, and the flower itself "will command a long life."
- A great decor option without effort is to put the purchased flower in a wicker basket. You can tie a bow on her handle, and the solemnity of the moment will be observed.
Gradually, the trend is to bring fresh flowers in pots as a gift. Mostly for birthdays and housewarming. For the New Year, it has not yet come into use so much, but in vain. It's just that we are accustomed in our country that greenery and flowering are associated with summer, and New Year is the height of winter. But there are plants whose flowering period falls precisely on winter period and exuberant colors fit the winter holidays very well. Here's our small top pick for winter.
Christmas star.
The bright favorite of our top is poinsettia. She has many names - euphorbia, euphorbia, the most beautiful, Christmas star. According to legend, a child who did not have the money to buy a gift for Christ was gathering plants along the road. He firmly believed that if you give even a modest bouquet from the bottom of your heart, then it will be sweet and dear to the Lord. And when the child brought his plants into the church, they suddenly burst into red and green flowers - a Christmas miracle happened.
By tradition, at Christmas, poinsettia with red bracts is presented (after all, it is not the flowers that are decorative, but the bracts), you can buy varieties with white, greenish, pink, cream and even lilac bracts. Exquisite marble-colored hybrids such as Capri Marble and Cortez Cream are very popular. When buying, make sure that the plant is well wrapped - if the poinsettia freezes, the leaves will quickly fall off. Also keep in mind that poinsettia loves bright, but diffused light, you don't need to put it on the windowsill close to the glass - delicate leaves can get sick from such a cold touch.
Many people believe that poinsettia is an annual plant. However, if, after the end of its flowering, you cut the plant to the main trunk and place it in a dark and cool place, only occasionally moistening the soil, then after a few months new shoots will appear, on which Christmas stars will bloom by the next New Year.
By the way, several plants of different colors can make a very picturesque composition that will decorate your festive table or living room interior.
Decembrist (Schlumberger, zygocactus)
From the name it is clear that the peak of flowering occurs in December, the first flowers appear already at the end of November. The color of flowers can be different - white, light or deep pink, scarlet. it perennial pretty. During the flowering period, it is important not to change the location for the Decembrist, it is also not recommended to turn the pot, otherwise the flowers can quickly fall off. Plant two or three varieties of different colors in one pot, and you will have a lively and safe New Year's fireworks.
The only thing to remember is that the flower is quite fragile. And during flowering, it is better not to touch the petals once again.
Hellebore
Similar to the legend of the Christmas star and the story of the hellebore. At the birth of Christ, people brought many gifts. Everyone was ready to give the most valuable thing. But the poor shepherdess had nothing. The angel who saw her experiences, flying, threw under her feet white flower... She presented him as a gift. Interestingly, the hellebore grows even under the snow.
Today you can buy and donate a black forcing hellebore in a pot, and save it until spring, plant it in the garden.
Hippeastrum
Hippeastrum symbolizes triumph, victory. Flowers in your own way appearance are sometimes compared with the trumpets of heralds, who in ancient times announced the decrees of the rulers and reported major events and victories in battles. The bulb may not show signs of life for a long time, and by the Christmas holidays a large peduncle, crowned with three to five flowers, suddenly appears. The color of the flowers is different, the variety with white flowers Christmas Grift and the variety with scarlet Minerva flowers are especially popular.
Cyclamen
These flowers have become fashionable for a long time, and many lovers of house plants appreciate them for their external delicate fragility and beauty. Cyclamen blooms in winter, in spring it seems to freeze, in the summer heat it is at rest, and in autumn it comes to life, releases new leaves and buds with long legs. When buying, choose a cyclamen with many young buds, which usually “hide” under the leaves.
Cyclamen prefers a cool room with bright lighting, cannot stand being near radiators or fireplaces, as well as spraying. To create the moisture it needs, you can simply keep the cyclamen planter on a tray of damp gravel or near a water source.