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	<title>Plants and Flowers</title>
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	<description>Learn gardening tips for annuals, perennials, flowers and plants</description>
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		<title>Feijoa (Part 2)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy to get plants from seeds. Choose the ripest fruit with a yellowish peel. Put it to ripen in a warm place (for example, on a spotlit window-sill). After it becomes soft, open it with a knife and get the central part with numerous smallest seeds. Place pulp on a dense fabric [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is very easy to get plants from seeds. Choose the ripest fruit with a yellowish peel. Put it to ripen in a warm place (for example, on a spotlit window-sill). After it becomes soft, open it with a knife and get the central part with numerous smallest seeds. Place pulp on a dense fabric and wash out with water. Dry seeds slightly, and then you can start sowing. </p>
<p>On the true surface of the ground put seeds and damp with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Feijoa seeds require light for germination, therefore they are not covered with the soil. Cover crops with a glass and put in a warm place with ambient light. At a temperature 20 C seeds will come up in 3-4 weeks. All this time air seeds and don’t give the soil to dry up.<br />
When the shoots appear, adapt seedlings to a dry air of your room and to a direct sunlight. </p>
<p>Young plants of feijoa grow very quickly. The feijoa grows better, when it has space for the root system. </p>
<p>Feijoa is propagated not only with seeds, but also with cutting. It is preferable to do it in November - December. As cuttings use the top and middle parts of young shoots.</p>
<p>To speed up formation of roots, treat cuttings with stimulators and use the bottom heating.</p>
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		<title>Feijoa (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/218</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is evergreen tree or a bush with a branchy dense crone and silvery downy leaves, which lives in nature in damp subtropical and moderately warm parts of Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Northern Argentina. Mature plants can tolerate temperature to -12 °С and are steady against a drought. Numerous dark red stamens are longer, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is evergreen tree or a bush with a branchy dense crone and silvery downy leaves, which lives in nature in damp subtropical and moderately warm parts of Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Northern Argentina. Mature plants can tolerate temperature to -12 °С and are steady against a drought. Numerous dark red stamens are longer, than pulpy petals, and attract birds.</p>
<p>Feijoa’s fruit is a green berry with a reddish shade. Pulp of mature fruits is dense, juicy, sour-sweet with a pleasant taste. Fruits are d in the raw and processed state. Feijoa is cultivated as a fruit and an ornamental plant in many countries. </p>
<p>The room feijoa enjoys big love and demand. Fruits are used in a raw state and also go for cooking of jams and high-quality confitures. Fruits fall down, when ripe.<br />
There are a lot of feijoa varieties, which differ in productivity, form and taste of fruits.<br />
Feijoa has oval leaves, average on size, gray-green, shining from above and densely downy, silvery from below.<br />
A crop from one bush at tub-gardening makes 2-3 kg.</p>
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		<title>House peach-tree: Cultivation</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/217</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The peach is successfully cultivated in conditions of greenhouses and winter gardens in winter (November - January) at temperatures about 0 С, and also is used for bonsai. Mature plants survive frosts up to -10С. In January - February the temperature should be raised up to +4-8С for two weeks. This time is good for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The peach is successfully cultivated in conditions of greenhouses and winter gardens in winter (November - January) at temperatures about 0 С, and also is used for bonsai. Mature plants survive frosts up to -10С. In January - February the temperature should be raised up to +4-8С for two weeks. This time is good for pruning. Then a peach-tree is moved in a warmer room (10-12С), where the plant starts to blossom. After flowering it can be contained in a warm room. The room should be regularly aired. The plant is light demander and in winter it needs additional illumination. The peach-tree does not require often sprayings, unless it is located in a room with very low air humidity. Watering in spring-summer period should be plentiful, and limited in winter. </p>
<p>From the beginning of flowering till August the plant is fed up two times a month with organic or full mineral fertilizer. The peach tree requires regular pruning. Large flowers and fruits develop on last year sprouts. During a winter pruning should be deleted dense crone sprouts and half shorten sprouts of the current year. In summer long branches (20-25 centimeters) are nipped.<br />
The plant is transplanted in the early spring, before flowering. </p>
<p>Peach-tree is propagated from seeds. In nurseries you may get planting stock, which should be pruned after planting. For a pottery-gardening a peach-tree is engrafted on rain (Laburnum) or a blackthorn, for a tub-gardening - on slowly growing sloe stock. </p>
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		<title>House peach-tree</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/216</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persica vulgaris. The native land - northern China.
The peach belongs to the same family Рrunus, as a plum, an apricot and a cherry. 
Peach is a low straight-stemmed tree with the branches forming a wide crone, in container culture it seldom exceeds 2 m in height. 
Slim flexible peach-tree blossoms in February - March before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Persica vulgaris. The native land - northern China.<br />
The peach belongs to the same family Рrunus, as a plum, an apricot and a cherry. </p>
<p>Peach is a low straight-stemmed tree with the branches forming a wide crone, in container culture it seldom exceeds 2 m in height. </p>
<p>Slim flexible peach-tree blossoms in February - March before breaking of buds, it is decorative since early spring till the autumn, when fruits ripen. Leaves are simple, petiolar, spear-shaped, length 7-12 centimeters, width 2-3,5, with a serrate edge, green. Flowers are usually pink, single or binate, 5- petalled, 3-4 centimeters in diameter, on a short pedicel. Decorative varieties have white, red or striped, simple, double and semidouble flowers. There are also decorative varieties with red leaves, and also with hanging, weeping sprout.  </p>
<p>Fruit are juicy stone-fruit with a thin peel, globular, with a furrow on one side, velvety (true peaches) or naked (nectarine). A stone is wrinkled-furrowed with dot dimples. A stone can be adnate to a pulp or free. </p>
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		<title>Room cultivation and ornamental value of Bamboo</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/215</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tub-gardening usually use Bamboo multiplex, with its graceful forms and Bambusa multiplex f. Variegate, which reach 2-4 meters in height; Bamboo multiplex had attractive white-motley leaves. For pot-gardening use brachytic forms which height does not exceed 30-40 centimeters, as Bambusa glaucescens.  
Ornamental value of bamboos is in their transparent branchy verdure, due to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In tub-gardening usually use Bamboo multiplex, with its graceful forms and Bambusa multiplex f. Variegate, which reach 2-4 meters in height; Bamboo multiplex had attractive white-motley leaves. For pot-gardening use brachytic forms which height does not exceed 30-40 centimeters, as Bambusa glaucescens.  </p>
<p>Ornamental value of bamboos is in their transparent branchy verdure, due to which they are well combined with many large-leaved plants. </p>
<p>Leaves are on short petioles; they can be linear or spear-shaped and have different width. Flowers are fine, collected in large panicles. Bamboos are - monocarpic plants: they perish after flowering. </p>
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		<title>Bamboo in a room</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/214</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In resent years we may observe the growing passion to indoor bamboo growing.
Bamboo
Bamboo descends from tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia. These are the largest plants among cereals, with angular hollow stalks-culms. Bamboo grows near the borders of tropical woods, along rivers’ coasts. The bamboo is known as one of the most useful plants [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In resent years we may observe the growing passion to indoor bamboo growing.<br />
Bamboo<br />
Bamboo descends from tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia. These are the largest plants among cereals, with angular hollow stalks-culms. Bamboo grows near the borders of tropical woods, along rivers’ coasts. The bamboo is known as one of the most useful plants – there are about 600 ways of its use.  </p>
<p>Burmese bamboo reaches the greatest height; its native land is India. Its treelike stalks grow in height up to 40 m, and have in diameter from 10 to 20 centimeters. Such giants, certainly, are not used in room culture. For room cultivation go bushy and dwarfish species of the tree. </p>
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		<title>Arbutus: room growing</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/213</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other two Arbutus’ varieties are Arbutus andrachne, which fruits are edible, but not especially tasty, and Arbutus glandulosa, which grows in Northern America, with its native land in Mexico. 
Arbutus is room ornamental evergreen plant. Leaves are oval and bright-green, inflorescences are cream, similar to inflorescences of the lily of the valley.
After flowering the tree [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other two Arbutus’ varieties are Arbutus andrachne, which fruits are edible, but not especially tasty, and Arbutus glandulosa, which grows in Northern America, with its native land in Mexico. </p>
<p>Arbutus is room ornamental evergreen plant. Leaves are oval and bright-green, inflorescences are cream, similar to inflorescences of the lily of the valley.<br />
After flowering the tree is decorated with bright orange edible, but insipid fruit. Frequently flowers and berries decorate a tree simultaneously.</p>
<p>It is propagated with seeds, which are sowed on a surface of the ground at a temperature 20-25 С and covered with glass. Shoots are sprayed, not watered. </p>
<p>The plant will blossom not earlier, than in 12 months, it grows slowly. In November it starts to shed the leaves. At this time watering should be limited and temperature lowered to 12-14 С.<br />
In 3 months the plant should be put in warmer premise. </p>
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		<title>Arbutus</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/212</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arbutus is a sort of evergreen trees and bushes. There are over 20 varieties. They are spread in the Western Europe, Mediterranean, Northern and Central America, Western Asia. Arbutus red, or Arbutus andrachne is a rare deleted species, grows on Southern coast of Crimea, occasionally can be met in Abkhazia and Adzharia. 
Low evergreen trees [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arbutus is a sort of evergreen trees and bushes. There are over 20 varieties. They are spread in the Western Europe, Mediterranean, Northern and Central America, Western Asia. Arbutus red, or Arbutus andrachne is a rare deleted species, grows on Southern coast of Crimea, occasionally can be met in Abkhazia and Adzharia. </p>
<p>Low evergreen trees with smooth coral-red or chinked brown bark which reaching 5-meter height in the age of 50 years. Alternate leaf arrangement, leaves are leatherlike, smooth-edged or dentate. Flowers are fine, gathered in terminal drooping or upright panicles. </p>
<p>The name of this plant is connected to the form of fruits: the red - pink balls reminding huge strawberries. Fruits are juicy and tasty, they are eaten in the raw state or as a jam. This well-known tree is esteemed in Madrid: a bear eating fruits of this tree is a symbol of the city. </p>
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		<title>Guava (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/211</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guava positively reacts to monthly one-fold fertilizing and also prefers growind in large capacities with a fertile soil.
It propagates in various ways: cuttings, seeds, grafts and top grafting.
Seeds are sown in pots. Germination of seeds requires the temperature not less than 22-24°С.
Soil mix for seedlings and young plants is made from sod soil, humus and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guava positively reacts to monthly one-fold fertilizing and also prefers growind in large capacities with a fertile soil.<br />
It propagates in various ways: cuttings, seeds, grafts and top grafting.<br />
Seeds are sown in pots. Germination of seeds requires the temperature not less than 22-24°С.<br />
Soil mix for seedlings and young plants is made from sod soil, humus and sand (1:1:1). With the years soil is made heavier. </p>
<p>P. littorale is more favorable variant for indoor cultivation. In rooms it blossoms abundantly with small white fragrant flowers. Flowers consist of 8-10 petals; sets of the same white stamens and a small pestle with roundish flat stigma. </p>
<p>Cultivation of these plants is very grateful pastime. It is difficult to not become successful planting them. They are unpretentious, and are likely to take an important place in assortment of room fruit crops. </p>
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		<title>Guava (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-flowers.org/archive/210</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The native land - tropical America.
It is widely cultivated in the tropical countries; and occasionally is grown in room conditions.
Guava - a tree or a large bush. Young shoots are tetrahedral. Leaves are elliptic, 7-15 centimeters in length and 3-7 centimeters in width, naked on above and fuzzy from below, with nerve. 
Flowers are single [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The native land - tropical America.<br />
It is widely cultivated in the tropical countries; and occasionally is grown in room conditions.<br />
Guava - a tree or a large bush. Young shoots are tetrahedral. Leaves are elliptic, 7-15 centimeters in length and 3-7 centimeters in width, naked on above and fuzzy from below, with nerve. </p>
<p>Flowers are single or 2-3 in a bosoms of leaves, white.<br />
Fruit is green, pear-shaped, up to 12 centimeters in length, with pink, white or yellow fragrantly pulp.<br />
It seldom fructifies in room conditions.<br />
Leaves, flowers and fruits have bactericidal action as they contain volatile oils. Daily use of fresh leaves (9 g) in the raw state or extract from them, as a tea, considerably lowers glucose content in blood and urine at initial stages of diabetes.</p>
<p>This plant prefers light and very warm places, temperature throughout the year should be +22-24°С.<br />
In summer it is put outdoors in protected from wind places. In winter it is placed in a light room.<br />
Plant should be watered lavishly. </p>
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