Thursday, March 25, 2010

What fruit growing in this small space?

Monday, March 15, 2010

A Garden for All Seasons


One thing that is often overlooked when planning and creating a beautiful summer garden for homeowners to enjoy is the fact that the garden exists throughout the year. Unfortunately in the vast majority of summer gardens there is a huge hole in the garden for the vast majority of the year. Carefully planning in order to avoid this process and planting fruit plants that bloom during various seasons of the year as well as plants that provide beautiful foliage and greenery even when the fruit may not be blooming can prevent this absence of life within your summer garden from occurring.

Plant continuously and groom your garden consistently throughout the year. Obviously the winter months are not great months for planting in the earth but this doesn't mean that you cannot use flowerpots filled with seasonal offerings to fill the gaps of green within your garden. There are all kinds of fruit that thrive in winter weather that would make a beautiful addition to your winter garden without taking anything away from the beauty of your summer garden. In fact, the ability to incorporate these fruit and plants into your garden without necessarily planting may be an excellent incentive to keep your garden up to date even in seasons that aren't traditionally thought of as gardening seasons.

Add features to your garden that aren't plant related to bring splashes of color to your garden during winter months while preserving the space needed for planting your summer garden when the appropriate time comes. Flowerpots are a great example of this but so are lawn ornaments and statues that may be either moved to a different location during summer months or removed all together. Keep the earth warm for the summer garden to come during those long cold winter months.

Use the winter months to plan your summer garden. The spring is often spent in preparation and the fall months are spent harvesting. The winter months would be put to excellent use planning the new additions and possible movements that need to occur in the coming months. Working on your garden and improving your garden does not necessarily require working in your garden. Once you have those gaps filled in and a little bit of green and color in your garden for the winter months you can focus your undivided attention on making the coming summer garden even better and more spectacular than ever before.

Be careful not to plant all of your seeds in one garden spot so to speak while you are making your plans. By this I mean you need to keep a certain willingness to make adjustments and corrections as you go and learn more about the growing process and the specific gardening needs of your yard. Every growing season will bring a season of new lessons to learn take the time to reflect upon the lessons learned during previous seasons when making plans for the coming seasons and make the adjustments that present themselves along the way.

By learning from the mistakes of the past and always looking to and anticipating the needs of the future you are insuring greater success each year for your summer garden not only during the dog days of summer but throughout all the seasons of the year.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Five most colorful Japanese maple trees


Butterfly Japanese maples

It is an excellent choice for a small modest garden. These upright small trees are good for nearly all the seasons. The leaves take different colors with the change in season. The autumn blazes with the red colors and the rest of the year color changes from gray green to bright pink.




It doesn’t demand any special treatment except for the usual moisturizer in the soil and protection from extreme sunlight. Generally it is known to be a small tree and can rise up to 10 feet in height. The leaves have variation in the shapes and most of them are take a curved shape. It has gained amazing popularity due to its vibrant colors that it manifests from time to time depending upon the season.

Filigree Japanese maples

The expert gardeners differentiate between green filigree and its sister breed red filigree. But for a general lover of plants both are same except for their colors. The tree bears dissected leaves which are larger in size in relation to other dissected types of Japanese maples.

Moreover what really gives it a delicate look than other is the presence of small white dots, which are not visible from a distance but a closer look to leaves gives a soothing experience to the eyes.
It is renowned for its slow growth and few inches of growth can take years but this patience pays off in the end as the charming tree adds beauty to every ambiance.

As it is the characteristic of maple trees that they carry a different color in the autumn so this tree is not an exception.
The orange colors give it a mesmerizing look through out the fall. The plant carries not a good reputation for facing sunlight so it should be given proper protection from sun.

Higasayama Japanese maples

An amazing piece for structure as it can take the height of 15 feet, and the surprising part is that it can take the width of 15 feet as well. The horizontal growth gives it a touch which most of the maple trees lack and the whole structure looks so elegant that influences the mood of viewer.

The new leaves always take the red colors and over the period up till maturity they take a green color blended with pink color. In fall it takes the same color of that it had in its infancy and turns into red. It can also be used as an ornamental tree inside the home and for this purpose a tray or pot can easily be used. The immense fame that it has gained is justified as it changes the whole ambiance with its amazing colors.

Okushimo

The name at first seems a little difficult to pronounce as it comes from Japanese language which translates as salt and paper. This tree belongs to the rare collection of unusual group of Japanese maples. The green color gets best when it meets this plant. The leaf is an astounding peace of art as it is seven lobed.

The experience told the experts that it has a very slow growth and for this reason it is not widely planted all over the world. Although the tree carries a historical background of almost 300 years but the slow growth has become a major hurdle in its popularity. A clear understanding of its growth can be appreciated by knowing the fact that it gains half feet in a decade.

Omurayama

The cascading effect that this tree produces is truly magnificent. The weeping leaves cover the complete perimeter of the plant. The tree lies in the category of small trees and the leaves are deeply dissected. The green color dominates the life of this tree and in only spring do we see a change in the color when it turns into orange.



Moreover in the autumn the leaves can take the color of red and gold which not only sounds astonishing but completely changes the ambiance of the garden. The viewers always admire this tree for its magnificent color schemes.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Which was the most delicious natural ingredients plus vitamins?



Fruit salad is a diet of fruits; it has all the benefits of fruits. Fruits are nutrients dense foods. They provide a substantial amount of vitamins and minerals with relatively few calories."



Fruits salads can be taken as an in-between meal or together with your breakfast. Fruits help digestion because they are rich in fiber, which you need to keep a healthy digestive system.








Monday, January 25, 2010

How do they get the pear inside the bottle?




The pears are put into the bottles when they are small and allowed to grow. When they are ripe they are picked and the bottle filled with brandy.





Monday, January 18, 2010

Why Fruits are good source of fiber ?


Ice coated crabapples in the morning sunlight with beautiful blue sky background.




Pinot gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. The wines produced from this grape also vary in color from a deep golden yellow to copper and even a light shade of pink.


The loquat is low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium, and is high in Vitamin A, Dietary Fiber, Vitamin B6, Potassium and Manganese. The nutritional value and health benefits of loquat make them ideal for weight loss.


One of the largest undivided leaf exotics in the tropical plant world is the Alocasia odora from South East Asia sometimes called giant upright elephant ear. The fruits have a vivid color. The orange Colocasia fruits are eaten by birds which distribute the seeds.


This is one of the most delicious and other-worldly fruits in the world! And the tree is huge with thousands of these rosy beauties on it.