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Beautiful Ornamental Shrubs
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Beautiful Ornamental Shrubs

If there is no time to mess around with capricious hydrangeas, then it is better to purchase large-leaved hydrangea, petiolate hydrangea and panicle hydrangea. Even if their shoots freeze in winter, they quickly recover and bloom in the same year

Tui In Your Garden
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Tui In Your Garden

Among the thujas there are dwarf plants for a rock garden, as well as excellent trees for single plantings in curbs or on a lawn. These evergreens can be used to make a living fence, which must be cut in the spring and re-trimmed at the end of summer. Tiny scaly leaves are arranged in an opposite direction on the stems, and the side branches lie in the same plane, like a cypress

Sage And Salvia - Twins And Brothers, Salvia Species
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Sage And Salvia - Twins And Brothers, Salvia Species

In Russian, it is customary to call a medicinal plant and a spice sage, and decorative species - salvia. Salvia is the whole Universe! The genus Salvia, with more than 900 species, is distributed on all continents, from the tropics to the temperate zones

Promising Varieties And Forms Of Grapes
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Promising Varieties And Forms Of Grapes

In recent years, the employees of the All-Russian Research Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking and winegrowers from other regions have bred super-early grape varieties that are distinguished by excellent taste and large bunches and berries

Spirea, Dogwood, Chubushnik And Others
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Spirea, Dogwood, Chubushnik And Others

The most unpretentious shrubs are spireas. Some bloom in spring, others in summer, some until the end of September. Dogwood is a beautiful shrub with green marble-like leaves. Does not require special care and chubushnik

Abronia - Species And Cultivation
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Abronia - Species And Cultivation

Abronia belongs to the genus of plants from the family Nyctaginaceae (nocturnal). This genus has many different species, but flower growers and designers mainly use two of them: umbrella abronia (A. umbellate Lam.) And Abronia broad-leaved (A. latifolia Esch.)

Prune Your Garden Without Mistakes
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Prune Your Garden Without Mistakes

Experience shows that many gardeners and summer residents either do not prune fruit trees and berry bushes at all, or they do it somehow, making very serious mistakes, and this as a result leads to a significant decrease in yield. Based on this, I want to show in this article the most typical mistakes made when pruning and give recommendations on how to avoid them. It must be remembered that pruning is a kind of surgical operation, and it is important to carry it out so that wounds are quic

Storage And Planting Of Ornamental Plant Seedlings
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Storage And Planting Of Ornamental Plant Seedlings

At home, you need to take the seedling out of the box and carefully open the package with the roots. If the plant has large and long roots, then when packing them, they are bent in half and covered with peat. The peat must be removed. For this I put a plant with a lump of peat in a bucket of water

The Beauty Of Work Requires
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The Beauty Of Work Requires

A difficult season still pleased with the resultsSummer is coming to an end. It is a pity that this season the weather did not please us very much. In April it was raining and it was cold, May was marked by frosts, and the summer was not hot at all

Growing Conditions For Salvia
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Growing Conditions For Salvia

All types of salvia need a little water, but during the hot season they need regular and abundant watering. At the same time, Salvias suffer from excessive moisture not only in winter, but also in summer due to frequent rains