Lawns, design and care

Lawn-translated from French means back. The green is the area with natural or artificially created grasses. In building green lawns paying much attention, they are divided into two groups : 1) ornamental lawns and 2) special-purpose lawns. Decorative Lawn, in turn, are divided into the following : parternye, meadow type (in parks and parks), a multi-ammonoids and Mauritanian (annuals, flowering Ararat). Special lawns is sports, airport separating transport and walking establishing slopes on the slopes, etc.

The parterre lawns located in front of the park and other places, making a basis of flower beds. They should be especially high quality, velvety, homogeneous on painting, equal without attacks and dense. The parterre lawns borrow the small area. To sow their use typically cereal grass with small tender leaves in the bottom of the bush, and quickly otrastayuschie after shearing. Lawn grasses should form good sod, to be steady against trampling, winter-hardy enough and decorative.For lawn grasses used mostly grass and fewer beans (such as white clover). All cereal grass divide into three groups : basic (meadow grass, red fescue, bent white), crown (fire lupine, meadow fescue, creeping teorological), intermediate (timothy(-grass), Lupinus).

Lawns meadow like a lot of space used for parks and other open parks. Such lawns sow with cereals 3 - 5 kinds. Using big team, bents, dog's-tail, Dactylis, Lupinus. Typically, adding a bit of white clover, and other long-term lyadvents grasses..

Multi ammonoids lawns are composed of ammonoids perennials Located groups against lawn. The main background of a low of grass-grazing and depressed one. In addition to sow grass meadow, bents dog's-tail and white, in equal parts. When using a mixture of 1 part grass seed and 2 seeds of flowering plants. In flower mixtures include 10 to 15 types of low greenhouse (30-40 cm), such as opium, knapweed, red flax, Iberis, Delphinium one, calendula, one.

Moorish, or the multicoloured lawn consists of ammonoids annual plants in a mixture of cereal grasses, as well as decorative , winter-hardy perennials(snowdrop, tulips, naked, bellscamomiles). They are used primarily greenhouses and in very rare cases, multi break into bloom year planting.
Creating a lawn requires a lot of attention and work. Initially, are preparing land to grassland, check the value of the plant soil. If no such layer, or it is a very small one, it creates a fertile soil, for example, with the addition of black sand or clay. Thick vegetation layer shall not be less than 15 cm layer Before making plant produces plowing Smithsonian, it must razravnivaetsya, makes fertilizer, and then perepahivaetsya. Ideally this process made in the fall, but can and spring. If planting seeds scheduled spring, after handling ground subsidence leave for 2 to 4 weeks.
Lawns zasevayut spring (during planting of spring crops), early spring, late fall and less at the end of October, so that shoots appeared in early spring. Given Field crop seed rules krupnosemyannyh seeding grasses range from 40 to 50 g per 1 sq. m. srednesemyannyh-20 - 30 g per 1 sq. m. melkosemyannyh-5 - 10 g per 1 m2. After the selection range grasses define the lawn area and count the number of seeds. Then choose assortment flowering plants (for the Mauritanian lawn). Wintergreens of ammonoids lawns planted at the same distance, it is recommended that when they landed on the lawn. Before planting grass lawn area mark to strip width of 1.5 to 2 m in two mutually directions. For more equitable distribution of seeds in the seed produced no wind. On curb lawn grass sowing more densely. After planting the seeds stop up hand rake to a depth of 0.5 to 1 cm and a prikatyvanie or to ram. Summer better seed neem seeds. In dry weather it is necessary irrigate crops 1 to 2 times a day. Following reduce crop irrigation.

Winter gardens part2

The organizations of a winter garden need to be given enough attention. First, it is important to choose in what party of light it it will be turned. Being under direct solar beams the most part of day, it will be heated and hardly probable will be comfortable both for people, and for plants. Even if the winter garden is turned on the north, good ventilation is necessary for it, and in turned on the south for can be necessary and jalousie (as a variant most convenient and practical).

Stone or paved a tile a floor and unpretentious wattled furniture plants according to their requirements, not being afraid to spoil allow to water and spray conditions. Good wattled furniture, some pillows - that else is necessary for comfortable reading or conversation. And the table covered in winter garden will seem to more harmonious if to use utensils and devices with vegetative motives.

Other problem for a winter garden - wreckers and illnesses of plants which much more hardy at the big density of plants as conditions for them are created practically ideal, and - birds and predatory insects - here are not present natural enemies. Application of chemicals in this case not always is desirable, especially if in winter to a garden spend a lot of time and the more so eat. There is also more modern way - the biological control. It is developed for the majority of hothouse illnesses and wreckers. This use of alive microorganisms and predatory insects which at correct observance of the instruction of suppliers, can be very effective.


Winter gardens

The climate of your winter garden is important for convenience of people and colors. Inevitable efforts will depend on a climate on its maintenance and selection of assortment of possible plants. The most widespread and often most successful decision - a climate of the Mediterranean, dry both hot in the summer and cool and damp in the winter. In such conditions of will well feel many plants for which in living rooms happens too жарко in the winter. It, for example, grapes and citrus, olives, monsterium, a rosemary and a sage, pelargonium, bougainvillaea, abutiloniums, cypresses, camelias, azaleas and even many palm trees. If the winter temperature does not fall below +10°С, a specific variety of plants can will increase (for example, hibiscus, passionflowers, and many surprising plants). At higher winter temperature (+15°С) there is possible a cultivation of tropical plants, such as anturium, a ficus and even orchids.

Winter gardens

Presently winter gardens, or house greenhouses as is more often them name, have turned to a daily reality. More and more than owners of greater apartments, country houses or cottages wish to realize dream of a blossoming oasis. The winter garden at the house is perceived now as one more living room. It can be both a dining room, and a drawing room, and even a bedroom. Its main feature - an abundance of plants which as it is good, as well as to people. Charm of a winter garden that in any weather, both during a rain, and in a wind here is cosy.

In given clause it is not given practical recommendations on construction of greenhouses, and the basic moments in their planning and a choice, and also to assortment and accommodation of plants are described. To equip a winter garden in a city apartment or a country house quite probably, if whenever possible in advance to make its project, considering some nuances. In this case to equip the glazed room penetrated by light it will be possible in exact conformity with your wishes. It is necessary to pay separate attention to questions of illumination and heating of the future garden. Winter gardens ordinarily represent a design with glass doors and glass walls. Such design concentrates on itself solar beams and promotes heating of all premises but if the garden is not warmed in addition, the part of energy leaves on heating of walls and their protection against overcooling. In the winter temperature in a garden it is essential below, than in other premises, therefore presence of additional doors and windows here is simply obligatory.

Thus, owners of the winter gardens, described above a design, sooner or later come to conclusion about necessity not only heating, but also full heat insulation, enabling as much as possible to use all advantages of an atmosphere of a winter garden. It is obvious that to consider this and other similar moments at a stage of development of the project is much easier, than to make re-planning already available premise.

At creation of a greenhouse it is necessary to remember also about presence of such elements as an electricity lead by special rules, ventilation of a premise, to adjust temperature and humidity of a premise. For convenience place on a wall the thermometer. If in your winter to a garden accommodation of the plants, demanding the raised humidity it is possible to provide the device allowing constantly to spray a plant by water is planned. For care of decorative trees and bushes it is possible to get a small step-ladder. With its help it will be easier to you to carry out care of high plants. Do not forget that the floor in winter to a garden should be from not decaying material, and whenever possible provide water-proofing, the floor covering should be easy and convenient in cleaning.

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Assortment of plants for a winter garden.Oleander, Dracaena, Kafir lily, Bilbergia hanging

Oleander. An evergreen bush up to 1,5 m with dark coriaceous leaves and fragrant white, yellow or rose-red colors. All parts of a plant contain poisonous substances, therefore at care of a plant it is necessary to be careful. An oleander light-requiring. In the beginning of March of a branch of a plant it is necessary to cut, leaving on them on 3 - 4 kidneys. It is done because flowers are formed only on young branches of a gain of current year. Replace an oleander before the beginning of growth. A nutritious mix make from turfen, sheet and humus the grounds with addition of sand (4:2:2:1). Shanks of an oleander easily take roots in crude sand and in water.

Dracaena bordered. Is decorative-deciduous similar to palm perennial with lignification a stalk up to 2,5 m, narrow leaves in length up to 50 sm, collected on a top of a stalk. At occurrence of damages or deformation of leaves it is necessary to make to their scrap. Make multiple copies usually top shanks up to 15 sm or stem shanks with several kidneys.Ground blend make of the deciduous and turfen ground, humus, peat and sand (2:1:1:1:1). Illumination and humidity moderated (at 15 - 20С), spray leaves in the summer. Having watered plentiful, in the winter moderated.
Dracaena bordered

Kafir lily orange - a grassy plant with a short stalk, thick roots without a bulb and dark green ribbons the leaves located two-lane. Kafir lily plentifully blossoms large inflorescences of orange painting. On one arrow happens up to 30 flowers. On adults of a plant happens up to 5 arrows. Flowering proceeds from the end of winter up to the end of summer, forming a fruit. Contain kafir lily at 16 - 20С heat. Demands plentiful enamel and liquid additional fertilizings. More preferably east or western windows. It is made multiple copies by seeds and radical offsprings. A ground make of a mix of the sheet and argillaceous-turfen ground with addition of sand (2:2:1). Adult plants replace through 2 - 3 years. Upon termination of growth, having watered reduce.
Kafir lily orange

Bilbergia hanging - tow tropical plant, flowers in an ear on a small stalk with bright red bracts. Leaves band species, linear, 30 - 45 see Blossoms in January - March. It is made multiple copies by seeds and division of a bush. Demands uniform temperature (15 - 20С) and not too dry air (in dry air tips of leaves dry up). Leaves in the summer often spray, a dust clean wet webs. Replace a plant in the early spring in the turfen ground with addition of sand and humus (3:1:1). The plant does not transfer lime. It is used for gardening premises with windows of any orientation, in pendant baskets.
Bilbergia hanging