Blue-black berries appear at the end of June. They look like blueberries, but are the pear fruits edible or even poisonous? We do the fact check. The garden wood with a lot of potential The rock pear belongs to the rose family. Most of the known varieties come from North America. The only rock pear found in Europe is…
The Dieffenbachia belong to the arum family, a plant family represented worldwide with the tropics as the focus of species development. There are a total of 115 genera of arum family with around 4,000 mostly very decorative species. Only a few of them have their home in Central Europe. These are the arum sticks and three genera of…
The vanilla flower is for what it can do – namely to equip balconies, terraces or summery beds with a flowery and wonderfully fragrant decoration – certainly still far too little widespread here. The following article tells you everything you need to know about handling the beautiful flowering plant, in terms of care, propagation and wintering….
Due to its striking flower structure, the plant always attracts everyone’s attention. – The foxglove (digitalis), which belongs to the plantain family, has become a very popular plant in domestic gardens in recent years. The plant develops its decorative effect mainly through its large, bell-shaped single flowers, which sit close to the long flower candles. The thimble presents…
The Deutzia belongs to the hydrangea family and is native to the temperate zones of Asia (especially Japan and China) and Central America. In our latitudes, the Deutzia is also known as the may flower bush or star bush. There are around sixty different species, most of which are deciduous shrubs of medium height. growth The Deutzias…
Many garden owners want their own wet biotope in the garden, which on the one hand has a decorative effect and on the other hand is an ideal place to live for numerous animals and plants. Creating a pond is particularly easy with the help of a prefabricated structure that only needs to be inserted into…
Cut salads or plucked salads are varieties of garden salads. They do not form heads, but individual leaves, usually in a loose rosette, which are simply harvested from the outside in. This has the advantage that you can only harvest as much as can actually be freshly processed. With lettuce, the entire head is cut off, regardless of…
There are tons of types of beans, over 700 different ones. Hardly anyone knows them all. This is in large part due to the fact that some varieties have several names at the same time. You quickly lose track of things. A distinction is usually made between types of beans according to their properties and possible uses. In Germany you…
If you want to offer your roses a natural fertilizer, you can also use horn shavings or horn meal. Both are good organic fertilizers that contain the nutrients roses need for healthy growth. But the main question here is the differences between the two fertilizers. Or is there no difference and there are two different names for the…
The Skimmia japonica is a plant from East Asia, which thrives in its home in the shade and undergrowth of dense mountain forests. For this reason, the robust ornamental plant prefers darker locations with diffuse lighting conditions. Once rooted in the preferred location, even cooler temperatures and periods of frost can hardly harm it. It is therefore not…