Gardening with Grasses Other / Books
Ornamental grasses are among the most versatile and sophisticated of garden plants. Planted as single specimens in beds or on the terrace in a container, grasses are striking focal points. …
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Indigofera pseudotinctoria 'Rose Carpet' - Dwarf False Indigo Plants / Deciduous Shrubs A prostrate rug that blooms from late June until frost. This is much lower and dense than the species that we saw growing wild in Korea. Rich rose-pink spikes, 1-2 long cover this little shrub. Great for edging beds, walkways, or try in the rock garden. … Contributed by amazon 27.07. 2007 07:44:56 (21538 readers) | |
Herniaria glabra - Green Carpet Plants / Perennials This lovely bright green creeper spreads effortlessly in all directions filling up to two feet per plant. A fairly flat plant of about two inches, it has one long tap root (as opposed to many surface roots like a Creeping Thyme) which helps with water conservation. It likes full sun but it can take partial … Contributed by amazon 03.09. 2007 10:24:24 (22765 readers) | |
Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Karmina' - cranesbill Plants / Tropical and Subtropical Plants Cranesbill is a genus comprising of about 300 species. It is commonly used as a ground-covering perennial which can quickly form a respectable carpet. When if full bloom it offers a solid, one-colour show which in mass plantings looks stunning. Thanks to low growth it mostly finds its place under trees … Contributed by havlis 12.06. 2016 10:15:59 (16167 readers) | |
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Gardens Other / Books An Essay on the Human Condition | Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception … Contributed by amazon 07.06. 2008 07:36:12 (13555 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Many uses for groundcovers (1) Plants / Other Groundcovers are low-growing plants that form a sod as they develop in a horizontal direction. Some varieties are evergreen and some are even reasonably tolerant of being walked on. An advantage of using groundcovers is that their closely-knit carpet of leaves gives weeds down. … Contributed by pph 11.04. 2007 20:26:16 (18739 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Other / Books Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds. Guilds, the author tells … Contributed by amazon 30.05. 2007 10:19:30 (17727 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Geranium himalayense 'Baby blue' - Himalayan cranesbill Plants / Perennials Cranesbill is a genus comprising of about 300 species. It is commonly used as a ground-covering perennial which can quickly form a respectable carpet. When if full bloom it offers a solid, one-colour show which in mass plantings looks stunning. Thanks to low growth it mostly finds its place under trees … Contributed by havlis 21.05. 2014 21:42:22 (22643 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Many uses for groundcovers (3) - Evergreen shrubs Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Cotoneaster dammeri Mooncreeper, Hedera helix, Sarcococca hookeriana var. humulis Cotoneaster dammeri Mooncreeper The distinctive characteristic of this evergreen Cotoneaster is its habit: it grows flatly against the ground to create a kind of sod. Its leaves are small, slightly lustrous, and bright … Contributed by pph 11.04. 2007 20:33:12 (43962 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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