Latonia angustiloba
Botanical Name: Alstonia angustiloba Common Name: Common Pulai Family: Apocyanceae Origin: This tree is native to Peninsular Malaysia Botanical description Form Alstonia angustiloba is a tall tree, which can grow up to 15- 25m or more in height. It has a large, pagoda-shaped crown, with distinct tiered branching Leaves The leaves are oval- shaped, with [...]
Evergreens
September 23, 2010 by NhiBravo
Every garden needs great clusters of evergreens, plants that will keep performing all year, summer and winter, in frost, drought, and snow. When gardeners speak of color, they rarely mean green, but green is an excellent color with a variety of hues from bright green, olive green, blue-green to dark green. This constant show helps [...]
Foliage for Containers
September 23, 2010 by NhiBravo
Any garden, with or without pots, needs to break away from the idea that everything is geared toward flowers. Yes, they count. Yes, they can lift the spirits. But so does foliage. There is a great variety of shapes and tints and textures. The invaluable evergreens last all year. The enormous range of foliage shapes [...]
Creating Impact
September 22, 2010 by NhiBravo
Creating impact is one thing, doing it well is another. Visit the very best gardens for inspiration, see how they do things, use their best ideas, then inject some of your own. Forget all about taste and fashion. You could use color-graded schemes, starting off with soft hues and building up to hot reds in [...]
Effective Simplicity
September 21, 2010 by NhiBravo
It is relatively easy to create a bright mix of flowers for a dramatic display. It takes a little more thought and planning to a achieve elegant simplicity using one single species per pot. The results can be very effective. The rule is either to choose a plant with an eye-catching shape, or one with [...]
Choosing containers
September 20, 2010 by NhiBravo
Containers come in all shapes and sizes, as well as materials. Since many can be quite expensive, it is worth studying what is on offer before making a final choice. The best in terracotta, Italian-style swagged pots with fabulous, elaborate decorations, are wonderful but can be expensive. The bottom-of-the range pots can be plain and [...]
Adenanthera pavonina
September 20, 2010 by trinh
Botanical Description Many people will be family with the attractive bright red shiny Saga seeds, which are a characteristic feature of this species. From Saga is a medium-sized tree, usually between 15 – 20m tall, with a rounded spreading uneven crown. Leaves The leaves are bipinnate compound, with the main leaf stalk 10 – [...]
Close-up on Containers
September 19, 2010 by NhiBravo
There is now a terrific range of pots, and with the increasing variety of plants available, getting the right style pot for the right mix of plants can be tricky. The quickest way to success is to borrow or adapt some of the ideas shown on the following pages. CREATIVE CONTAINERS A careful grouping of [...]
Trailing plants
September 18, 2010 by NhiBravo
When choosing plants for wall pots and hanging baskets, always include some excellent trailers. They swamp and cover the container with growth, giving a sense of luxury, and they blur the gaps between plants. The range of subjects is huge, from those with texured foliage to great masses of summery flowers.
Wall pots
September 17, 2010 by NhiBravo
Take a lesson from the small courtyard, Greek- island garden. When planting, utilize every space, and that includes bare wall. Treat them as a kind of vertical flower bed. Attach pots to the surfaces, arranging them in rows, pots with trailing orange nasturtium, with lipstick-pink pelargoniums, with deep blue verbenas, and Bidens ferulifolia with spray [...]
