Archive for November, 2009

Fragrant And white flowers. We used to call this lovely plant with the title, Lily.

Beauty dazzling white flowers many people. Not a few who use it also as cut flowers, to decorate the room.

Lily is a long broad-leaf plants, like banana leaves. Among these leaves appeared Lily flower long-stemmed flowers. Lily flowers shaped like a shovel themselves white and fragrant. These plants can be placed inside or outside the room.

To plant and care for her, does require extra attention. Lily liked the planting medium moist. If the media using the earnings dry, growth will be disturbed, he is usually reluctant to bloom.

On the other hand, the fair is also not like excessive moisture. Puddle of water or planting medium is too wet, can make the roots rot. Thus, the planting medium flush the media using the earnings only when dry.

Lily, like other plants, also need to berfotosintesis sunlight. But you need to protect it from the sun is too hot. It’s good, put Lily in a shady area, but still get sunlight. If you put it in the room, you must often out, at least once every three days.

Serves as absorbent Pollutants

Not be denied, the more days the more air pollution occurs. Without realizing it at the house we were not free of toxic gases (pollutants). For example, formaldehyde is used in the cleaning fluid, benzene from cigarette smoke and plastic materials, or used trichloroethylene contained in the ink and paint.

Various pollutant gases can be neutralized by this plant. Not all plants can absorb pollutant gases. Spathyphyllum or Lily is one that can absorb the poisonous gas. Based on research, Lily effectively absorb and neutralize benzene. Ideally, a Lily plants can absorb pollutants in the room measured about 9 meter square. So, in addition to beautiful, Lily should be placed in the room other than to decorate the room, as well as absorbing air pollution.


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How to plant
The first step to plant cactus is buy healthy cactus seedlings. Healthy cactus is a prickly thorns perfect (nothing is broken), the stem is not bruised, and the direction perpendicular to the growth (no side-tilted and balanced). You can buy a cactus in the shops or ornamental nearest nursery plant. You must buy the seeds that at least 3 months old.

Once you get the best candidate cactus, plant it in soil media chaff or sandy soil. If you buy a type of cactus with high Cerevius trunked, the size of the pot should be as high as where to plant your crops ½. If you buy a cactus Echinocactus trunked or round as thin as the cactus Opuntia trunked, then try to pot a plant it 5-10 cm in diameter larger than the size of your cactus.

Before planting, make sure that both pots to any land that you provide are dry. Then, spray the pot with a disinfectant to ward off disease culprit that may arise. Do the planting in the normal way, be sure to clog the soil and roots are really well set.

REMEMBER: wait one week before the first watering. This is done because generally the kinds of cactus have a dormancy period where he did not need water. Provision of water immediately after planting will only mislead the cactus root decay. Also, do pot or soil replacement periodically once every 1 year.

Generally, there are two types of cactus cactus that likes sun or vice versa, cactus that likes dark places. Do not forget to ask which type of cactus you when buying in nursery ornamental plants. Both types do not need a temperature of strange kok. Climate of our country is suitable for the growth of cactus. You just remember this: When drought is not anything left for long outside the home, as the rain moved frequently to avoid the rain. Cactus deaths often occur because of decay caused by rain.

Anyway, the temperature is too high or low can cause berdormansi cactus. If you’re berdormansi, he will stop growing for a while. You do not want your cactus dwarf, is not it? So you must closely watched the season when growing cactus in the house.

In the first weeks after planting, do not immediately hang the cactus in the sun. Once planted, place under the shade, or shadow. Only then, periodically you move to a more brightly. If the newly planted your direct drying, so you can burn cactus. If you plant a cactus seeds in the house, then make sure the air circulation in the house is always good to support the growth of cactus. No hard not to plant a cactus?


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Planting roses is not difficult if we already know how. The first thing we should do is to buy roses for planting. Then make a hole in the fertile soil to grow plants, or you can add compost soil if you want. To remember is that besides the roses can be planted in the ground also can be planted in pots.

If you want to plant in the garden we have to make a big hole in the size 15 x 15 x 15 feet. Whereas if grown in pots we have to use a pot large enough, do not be too small because if planted in large holes so the roots of these roses will grow and spread into the soil during the first year.

It makes the roses will be strong and resistant to pests and also to drought. If we use the pot then we should more often take care of these flowers than not using a pot.

If planted in our soil to water is only one or two days, but if planted in pots we have to water them two to three times in one day. Keep in mind that a good pot pot use is made of clay or pottery. Use plastic pots avoided because not good for the growth of these flowers.

After that enter the soil, manure, and sand into the hole. But before you clean the site before planting roses from trash, weeds, and pebbles. Roses match on clay sandy, fertile, friable, many organic materials, good aeration and drainage. In addition the use of manure is a fertilizer that is not fresh. Because the manure is still fresh roses can make the dead, besides the smell generated too strong.

Comparison between soil humus, manure, and sand is 1:1:1.  If you plant in pots you nedd to add fractions of red bricks or tiles or charcoal that serves as a suction excess water and facilitate the transfer of plants from the pots into the garden or to place a new plant. Then the pot holes in the bottom for excess water and wet the pot with enough water to wet. Then insert fragments of red brick on the bottom pot ± 1 cm thick and do not create a drainage hole in the bottom of the pot is blocked.

Fill in the humus layer evenly over the layer of red brick. Then fill the planting medium mixture of soil, sand and manure. Then enter the roses into the ground or pots that have been provided. Then re-enter the soil humus. For perfect results put this plant in a location that has adequate sunlight. And last do not forget to regularly and watered regularly to get the perfect result.


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In order for the plant does not dry while you’re not home for several days, place the tip of a pipe to the plant and the other end into the water. Slowly and steadily the pipe will drain the water.

* Can also by putting towels in the bathroom which was soaked. Then place the plants in the towel earlier. Plants will not dry while you are not there.

* We recommend that you avoid buying roses are budding because they likely will not expand. Instead, buy roses that are not too bud.

* Spray dried flowers with hair spray so fast no wilting flower.

* To “stretch” the dried roses, bring flowers to a hot kettle and comb flower petals.

* To remove dust from the flowers made of silk, put a little salt into a paper bag, place the flower head into the bag and shake. Remove the flowers from the bag. Flowers would have no longer dusty.

* To freshen wilted roses, wrapped tightly with newspaper and put in a bucket of water limited to the neck and leave overnight.

* When the roses fade, cut into 1cm along the roots, wrap with paper, put the roots into the boiling water for about 10 seconds, then immediately immerse in cold water.

* Euphorbia sap irritating. Do not forget to wash your hands every time after holding it.

* Do not place flowers in direct sunlight or on television. Put the flowers in a cool room and away from the sun.

* Avoid putting the flowers on the fruit because the fruit emits a gas that can make a quick wilted flowers.

* Dispose Bungai-interest that have died for emitting gas that can impact on the flowers the other.

* Powder Lily flowers must be removed so developed because pollen can destroy the fabric (linen) and polished wood surfaces.

* When the flower heads are too heavy and the root becomes concave, put the stick into the roots to hold the flowers.

* Dampen vase at night with bleach to eliminate bacteria. Dirty vase of flowers shorten life.

* To help move the plant from a small flower pot into a bigger pot, put the plant in the small flower pots into a flower pot is bigger, then press down hard until the plants along the bottom of the pot off and was in the pot greater.

* When the dust plants / leaves with a wet sponge containing softener clothing, plants not only become more shine for eight weeks, but it also creates a fragrant smell.


Grass is the easiest plants to grow in the garden, and provides a beautiful expanse of land covered or your garden.
When planting grass, to note a few other things to take care of the grass to remain fertile, in addition to the land where the grass grows:

* Knowing the environment in which you live. Sesuiakan time and frequency of watering and fertilizing according to your neighborhood.

* Knowing the type of soil where the grass is planted. This can be asked for your garden expert. Plant grass on sandy soil will need more water than the grass that grows in dense clay. And of course you need more frequent watering. If the need is often watered grass, may need to think about irrigation systems. In addition to water, nutrients are also more necessary because the sandy soil nutrients dissolved out more rapidly than in the more solid ground. Not too much water as most grasses do not hold too much water.

* Knowing the type of fertilizer for the grass garden. Based on the type of soil and climate conditions in your place, ask for advice from garden experts, fertilizer stores, or store crops for the right type of fertilizer. If you have children or pets playing in the garden your lawn, it might be better to choose organic lawn fertilizer that will not harm children or pets.

* Choose a mower is good for your lawn garden. To park grass can be chosen larger machine that can be driven grass, and small lawn to park wearing enough grass-driven machines. Type a new lawn machines use less energy and produces less pollution than the type of machine is more old-fashioned grass.

* Use a barrier in the vicinity on foot so as not to get a lawn mower.

* Knowing when the weeds / grass removed from your lawn garden. With the lifting / pulling weeds, grass garden will fill with air / breathe better. All plants need oxygen, either at the top or at the bottom of the root area. Pulling weeds and give the air in your lawn garden, will maintain the fertility and health of your lawn garden.


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