Usual name: Cosmos

Family:Compositae (added also in family Asteraceae)

Origin: South America, Mexic, Central Europe

The ideal place where to plant the cosmos is an aerated place from your garden with a great exposure to the sun. The cosmos is a plant wich love the sun and its light.

The warmth is also an important factor. The cosmos need 20-28 degrees but them hang on at over 30 degrees.

The Cosmos need abundant watering, the dryness being the worst enemy of this plants.

If the soil is poor, or to earthen, is recommended to use a layer of muck, or some fertilizer manure.

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Aspect: Bush
Period of flowering: April-May
Exposure: Excesive sun
Watering: Middle

Around 100 species of plants apartains to tulip genre. Tulip has flowers with 6 petals.

The tulip needs sunny places and the soil must be fertile. The bulbs need to be planted in September. The watering must be intense when the flowers begin to rise.

The Rose is a plant that apartain to Rosaceae family. It is spread in majority of Earth regions. 400 species apartain to Rosa gene, and their anchestry are derived from the hills of Central Asia.

Due to its dispersion in places with different type of climate, results a large gamut of roses, everyone having specific characteristics.

Tips for roses:

- choose a neutral land, reach in alimentary matters, but with a good permeability for water.

- the soil must be worked two times per year (summer and springtime) with a deep dig.

- for a great flowering during the summer, the rose need a place with at least 5 hours with sun every day.

Excessive temperatures (50 degres and more), associted with a drought affect negatively to the roses flowers. The petals bloom out, and than die down. To prevent this, give them water every day during the summer, before the sunrise.

Some of them are particular with meridian or temperate climate from Australia, New Zealand, North America or Europe.

The orchids have simple leafs with parallel vein with oval form. Some species have cylindric leafs.

The necessary light for orchids correlate with origin of every species. Despite of their love for light, you most not exaggerate with light’s intensity, because it can harm your orchid.

The orchids loves the contact with water. but there is one condition: water must abounding, but only for a short while. The best way to irrigate the orchids consist in infusion of water directly in hotchpotch soil.

Cactus and hot is distinctive and unusual plant, which is adapted to extremely aridenvironments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cactus is so well known.

Cactus leafs are transformed into thistles The flowers are big, and at many species are immense with different forms and intense colored. The fruit is a bacca that contains numerous seeds.
Cactus is growing very slowly. Intense light is all-important for this plants. If it is possible, is highly recommended cactus to be placed at the windows.
Ventilation of the room is obligatory. Statute air is very harmful for this plants.

The peony flower from 15 April, until 1 May, being one of the most beautiful garden flower. Most indicated period to plant peony is the end of September- begin of October. The peony stern is almost woody.


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Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, two-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, pink,red or white colors. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.

It has around 30 species in the wild, extending to tropical Asia, Madagascar,Africa, and America. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.

Gerbera is commercially important. It is the 5th most used cut flower in the world (after tulip, chrysanthemum, carnation and rose). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives.

Gerbera is popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The cross is known as Gerbera hybrida. Thousands of cultivars exist. They vary greatly in shape and size. Colors include red, orange, pink, white, and yellow. The center of the flower is sometimes black. Often the same flower can have petals of several different colors.