Plant Gardens 101

There are innumerable varieties of flowers in all countries of the world. They are grown in different ways according to a particular country’s climate in order to produce high-quality flowers for export as well as for sale in the local market. In some countries, the weather is more extreme, which means that growing flowers is more difficult than in other nations. One such country is Israel.

Israel is a country located east of the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the Northeast, Jordan to the east and Egypt to the southwest. It’s a fairly small, landlocked country in the Middle East that has several unique geographical features. To the north of Israel are majestic mountain ranges such as Galilee, Carmel, and Golan. To the south is the Negev Desert which covers more than half of the country’s land area.

The weather tends to be erratic. Summers are long, hot and rainless. Winters, on the other hand, tend to be short, rainy, and cold. During the rainy season, thunderstorms and hail are common. In an environment like this, growing beautiful and export-quality flowers would indeed be a very challenging task. Good thing is that the Israelis are up to the challenge.

Growing flowers in Israel demands a lot of work and dedication from all the people involved. Flowers are grown in a moshav, which is a sort of cooperative agricultural community consisting of farmers. All members are levied a tax in order to pay for a more efficient production of goods, in this case, flowers. Labor and resources are pooled together in order to produce better products. The moshav also receives help from researchers so that their technology is up-to-date, making for a better harvest.

The Philippines and Israel are very similar when it comes to cultivating flowers. For one, both countries have extreme weather conditions; the temperature can shoot up to very high and rain is unpredictable and severe. In the Philippines, the summers can be very hot and the wet season usually brings catastrophic typhoons and floods. Thus, both the Philippines and Israel makes use of greenhouse technology in order to produce beautiful and high-quality flowers. Using greenhouses counteracts the extreme and unpredictable weather of both countries.

Flowers are enduring symbols of love and peace all over the world. It doesn’t matter where or how they are grown—they will grow, and more beautifully than ever. However, a bit of help from ingenious human hands wouldn’t hurt, especially in extreme conditions.

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Roses can be cultivated by hand in a backyard garden or in a traditional flower farm. To produce high-quality roses, conditions such as soil type, amount and type of fertilizer, moisture, and temperature should be kept as perfect as possible. Pest control is also a top priority of any rose grower. However, some of the factors in growing the best roses possible are often things that no grower can ever have the power to control. Factors, such as the unpredictable changes in temperature (rain, excessive heat), the moisture content in the air and in the soil, and the invasion of pests in the garden. Growing roses takes skill and patience. Growing good roses the natural way takes skill, patience, and most important of all: talent.

However, we live in an age where advanced techniques coupled with up-to-date technology makes all the difference in our daily work. In this case, growing roses in a greenhouse is more practical that doing it old-style. In a greenhouse, all the factors needed to produce high-quality roses are maintained at a constant level. Before, a rose grower needs to rely on the unpredictability of nature to produce top-quality flowers, now he or she just needs to adjust the conditions needed to produce the perfect blooms.

The Philippines is a country that is highly vulnerable to typhoons during the wet season and sweltering heat during summer. Trying to grow roses in such an unpredictable environment wastes time and money. With the use of a greenhouse, the grower doesn’t need to be on constant call in case it rains or the temperature rises without warning. This allows him or her to attend to other matters of business, thus resulting in a much more efficient work environment. Also, unpredictable changes in the natural environment can damage the flowers, thus resulting in the loss of money and effort of the grower.

The production of roses becomes more efficient and predictable with the use of a greenhouse. This cuts the cost of the flowers while at the same time increasing their availability in the Philippine market. In other words, the price and supply of roses in the Philippine market is stabilized once they are cultivated in greenhouses.

Besides the issues of price and supply, greenhouse-grown roses have more vibrant colors than the traditional open field grown ones. Other characteristics are a clean bud and stem and a much longer vase life (which means that they stay fresh longer after being cut). This is because greenhouse-grown roses are absolutely free from pests and the harsh conditions of the natural environment. They are also provided with the proper nutrition while being carefully cultivated.

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Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies in the world. It provides soothing therapy for some people especially when they see their work bloom in season. These are the sort of people who want to use their hands to make living things grow strong and healthy through their patience and hard work. Thus, gardeners often feel a strong connection with the soil and a powerful appreciation for beauty that only flowers can provide. The hours may be long and the work backbreaking, but the rewards of seeing a single flower bloom can lift all the hours and the aches away.

If you’re looking for a new hobby or just something to do to spend idle time while at home, try gardening. Why? Well, one good reason is that a garden will definitely make your home look more attractive and beautiful. Besides that, the air in your private space will be cleaner and fresher since the plants absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Growing flowers is easy, if you have the time and patience for it. The tools are not that expensive and there are various resources in books, magazines and the Internet to help you with your project.
A small piece of land, tools, and knowledge is all you need to start a gardening project in your backyard. Here are some basic instructions:

1. Choosing the right spot. A sunny area with well-drained, fertile soil is the best for flowering plants. Make sure that the area is sheltered from strong winds that could defoliate and destroy the blooms.
2. Preparing the soil. Dig the soil thoroughly with a shovel until it is fine and loose. Add a large amount of compost or organic fertilizer to the top layer and mix it a bit with the soil. Fertilizers are vital to ensuring that your plants have all the nutrients they need for growing strong and healthy so make sure to do it properly.
3. Planting the seeds. You can buy the seeds at any department store or gardening shop here in the Philippines for a relatively cheap price. Follow the instructions in the package in planting the seeds. Depending on the requirement of your flowering plants, plant the seeds deep or only at the surface.
4. Watering. Water the seeds or plants at least twice a day. Moderate the amount of water as over-watering could kill your garden easily.
5. Fertilizing. Fertilize the flower bed periodically to make your flowers grow well.
6. Pest control. Always watch out for pests that could damage your flowers and take care of them early. Common pests are easily killed with the pesticides out in the market so ask your retailer for advice when you come down to buy.
7. Deadheading. Remove diseased, infested, rotting or old blooms and leaves. This will prevent the disease from spreading or attracting the pests. Also, the plants will bloom longer since dead flowers signal that the plant should start producing seeds.

These are only basic tips so make sure to read more details on creating your own garden. Happy gardening!
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Growing flowers is not as easy as it looks. There are several factors to consider in order to grow high-quality blooms and the growers’ work is to make sure that the factors remain as stable as possible. These factors are temperature, humidity, soil type, fertilizer supply, pest control, preventing blight, and the seasons (in tropical areas such as the Philippines, there are only two seasons—wet and dry—while other countries have spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Almost all these factors involved in growing the best flowers in the market are unpredictable, making production wholly dependent on natural causes. One can toil a month in a garden, sweating and swearing, but all it takes for this work to be rendered useless is a strong typhoon.

Growing flowers outdoors has many advantages though, and one of them is that it is a cheaper way to cultivate blooms compared to building an expensive greenhouse. The work is much simpler, without all the complicated machinery and maintenance that a greenhouse needs. Also, unlike greenhouse-grown flowers, outdoor flowers do not require that much personnel. All one needs is the basic gardening tools and competent hands to use them to do the job right. (more…)

Roses are one of the most popular Flowers in the world due to their beauty and deep symbolism. It is said that there is a rose of every color for every person, for every emotion. However, besides being popular for these admirable qualities, roses are also well-known to be one of the more difficult flowers to grow. They need very specific conditions to look and stay at their best. Just one missing requirement and a healthy bush of roses can wither and (if not remedied immediately) die.

Roses thrive best in temperate countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, to name a few. In other words, roses prefer mild climates that are not very prone to extreme changes in seasons or temperature. They can’t stand it if it’s too hot or too cold, and it is only in temperate zones that roses grow most naturally.
Tropical countries, on the other hand, have high temperatures and humidity or moisture content in the air. Examples of tropical countries are the Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina, to name a few. There are only two seasons: dry, when the temperature reaches record levels during the summer months and wet, when typhoons make their seasonal rounds with heavy rain and thunderstorms. (more…)

Holland is a region located in the western part of the Netherlands. When we hear “Holland”, the first images that comes to mind are windmills, cheese, their national costume or klederdracht, and of course – tulips! Holland tulips have become popular all over the world due to their distinctive bulbous shape and shocking varieties of color. They are commonly grown in gardens, used as potted plants or fresh cut flowers sold in shops. Moreover, red tulips have become the symbol of passion and eroticism of young love. White tulips, on the other hand, stand for pure love while yellow ones symbolize a concern for the beloved.

While tulips are closely identified with Holland, the flowers did not originate from that province. Tulips actually came from the Ottoman Empire and only arrived in Europe in the late 1500′s, introduced by a botanist Carolus Clusius to the Leiden University in the Netherlands. Not long afterwards, the flowers became such a hit in the Netherlands that one bulb, the most famous one called Semper Augustus, sold for as much as 6,000 florins (the average annual income at that time was only 150 florins). Semper Augustus was indeed very rare; it had red and white vertical stripes which can only be produced by a virus on a healthy tulip crop. (more…)

The rose, being the most popular garden and cut plant, has over 20,000 cultivars in the Northern Hemisphere alone. This number originates from a conservative figure of only 150-200 species of wild roses. Fossil specimens found in both Colorado and Oregon show that roses have been growing for more than 30 million years to date. More fossil specimens were found in North Africa and are said to be at least 4,000 years old. Variant wise, only five of the massive figures above cut as the most popular: the Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Grandiflora, Climber, and Miniature roses.

Hybrid Tea roses were first cultivated in 1867 by a French nurseryman named Jean-Baptiste Guillot. He achieved the first Hybrid Tea by budding an old Chinese garden tea rose and a European rose. While it is not as fragrant as the other variants, it is safe to say that this rose is the most popular of all because of its wide selection of colors and its long stem that makes it ideal as a cut blossom. (more…)

I asked ten women which among the three cut blossoms can make them feel special or giddy the most: roses, lilies, or tulips. Roses got four votes while lilies and tulips got three each. While most women today say that they want something different and unexpected, I was quite confused why they still chose roses when other choices were presented to them. Out of the hundreds and thousands of cut plants in existence, have you ever wondered what makes the roses so special and popular after all these years? (more…)