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The cottage garden
is a distinct style of garden that uses an informal design, traditional
materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. Others
were the old-fashioned roses that bloomed once a year with rich scents, simple
flowers like daisies, and flowering herbs. Over time, even large estate gardens
had sections they called "cottage gardens". Source
Heilbronn is
a city in northern Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. It is surrounded by Heilbronn
County and, with approximately 123,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city
in the state. After the demise of the Staufen dynasty, King Rudolf I returned
city status to Heilbronn in 1281 and installed a regal advocate to rule the
city. In addition to the advocate he put a council in place that was headed up
by a mayor. Source
Raised-bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is formed in 3 to 4 foot wide beds, which can be of any length or shape. The soil is raised above the surrounding soil, is sometimes enclosed by a frame generally made of wood, rock, or concrete blocks, and may be enriched with compost. The vegetable plants are spaced in geometric patterns, much closer together than conventional row gardening. The spacing is such that when the vegetables are fully grown, their leaves just barely touch each other, creating a microclimate in which weed growth is suppressed and moisture is conserved. Raised beds produce a variety of benefits: they extend the planting season, they can reduce weeds if designed and planted properly and reduce the need to use poor native soil. Source
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Freesia is a genus of around 16 species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya down to South Africa, most species being found in Cape Province. Species of the former genus Anomatheca are now included in Freesia. The plants commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia species. Some other species are also grown as ornamental plants. They are herbaceous plants which grow from a corm 1 to 2.5 cm diameter, which sends up a tuft of narrow leaves 10 to 30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10 to 40 cm tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of flowers with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers, although those formerly placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have flat flowers. Source
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants sparsely or not at all. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while still providing the benefits of a garden environment. Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds, waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and more. Source
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The tulip is
a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of
which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's
native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece,
the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan) and
Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the
Northwest of China. The tulip's centre
of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and
winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars
are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers. The flowers have six
distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma
has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers.
The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to
globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows
per chamber. Source
