Category: Exterior Design


The best New Zealand trees

Posted by bowo84 on March 9, 2010 | No comments

The best New Zealand treesProbably the best known of New Zealand trees, the Variegated Lemonwood (Pittosporum eugenioides ‘variegatum’) is extensively cultivated in many countries. A fast growing evergreen, reaching 3-5 m or more and 2-4 m wide, this low-branching plant is covered with dense glossy foliage, pale green with cream wavy margins. Leaves emit a pleasant citron aroma when crushed. Fragrant creamy yellow flowers appear in spring, followed by yellow fruit which becomes black and sticky when ripe. Being hardy, the Variegated Lemon wood will grow in a wide range of soils and conditions in many parts of Australia, inland or coastal and is quite tolerant of heat, dry periods, wind, salt spray and moderate frosts. » Read the full post

Brief history of Orchid

Posted by bowo84 on February 2, 2010 | 2 comments

Brief history of OrchidOrchid is a flower plant ornamental flowers form a beautiful parasite. Orchid has been known since 200 years ago and has since started 50 years is widely cultivated in Indonesia. Orchid species found in Indonesia, including the beautiful types are: Vanda tricolor located in West Java and in Kaliurang, Vanda hookeriana, purple-colored spots come from Sumatra, orchids Dendrobiurn, alaenopis, Phalaenopsis amabilis orchid month, Apple Blossom orchid, orchid Paphiopedilun praestans » Read the full post

Parks and gardens

Posted by bowo84 on February 1, 2010 | No comments

park and gardensPark is an area containing the material components of hard and soft supporting each other deliberately planned and created by humans in their role as a refreshing indoor and outdoor. Park can be divided into natural parks and artificial gardens. A common garden is the garden house, neighborhood parks, playgrounds, recreation parks, botanical gardens. Park comes from the Gard, which means maintaining and Eden which means pleasure, » Read the full post

Catharanthus roseus

Posted by bowo84 on January 31, 2010 | No comments

Catharanthus roseusCatharanthus roseus is a special species that is also found in Madagascar. This interest is identified by other names such as Chinese Kemunting, Grass, and Ros Beach. These flowers belong to the vines that are often planted as an ornamental, and has a height of 60 cm with dark green leaves 2-4 cm in size the hairy side. The leaves are also arranged in a creeped. Catharanthus roseus has a flower that consists of 5 petals and the color is white, blue, pink and purple. Material from this flower is used to » Read the full post

Giving Outsider Art at Home

Posted by bowo84 on December 20, 2009 | 2 comments

Giving Outsider Art at HomeChicago imagist painter Ray Yoshida lives and works in a modest brick building on a quiet street in one of Chicago’s fading polish neighborhoods. His first floor studio is just as it was the day he moved in and began painting there a steep flight of stairs leads into his living room and a thicket of painted wooden smoking stand-an, a memorable home improvement. Introduction to: Yoshida’s collection of objects that, in his words, “have a certain particularity about them.”

Yoshida groups similar pieces most of them the work of folk or outsider artists, much as a taxonomist might order on array » Read the full post

A Green and Pleasant land

Posted by bowo84 on October 20, 2009 | 3 comments

A Green and Pleasant landEngland’s contribution to the visual arts and home depot often seems pale in comparison with the great landmarks of continental European.  Charming and direct thought they may be, English painting, sculpture, and even architecture only occasionally attain the sweep and passion we associate with the grand manner of a Rubens, a Bernini, or a Borromini. But in one art form England has reined supreme for four centuries, even though it is the most evanescent medium of all: landscape gardening. » Read the full post

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