News Item: : Protea
(Category: Trees and shrubs)
Posted by gradinar
Saturday 27 September 2008 - 12:06:27

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protea_big.jpgRelatively new plant for us and more familiar in the form of cut flowers.

However, it is very beautiful garden with its unique flowering and duration.

It is not pretentious to the soil but likes the bright sun.

Razmozhava to seed and cuttings.


Protest is Rosaceae family comprising okolo1400 species.
Her homeland is Africa and Australia where they occur in large raznoobrazie.Rod protest received its name from the Greek god Proteus, the son of Poseidon.
Family of protest is varied from insects to small shrubs with a height of 80 cm
The leaves are leather and maintains a variety of shapes and sizes that meet certain well vodata.U protest a so-called organ-tanks that are underground and serve as water collection and storage of vlagata.Tova explains why Protest live in places with dry climates.



Posted by Khalid


The colors are bright protests red, yellow, rozovi.Imat strong aroma and sweet juice contains many of which benefit some birds.
Fetus is walnut.
The most famous protest is between Protea cynaroides / or giant Royal /, which has large clusters of round, reaching to 30 cm in diametar.Neyniyat nectar is used for cough medicine.
Also popular is the Protea repens, which is a symbol of South African protest is Republika.Sledvashta Protea macrocephala.
Relatives are leukadendron protests, Banks / Banksia / and telopeya.
Very easy to protest a growing decorative-prevazhodna.Vechnozelen shrub with gray-green heart-leaves and large flowers in pink, red, or is rozovi.Razmnozhava of seed sown in autumn in sand-peat mixture.
Temperatures above 20 degrees summer and winter 8.10 degrees.
Light, bright, sunny.
Political moderate, but to avoid preovlazhnyavane.Zimata very rarely.
Soil-a mixture of equal parts garden, peat and sand leaflet.
Except for cut flowers are used for dried bouquets.
on materials of florist.ru

Posted by Khalid


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