Garden
A comprehensive guide to cultivating Ficus elastica 'Tineke', including care tips and insights from an experienced gardener.
Today we discuss a well-known Boraginaceae, the Comfrey or Greater Comfrey (_Symphytum officinale_), a plant used in gardening since the European Middle Ages.
In the years I have spent as a trainer, I sometimes resort to these associations of ideas to help students remember a tree, a technique, or a tool...
Spring gardening continues with dry conditions. Tackling winter damage on bamboo and observing new growth in various plants and flowers.
Every year, May confronts me with an emotional dilemma: I look forward to the day when I discover the first young fawn in the garden. However, every new addition to our wildlife population means another hungry mouth that will be guided to various delicacies in our garden.
Taking care of sunflower health requires a comprehensive approach: growing resistant hybrids, seed treatment, adhering to crop rotation, destroying plant residues, volunteer plants, and weeds as reservoirs of infection, and protecting the vegetative mass. The main diseases affecting sunflowers include downy mildew, leaf spots, and head rots.
