Lush green well maintained lawns, different types of roses [Maintaining rose garden], rare flowering plants, imported shrubs, ornamental plants, fern houses with a vast range of ferns and orchids and cool clear pools will all be present in botanical garden.
The botanical garden is maintained by horticulture department or you can make your own botanical garden.
You also get educational projects at botanical gardens that range from introductions to plants that thrive in different environments to practical advice for the home gardener.
Mediterranean gardening is nothing but a celebration of a climate. This type of weather pattern is enjoyed by only two percent of the globe, envied by the rest of the world, where warm dry summers follow mild, wet winters. For some thirsty plants, the dry half of the year may not be suitable.
Many people love this type of gardening because because there will be no humidity present to make your clothes stick to you and few insects to leave itchy bites. If you use the plants which are well adapted to this weather pattern, you can have few warm season gardening chores.
You can go for Mediterranean gardening in botanical garden, as the garden looks right, feels right and suits the light. Mediterranean gardens are mainly designed for enjoyment. You can include ideas from them into your garden, no matter where you live.
Thirsty plants in the garden
Every gardener knows that parched plants become especially vulnerable to insects. Last year, the Virginia researchers showed that mild water stress made the leaves of white oak saplings less attractive to the oak lace bug.
Leaves of the mildly thirsty plants contained 11 percent less water and proved a little tougher and therefore harder to penetrate.
Horticulture therapy uses gardening activities to improve a patient’s physical, social and mental well being. If you are an early bird, make mornings a time to water thirsty plants or cut favorite flowers.
How to take care of botanical garden
Water smart is used to describe the methods employed to achieve efficiency in irrigating gardens. The most dramatic water smart gardens feature plants that thrive with minimal irrigation.
You must regularly water in the heat summer, but even the thirstiest gardens are watered less than an average landscape.
You have to even take care of botanical gardens by protecting them from disease. Many turf diseases like fungi, develop under humid and warm conditions. Watering should be timed for early morning just before day break, in order to minimize these highly humid conditions.
Avoid fertilizing in the middle of summer and wait till the autumn. You can slow the use of fertilizer release just twice a year in the spring and the autumn for excellent results [Fertilizing at right time].
If you hire a gardener to mow your botanical garden, ask him or her to wipe the mower blades with some sterilizing agent before working on plants. Many pest and disease organisms are carried from plant to plant on tools and equipments.