Category: G as gardening

Keywords: garden to grave arrangement

garden

garden G as gardening The term "garden" refers to a piece of open land that, through the deliberate intervention of humans and their planting, becomes a cultivated or even aesthetic preparation. Even if the abandonment of an open space without intervention from outside – in this country also known under the term wild garden – can be seen as a garden in the strict sense, it is generally assumed that a specific arrangement of a garden. The garden also distinguishes itself from a field that rather serves the rearing of vegetables, fruits and other crops and thus puts the commercial use in the foreground. In the case of a private garden, on the other hand, the aesthetic aspect is in the foreground, even if this does not preclude a harvest of fruit and vegetables within a manageable framework for private use. Throughout many eras, and often in close relation to diverse cultures, gardens are not prepared solely by targeted planting, but can also include small buildings or ornate objects. Gardens are also being run in Germany and around the world for scientific purposes, in order to be able to learn more about botany in general and about the flowers and plants that have been planted in particular, through information boards.


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gardener

gardener G as gardening The term gardener in the German language refers to both a training occupation as well as the private, non-commercial activity to cultivate and cultivate a private garden. Horticulture is closely linked to the development of the agricultural sector in Germany; just a few centuries ago, most inhabitants of rural regions were gardeners, managing their livelihood as well as the supply of food through their capacity as smallholders. Since the commercial importance of one's own gardening in the modern living environment has faded into the background and supermarkets no longer need to cultivate their own food, today the gardener is understood more in the floristic or botanical sense of maintaining a private or public garden and so on contributes to an aesthetic enrichment of its environment. All activities that play a role in this can be learned as part of a three-year training course in Germany and then practiced as a manual apprenticeship. In today's working environment, gardeners are used in garden centers or small gardening businesses, in cemetery nurseries and nurseries. Also in the cultivation of crops of all kinds gardeners are needed in addition to traditional farmers, for example in the cultivation of fruit trees or perennials. Anyone who, as a trainee, would rather incorporate aesthetic and creative preferences into his professional life, can also aim for a more floristic focus in his work.


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garland

garland G as gardening The garland, also referred to in professional circles as Feston, is a decorative element that has been used for centuries in the fine arts and also plays a role in the design of flower arrangements. The garland is woven in a natural way from flowers, flowers and thin branches, in modern retailers also artificial garlands made of cloth or paper are offered. The garland is a hanging jewelry and is attached to ceilings or along walls, the exclusive fixation at the beginning and end of the meter-long garland creates the appearance of a sagging arch. In the architecture of earlier epochs, this look was taken over directly and, for example, sculpted on the ceilings and dome during stucco plaster work. In today's living environment, the term garland is mainly associated with a party decoration, with the help of which interior and exterior areas can be decorated in a simple way colorful. Rarely are flowering elements used here, but rather robust materials such as fabrics are familiar. Wreaths and arrangements can be decorated with a Feston in addition to rooms or larger objects, garlands are used in miniature editions for this purpose. Colorful garlands for the individual decoration of garden, terrace or interiors can also be found in the online assortment of floristik21.de.


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Gärtnermeister

Gärtnermeister G as gardening The term gardening master is a German occupation, which goes beyond the classical teaching profession of the gardener and here represents the highest level of education of the profession. In order to be able to work as a master gardener, the three-year vocational training as a gardener as well as a multi-year employment in the appropriate working environment is necessary in order to be able to fall back on professional experience in this industry. It is irrelevant in which area the trained person is employed and whether this person has more of a focus in his professional life, for example in a nursery or in the cultivation of perennials or fruit plants. In contrast to a simple gardener, the master gardener acquires additional knowledge from specialist areas that are not directly related to areas such as gardening and landscaping. In today's professional life, this primarily includes business management knowledge that enables a master gardener to run his own business independently, such as a tree nursery, a cemetery nursery or a specialist market for gardening and plant products. Even if this form of self-employment is not sought individually, the training as a gardener provides for better salary prospects, if the employment is sought in a larger horticultural company. In most cases, training as a master gardener is carried out on an extra-occupational basis in order to permanently combine theoretical and practical knowledge.


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Gerbera

Gerbera G as gardening Gerbera is an ornamental flower that belongs to the daisy family and is one of the most popular plants in worldwide floristry. The gerbera is originally native to Africa, but is also on all other continents before an attractive habitat and thus makes in breeding compared to other ornamental plants rather small claims. Among flower lovers the gerbera is valued above all for its large and colorful flowering, the inflorescences in basket shape also attract numerous insects and simplify the plant's propagation. The stems of the Gerbera have no leaves and make this flower type thus an optimal choice for bouquets of all kinds, also the botanical compatibility with other cut flowers in a vase is excellent. Through selective breeding, which was promoted already a century ago, Gerbera can be purchased today in virtually all common color variants and make it so flower lovers particularly easy to incorporate this cut flower in their own bouquets and bouquets. Due to the very large inflorescence gerbera are often used as the main flower in bouquets, which dictate the essential color of the entire bouquet.


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Gift flowers

Gift flowers G as gardening The term poison flowers summarizes all flowers that have a toxic effect on humans or animals in whole or in individual parts of the flowers. Such flowers include substances that are needed by the plant for nutrient exchange or in birds and insects show no toxic effects, when consumed by humans or the pure skin contact already cause adverse reactions. Even though many poisonous flowers have an aesthetic appearance and could therefore be used as ornate elements in floristry, only very few poisonous flowers are used for this purpose. Above all, the accidental contact of humans and animals with these flowers in their own homes should be avoided, even if the effects of some poison flowers remain within manageable limits and thus do not cause permanent damage in humans. Among the best-known poisonous flowers, which are also to be discovered in Germany's free nature, include the cyclamen, the red foxglove, the lily of the valley and numerous tulip species. Not all of the mentioned plants develop their toxic effect on humans, however, dogs and cats can be damaged by eating. Anyone who owns pets as a garden lover should therefore check whether they are poisonous flowers for their own species before sowing their flowers.


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ginger

ginger G as gardening In botany, ginger is a separate plant genus and is used around the world not only as an ornamental plant, but also in the kitchen and in the medical environment. The botanist appreciates the ginger mainly because of its large and vigorous growth and the colorful, red-yellow petals from which larger capsule fruits develop for the propagation of the plant. Otherwise, it is mainly the root of the ginger that plays a role in the modern living environment and has a remarkably diverse use. Peeled and chopped, the ginger is used as a spice, with a fruity-spicy taste and, with fresh ginger roots, a juicy consistency. The inside of the ginger roots is said to have a cleansing effect, which also helps with the digestion of all kinds of food and the destruction of bacteria or toxins in the human body. Other tasks that ginger fulfills in medicine are the inhibition of blood clotting, the relief of symptoms of irritated mucous membranes and the support of healing inflammation. With its distinctive taste, the ginger is used wherever a fruity and spicy note is desired, especially in Asian cuisine, so it is hard to imagine. The ginger roots also thrive in the climatic conditions of Central Europe and can also be grown here by garden enthusiasts.


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gladiolus

gladiolus G as gardening The gladiolus is a popular ornamental plant and one of the most important representatives of the family of the hardy lily family, in many regions of Germany the term sword flower is used synonymously for numerous kinds of the gladiolus. The gladiolus is an evergreen plant, which can be found in fact on all continents and regional shows a variety of flowers in countless colors. In Germany, the gladiolus has been cultivated for decades and has become an important part of German floristry and horticulture. Especially purple and red varieties of gladiolus are particularly prized in this country, however, the breeding of gladioli is possible only for a short time of the year or in special greenhouses, as the plant is not frost-proof. Several hundred species of gladiolus are now known and cataloged around the globe, many of which are targeted and hybrids that have larger blooms than they do in nature, and are thus bred specifically for floristic use. In addition to their worldwide use as an ornamental plant, some species in different cultures around the globe also serve the consumption and represent an enrichment of various dishes.


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glass flowers

glass flowers G as gardening Glass flowers are products of modern industry and are mainly sold for decorative purposes. Glass flowers are either made of real glass and thus products of professional glassblowing, but the majority of the models offered today are produced by an industrial production and can therefore be purchased for a much lower price. Made of glass or substitute materials, glass flowers in their outer shape imitate the shape of flowers or flowers, and the coloring of individual elements or the entire glass flower are possible. Deco-lovers do not use glass flowers as an alternative to real flowers, but use them as independent decorative elements, which allows mainly an artful interior design. Compared to artificial flowers, in which the authentic reproduction of the original flower is in the foreground, the base material glass does not fulfill this objective, so that the artificial character of glass flowers immediately catches the eye. In the meantime, as a decorative element from millions of German households, it has become impossible to imagine many other glass flowers and other floral decoration elements in the online offer of www.floristik21.de.


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glassine

glassine G as gardening Pergamin is a fine, tissue-like paper that is commonly referred to as parchment paper. Like ordinary paper, pergamin is a product of pulp, which is ground into fine pieces before the paper is made. Due to its thin and fibrous shape, glassine has a high transparency, but is not waterproof and allows applied water to expand quickly. In the field of floristry, glassine is often found and is used as one of the most important decorative materials to beautify a ready-bound bouquet in addition. After the binding of an ostrich it is often necessary to be distracted from the bouquet's bare and green stalk, in order to draw attention to the flower bouquet of the ostrich. This is exactly what is possible when wrapping in glassine, whereby florist companies pay close attention to the color choice of this paper so as to create no contrast to the bouquet. In addition to wrapping bouquets and bouquets, glassine can also be used for other decorative purposes, such as lampshades that allow candlelight to penetrate to a large extent. Even with the independent production of lanterns and lanterns, Pergamin is often used in numerous colors, whereby the thin shape makes a simple cutting and processing possible and can promote individual creativity.


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glaze

glaze G as gardening The term glaze refers to a final layer of objects of all kinds, which is applied in the liquid state and after their drying is a firm conclusion of the respective object. Glazes can be applied both for practical reasons to better protect objects from external factors, but in many cases the glaze is applied for aesthetic reasons. In the field of floristry and horticulture, the application of a glaze is especially common in vases, flowerpots and similar containers for planting, to give them a striking look or clear coat to enhance the protection against wind and weather. Through the simple application of liquid base materials, glazes can be accurately applied both as a primer and as an ornament and are therefore also easy to install by laymen as a decorative supplement of vases and bowls. If you want to apply a glaze in the field of horticulture, you should be interested in the exact, chemical composition of the selected glaze before this step in order to avoid environmental pollution and to ensure optimal development of the plants used permanently. Regardless of this, flower lovers in the private sphere can, purely for pleasure, apply glazes and other ornaments to their planters and vases to express individual design preferences and to bring these planting elements in line with their own home or garden style.


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gold leaf

gold leaf G as gardening Gold leaf to gold foil look, which was made in early times with gold content. Even today, the appearance of gold leaf in the decoration is very much appreciated, which is why it is often used in floristry. Regardless of its name, gold leaf is nowadays generally no longer a gold content, which would make the purchase of the film a real investment. Rather, other easily moldable metals such as aluminum are made in sheet form and finally coated with an additional layer in gold look, so as to bring about this striking, optical effect. Gold leaf is used in floristry in various contexts and can also be found in our assortment of floristik21.de. The example of an ornamental plant on an orange background gives an example of an ornamental plant on an even radiant effect. In other words, it can be used to print various decorative motifs of gold leaf in stores, which can be applied by means of a special adhesive to leaves and other parts of plants. If it is an excellent eye-catcher, this is an excellent option with gold leaf. Of course, gold foil can also be used as a decorative element in numerous other hobbies.


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Golden cut

Golden cut G as gardening The Golden Ratio, occasionally Divine Division, describes a mathematical relationship that has been used in art for centuries and is still used today in all artistic disciplines. Specifically, the golden section names a natural relationship, as any route can be divided into two sections and is perceived by most people as aesthetically pleasing. The ratio is an irrational number and thus has infinitely many decimal places, abbreviated to share a distance in the ratio of 61.8% to 38.2%. This division is already to discover in elementary areas of nature, for example in the proportioning of the human face or in the construction of trees and other plants. Architecture, too, has adopted this principle many times before and applies the golden section in the form of house fronts with doors and windows, pillar constructions and other architectural elements. In fine art, the division of areas of a painting is very often based on the golden section, which can at least be traced back to Leonardo da Vinci in the artistic environment. Since the design of flower arrangements and wreaths can also be considered a three-dimensional composition, the golden section is also used in this creative field.


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Goldenrod

Goldenrod G as gardening The goldenrod is a species-rich, flowering plant that can be found around the globe. The goldenrod gets its name from the bright yellow character of its flowers, which grow up in small and numerous flowers from the herbaceous plant and give it a special, optical character, which is hardly offered in this form by Central European plants. Although some species of goldenrod can be found only in Europe and Asia, the majority of this flower species is native to the wilderness of North America, however, by targeted breeding long ago also in Europe in innumerable facets to acquire. For ecology in North America, and to a lesser extent also in Europe, goldenrod are of particular importance as they serve as fodder plants for various insects. In addition, goldenrod are a very popular and colorful choice among allergy sufferers, as the heavy pollen of the plant can not freely distribute in the air and thus trigger no hay fever.


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granules

granules G as gardening The term granules in chemistry and geology basically means a composition of homogeneous or heterogeneous materials in the form of many individual particles. Both fine sand mixtures and coarse boulders fall under the original name granules, in floristry and horticulture, the name is also established for various mixtures of clay and other natural materials. Granules are produced by targeted firing of these base materials, which receive a very porous and coarse-grained structure through the treatment. It is able to absorb water and other nutrients like a sponge and store it for a few days. Many of the natural materials also contain their own nutrient mixtures and are therefore particularly suitable for various plants such as succulents or orchids. Compared to classical potting soil, where nutrients quickly settle on the floor or are removed from the garden via the soil, granules retain these nutrients and can supply the plant optimally for days. The use of granules over large areas is rather uncommon in modern horticulture, but they are used in classical flower pots or planters.


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grapevine

grapevine G as gardening The grapevine, in the Latin term Vitis vinifera, denotes an independent genus of plant life. Although it suggests the name, not every grapevine is used for the production of wine, for this purpose only the robust subspecies of the noble grapevine is used. All species are a vine that reaches a height of several meters with good care and produces fruits in the form of grapes. For optimal habitat, grapevines require heights that have dry or moderately moist soil and many hours of sunshine per year. Since these conditions are fulfilled in many countries around the globe, for centuries in many nations, viticulture is cultivated, which depends solely on this particular plant and its noble subspecies. Regardless of the species, all berries of the grapevine have a sweetish, sometimes sourish taste. Different types, which are therefore not suitable for the reading of wine, are used in the production of grape juice and thus also contribute to a healthy diet of man. Due to their striking and aesthetic shape, vines are also to be found in modern horticulture and, without oenological ambitions, are an adornment for every garden.


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