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The presence of butterflies in the garden as if to add beauty and keasrian a garden full of flowers. Especially was the presence of the butterfly does not harm existing plants, and even assist in the process of pollination or intermarriage rates and produces fruit. So what needs to be known and carried out by the owner of the park in order to invite butterflies present in his home park? Basis of inviting butterflies to the garden is to know the main purposes of butterflies in the process of continuity of life processes. There are four basic things are important to know about the growth of a butterfly, which is looking for food, find shelter, and the availability of water and sunlight. Based on these four points, should a butterfly garden created by presenting the requirements to conditions above. As a source of food, a butterfly seeking two things from a plant, namely as the parent plant for a period of a worm / caterpilar and nectar / juice nectar in adulthood. fUntuk it requires some knowledge of plants which may be one or two functions at once. In the tropical plants, species that can be presented are as follows: * Lonicera nudiflorum (nectar) * Lagerstromia indica (nectar) * Mimosa / Princess Malu, Albizia julibrissin (nectar) * Flower impatiens, impatiens balsamina (nectar) * Sunflower, Helianthus angustifolius (nectar and plant stem) * Cleome, Cleome hasslerana (parent plant) * Lollipops Yellow, Echinacea purpurea (nectar) * Cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus (nectar) * Flowers Four o’clock, Mirabillis Jalapa (nectar) * Flower Shoes, Hibuscus spp. (nectar and plant stem) * Flower Lantana, Lantana camara (nectar) * Tagetes / Marigold, Tagetes erecta and Tagetes patula (nectar) * Pentas, Pentas lanceolata (nectar) * And others. As a protector, which is very useful when facing the threat of predators, from bad weather, a place to rest, and a nest during the process of metamorphosis. Conifer plant types (needle-leafed trees) and plant species that live throughout the year is the best protector of plants to choose from. The availability of sunlight is very helpful for the life of a butterfly. The butterfly requires enough sunlight in the morning or afternoon to warm the body. In addition, adequate sunlight can also help in the process of flowering in a plant. Availability of water is the last condition that must exist. Water needs, especially in the dry season it can be done. The existence of the nature of some of the butterflies that can not be directly consuming water from the source, can be done the way the provision of a pool or a box containing sand and water or wet soil / mud rather shady places near the plant protector. The important thing to remember is not to place water into a nest of mosquitoes. A butterfly will actively search for food during the day and liked the structure of a daisy type flowers, such as Lantana flowers, Tagetes, Aster, and others. Existing flower petals can be ground will suck the nectar of flowers. Toward the end of the day, flowers are generally white or pale into choices. Besides color, the scent of flowers is also a guide to select the type of flowers required. The butterfly is not going over types of cut flowers often watered chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Besides killing caterpilar / time into a caterpillar, the chemical content can also be toxic to butterflies. Thus, the natural park there will be many more butterflies to come.

One trend that is now popular is the concept of gated house plants. In addition to beautiful, too many types of plants provide other benefits, such as medication.

The fence is intended as a barrier. Barrier between the owner of the house or yard that one with another owner. Therefore, every house built fences to taste and individual needs. There is a magnificent wall, there is also a rigid iron fence and sturdy. There is also a combination of walls and iron, so impressed solid. Reasons for such a fence, among others for the sake of safety factors, and reasons related to social status. Fences and luxurious stately home owners would be raised to the title as a modern person.

However, now began to emerge back to nature movement. All-natural. All-natural. Beautiful charm. Environmentally friendly. And his form is one of the hedge-making. What is interesting? In addition to natural and cool, the hedge also pretty artistic impression. After sprouting buds grow, plants and regulated and trimmed to form the “building” beautiful. There is also a flowering hedges, flower, until the show lively and energetic impression.

In fact, our ancestors had actually practicing a hedge, and not just meant beauty, but rather as an alternative treatment ingredients. Javanese and tempo, for example, likes to plant a hedge beluntas. Everyone knows, beluntas also be used as a vegetable and traditional healing. The Sundanese, for example, have a tradition of planting a red HANJUANG as a hedge. And red HANJUANG “trusted” as a starting plant repellent reinforcements evil spirits.

Select Small Seeds
How to plant a hedge? Hoe the soil as deep as 20 cm and form planting holes, depending on your taste. Can be made as simple as a rectangle lengthwise, or cut cubes or hexagons but connect, for example. Let the planting hole is open about 2 weeks, while the soil organic fertilizer cangkulan given as much as 2 to 4 kg / m 2, also 30 grams of NPK (15 15 to 125) / m2. Or Urea, TSP and KCL each 10 gram/m2. after 2 weeks, given cangkulan soil fertilizer is inserted back into the planting hole, then leave again for 2 weeks.

Next, select the seeds from which plants will be planted. Should select the seed that is still smaller than the already large. Make a small hole, and enter the seed. Press the soil around the base of the seeds, berries stake and tie the seedlings at stake. Afterwards, flush to wet.

In order to grow lush hedgerows, should be given fertilizer every month. For flowering hedge, use a fertilizer NSK (15 25 – 15) the content of his P-high. As for the leafy hedges, use of NPK fertilizer (25 15 – 15) that its N content high. In addition to fertilizing, watering to do well, especially in the dry season could be watered 2 times morning and afternoon.

Razor-Shaving
Beauty hedgerows can also be obtained by trimming, ie, activity-shaving razor stems and leaves of plants. Lazy pruning, the plant will not grow up poor karuan crosswise and add to the impression dirty. Original purpose to create beauty, bsia-could produce the opposite, unkempt slob.

Why have shaved? First, that always grow new shoots, and make a leafy plants regularly. The second is to get the form beautiful hedges, neat and healthy. Pruning should be done at least 2 weeks or 3 weeks. Do not be too long (over 1 month), because in addition to more difficult to cut, too difficult to establish the plant.

How to cut the right tips? Prepare 2 pieces of bamboo and rope. Bamboo plugs at the ends of the hedge. Tie a rope to a bamboo fence at the end of the tall plants with dependent taste and needs, then withdrawn and the rope tied around the bamboo at the other end. Appeared limits the stretch of rope. And that’s where you can shave the plant. And so on. Easy is not it?

Unique Sakura Indonesia
Then, why Sakura is in Cibodas Botanical Garden can bloom twice a year? According to Dwi, Cibodas Botanical Garden has the same height with the original habitat of Sakura.

“Also in Japan, right, there are 4 seasons, while here only two seasons. After the rainy season, summer switch. Well, Sakura will look better in summer. Contours of land, how to care, and climate causes flowering Cibodas 2 times. ”

Cycle through which Sakura is diawalai with the growing leaves around branches of the tree first. When the rainy season, the leaves will turn yellow and fall. When summer comes, then will grow flowers.

“From bud to blossom, the flowers will last for a week. Unfortunately, the weather conditions are difficult to predict, sometimes accompanied by hot winds and rain, Sakura flowers will easily fall out. But then the leaves will grow again.”

In Japan, Sakura propagation can only be done through cuttings and seeds. The botanical garden Cibodas, protracted Dwi, Sakura can be reproduced by transplanted. Even if Sakura wants to plant in a location that tends temperature heat, such as Jakarta, Sakura will only grow leaves, but will not bloom.

Sakura will only bloom and grow well if planted at high altitudes and low temperatures (cold). “The Japanese who come here claiming wondered why it could Sakura bloom twice. Finally, they become challenged to grow Sakura here, and given the initials of their names,” said Dwi.

Not Growing Simultaneously

In 2002, Ir. Holif Immamudin who was then serving as head of Cibodas Botanical Garden, began to see the uniqueness of Sakura. He finally asked Sakura to be reproduced by distek, transplanted, seeds and seedlings.

“Propagation through cuttings results for some time. Cankok way proved most successful, while the seeds are not very good results and quite slow,” said Holif which took a visit to Japan to learn more about Sakura.

Finally, the number of Sakura in Cibodas Botanical Garden 300 increased until it reaches the tree. However, continued Holif, there are some weaknesses of Sakura planted here, which is not growing in unison. However, on the other hand it is precisely this which was the excess.

In Japan, according to Holif, when Sakura flowers had fallen out, had to wait another year to go back to enjoy the beauty of flowers. While in Cibodas Botanical Garden, Sakura growth that does not simultaneously make Sakura flowers are blooming in turn, although only a little flower grow. In Japan, Sakura saun will fall in March-April, to then be replaced with the emergence of a blooming flower.

Another disadvantage, autumn leaves, there is absolutely no Sakura, but Sakura flowers will easily fall, especially if exposed to rain and big wind. However, Holif very grateful, because it did not have to masyakarat so far traveled to Japan and the expensive cost to enjoy the beautiful flowers Sakura. “Enjoy it keindannya of Cibodas,” he said.