Questions and Answers
On what basis do you qualify the soil?
Refers to the mineralogical composition on which the plant thrives and some other set of qualities necessary or desirable for a proper growth.
What is a warm, cold or Mild Climete?
The warm weather is when the temperatures are always higher than 0 º C, mild: the temperatures are greater than -5 º C and cold temperatures, sometiMonth below -5 º C.
This classification does not correspond to any scientific criteria.
What do you mean when you say drought?
It means that will endure it.
What do you mean when wind appears as one of the characteristic? And no wind?
It must be interpreted as resistant in areas with frequent winds and no wind, which is a plant very sensitive to the winds action.
What are the parameters to describe the growth?
It is not a scientific characteristic and it means the height growth.
Slow: if growth is less than 20 cm per year, medium:, if its growth is between 20 and 50 cm per year. Fast: if its growth is greater than 50 cm per year.
What are the flowering months based on?
All dates are always taken into account by placing the plant in a Climete in which the plant is native.
What do you mean by littoral?
Are those plants that can live near the sea.
What do you mean by pollution?
Plants that are resistant in polluted environments.
What do you mean by cut?
These plants tolerate pruning, allowing you to use them to form hedges.
What are rockeries?
The Rockies are small areas, plants that are suitable for rockeries and small plants are not large invasive ones.
What are banks?
The slopes are easily eroded areas; plants suitable for slopes are very good for the consolidation of the slopes and unstable terrains.
How to calculate the height of the stem or trunk?
The height is calculated by measuring the distance from the "neck" of the root to the terminal bud.
How to calculate the circumference of the trunk?
The outlined circle corresponds to the measure at 1 m. of distance, calculated from the "neck" of the root, for example, a plant that appears on any list with a measurements of 8-10, that means that the perimeter, measured at 1 m. starting from the roots, must be between 8 and 10 cm., corresponding to an approximate diameter of 2.5 to 3.1 cm.
Why are hardwood plants offered by perimeter of the trunk rather than height?
The reason why the hardwood is offered by trunk perimeter and not height, is that in general they are prepared with a bare root and pruned to a given height, often to 2.5 m.; marking the difference, therefore, the thickness of the trunk.