There are innumerable varieties of flowers in all countries of the world. They are grown in different ways according to a particular country’s climate in order to produce high-quality flowers for export as well as for sale in the local market. In some countries, the weather is more extreme, which means that growing flowers is more difficult than in other nations. One such country is Israel.

Israel is a country located east of the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the Northeast, Jordan to the east and Egypt to the southwest. It’s a fairly small, landlocked country in the Middle East that has several unique geographical features. To the north of Israel are majestic mountain ranges such as Galilee, Carmel, and Golan. To the south is the Negev Desert which covers more than half of the country’s land area.

The weather tends to be erratic. Summers are long, hot and rainless. Winters, on the other hand, tend to be short, rainy, and cold. During the rainy season, thunderstorms and hail are common. In an environment like this, growing beautiful and export-quality flowers would indeed be a very challenging task. Good thing is that the Israelis are up to the challenge.

Growing flowers in Israel demands a lot of work and dedication from all the people involved. Flowers are grown in a moshav, which is a sort of cooperative agricultural community consisting of farmers. All members are levied a tax in order to pay for a more efficient production of goods, in this case, flowers. Labor and resources are pooled together in order to produce better products. The moshav also receives help from researchers so that their technology is up-to-date, making for a better harvest.

The Philippines and Israel are very similar when it comes to cultivating flowers. For one, both countries have extreme weather conditions; the temperature can shoot up to very high and rain is unpredictable and severe. In the Philippines, the summers can be very hot and the wet season usually brings catastrophic typhoons and floods. Thus, both the Philippines and Israel makes use of greenhouse technology in order to produce beautiful and high-quality flowers. Using greenhouses counteracts the extreme and unpredictable weather of both countries.

Flowers are enduring symbols of love and peace all over the world. It doesn’t matter where or how they are grown—they will grow, and more beautifully than ever. However, a bit of help from ingenious human hands wouldn’t hurt, especially in extreme conditions.

Timothy Spencer
http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/growing-flowers-in-israel-716986.html

i have a water feature and i was wondering if fish could live in there? ive never had a fish before and if they can live in there i am going to get one. whats the best way to look after a fish in a water feature? and can they live in there without getting sucked up? and how long will they live in there?
thanks

What sort of ‘water feature’? Is it like a toliet bowl (they do make those for fish tanks), an indoor fountain? How big is it? How much water can it hold? What sort of filtration does it have?

For Valentines Day, I’d like to buy some flowers for two girls I’m very close to (as friends). Each and every year they complain about how they never get flowers so I thought I’d do a nice thing and surprise them with flowers. What kind of flowers should I buy them and in what color? I’m aware each type of flower and it’s color have all these different meanings and I don’t want to send the wrong message, especially since I know that they know the meanings of flowers lol!

Only thing that matters is the thought and how you feel about them

My pool temperature gets to 90 degrees. and I understand koi prefer the water temp to stay below 80. If the pond is deep enough would they be OK? Thanks for any information. I have built two koi ponds in Tennessee, but obviously Phoenix is much hotter.

yes I just built one in houston tx

you have to dig one part deep so when the weather is hot they have a place to hide. I built a bridge over onside it provided shade and i dug down under the bridge so they would have a cold spot. they have grown very well and dont seem to mind the weather and temp of the water

How can a new pond or lake become populated with fish when there is no human intervention? Frogs I can understand as they have legs and will travel overground. But fish can’t survive for that long out of water. I’ve heard theories of fish eggs becoming stuck to water birds and getting transferred this way; but is there any positive proof of this happening?
I should have said that I’m excluding the obvious like eels which do indeed travel over land. I mean species shuch as pike, perch, roach etc. I’m also thinking of isolated pools not those with any form of feeder stream. These do get populated within a year or two of being dug once the pool has settled.
Sorry everybody, it seems that most people are stating the same thing – with a couple of exceptions. I know of pools that have absolutely no other waterways connecting them nor any streams that could flood into them. I do know this as fact as they are literally only about a mile away from where I live. They have fish in them but no intervention from humans or flooding. I am still inclined to think the eggs have stuck to passing water fowl and been deposited from there.

As for Bamma??? What is he/she smoking?

Bamma say he open meter box. Bamma say full of water. Bamma say been there months. Bamma say fish swimming in there. Bamma say where the heck that come from? Bamma say this very puzzling. Bamma say nearest lake 2 mile away. Bamma say up hill from lake. Bamma say how this possible. Bamma say there it is bigger than all day. Bamma say nobody have access but Bamma. Bamma say special tool to open. Bamma say dinosaur fish lay dormant for million year til wet. Bamma otta know.

I’m eager to design a water garden in my backyard and prospecting space for it.

Water gardens can be built to contain waterfalls, ponds and fountains, all of which can be enhanced by colored rock combinations, lighting, plants, and fish. The most important features of water garden design are the spot for your garden and its size with respect to your property.

Since plants and fish both need sunlight, a place in direct light away from trees and bushes works best.

Aquatic plants can greatly enhance the look of your water garden. These can be free floating, submerged, or marginal… Some plants are good for their scent, some provide more oxygen than others, and some are simply beautiful to have in the garden ecosystem.

Both Trees and small plants evolved flowers. My question is which came first, the tree or the flower. If trees evolved first, then I would expect to see no flowers on trees at all, or flowers that are dramatically different from those in plants. If plants evolved flowers before trees, then I would expect to see all, or most, trees to have bright colorful flowers. So how is it that only a few trees have flowers, but small plants have flowers as well?
I am not asking to prove a religious point. I am honestly asking for curiosity sake.

Flowers could have evolved more than once. Comparing the genomes of plants has inclined many to this opinion. If they have multiple origins then more than one of the current theories may be correct. The one thing they have in common is that the smaller plants or understory trees where the first to develop a symbiotic relationship with insects rather than just rely on wind. Tall canopy trees like the Progymnosperm Archaeopteris or the true conifers relied on wind more easily since with height the pollen could travel farther.

Paleoherb or the ‘sneaky herb’ theory suggests smaller herbs or even grasses started it all. The plants began with separate single sex (dioecious) plants. These have the oldest known fossil as evidence. A 120 million year old member of the pepper family, a Piperaceae. The small plants were weedy, fast growing colonizers looking for disturbed soil. They came to this open habitat then had to find each other over longer distances to mate. Large open habitats drove the shift to grow floral structures to attracts insects as aids in pollination. So flowers came as an adaptation to large open spaces to ensure sexual reproduction at long distances between single sexed flowers.

However another of the theories, supported by some molecular studies, is the Woody Magnoliid or the Euanthial theory that says small trees or woody shrubs (magnolia-like plants) with cone-like flowers are the common ancestors. This has the insect pollination syndrome as the driving force rather than habitat.
Here it is suggested the exposed female gamete of the conifer’s cone was gradually enfolded by an increasingly protective structure. The structure became the plant’s ovary eventually.
The female gamete is exposed once the cone’s scales open for pollination and is good food for foraging insects. If the cone developed a cupped shape around the female gametophyte there was more protection but pollen was not blocked from entering with the wind. The more the insects became involved in the pollen delivery process the more enclosed the female gamete could become. Insects bearing the pollen could crawl into where the female gamete was when wind failed to push the male gamete in.
These were shrubby, short, under story trees with broad leaves to catch light penetrating the canopy of archaeopteris and true conifers.

True flowering trees evolved from the first flowering plants. Just as Insect diversity increased dramatically following the origin of the flowering plants so the plants themselves adapted to every possible niche.

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Angiosperms/coevolution.htm

I am getting a koi pond but no one I know has one my backyard is huge and has several spots.

This a very cheap project for a do it yourselfer. Some basics

1 dig the size hole you need.
2 place a rubber liner in the hole. I use rubber used for roofing.make sure the liner is big enough to lap out of the hole a few feet.
3 place stones around the out side making sure to place a row of stone on the rubber to hold rubber in place.
4 purchase filter and pump system

You now have a pond. Ask around to find out how deep you need to go in your area for freeze.

I have a 90 gallon pond in my front yard, I was looking to put some fist in it, but I’m not sure if u have to buy special one’s or just go to wal-mart. Does anybody know?

get the little feeder goldfish from petsmart or any place other them wal-mart. They cost about 4-20 for a buck. i would start with about 20 or so. they grow pretty fast but, some will be picked off by animals and some will die.

A previous Q&A said that antifreeze in an outdoor water feature was not a good idea.

What about putting salt in the water to keep it from freezing – or, at least, to keep it from freezing at the normal freezing temperature?

animals & birds would be able to taste the salt at the first sip and so wouldn’t be poisoned cos they wouldn’t come back for a second!

and what differences would the salt water make to pipes and pumps and so on?

Drain your water lines for the winter or keep them warm. If you need to you can buy heat tape to wrap around water pipes. Also water that is in motion will not freeze. Salt can start a process of corrosion so I would not recommend that. Where I live we get sub zero temps for a good part of the year and I have never had a water line freeze on me.