Plant life

WEAVER'S BROOM   (ginestra odorosa)    spartium junceum

is a perennial, leguminous shrub native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe. The plant typically grows to 2 to 4 meters tall, rarely to 5 meters  with very sparse small deciduous leaves.

The leaves are of little importance to the plant, with much of the photosynthesis occurring in the green shoots, the leaves fall away early. It grows on very dry and poor soils, originating from different rocks (calcareous, marl,).In late spring and summer shoots are covered in profuse fragrant yellow flowers.

For the brilliance of  flowering they  are used in parks and gardens as an ornamental shrub.

FIRECREST ( fiorrancino selvatico)

This plant is used as cut flowers and borders. The cultivation very simple is well frequent also in untreated lands and with unfavorable climatic conditions. The flowering begins in May and ends in autumn.

WILD ORCHID ( orchidea selvatica)

The wild orchid is a flower very common in Apulia, especially in grassy and open areas, where the absence of a thick vegetation allows it to live. To date have been classified 65 species, but new varieties of orchids that are classified among orchys and ophrys are constantly observed in view of their proneness of flower to the hybridization.

OAK-TREE / DOWNY OAK ( roverella)

Downy Oaks typically grow in dry, lime-rich soils, the Oak- tree “Quercus pubescens” is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing up to 20 m, with large sparse and irregular foliage, and short trunk, branched in the short height in big branches and often twisted.

WILD WINDFLOWER (anemone selvatico)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Greek anemōnē means "daughter of the wind".

It is a perennial plant that stands out from the other anemones for the leaves with long stem divided into three serrated segments and deeply lobed. The stem of the flowers have 3 leaves together.

 The flowers have a diameter of 3-4 cm, they are of various colours, but the principal are scarlet, crimson, blue, purple, and white. Like all anemones are poisonous plant.

SCABIOSA

Scabiosa   is a genus in the teasel Family Dipsacaceae of flowering plants. Bienne herbaceous plant (annual or perennial), up to 120 cm high, with unbowed stem, branchy. It blooms from April to November. It 's an old medicinal plant, once used to treat scabies (hence the name).

THE HOLM OAK ( leccio)

It grows up to 25 meters with thick foliage, first oval then flattened and with a short stem  usually twisted. The bark is gray, long-smooth, then darker and finely cracked. In Italy it vegetates in the mass  in the mediterranean environment. It 'a rustic and very plastic species both in respect of the climate  and of the ground. Generally it prefers calcareous or deep soils and mild climate.

CHERRY TREE (ciliegio)

The tree grows to 20-25 meters with a straight trunk and sparse and pyramidal foliage. It’s present throughout the peninsula and islands, is found in broad-leaved forests. It is demanding for the light, a little less for the temperature, it is able to stand to the cold climate.

The reddish-brown heavy and hard wood, is valuable for solid and veneer furniture; good even as combustible.

ASFHODELUS (asfodelo)

Asphodels are popular garden plants, which grow in well-drained soils with abundant natural light.

The plants are hardy herbaceous perennials with narrow tufted radical leaves and an elongated stem bearing a handsome spike of white or yellow flowers.

The leaves are used to wrap burrata, an Italian cheese.

MUSCARI (muscari)

Small, sterile, blue-purple, in inflorescences long 2.5 to 4 cm on rigid and erect stems. They usually have one or more narrow leaves which arise from a bulb. The flowers appear in the spring and form a spike or raceme, being held in a close or loose spiral around a central stalk.  They prefer well drained sandy soil, that is acid to neutral and not too rich. they are commonly cultivated in lawns, borders, rock gardens and containers. They require little feeding or watering in the summer, and sun or light shade.