St. John's Wort Plant Botanical Features and Agriculture
St. John's Wort includes plants from the Hypericaceae family, all with yellow petals.
31 Aug 2025
Nature's Cleaners: The Power of Essential Oils
Cleaning products help keep things clean and safe. Recently, people want more natural ingredients for their cleaning. Essential oils are great for this. They come from plants and have properties that can kill germs.
31 Aug 2025
Black Elderberry (Sambucus Nigra L.) Agriculture
Black elderberry is an important plant cultivated in American and European countries. It has started to be cultivated in our country. The plant has a very wide adaptation ability ecologically. It is not damaged by cold and frost.
31 Aug 2025
White Thyme (Origanum dubium Boiss.) Agriculture
White thyme plant is not cultivated in our country, it is used by collecting from nature. However, it is an important essential oil plant. It can be cultivated in dry agricultural areas without irrigation facilities.
Lemongrass plant was brought to Turkey about 25 years ago and has become a plant that has been cultivated for the last 15 years. The plant is especially suitable to be grown in areas close to the coastline, where winters are not too cold.
31 Aug 2025
Lavander (Lavandula x intermedia Emeric ex Loisel.) Agriculture
Lavender is an important essential oil plant cultivated in many countries of the world. Generally, it is cultivated on sloping and stony lands where there is not much rainfall, there is no irrigation facility.
31 Aug 2025
İzmir Thyme (Origanum onites L.) Agriculture
İzmir thyme is grown in many agricultural areas with different ecological characteristics. The plant is resistant to cold. In addition, İzmir thyme can be cultivated in dry agricultural areas that do not have irrigation facilities.
31 Aug 2025
Istanbul Thyme (Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum) Agriculture
Istanbul thyme has different ecological characteristics and is grown in many agricultural areas. The plant is resistant to cold weather.
30 Aug 2025
Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea L.) Agriculture
The genus Echinacea (Echinacea) includes endemic species in the Asteraceae (Compositae) family, naturally distributed in North America. Echinacea species are among the perennial plants.
30 Aug 2025
Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) Agriculture
The rosemary plant is not cultivated in our country; it is used by picking it from nature. However, since the amount picked from nature has decreased in recent years, field production has become inevitable.
30 Aug 2025
Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) Agriculture
The Aronia plant, which is very resistant to cold weather, needs chilling for the flowering of plants that have reached generative maturity. Although this period is not known exactly, it is thought to be around 800-1000 hours.
The immortelle is an important essential oil plant cultivated especially in European countries. It is generally cultivated on sloping and stony lands where there is not much rainfall, there is no irrigation opportunity.