Winterprep: Yardwork One Last Time!
Prepping the Garden for Winter – Have You Thought of Everything? It’s high time to bring container plants in to their cold-weather quarters, a spot […]
Fertilizing: Protecting Plants and the Environment
Garden plants need nutrients for healthy growth, so hobby gardeners give them fertilizer. But, beginning in the fall, plants enter a dormant period. If you […]
Overwintering Container Plants
In the past, few people could afford large, valuable container plants. They built splendid orangeries for their palms, lemon trees, oleander, and bay bushes. Plants […]
Ideal Planting Time
…for woody plants and perennials. Often, garden owners don’t realize that new plants that are put into the soil in fall have a jump on […]
Dividing Shrubs
No other form of reproduction is as simple as division. Through division one gets several vital individual plants that can be re-arranged. Also, rejuvenated plants […]
Healthy Plants are No Accident!
Some plants are more susceptible to disease than others. That said, you can prevent damage to some degree since pests and ailments befall weak plants […]
Who waters properly, saves time and water
Now that the summer really starts, plants on the balcony or on the terrace have an increased need for water. But well-intentioned is not always […]
Feed wild birds all year
Feeding wild birds was once a topic for the winter month. During the cold season, the bird feeders and suet balls where hung and sunflower […]
A Rosy Outlook
For centuries it’s been a symbol for love and beauty. As early as the Antiquities it was considered a luxury item: the upper classes perfumed […]
Blooming Wonders – Hydrangea
Modern hydrangeas are truly multitalented. They blossom in glorious globes on balconies and terraces, their abundant slender stalks captures the eye’s attention, and they combine […]
Learning From Nature
Children can learn so much from experiences in the garden. If you’ve ever climbed trees as a child yourself and played between branches and canopy, […]
Support for perennials
High growing perennials easily lose their footing in strong winds or heavy rain showers. Stalks are ruffled, flowers bent – pity about the beautiful splendor. […]
Water Lily
Now is the right time to plant if you want to enjoy the bloom this season. Do not just pick them by color. There are […]
Cutting Roses, Trees and Shrubs
This is the proper time for cutting of many trees and shrubs: after the winter – before sprouting: when the forsythia bloom. Also perennials that […]
Fertilize Rhododendrons
Rhododendrons are always fertilized after flowering, unlike other Flowering Shrubs. You should use a special Rhododendron fertilizer. Compost is not suitable due to its high pH. An alternative is a natural fertilizer such as GreatOrganics, where there […]
