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 […]
Autumn Anemones
Now autumn anemones are available in many varieties and blooming shades. Get them now – this robust fall beauty thrives in humus-rich soil in sunny […]
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 […]
Joyful Asteraceae
Perennials in warm, sunny tones capture the spirit of summer and make for an uplifted mood in the garden. Luminous yellow, vigorous orange, and fiery […]
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. […]
High Time for the Big Bulbs
Dahlias should be a crucial part of any seasonally landscaped garden. Really, no other summer-blooming plant approaches it for impressive accents – and these last […]
Every summer a new garden
Plants that grow from seeds, produce leaves, build shoots, blossom and bear fruit, are referred to as Annual plants. They die after forming seed. Since they […]
Season Start For Outdoor Potted Plants
Potted plants can be taken outdoors as soon as the risk of frost has passed, so that they can become accustomed to their new surroundings […]
Beauty in the Shade
Under trees and shrubs, where the sunbeams play, filtered by leaves into patches of light that dance over the ground, it’s pleasantly cool and there’s […]
Lovely Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia is native to the mountains surrounding the Mediterranean. The bushy subshrub has been well-known since the Middle Ages and was often planted, especially […]
Division: Wellness for Perennials
Many perennials should be divided at regular intervals. They’ll be rejuvenated and strengthened, become more vital and vigorous. Divide, but when? Dividing first becomes advisable […]
Iris: the rainbow bloom
Whether a tiny, potted variety or a first-year flowering in the perennial bed, irises are always eye-catchers, and their grand variety of color will thrill […]
Now Opening: Perennial Season
Groundcovering perennials such as saxifrage and rock cress/aubretia are a good choice for stony surfaces and walls. But in beds, too, their delicate blossoms will […]
