Spring is fast approaching and the time has come to choose perennials for your garden. Though this task may seem daunting at first, it is relatively simple once you decide what type of environment you ...
Sunflowers: a Beautiful and Tasty Addition to Your Landscape
Sunflowers are popular amongst gardeners who enjoy seeing birds in their garden, as birds (and other animals) are drawn to their big seeds. Other gardeners prefer to keep the seeds for ...
Alliums Transform Your Yard for Weeks
Alliums are beautiful bulb flowers that are actually ornamental onions, and the blooms are absolutely gorgeous. The bloom typically consists of a perfect sphere of hundreds of tiny flowers, and each ...
Attract Butterflies to Your Small Garden with These Flowering Perennials
Many people like to add a bit of action to their gardens by planting plants that attract wildlife. One of the creatures gardeners sometimes like to attract is the butterfly. Its beautiful colors and ...
Growing Delicately Blooming Lilacs
Lilacs provide floral abundance from trouble-free shrubs. Their moderate size and orderly growth make the flowering shrubs very versatile, valuable landscape bushes. Small lilacs have the same ...
Fun With Dandelions: Food and Medicine
As cheerful and innocuous as the lowly dandelion is, it ranks among America's most hated plants. People will resort to almost anything to get rid of them, from prying them up by their seemingly ...
How to Prune Blooming Plants in Spring
Come late February or March, the winter is on its way out over much of the country. It's pruning time for folks who have woody-stemmed plants that bloom or hedges and shrubs that need shaping ...
Your Guide to Low-Maintenance Landscape Planning
Although one of my favorite pastimes in the spring and summer is gardening, there are times that I just want to relax and not worry about the weeds or how tall the grass has grown. That is why ...
Combating Cold Season Naturally
One of the more delightful books I've read lately is Dr. Jarvis's , written by a Vermont doctor in 1958. Those familiar with this work will know that his remedy for practically everything from ...
Grow Tomatoes From Seeds in 6 Easy Steps
Growing tomatoes from seed is rather easy. Not only will you save money on buying from the produce department at your local grocery store, you will also save money on buying tomatoes plants when you ...
