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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Top 10 Reasons to Love Your Tomato
If you think that a tomato is a vegetable... think again! Tomato is actually a fruit with fruitful load of mega health benefits. In fact, tomatoes are one of nature's most versatile health food ...
A Gardener’s Notes: Making Peace With Boulders
We arrived here in rural Rhode Island in time to catch the end of spring, and now summer is slipping into autumn. In these three months I can't say that I have metamorphosed into a master gardener ...
