By: Dave Lavinsky @ flowergardenbulbs.com
In the summer, the sun is shining and everything is vibrant. Even the summer flowers are brighter and bolder. No meek pastels or pasty whites here; summer flower bulbs are vivacious. While less hardy plants are dried, brown, and dying, summer flowers are bright, alive, and thriving. Summer flower bulbs are […]
Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful pots of annuals, or fill your window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials.
I grow roses but they have to be tough to make the cut in my garden. This means that I generally grow old garden roses, many of which are extremely fragrant. I leave those that require a regular spray program to look good and thrive for the serious rose growers. I have incorporated the roses […]
Garden Ponds can help in improving the appearance of your home. There can be no doubt that having a garden pond with it’s flowers, waterfalls, fountains as well as garden pond lighting and garden accessories can transform what was once a sorry looking lawn into a piece of nature at it’s best. The choice of […]
How To Improve Garden Soil
by Valerie Palmer
It is important to add organic matter to your soil every year - whether you’re using chemical fertilizers or gardening organically. Healthy soil is alive, actually teeming with earthworms and micro-organisms by the millions that have each got particular functions in making the soil fertile. If your garden soil […]
It’s imperative that you know your specific gardening zone so that you’ll know what plants work well where you live. The Hardiness Zones are based on the average minimum temperatures for each zone. Many factors, such as sun, wind, snow cover or rainfall in your mini climate can also affect the minimum temperatures in your area as presented by this map.
As much as we love gardening, it’s easy to forget that it’s still work! Often, in our zeal to get projects done, we use tools that aren’t exactly kind to our aching limbs or joints after a long day in the yard.
Journaling allows the writer to record secret and sacred thoughts, however, it has also become useful in other applications. The explosive popularity of gardening has reincarnated the journal into a natural extension of how we approach the way we plan and maintain our gardens.
