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Planting Blue Flowers In Your Garden
Blue garden flowers can add a splash of unique color to your yard. You can buy blue and blue purple perennials and annuals to enhance your garden design. Plant them in a section for all blue flowers or mix them in with your...

What to Expect With Perennial Flowers
Perennial flowers are a fantastic investment for anybody who desires to have blooms and greenery for several years in a row. Since annuals only live for one season, perennials will return on their own for many years in a...

Add Color To Your Garden With Blue Perennial Flowers
Blue flowers are some of the most striking plants around and can add a rich splash of color to any garden. Plant them in a cluster of all blue or mix them in with other flowers for a rainbow of color.When planting flowers, it...

Roses - The Flowers For The Ages
Roses have been around for a very long time. Rose gardening has not been around for so long. Fossil evidence shows the rose to be 35 million years old. Up until about 5000 years ago roses grew wild. Cultivation probably began,...

Blue Flowers Add Style and Color to Any Garden
Blue flowers are some of the most striking plants around and can add a rich splash of color to any garden. Plant them in a cluster of all blue or mix them in with other flowers for a rainbow of color.When planting flowers, it...

Perennial Flowers - Plant Them And They Shall Return
Perennial flowers are flowers which live for more than one season. There is such a large selection of perennials available that the novice flower gardener can easily become confused. Then throw in hardiness zones, light...

Landscaping With Roses
Roses have many uses in the home garden, both as standalone bushes and climbers and as part of an overall landscape of plants and flowers. The newest thinking in landscape gardening is to combine roses with other types of...

Problem Woodchuck Control – Garden Pest Removal
Picture in your mind a hand-planted tomato plant that is bearing fruit. Only a day or two of ripening separates you from the delicious fruits of your labor. As you inspect your plant the next morning you notice that your...

Beat the Weeds and Save Time in the Garden
So frequently new gardeners are put off the idea of gardening by thinking about the time it might take, and the hard work involved. The popular idea of a low-maintenance garden is one of covering the space with decking and...

Tips For Attracting Birds To Your Back Yard
Looking for ways to attract more of God's beautiful feathered creatures into your yard? Great! It's really not hard – give the birds what they need, and they will come.The first thing the birds need is food. A simple bird...

Rosemary
Although I have not given up my love affair with Sweet Basil, my attentions have recently turned to anther – rosemary. Rosmarinus officinalis, a member of the mint family, is a wonderful culinary herb with an impressive...

Building A Garden From Nothing At All
Gardening doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. Some of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever grown cost me nothing but sweat and sore muscles – and paid off with the kind of satisfaction you’ll never get from a paid-for...

How To Get Fantastic Color For Your Spring Garden Or Landscape
Below are general descriptions of spring perennials/annuals that will do well in the desert southwest. Generally you should fertilize once in the spring, summer and fall. If your plants are not blooming there could be a lack...

Planning A Serenity Garden
"Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a gardenthan any place else on earth." -- Dorothy Frances GurneyIt’s an oft-quoted (and misquoted! I had to look it up for the exact...

The Wild Heather Garden
A heather garden is a colorful and delightful thing, but all too frequently spoiled by artificial-looking arrangements of heathers. One variety of flowering or colorfully-foliage heather will unaccountably end in a straight...

The Garden in Winter
Novice gardeners frequently regard the period between October and March as a time of the year when the garden should be ignored until the warmth of Spring returns. After all the flowers have faded and trees and shrubs have shed...

Landscape Supplies Most Gardeners Need
Getting started in gardening can be a great choice. The perks of the hobby can go well beyond a beautiful yard, too. Whether it's a gorgeous backyard, a designer front walk or just a simple flower garden desired, landscape...

Creating The Ideal Low Maintenance Garden
Some garden styles lend themselves particularly well to low maintenance gardening. They frequently rely on a visually pleasing use of hard landscaping elements combined with a minimum of well chosen planting.A minimalist...

Blue Flowers Add Style And Color To Any Garden
Blue flowers are some of the most striking plants around and can add a rich splash of color to any garden. Plant them in a cluster of all blue or mix them in with other flowers for a rainbow of color.When planting flowers, it...

Your Dream Garden
Have you dreamed about what your garden could look like? Whenever you browse garden catalogs filled with colorful flowers, shrubs, trees and pictures of beautifully landscaped yards, the choices seem endless. Not only are you...

Tough Perennials for Dry Shade
Most shade plants prefer moist soil, so dry shade is a special challenge for gardeners. Many shade trees have root systems that spread beyond the crown, and their roots are strong competitors for soil nutrients and...

Using Popular Rose Varieties In Your Garden
When many people think of gardening, their thoughts turn first to roses, and there is no wonder. Roses are among the most popular, and certainly most beautiful, types of flowers there are. In addition, roses are a huge part of...

Build a Rain Garden
There's a new garden in town. It is (mostly) easy to install, looks good year-round, requires almost no maintenance and has a terrifically upbeat impact on the environment. No wonder rain gardens are such a great new...

Herbs For A Spaghetti Garden
Herbs are one of the delightful pleasures of life. They add flavor to your food, scent to the air and beauty to your garden. In colonial times, no home was complete without an herb garden for the lady of the house to use in her...

Time for a Flower Garden Tune-Up
Creating a lush flower garden from scratch takes time - many perennial plants need a couple of years to grow to showy sizes. So don't worry if it takes several seasons to get your flower garden looking the way you'd want it to....

Purchasing Garden Equipment
The purchase of garden equipment is relatively easy when you know what it is that you are looking for. The obvious garden equipment such as hoes, rakes, and shovels are simply purchased based on size, price, and functionality....

Clematis Care
Excellent for training on trellises, fences, porches and posts. Particularly effective used with climbing roses or scrambling through shrub roses and deciduous shrubs. Requires support to climb. Prefer evenly moist, well...

Feng Shui In the Garden
Spring is finally here, thanks be, and it’s time to get outside and enjoy the sun and the greenery. Whether you live in a tiny apartment or on a sprawling estate, incorporating Feng Shui into your garden can enliven your...

13 Perennials That Will Add Winter Interest To Your Garden
Just because it is going to turn cold in a few months, doesn’t mean your yard has to look dull or lifeless. Believe it or not, there are other plant options that you can use to make your yard and garden look great year...

Creating Garden Rooms
Garden rooms provide great impact in both large and small spaces. You can divide large spaces into smaller rooms with different themes and different seasonal appeal. For example, a vegetable garden, a shade garden and a...

Common Sense Tips to Beautify Your Fall Garden
There is probably nothing as beautiful in this world as fall gardens. While spring and summer are characterized by healthy greens and wintry gardens are known for having pristine white beauty, gardens in the autumn season are...

How To Decorate Your Garden With Blue Flowers
When decorating your garden with blue flowers, it can add a rich splash of color to your garden. Plant them in a cluster of all blue or mix them in with other flowers for a rainbow of color. The important thing when planting...

Ground Cover Junipers-The Green Mound Juniper-Juniperus Procumbens Nana
The Green Mound Juniper is an exciting and versatile ground cover juniper despite the rather uninspiring name by which it is known (in North America at least). The term "Green Mound Juniper" does describe the plant in a basic...

Garden Folklore: Plants Thrive in Good Company
Farmers and gardeners of long –gone past were aware of the importance of keeping some form of order in their farming or gardening to keep the plants healthy, repel insects and pests with no other tool but the plants and...

The Garden in Winter
Novice gardeners frequently regard the period between October and March as a time of the year when the garden should be ignored until the warmth of Spring returns. After all the flowers have faded and trees and shrubs have shed...

Best Quality Gardening Equipment
Quality gardening equipment is exactly what any dedicated gardener could use. However, it is not always possible to rush right out and spend hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of dollars on the latest and greatest gardening...

A Herb Garden Landscape Design Should Be Chosen For A Specific Purpose
People have used herbs for thousands of years in their everyday lives from medicine to seasoning people have used herbs. Today people sometimes take inspiration from older herb garden landscape designs to make something new...

Bamboo Plants Cannot Survive In Your Garden If You Live in The US OR Uk
You may believe that bamboo is just for warmer climates and you would not be wrong in thinkgin this, however you can achieve a lush green garden all year round with minimal upkeep.There are tropical bamboos which are best for...

Vacation Proofing your Garden
For many of us avid gardeners the thought of a summer vacation is both a delight and a source of great anxiety. Whether we are going up to the cottage or camping in the great Canadian wilderness, we want to ensure the...

Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens
There are principles behind successful execution in every art form and combining plants into beautiful arrangements is every bit as much an art as is music or painting. Entire books are dedicated to the subject of combining...

How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the...

A Garden Trellis Design Improves The Appearance Of Your Yard
A garden trellis design will make a beautiful environment around a home. A garden trellis design is the creation of expert gardeners who expect the spaces around a home to add wonderful atmosphere. These expert gardeners...

5 Rose Garden Ideas
If you are like me and have been scared away from growing roses because you believed they were hard to grow, it’s time to put away your incorrect conception. Roses are amazingly easy to grow and care for. They are far from...

10 Organic Gardening Uses For Comfrey
Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is just one of those plants that every organic garden must have growing. It also has great merit as a medicinal plant. This plant serves us so well. Propagation is by root division. But be careful...

Gardening - Lawn Maintenance Chores Part I
In this article we're going to cover some common law maintenance chores for keeping your lawn in tip top shape.There are basically three types of lawns; high maintenance for those who need to show their lawn off to the whole...

A History Of The Romantic Rose
“It was roses, roses all the way.” - Robert Browning“What's in a name? That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet.”- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2- Roses have a long and...

Beat the Weeds and Save Time in the Garden
So frequently new gardeners are put off the idea of gardening by thinking about the time it might take, and the hard work involved. The popular idea of a low-maintenance garden is one of covering the space with decking and...

Easy Garden - Plant Your Plants in the Cheapest Planters on the Planet
Here’s the thing: I honestly can’t get out of my skin and have to be practical all the time. It must be a curse or something... Not being able to stay away from the flowers and herbs and veggies, I keep running out of...

Why Rose Gardening Is So Addictive
For many of us, the act of gardening brings us closer to nature by getting us outdoors and allowing us the opportunity to tend and grow objects that in the absence of our assistance would not be able to survive, let alone...

Garden for Birds #4
I would like to know.....................WHO STOLE SUMMER?????????????/What did you do with it?And where are you hiding it?It seems as though just last week we were celebrating the beginning of summer.Looking forward

A Take on Grasses - Appreciating the Lowly but Important Garden Element
When the subject of gardens and landscaping is brought to a conversation, the first things that pop into people’s minds are trees, shrubs, flowers. Rarely do people take notice of something very significant and crucial for the...

The Wild Garden: Seaside Gardens
When we speak of wild gardens we do not usually mention seaside gardens or 'ocean gardens' in the same breath. However the wild garden can be built in any gardening context or environment. Clearly, the wild garden in a...

Late Booming Bulbs – Often Overlooked but Well Worth the Effort
Fall-blooming bulbs are not as well known as their spring cousins, but they can brighten up a garden just as most plants are fading.A good time to plan your impending bulb additions is during winter, while your tulip and...

A Guide to Vines and How to Vine Beauty with Your Garden
If you find yourself bored with the usual assortment of flowers and shrubs in your latest landscape design, maybe it’s time to do a little experimenting by adding VINES to your garden.Advantages of Having Vines In Your Garden...

Time for a Flower Garden Tune-Up
Creating a lush flower garden from scratch takes time - many perennial plants need a couple of years to grow to showy sizes. So don't worry if it takes several seasons to get your flower garden looking the way you'd want it to....

How Garden Design Software Can Help You Plan Your New Garden
There are a lot of great garden design software packages on the market today. They can help you design and visualize your garden. To add to this, you can also make such things as your house, deck, patio, fence and ground cover....

Planning Is Vital When You Are Thinking Of Landscaping Ideas
You look out of the window and you see the barren or blank spot in your backyard! So you decide that you want to spruce up the area with some plants, trees and vegetation. Do you just run out to the local nursery or home...

Everyone Needs A Spaghetti Garden
One of the delightful pleasures of life are herbs. Besides adding beauty to your garden they make foods taste better and provide a pleasant scent to the air we breathe. In George Washington days everyone had a herb garden that...

Variety In Garden Plants - How To Choose The Best Plants For Your Garden
Have you ever walked by someone's front garden and thought - what were they thinking? The mixture and variety of plants seems to make no sense and are placed haphazardly all over the place. Although you most definitely need to...

Some Practical Ideas For Designing You Own Landscape
Landscape DesignDesigning your own landscape, can be both exciting and challenging. If you are considering such a project, here are some practical ideas and suggestions. Planning the ProjectPlanning your landscape design is the...

Five Rose Garden Ideas
If you’ve always shied away from growing roses because you believed their press, it’s time to put away your misconceptions. Far from being the finicky, pest-ridden creatures that they’re made out to be, roses are...

Tips For Designing Your Rose Garden
I think the use of landscape roses makes the exterior of any house more graceful, fragrant and inviting. If you select the right varieties to accent and compliment the home's style and your vision, landscape roses will...

The Garden Wall
Wall GardensBoth the strength and beauty of a dry wall may be enhanced by using it as a wall garden. It may acquire a mossy and aged appearance simply by planting flowers, herbs, or ground cover in the soil in the crevices. A...

Clematis - Versitle Vine In The Garden
Clematis Sp Family - Ranunculaceae - ButtercupThe genus Clematis includes over 230 species. Most are native to Asia and Europe. This diverse genus of valuable garden plants includes climbing vines, herbs, ground covers, and...

5 Quick Gardening Tips to Save You Money
It’s easy to spend a fortune every year creating a beautiful yard. These five tips can help save you money in both this, and future gardening seasons.1. Plan your vegetable garden according to what your neighbors are planting...

14 Perennials That Will Add Winter Interest to Your Garden
Just because it is going to turn cold in a few months, doesn’t mean your yard has to look dull or lifeless. Believe it or not, there are other plant options that you can use to make your yard and garden look great year round....

Why Miniature Roses Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever
Miniature roses have become even more popular in recent years due to their hardiness and versatility. They come in many different varieties and can be grown as a bush, a hedge, or even on fences and decorative frames with the...

Growing Thyme
Thymus is a genus of over 400 species of aromatic hardy and non-hardy perennials with very small, fragrant leaves and twiggy stems. Thymes are native to Mediterranean Europe, as far as the British Isles. These wonderful...

How To Plant A Pot
Are you in need of a very simple and inexpensive way to add a decorative touch to your yard or garden? Well, I have the answer for you. In fact, you'll be recycling something that might have otherwise ended up in the...

Planning A Flower Garden
If you're planning to start a flower garden, you might be a little stumped when it comes to choosing flowers. Although there's no such thing as a bad choice of flowers, there are some choices that can take your garden from okay...

A Rainbow Of Colors For The Garden
Hardiness Zones 3-9Hemerocallis are in the lily family, though some consider them to be more closely related to amaryllis. They differ from lilies as they do not grow from true bulbs.Hemerocallis / daylilies are easy to grow,...

Xeriscaping Plants - What are They? Find Out Here
It is actually a landscaping technique using native plants (native to your community) to help beautify your garden, backyard, or business property. And at the same time help conserve water and protect the surrounding...

Everyone Needs A Spaghetti Garden
One of the delightful pleasures of life are herbs. Besides adding beauty to your garden they make foods taste better and provide a pleasant scent to the air we breathe. In George Washington days everyone had a herb garden that...

How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the fastest...

Five Plants for your Desert Backyard
Living in the desert Southwest can be interesting, exhilarating, and sometimes trying. Take for example, your Desert Backyard. Sure, you may want to have an emerald green expanse of lawn and trees, offset by a lovely rose...

Dream Yard
Do you ever dream about what your yard could look like some day? As you look through garden catalogs filled with beautiful trees, shrubs, flowers and pictures of beautifully landscaped yards--complete with ponds and garden...

Types and Uses Of Landscape Mulch
As you drive around the Heartland, you see that most landscape beds are covered with some sort of mulch. Although many people consider decorative gravels as mulch, I would like to define landscape mulch as an organic material...

Creating The Ideal Low Maintenance Garden
Some garden styles lend themselves particularly well to low maintenance gardening. They frequently rely on a visually pleasing use of hard landscaping elements combined with a minimum of well chosen planting.A minimalist garden...

A Shade-Loving Vine with Pink Blooms
Schizophragma Hydrangeoides 'Roseum' Just about every shade-loving vine that is hardy in Northern climates flowers white; here's one that blooms pink Schizophragma Hydrangeoides 'Roseum.'This deciduous, woody stemmed Japanese H

Plant Shrub Roses For Carefree Beauty
Shrub roses are an easy, colorful choice to use anywhere you would plant a shrub.Sturdy and Plant-FriendlyUnlike many roses, Shrub Roses are ideal for planting anywhere. They're "plant-friendly" and are good neighbors in any...

Using Popular Rose Varieties In Your Garden
When many people think of gardening, their thoughts turn first to roses, and there is no wonder. Roses are among the most popular, and certainly most beautiful, types of flowers there are. In addition, roses are a huge part...

Crape Myrtle 'Hopi'
The most winter hardy Crape Myrtle of all. Crape Myrtles (Lagerstroemia) are known to be the longest blooming deciduous trees in existence, creating extended periods of striking summer color. This, combined with their alluring...

A New Colorful Life to Old Ground
A patch of barren soil in your garden can be a sore sight in your garden. The simplest solution is to grow grass on it. Grass is sturdy, easy to maintain, trafficable, and kids like to play on it too. It does not need a lot of...

The Incredible Daylily
Some people have referred to daylilies as the poor man’s orchid. Indeed, daylilies, like orchids, are a beauty to behold. Daylilies are no longer just the muted yellow and orange plants grown in road ditches. They come in...

How to Plant a Pot
Are you in need of a very simple and inexpensive way to add a decorative touch to your yard or garden? Well, I have the answer for you. In fact, you'll be recycling something that might have otherwise ended up in the...

Garden Bugs
For as much as I like most bugs, they undoubtedly have a way of ruining a garden in a very timely fashion. As a child, I would run from the garden to the woods, transplanting as many garden bugs as possible before my mother...

Basic Ideas For Great Landscaping Plans
Landscaping can be very flexible. You can keep it simple as a starter. Later, you can re-do the area, or do design another area differently as your knowledge increases. It's easy to get started and there’s no shortage of...

The 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year
The Perennial Plant Association has picked Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Firewitch' as its 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year. The cultivar name is English for 'Feuerhexe' - the original German cultivar name. The common name for...

The Great History of Roses
“It was roses, roses all the way.”- Robert Browning “What's in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet.” - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2

A Guide To Vines And How To Vine Beauty With Your Garden
If you find yourself bored with the usual assortment of flowers and shrubs in your latest landscape design, maybe it’s time to do a little experimenting by adding VINES to your garden.Advantages of Having Vines In Your...

Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f

Landscape Supplies Most Gardeners Need
Getting started in gardening can be a great choice. The perks of the hobby can go well beyond a beautiful yard, too. Whether it's a gorgeous backyard, a designer front walk or just a simple flower garden desired, landscape...

Low Maintenance Gardening Does Not Mean Boring Gardening
Low maintenance gardens need not look like the bare type, not many plants, lots of rocks, paving, gravel etc. You can have a beautiful garden following a few principles. Choice of plants, type of plants, garden layout,...

A Checklist Before You Begin Your Own Garden Landscaping
If you’ve decided you’d like to design and landscape your own garden there a few things you should take into consideration before you start to draw up your plans. Doing this may save you a lot of time and money in the long...

Deck Swing Buying and Assembling Tips
Putting a swing on your porch or deck will definitely add elegance to it. Not only that, but family and friends will be able to enjoy your porch more when you install a swing, because after all, a porch or deck with a swing in...

The "Perfect" Ground Cover For Difficult Sites – A Nurseryman's View
It seems that every growing season at least a half-dozen visitors to our gardens ask about ground covers for difficult locations. Descriptions of their growing conditions almost always run along the same line and, more...

Hedging for Shade, Discover Why Laurel is a Great Choice
Sizes and usesPrunus laurocerasus is commonly known as the Cherry laurel or English laurel. It is quite frequently confused with Laurus noblis (bay laurel or Grecian laurel), which is the victory laurel of ancient Greece.A...

A Touch of Elegance: The Very Best Outdoor Decor
You can put in a cement walkway or build a walkway with pebbles or small stones—plant flowers, choose beautiful patio furniture, whatever reflects your taste best. And you can usually find good outdoor decorative items for...

Deck Swing Buying and Assembling Tips
Putting a swing on your porch or deck will definitely add elegance to it. Not only that, but family and friends will be able to enjoy your porch more when you install a swing, because after all, a porch or deck with a swing in...

Daylilies are Easy to Maintain, Naturalize Effortlessly and are Nearly Pest-free
Daylilies FlowersDaylilies are colorful, easy to grow and will shine in many flower garden conditions. Daylilies are rugged, adaptable, vigorous perennials that endure in a garden for many years with little or no care....

The Smart Way To Garden With Shrubs
Garden landscaping frequently needs to take into consideration the colour provide by flowers, the ease and beauty of stone footpaths, the fruit and shade of a fine specialty tree and other essentials. But without the necessary...

Have Fun and be Creative - Get the Look for Less
Hands up all those who have visited a Garden Centre or DIY Store looking for something to add that touch of ‘wow’ to the garden. Let’s face it, what’s on offer is not exactly going to be unique is it? So rather than...

Caring For Your Ground Covers
Care and planting requirements for ground cover are similar to that of a flower bed. Add as much organic matter to the soil as possible and lime if needed. In open areas you can rototill or work amendments well into the soil....

Plant Shrub Roses For Carefree Beauty
Shrub roses are an easy, colorful choice to use anywhere you would plant a shrub.Sturdy and Plant-FriendlyUnlike many roses, Shrub Roses are ideal for planting anywhere. They're "plant-friendly" and are good neighbors in any...

What To Expect With Perennial Flowers
Perennial flowers are a fantastic investment for anybody who desires to have blooms and greenery for several years in a row. Since annuals only live for one season, perennials will return on their own for many years in a...

Barefoot at the Cottage
One of the greatest private joys in cottage life is the ability to walk barefoot throughout your property. Whether our happy-feet are skimming across sun-baked stones along the shoreline or across the mossy velvet of our...

Fake Rocks Get Invite From Small Yards
There is a trend afoot that spreads the idea that yards can be attractive and at the same time useful for outdoor activities. The easiest way would perhaps be to call it the garden look. It’s a way of putting more variety and...

Have Year Round Color by Planting for Birds
I've been fascinated by wild birds as long as I can remember. I started feeding them as a 10 year old boy. That was 41 years ago. Not until my mid 30's did I really take time to plan and plant for wildlife.I've been a...

The Rubber Tired Backhoe Loader
Also referred to as simply a backhoe, the backhoe loader is a construction and excavation machine that consists of a tractor, front shovel and bucket and a small backhoe on the rear end. Due to the small size and versatility,...

Choosing Ground Covers
When you switch from planting lawn grasses to planting ground cover the possibilities are practically unlimited. Grass is great for ball games, picnics, playing, and normal traffic areas. But grass requires more maintenance...

Have Year Round Color by Planting for Birds
I've been fascinated by wild birds as long as I can remember. I started feeding them as a 10 year old boy. That was 41 years ago. Not until my mid 30's did I really take time to plan and plant for wildlife.I've been a...

Add To The Drama Of Your Bonsai With These Ground Covers
Adding a groundcover to a bonsai tree can either detract or add to the beauty of your design. You want to make certain the tree stays as the main attraction but you also want to add something pleasing underneath at ground...

Making the Most of the Front of Your Home Using Wind Chimes
To beautify the front of your home and enhance your landscape, why not use the magical benefits of wind chimes? They come in a variety of colors, shapes, sizes, and price ranges, and are certain to be the ideal compliment,...

'Sir Cedric Morris' Hardy Geranium
Extra Hardy, Impressive Color and Low-Maintenance All in OneThis week we're taking the opportunity to introduce you to hardy Geraniums, specifically 'Sir Cedric Morris'. 'Sir Cedric Morris' was one of our most popular feature p

Mazus Reptans - Perennial Ground Cover For Semi-Shade
Suitable for semi-shade, mazus reptans is a perennial ground cover with light blue flowers which resemble the annual lobelia. The flowers appear en masse in spring through early summer, with sporadic bloom throughout the...

What's In Your Yard
AS LONG AS I can remember, I've been fascinated by wild birds. I have to think it is their freedom of flight. Ah yes, to come and go wherever and whenever. Birds soaring in the wind, how grand that must be. I started feeding...

Grass Varieties
It is estimated that grasslands covers almost 20% of the vegetation of the earth. There are about 600 genera and at least 10,000 species of grasses. Generally, grasses are classified into two groups: cool season grasses and...

Creating Bluebird Trails
Blue bird trails are created to humor these birds that can be quite fussy about the location of their homes. For this reason they are rarely spotted in yards or in urban areas. Some people say that bird houses and bluebirds...