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Garden Tips On Buying The Best, Cold Hardy Flower Bulbs For Outdoor Planting
Buying flower bulbs to plant and grow is an exciting experience that begins in the fall and continues through the spring. Dutch flowering bulbs are usually delivered to American ports by the month of September for fall...
Growing Beautiful Flowers From Bulbs
When most people think of bulbs they often think of daffodils or other similar flowers. However, the bulbous variey of flowers goes well beyond that.While tulips, hyacinths and snowdrops also belong with the 'true' bulb family,...
How to Plant a Heather Garden
When planning a garden of heather, start by making an outline of your area first. If you're planning a border, start from the back of the bed with the taller plants and work forward; if the bed is to be viewed from all sides,...
Tips for a Bulb-o-licious Garden
Want a successful garden? Try planting bulbs into your landscape. Flowering bulbs are not only easy to grow and popular among garden plants, but they can fit into nearly any type of gardening style. And with proper care, bulbs...
Fall Gardening Tips
Fall is a great time to be outdoors in the garden, the temperatures are ideal and the colors can be amazing. If you're looking for projects which will extend the gardening season and give you a reason to be outside, fear not,...
The Annual Flanders Poppy - Bright Color For the Flower Garden
Papaver rhoeasFamily - Papaveraceae - PoppyThis is the poppy made famous by the poem, "In Flanders Fields"
by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD. It is a hardy annual availble in
red, deep purple, scarlet, and white. It will...
Getting Tulips To Bloom For Two Months
Would you like to have tulips blooming for two months in your garden? Planting a few each of the following different types will ensure a long season color show.For the most part, the species tulips bloom the earliest. Youll...
The Cottage Garden
Cottages are a retreat for our soul. Places where we can both unwind and regenerate our families and ourselves.Generally our cottages are nestled in areas of raw bush and craggy rock. The mistake many people make with their...
Palm Trees
The mention of palm trees immediately brings to mind images of long afternoons by the beach with the gentle swishing of fan-shaped leaves as they sway in the sea breeze. Palm trees are indeed found in coastal regions and in...
Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden
Would you like to have tulips blooming for two months in your garden? Planting a few each of the following different types will ensure a long season color show.For the most part, the species tulips bloom the earliest. Youll...
Garden Decor - Naturalizing with Clematis
Clematis are flowering vines that come in a variety of color and shapes. They are in the same family as anemones, buttercups and peonies. They are naturalized for cooler climates such as in the northern hemispheres. Some...
Island Gardens
With the approach of winter, my thoughts turn to travelespecially to sunny islands where I can snorkel, swim and enjoy walks through lush tropical vegetation. I have a special fascination for islands, probably because I live...
Fragrant Spring-Blooming Bulb Collection
This week we have assembled a collection of fragrant spring blooming flower bulbs. We have chosen those that we believe to be the most fragrant of all. It happens that many are heirloom varieties. Ideal for planting in small...
History Of Blackberry Plants
Blackberries were perceived by the ancient cultures as being a wild plant, and historical accounts for a backyard culture of blackberry bushes are few. The Greeks used the blackberry as a remedy for Gout, and the Romans made a...
A Traipse Through the Tulips
Flowering bulbs can change your garden from being merely a plot of dirt and rocks adorned with a few scraggly plants to being an absolute showplace, with splashes of brilliant color. Bulbs provide a good investment in terms of...
Web Review Of Victorian Canna Hybrids
Great progress began in 1870 in the hybridizing of the canna lily by a combination of genetic materials from the wild canna species that had been collected from around the world, leading to the production of the 'Madame Crozy'...
History Of The Loquat
Loquats, Eriobotrya japonica, are documented to have been grown in Japan around 1100 AD. Some botanists have suggested that the first plantings of the loquat trees may have come from China originally and later were...
History Of The Guava
The early Spanish explorers of the 1500s found Strawberry Guava, Acca sellowiana O., growing as a native tree in America, where they were firmly established from Mexico southward to Peru. History records that Seminole...
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....
History Of The Pecan
Pecan trees, Carya illinoinensis, grow in natural groves in bottom lands near rivers or lakes with nearby periodic overflowing water. Archeological remains and fossil evidence reveals that pecans were collected and stored...
An Introduction to the World of Teak
The word teak is believed to have originated from the Malayalam (an Indian language) word tekku and is scientifically known as Tectona Grandis. It is a type of tropical hardwood trees and belongs to the family of...
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...
Web Review Of Victorian Canna Hybrids
Great progress began in 1870 in the hybridizing of the canna lily by a combination of genetic materials from the wild canna species that had been collected from around the world, leading to the production of the 'Madame Crozy'...
Favorite Tea Herbs to Grow
The list of herbs one can use for tea is long, with their uses crossing over from pure culinary pleasure to folk remedy and healing. Here are some all-time beverage favorites, from South African natives to North American...