HEDGE - Garden Guide
How to Grow Hydrangeas
Whether you call them Hydrangea Macrophylla, House
Hydrangea, French Hydrangea,, or Mopheads, growing
Hydrangeas in the home garden can be an enjoyable
experience. They are lovely, whether used as single plants
or in...
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
Mandalas - A Restful Retreat, a Healing Symbol
Have you ever wanted to see inside yourself? Im not talking about an X-ray of your internal organs but an up close and personal view of who you are in spiritual terms. Mandala art can bring forth information from within you...
I Hate My Neighbors - Blocking Your View From The Next Door Neighbors
Shrubs and or trees that will block your view from the neighbors.I hate looking at my neighbors junk! What can I plant that will block my view? Those comments are frequently asked almost on a daily basis working at Guzman's...
Quickly Grow a Natural Privacy Screen or Sound Barrier
The Perfect Fast-Growing Evergreen Screen
This week we are featuring an evergreen that is not only fast growing, beautiful and low-maintenance, but supplies the ideal privacy screen - 'Thuja 'Steeplechase.' 'Steeplechase' is a...
Rugosa Roses - Fragrant, Tough and Handsome Shrub Roses
Rugosa Roses are some of the toughest and most handsome shrub roses available. They are fragrant, black spot and mildew resistant and are vigorous growers - blooming recurrently throughout the season. Rugosa Roses can be...
Modern Hybrid Canna Lily Improvement
Modern canna cultivars (varieties) began appearing 250 years ago with the collection of native wild cannas that are technically referred to by botanists as species. Canna wild species produced large leaves that were fast...
How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes
More than 170 millions of years ago, mosquitoes roam the earth. Although, records say that the mosquito then are bigger than the mosquitoes we know today. Both of them however can transmit diseases. Malaria and elephantiasis...
What You Need To Know About Planting Roses
When spring arrives, and the ground is thawed, it is time to start planting your rose garden. Roses date back to biblical times and have been a considered a cherished aphrodisiac then and still are today. Roses hold particular...
Have Green In Your Yard All Year With The Ever Green Evergreen
For landscape artists, green is the ideal background. It supplies tranquility and is cool in the eye. By staring at a green landscape, the eyes relax and are soothed.Because ever green shrubs are in constant foliage all year...
In Your Garden
Who doesn't love an opportunity to get dirty, and work the earth while working in your garden? Gardening can provide each person or gardener a time to call their own forgetting the stress of everyday life. As you tend your...
Cornus Mas 'Golden Glory'
A true Dogwood with the common name 'Cornelian Cherry.' Isn't that confusing? This week we are featuring Cornus mas 'Golden Glory' - a beautiful, early spring flowering tree or shrub that brightens the last days of winter and an
Making Short Work of Slugs and Snails
Slugs and snails are the bane of many gardeners' lives, ripping at slow speed through a garden, destroying young plants under the cover of darkness. It's not unusual to find a whole row of seedlings fatally damaged in one...
Some Thoughts On Planting Roses
Although all kinds of gardening is my passion in life, nothing but nothing gives me greater pleasure than my beautiful rose garden. They are just so stunning, and I do really love the colors and the amazing varieties which are...
Great Looking Desert Evergeen Shrubs
Agave or Mescal (spanish): This plant is a beautiful succulent and primarily used for desert landscaping. Very little watering and care it likes gravelly soil and full sun. Several varieties including the americana, parryi and...
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...
Grow Herbs For Cooking, Companion Plants And Flowers
Herbs are such versatile plants. Their uses include medicinal, cosmetic, as essential oils for aromatherapy, as great companion plants, craft-work and of course to add mouth-watering flavours and aromas in our cooking.
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Designing A Year-Round Garden
All great gardens have one thing in common. That is, they offer something during each of the four seasons. Through spring and summer the colorful flowers of perennials, annuals and flowering trees and shrubs are the focal point...
Top Tips For Buying Any Shrubs Or Plants
1. Know what youre buying!When it comes to gardening, impulse purchasing can be fatal, both for your wallet and whatever it is youre about to buy.For a plant to grow successfully it must be planted in the right growing...
What You Need to Know About Planting Roses
When spring arrives, and the ground is thawed, it is time to start planting your rose garden. Roses date back to biblical times and have been a considered a cherished aphrodisiac then and still are today. Roses hold...