JAN - Garden Guide
Botanical Prints for Scientific Research and Collecting
Botanical prints have a wonderful dual purpose: they are lovely aesthetic pieces, akin to fine art, but also have the meticulous detail necessary for science.Botanical prints frequently reflect the preoccupations of society...
How to Grow Garlic in Your Home Garden Successfully
Greetings fellow Gardeners!The following tutorial refers to garlic growing specifically, but can easily be used for most onion crops as well.The following information is for general garlic growing that I have used for my own...
Want A View? Start Growing Orchids On Trees
Do you live in Southern Florida or California? If you do then you can really enjoy orchids year round. Growing orchids on trees can be a blast. It can enhance any surrounding. Beautiful, colorful orchid plants will make your...
Seven Fall Chores For The Perennial Garden
Divide and transfer perennialsFall is the best time to divide and transfer those overgrown perennials. The plants will benefit from cooler autumn temperatures and will establish themselves for fresh, vigorous spring growth.
History Of Olive Trees
Olive trees, Olea europaea, are the oldest fruit trees and certainly are one of the most important fruit trees in history. Olive tree culture has been closely connected to the rise and fall of Mediterranean empires and...
Saving Seeds From Your Garden
For many gardeners, the garden actually starts in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which...
Tips For Growing Fruit Trees
Almost everyone can grow one variety or another of fruit trees in their backyard. Here are some tips on growing fruit trees:Plant fruit trees about 20 feet apart and in a sunny location.Plant more than one variety of a fruit....
Growing Beautiful Roses - Simple Easy Care Tips
Beautiful gorgeous blooming roses for your landscape.Below are some tips on pruning.1. All roses should be pruned in early fall or spring.
2. Remember only prune if their is a need to. Do NOT prune just because you want to...
Drought Resistant Gardens and Planting from Cuttings
Drought Resistant GardensAmaryllis can tell you from experience, that she has seen lush drought-resistant gardens that give color year round.She learned about it by accident, in California, when she stumbled upon a property a...
How to Grow Kale
Growing KaleKale is a most useful winter vegetable and belongs to the cabbage family. It is very hardy and is able to withstand the severest of winters, producing plenty of tops for use during January, February, March and early...
Why Is Organic Farming Bad If It Is?
Why is organic farming bad, if it is? We have been told that organic farming is good for our health. Proponents have trumpeted the message that organic farming is good for the environment. How could it possibly be bad?It seems...
Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs start to arrive in the mail. This type of gardening is as easy as sitting in your favorite chair, browsing the...
Preformed Ponds Manufactured from New Rubber/Plastic Composite More Durable and Resistant to Wear
Traditionally, liner kits have presented many difficulties for the beginner pond gardener. Since every liner pond shape is different, pond gardeners must customize their own pond, ensure that it is level, and ensure that it...
10 Excellent Tips on Successfully Planting Your Trees and or Shrubs
These steps are designed for the lower elevations of the desert southwest.1. Water - This is the biggest problems of all. You will need to water all trees and shrubs on a daily basis for at least the first 2-3 weeks after...
Wild Flowers of New York
Wild Flowers of New York are of great species and with a large variety. It certainly interests any kind of flower lover. Wild flowers are beautiful, fragrant and colorful. Wild flowers also can be grown in gardens as well....
Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs start to arrive in the mail. This type of gardening is as easy as sitting in your favorite chair, browsing the...
Growing Clematis
The flowers of the clematis would have to be one the most beautiful and showy of all. The color range extends from white, through pale to mid pinks, vivid purples to magenta and carmine and they extend up to 9 inches across....
History Of Blueberry Plants
Very few historical records exist on ancient blueberry culture in the Greek and Roman empires. Those cultures did use parts of the blueberry plants and fruit to consume or to treat ailments. The size and flavor of native...
Covered Garden Bridges Cross Over to 21st Century
TFCSOTSPBWL OCTOBER XVIII MDCCC. This curious inscription was carved by a stonemason, John Lewis, into a block of granite that he had lain as a support for a bridge that was being built by Timothy Palmer. Because of space...
History Of Blueberry Plants
Very few historical records exist on ancient blueberry culture in the Greek and Roman empires. Those cultures did use parts of the blueberry plants and fruit to consume or to treat ailments. The size and flavor of native...