JEWELS - Garden Guide
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 its time to do a little experimenting by adding VINES to your garden.Advantages of Having Vines In Your...
Fall Wildflower - Solidago - Goldenrod
Solidago sp.
Family - Composite - DaisyOne of the certain signs that Summer is drawing to a close and Autumn is at hand is the appearance of the bright yellow wildflower, goldenrod. There are over sixty individual species of...
Fall Blooming Bulbs where to look for? and what to look for?
Fall Blooming BulbsThe only problem when planting spring-flowering bulbs is that one has to wait until next spring to see them come up. But if you plant fall-blooming ones, there's no delayed gratification. In fact, they'll...
Rare And Exotic Garden Perennials For Landscape Planting
The term, 'perennial plant', means simply that the plant returns following severe freezes, to grow again the next year. Trees are cold hardy tested perennials by nature, some trees that are evergreens and do not go dormant, but...
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 its time to do a little experimenting by adding VINES to your garden.Advantages of Having Vines In Your Garden...
Dragonflies
These are some of my favorites. I used to get them in my garden in
Oregon in all different colours, ...blues, green, orangey-red....
They fold their legs together like a basket and can catch several
mosquitoes in the...
Fall Blooming Wildflowers - Jewel Weed
Impatiens capensisFamily - balsaminaceaeThis annual late summer and fall blooming wild flower inhabits moist, shady spots in most of North America. The Spotted Jewelweed, or Touch Me Not, will spread into fairly large colonies...
How to Attract and Keep Hummingbirds in Your Yard
A few years ago, in the evening, in early Spring, we were sitting on our deck after having cooked out. Suddenly a red plastic cup went hurling off the deck railing. It was caused by a hummingbird diving at the red cup. That...
Hummingbird Feeders Attract Jewels To Your Garden
Hummingbirds are jewel like little birds that brighten up any outdoor area and a great way to attract them is to put hummingbird feeders in your garden.Unlike other bird feeders, hummingbird feeders dispense a liquid diet...