LACY - Garden Guide
The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens
The 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year was Athyrium niponicum Pictum or Japanese Painted Fern and this plant deserves to be in all shade gardens.This hardy fern grows twelve to eighteen inches tall and slowly multiplies to...
Downsizing Your Retirement Garden
A recent stroll through my retirement community revealed to me how truly creative and artistic people can be. These retirement homes with their tiny gardens are truly miniature works of art. These are probably tiny examples of...
The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens
The 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year was Athyrium niponicum Pictum or Japanese Painted Fern and this plant deserves to be in all shade gardens.This hardy fern grows twelve to eighteen inches tall and slowly multiplies to...
An Edible Flower Garden
To most of us, the idea of eating flowers evokes the humorous image of someone biting into a rose, or chomping off the head of a daisy. Yet there was a time not so very long ago that flowers were an integral part of cooking....
Award Winning Shade Garden Plant
The 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year was Athyrium niponicum Pictum or Japanese Painted Fern and this plant deserves to be in all shade gardens.This hardy fern grows twelve to eighteen inches tall and slowly multiplies to...
Edible Flowers in Your Garden
Flowers can be an integral part of cooking. While most of us are aware that violets can be candied and nasturtiums can be eaten in salads, theres a bounty of flower varieties that are both edible and delicious.Satisfying Your...
Cut Flower Gardening For Beautiful Bouquets
Imagine a never-ending supply of beautiful flowers for your home, bouquets and arrangements to give to friends, flowers to pluck at will for gifts, get-well visits, anniversaries and birthdays. By planting a garden stocked with...
Home Garden
It is difficult to determine a criterion, according to which a cultivated plant can be called fashionable. A new discovery of stock-breeders? A bright hybrid? An exotic, which settled in our latitudes recently? And may be this...
Herbs For A Tea Garden
Is there anything more refreshing on a hot summer day than a tall glass of iced tea with a sprig of fresh mint? Or a more calming end to a long day than a steaming infusion with chamomile or mint? A tea garden can ensure that...
Staghorn Sumac "Tiger Eyes"
A Staghorn Sumac Unlike Any Other
Rhus typhina, commonly known as Staghorn Sumac, is a native throughout the Eastern United States. It survives in the most inhospitable conditions and grows into large weed-inhibiting masses by...