VIOLETS - Garden Guide
Annuals and Tropicals Make Gardens Interesting
Most of us know the difference between annuals and perennials. Perennials either grow all year round or they come back every year, while annuals germinate, grow, and die all in one season. Perhaps less familiar are the plants...
African Violet Care
African Violets are one of the most commonly kept indoor plants today. They are very beautiful and are not that difficult to keep. However, they do have a few care requirements that must be adhered to for them to survive.When...
Preserving Flowers From A Potpourri Garden
Fresh cut flowers all spring and summer are one of the bonuses of having a flower garden. Wouldnt you love to extend that bonus throughout the year? By choosing the right flowers and learning methods of drying and preserving...
The Flower Drying Game - Part 3: An Affordable Home Flower-Press
We've finally reached the end of this 3-part series on drying flowers. If you've gotten this far, you probably already know that small, home-style, do-it-yourself flower presses can be purchased in places like craft stores,...
Five Plants for your Desert Backyard
Living in the desert Southwest can be interesting, exhilarating, and sometimes trying.
Take for example, your Desert Backyard. Sure, you may want to have an emerald green expanse of lawn and trees, offset by a lovely rose...
African Violet An Indoor Plant
African violets can bloom any time of the year. They are indoor plants, and as such, are not under the constraints that other plants are to bloom seasonally. Some growers say their violets actually can bloom 12 months of the...
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Dead: Taking Care of Cut Flowers
Cut flowers in a vase are the ideal decoration for your home, they bring a waft of fresh air in the room and make people happier. Women enjoy receiving cut flowers in a bouquet. Men enjoy picking up the most beautiful cut...
Growing African Violets in Natural Light
I have always grown African Violets in natural light. The growing area in my first house received morning sun. The next house was shaded and had very little sunlight. My current house has nothing but sun. As you would...
Planning A Flower Garden
If you're planning to start a flower garden, you might be a little stumped when it comes to choosing flowers. Although there's no such thing as a bad choice of flowers, there are some choices that can take your garden from okay...
Five Rose Garden Ideas
If youve always shied away from growing roses because you believed their press, its time to put away your misconceptions. Far from being the finicky, pest-ridden creatures that theyre made out to be, roses are...
God's Humorous Views on Lawns
Imagine the conversation The Creator might have had with St. Francis on the subject of lawns:God: Hey St. Francis, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there in the Midwest? What happened 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....
Helpful Tips And Advice To Properly Maintaining Your Rose Garden With Beautiful Roses
The sweet smell of roses presents an overwhelming reason to start a rose garden. Some roses bloom for several months at a time, and have a strong and beautiful scent. Not only The sweet smell of roses entice you to start a...
Fragrant Flowers for Spring
As Spring approaches our enthusiasm for the garden miraculously starts to revive. With choice of scented plants coming into flower at this time of year, as the short list I have put together below from various sources...
Put Some Spring In The Air
March may have come in like a lion but springtime is fast approaching; a time of year when the stark winter landscape gives way to an explosion of color and fragrance blooms in abundance. The fresh green aromas of grasses and...
Water Gardens
The placement of your water garden is your most important decision. You'll want to choose a spot that gets as much sunlight as possible, generally away from trees or bushes that shed their leaves, because most plants and fish...
We All Need Weeds
When exactly did people come up with the idea that weeds were bad? When did a weed become a weed? How it was that one day the world was simple, a Garden of Eden, full of plants, and the next, those plants had been slotted and...
The Joys Of Indoor Gardening
Indoor gardening, or gardening that is done indoors as in offices and residences, has become a popular hobby. Other than its aesthetic appeal, it also supplies health benefits such as purification of air. Generally houseplants...
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...
5 Rose Garden Ideas
If you are like me and have been scared away from growing roses because you believed they were hard to grow, its time to put away your incorrect conception. Roses are amazingly easy to grow and care for. They are far from...