Choosing A Tree To Plant
Planting trees is one of the easiest yet effective means of giving your garden or your yard a face-lift. Trees can provide shade during summertime and protect you from harsh, chilly winds in the winter. Aside from these, they...
Preventing Your Neighbors' Weeds from Spreading to Your Lawn
If you notice that more weeds are growing in your lawn after you have done your part to keep them out, it is time to look beyond your own lawn. Do your neighbors take good care of their lawns like you do? If they do not take...
Learn How To Prune Needle Evergreens & Fruit Trees
Needle Evergreens: Junipers, arborvitae and yews may be pruned any time and at almost any place. With upright junipers, follow along the branch that needs to be shortened until you come to a side shoot lying on top of it, or...
Garden Decor - Naturalizing with Clematis
Clematis are flowering vines that come in a variety of color and shapes. They are in the same family as anemones, buttercups and peonies. They are naturalized for cooler climates such as in the northern hemispheres. Some...
Dividing and propogating - Improving your plants
The two main purposes of dividing and propagating plants are:
1) increase your supply of perennials, and
2) encourage new, strong growth to the parent plant.
Once the characteristics of a plant are known, one of the...
Why You Need To Fertilize Your Lawn
Why do you need to fertilize?Your lawn takes nutrients out of the soil and uses them to aid growth. If your soil lacks adequate nutrients your lawn will suffer. First, as you probably know, fertilizing makes your lawn greener....
Steep Slope Gardening
North, South, East or West no matter where you live steep slope gardening is always a possibility and there are evergreens for every garden. The luxuriance of their foliage, the different shades of green, their variety of...
Mow Your Lawn Like A Professional Landscaper
A beautifully mowed lawn is the cornerstone of a beautiful property. During the growing season, if you look around at the yards in your neighborhood, it is usually pretty easy to tell the lawns that look as though they were...
No More Deer
Scenes in nature can be among the most beautiful images to observe, like a deer grazing peacefully in a lush green field. But nature can quickly lose its serenity when that lush green field happens to be in your backyard....
Planting a Tree
The principles of tree planting are similar whatever the size of tree. The idea is to try to disturb the tree as little as possible, place it in an appropriate hole and in a situation to which it is suited. An acid loving tree...
Watering Your Garden
After the dust settles from all the springtime gardening and the new mulch smell goes away, most avid gardeners settle into the lazy summer days of pulling weeds and deadheading perennials, keeping our gardens clean and green...
The Basics Of How to Plant Container Gardens
All the information you need to know on how to plant Container Gardens. This article will show you how to plant successful and healthy Container Gardens.When you are ready to mix ingredients, be certain the soil is damp and...
French And English Gardens Of The Middle Ages
The Roman de la Rose gives the best possible idea of both the French and English gardens of the Middle Ages. It was chiefly written by Guillaume de Loris, in the first half of the thirteenth century, and was probably well known...
Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden
Creating structural elements in your garden will transform it from the ordinary, to the extraordinary. A well-planned framework of supports and dividers will make visual interest throughout the year, as well as allow your...
Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden
Creating structural elements in your garden will transform it from the ordinary, to the extraordinary. A well-planned framework of supports and dividers will make visual interest throughout the year, as well as allow your...
How To Keep Deer Out Of The Garden
Well, the word has gotten out. The deer know you have started another buffet of green delicacies. Word spreads fast in the forest and it won't be long before these uninvited guests will arrive at your garden gate.Deer tend to...