All about Tulip Gardens
As the curtain of winter lifts, tulips are one of the first flowers to take the spring stage. As the last drifts of snow seep into the soil, these bright signs of spring dance in the sunlight....
Be Prepared - Five Basic Tools for your Rose Garden
You should always be prepared to do what needs doing in your rose garden. In order to do a good job with your roses, it is essential that you have the right tools. There are plenty of garden tools,...
Climate Control - The Best Roses to Grow in your Climate
What type of roses should you grow? Should you go with the popular Hybrid Teas or the hearty, far reaching Climbing Roses? Well, before you go with any type of rose, do your research.
When...
Common Landscape Design Features
If you want to build an attractive landscape, but do not where to begin, there are plenty of common landscape design ideas and features available for you to gain inspiration. You can use the ideas...
Cut it out - Ten Timely Tips for cutting your Roses
There is nothing more refreshing than a bouquet full of lively, sweet smelling roses. Very few other plants can be displayed as beautifully as roses can. The powerful aromas and buds blossoming...
Cute Ideas That Can Save You Money on Your Planting
There are many interesting ideas that can help you save money on your planting and landscaping. Most of these ideas involve a little creativity, but you end up with an attractive and distinctive...
Decorating around the garden
Straight Talk On – Decorating Around the Garden Do you live near a park? Most people do – there are so many around now. All levels of government recognize the value of a green environment. And,...
Don't Be Late - Propagate: When to Perform Rose Propagation
As a novice rose gardener, you might have heard the term rose propagation, but not really known what was meant by the term. Propagation is the term used for reproduction in the plant world and you...
Five Basic Tips for Beginners in Planting a Rose Garden
Many beginners to the hobby of rose gardening assume that they will have to prepare to make a great deal of fuss over their flowers. The common misconception is that all roses are delicate and liable...
Flower Meanings & History of Flowers
Flower Meanings & History The charming and delicate beauty of flowers has fascinated people of all nations and backgrounds for centuries. Flowers have been bred and cultivated for their decorative...
Garden Delights For Midsummer
We have once again reached the wonderful magical time of midsummer, when the garden is aglow with sensational blooms and a fantastic array of colors. Many of these wonderful blooms fill the air...
Garden planning: essential flowers for cutting year round
How to plant blooms for year-round cutting. Fill your house with
fresh flower arrangements all through the winter, spring, summer
and fall.
You surely would laugh if anyone suggested that you...
Good Things Come in Small Blooms - Miniature Roses for your Garden
Many people find great delight in growing miniature roses. This is because they make excellent additions to any garden. They are versatile and can be grown as bushes, as hybrids with climbing...
Herb and Vegetable Gardens
Most people think of landscaping as rocks carefully placed, manicured lawns, and large trees scattered about a property. However, a garden can make a very attractive addition to any landscape....
How to Grow Wildflowers
In the past few years I've read about and have seen more interest in wildflowers, so I figure it's about time I jump in and add my two cents. I have watched in despair as...
Hybrid Happenings - What is a Hybrid Tea Rose
Hybrids, Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras-the world of roses are so vast and confused that even the most experienced gardener may find himself or herself confused. So what exactly are hybrid tea...
Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
Nearly every house and garden presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. Suburban gardens, estates, small city backyards, and summer cottages—all can be enhanced by...
Landscape Gardening Tips
Landscape gardening has often been associated with the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has told you that a good picture should have a point of interest, and the rest of the points...
Not Your Grandma's Heirlooms: Three Things to Know about Heirloom Roses
What exactly are heirloom roses? Heirloom roses (also called old or antique) are all the types of roses that were in existence prior to 1867 when the first hybrid tea rose was introduced in France. ...
Perfumed Posies - Ten most Popular Fragrant Roses
The rose attracts people to it for its unique shape, but you've got to admit, most people are attracted for its smell primarily. It's the smell that drives women to request it for a birthday or...
Persnickety Pests: Ten Creepy Crawly Enemies of Roses
If you are having problems with your roses, insects may be responsible. They can do a lot of damage if you do nothing to chase them away. Here is an overview of ten creepy crawly enemies of roses...
Petal Power - Five Uses for Rose Petals
It might surprise you to find out that rose petals can be used for a variety of different purposes. Some uses have a common everyday application, such as beautifying our gardens and walkways, while...
Planning and Laying Out a Flower Garden
A flower garden adds a great deal of variety and beauty to the landscape. Many people find that laying out flower gardens is a very rewarding task. And, while it is possible to create a very...
Plants for all Types of Dry or Drought-Prone Climates
There are different types of climates that fall into the category of drought-prone climates. These include Mediterranean (which is present in the U.S., though it is thousands of miles from the...
Pretty in Pink - Top Ten Varieties of Pink Roses for a Gorgeous Garden
Pink roses are very beautiful and can add a sort of unique touch to any garden. They come in many varieties, ranging from pale to dark to almost electric. There are varieties that bloom only once per...
Rambling Roses - How to Tame those Climbing Roses in your Garden
Climbing, or rambling roses are one of the popular types of roses that have many varieties to them and can be grown in many different places. However, like many other plants, they need help to stay...
Reap what you Sow - How to Choose the Right Rose for your Garden
Roses are delightful plants to grow in your garden. Few other plants are as attractive or burst with as much color as roses do. Successfully raising roses will bring you great satisfaction. But...
Rocking' Roses - The Top Ten Favorite Garden Roses
Roses are some of the oldest and most popular plants to grow. They are a symbol of love and prosperity all around the world. A bouquet of roses is a sure way to bring a cheek to cheek smile to...
Roses - Creating Beautiful Cut Roses
Roses – Creating Beautiful Cut Roses Many gardeners like to enjoy their roses twice — first in the garden, then indoors as cut flowers. By choosing the right roses, cutting them at the proper time...
Rosy Outlook - Five Hearty Hybrid Roses
Are you drawn to the simple elegance and fragrant beauty of roses? Do you wish you had time to cultivate an extensive rose garden? If you're interested in roses, but don't have the time to tend a...
Some Thoughts On Planting Roses
Although all kinds of gardening is my passion in life, nothing
but nothing gives me greater pleasure than my beautiful rose
garden. They are just so stunning, and I do really love the
colors and...
Sunny Disposition - How Roses Benefit from the Sun
It is known that most roses require six hours of direct sunlight in order for them to grow healthy and continue to bloom. Without this amount of sun, almost every single kind of rose will not...
Tea Time - Ten Tips for Choosing your Tea Roses
Tea roses epitomize our notion of rose beauty: they produce large, often fragrant single blooms dazzle us with their velvety texture, vivid color, and simple elegance. If you'd like to add this...
The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design
Whether you plan on "borrowing ideas" or plan on creating your own landscaping design, you should have at the very least a basic understanding of the principles of landscape design.
This doesn't...
Thorn in your Side - Three Top Varieties of Roses without Thorns
It used to be that we could not imagine a rose without its thorns. We risked the pain to bask in their undeniable beauty. But now, those of us who may be particularly wary of thorns have more...
To Form a More Perfect Union - Summary of Rose Grafting
Many people choose to graft their roses to help them grow better and to bloom better. Grafting is not necessarily difficult, but it does require some skill and some forethought before making the...
Trellis Training - What you need to know about Climbing Roses
Climbing Roses are a wonder of the rose world. Planting one can really spice up your rose garden or enhance the quaintness of your surroundings. You will be amazed at the vigorous, hungry growth of...
Tulip Divisions - Garden tulips and their identities.
Tulips are classified into 15 tulip groups or tulip divisions.
There are an enormous number of large-flowered hybrids and these
are classified into 11 of these divisions, according to
flowering...
Water Ways - Picking the Best Time to Water your Roses
Think a quick spray with the hose is enough to keep your roses lovely and blooming? Think again. How, and when, you decide to water your roses is one of the most important and often overlooked...
Weed Control Facts: Winning the Battle of the Weeds
Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with...
