Flower Gardening Tips

These may require pruning, resulting in caring for tidy tips unnecessarily.Water seeds until they sprout and start to grow. It is helpful to cover seeds with a screen until they take hold and sprout, as birds love the seeds and will readily scoop them...

First, you're getting rid of dead flowers, which more often than not look shriveled, brown and generally unsightly. Some plants, however, make deadheading fun. Deadheading interrupts the plant's singular goal, which is reproduction.

This is where planning and care must be made in the preparation of the flower bed before the irises come home. You have to ask why? The temptation to plant bearded iris too deeply is a big one but you will pay with poor increasing and poor bloom count...

Now we had some real muscle!! The driveway was wide and long--you could park two, 40-foot-long tractor trailers side-by-side on it. We have a lot of laughs, the three of us. Needed a change of pace, fresh air, and no more city living.You see, even though...

Seed collecting can be an obsessive hobby, and one that's not necessarily limited to your own garden In addition to the Seed Saving forum, you'll find seed photos and seed collecting tips in a growing number ofat wintersown.org also have great information...

They are pinched back at regular intervals throughout the spring and summer so that they have the full, rounded, shape that people expect. They are the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum.

The next time you buy one of these perennials, you'll at least know approximately when you can expect it to expire. With all those variables I just mentioned--along with genetic variability--it's not possible to give a precise longevity forecast for,...

The mix of colors and tones is stunning and you are left with an impression that yes, hosta can be grown here and they would be stunning under my front tree.Meeting with Ms. Butler over coffee, she unlocked the door to growing hosta in my area and put...

Their appearance is utterly unremarkable for months and months until finally in late autumn they reward you with blooms. The fact that I have pinched them back until mid-summer causes the mums to open late -- not before October.

Really one of the best groups of plants to fill in any empty niches in the garden. Placing it in too small an area is the biggest problem people have with this plant. Care should be taken in the planting and planning to give room for the plant to reach...

Here's my refreshed Ox-eye daisy, with room to spread. ( I hope you got that plant cheap after reading my earlier article, More Plants for Less Money 1: Shopping for Clearance Plants!)

Cosmos are easy to start from seed and readily reseed in many different conditions. 'Picotee' is very similar to 'Candy Stripe,' but with slightly more white in the petals.'Psycho White' Cosmos produce a bright white, double bloom high above its thread-like...

Upon first seeing zinnias in bloom in Mexico, the Spanish conquistadors were not at all impressed, naming it mal de ojos, or "bad for the eye," i.e., so ugly that one would not want to cast one's eyes upon it.

Had been to all the nurseries and garden centers within a 40-mile radius, searching for a particular petunia without success. Had been to all the nurseries and garden centers within a 40-mile radius, searching for a particular petunia without success.Big...

Oh yeah, I'm serious. It always is because it's a lot of hard work initially. We all hate weeding! It's true, most people don't garden near what they'd like to because they can't handle all that raggedy weeding.

Daylily, achillea, coneflower, sedum, geranium and nepeta are all tried-and-true perennial choices for a sunny exposure. Some homeowners long for bright flowers but find that the mailbox is on the only sunny spot on their property.

The requirements vary slightly from state to state, but the majority of programs are very similar. I've been a Master Gardener for 11 years; I've been a DG member for 7. Needless to say as in any national organization there are a few bad apples.

This arrangement can also provide a certain measure of beneficial pest control. An example being the juglone produced by black walnut trees. Inter planting of prickly vining plants in corn is said to help deter raids by local raccoons.

Tree roots are tough competitors for a small nursery plant to vie with.Poorly placed- Spot #2 was all wrong for viewing the plant. Close to my vegetable garden and compost, it's a bed that gets more of my TLC.A mild winter and lots of spring rain have...

For propagation next spring I'd suggest you plan to make one plant now for every three to five plants you want to produce later. Gaze upon those lovely beds of annuals, for which you shelled out the big bucks this spring.

Unlike many orchids, it is an easy-to-care-for hardy terrestrial orchid that grows well in gardens in most temperate regions of the world. They fall off cleanly, and the bloom period lasts for about a month.Even out of bloom, the clumps of longitudinally...

Water and mulch well.Cut the container on opposite sides and carefully remove the root ball. This allows the plant to put more energy into producing roots instead of blooms until it becomes established.

Those who grow plants for profit are sometimes pushing marketability and profit and the impulse purchase. The potted plum's root ball was wrapped in fabric and tied, and placed in a pot.

I honestly know nothing about the business of horticulture. Probably one of the last things you think about when spending every single penny you have on plants like I do (don't you, too?) is what sort of investment value these accumulated plants have.For...

As the blades begin to die the area enlarges until you have dead circles 2-3 inches in diameter.A healthy lawn is the beat way to resist fungal diseases. They must be applied every 7 days.This disease also attacks watermelons and cantaloupes.Dollar Spot...

Every so often, usually on a cold and snowy, or dreary rainy day, I take a little time and "play plants". The first plant I happen across is a Hoya Carnosa. I didn't think so. Maybe wash the walls?

Pickup by noon. Flood tables with stands and reservoirs, pumps, analog timers, digital timers, two 20lb co2 tanks, co2 controller, high density 8 foot fluorescent banks, 2 foot fluorescent bank, yoyo's, aeroponic cloner, pvc light stands, chains, bubble...