They’re hard to miss: Huge balls of colorful flowers, two or three feet in diameter, suspended majestically from a city lamppost or the eves of your green-thumbed neighbor’s house. Impressive, indeed. These “Great Balls of Flowers” are almost certainly wire basket planters, a planting container that is just that: A wire basket. While the results ...
Stone walkways add both charm and character to your landscaping. However, the cost of natural stone can make adding one to your landscape difficult or impractical for your budget. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce your costs that will allow you to create a beautiful stone walkway that not only fits within your home improvement ...
Collectively, the dracaenas are often called dragon trees or dragon lilies. Although the flowers are not showy, and plants rarely flower indoors, they are members of the lily family. The group appears to get its name from the dragon tree (Dracaena draco). This plant exudes a dark red resinous material from its leaves which people ...
Maple-leafed viburnum, Viburnum acerifolium, from the family Adoxaceae goes by a number of names like dockmackie, guilder-rose, maple-leaved arrowwood, possum-haw or squash-berry is a native plant to eastern North America. It is hardy in the U.S. Department of Agriculture zones 4 through 8. When you first see this shrub from a distance, you might think ...
Old-fashioned gardens, reminiscent of your grandmother’s garden use heirloom, or old-fashioned flowers. You can recreate a “garden of delight”, like the garden that you may have played in as a child. The flowers of the old-fashioned garden are the classic flowers that are familiar, sturdy, beautiful and easy to grow. Interest in the old-fashioned style ...
This year, my husband and I planted two large gardens full of vegetables – he did the digging, tilling, and general pre-preparation of the once grass-covered earth, and I did all the rest. I was so excited throughout the whole process – seeing the small seedlings break through their sandy muddy world and into mine, ...
Whether you are planting your backyard or decking your porch and deck with greenery, there are easy spring landscaping solutions that will make your garden more beautiful and easy to maintain. Discover how to tame a wild garden, water on the cheap, and decorate with self-sufficient planters. Reservoir Planters If you live in an arid, ...
Aquarium enthusiasts are always on the look out for high quality fish, aquarium plants, and decorations. The decorations are easy to order from any number of quality aquarium shops across the country. But what about aquarium plants? With the growing number of aquarium plant sellers using ecommerce and online auctions to find buyers, shipping aquarium ...
Keeping that lawn beautiful is not just about cutting the grass. Wind, foot traffic, birds and other animals bring the seeds for weeds into your lawn and there just isn’t any security force available against those dastardly seeds. So we just must resort to a constant and vigilant war against the weeds. Here are some ...
Growing annuals in containers takes a little more care than growing the annuals in the ground. Here in South Dakota, most of our days have wind that blows and this quickly dries out the soil. Choosing the Plants Choose the annual plants that you would like to grow in your container garden. What I like ...
