Impatiens are beautiful and versatile bedding plants. An amazing number of varieties allow you to create your own favorite scheme. Double impatiens look like small roses and single ones are best for mass planting. Choose ‘Cheers’ with coral blooms and crinkly leaves; ‘Accent Stars’ with stripes or splashes of color on the leaves; ‘Wink and ...
When you’re planting annuals for summer color, be sure to include a few marigolds that will add instant zing to your flowerbeds! Marigolds are dependable bloomers that grow happily with very little care from spring until the first frost. Choose the Variety If you’re looking for tall marigolds, choose African or Aztec marigolds, which can ...
Statice flowers are beautiful annual flowers, and if you’re looking for a superior annual flower, statice flowers are definitely worth planting. Statice flowers make a fantastic addition to cool as well as warm weather gardens in a wide range of hardiness zones. Statice flowers provide stunning blooms all summer long in warm weather climates all ...
Begonia is in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae. There is one other member of this family called Hillebrandia with a single species found in the Hawaiian Islands. There are over 1,500 species making Begonia one of the ten largest angiosperm genera. Only a small fraction is under cultivation. Begonias are particularly easy to hybridize so ...
Even though it’s been below freezing at night, I’ve continued to grow vegetables in my portable solar greenhouse. A portable, solar greenhouse is a temporary greenhouse that can be used to accelerate the growth of bedding plants and veggie starts in the early spring. It relies on radiant heat to keep plants warm and gives ...
As a matter of fact, if you plan your garden well, it’s quite amazing just how much you can produce for the table and freezer in a limited space. In our own case, we have now only an average sized garden, yet we have no trouble filling up a 23-cubicfoot freezer each fall, virtually entirely ...