While a biennial flower garden can be planted from flowers purchased in flats, it can be much more exciting to watch the development of a biennial’s life cycle. A biennial is any plant that takes two years to attain its full life cycle. During its first year as it grows from the seed, it develops ...
Annual, Biennial, Perennial, Bulb. there are so many choices. How is a gardener to choose? Gardeners enjoy working with the flowers in the landscape, practicing landscape design. When planning the garden, gardeners consider many choices. There are so many beautiful plants,it is often difficult to limit yourself to just a few. When designing a garden, ...
Hollyhocks are big, beautiful flowers than can add a touch of country or cottage charm to any yard or garden. Because of their height they make terrific backdrops in flowerbeds and look lovely when grown up next to a building like a shed, garage or house. Hollyhocks are also beautiful when grown next to fences ...
The best word to sum up the cottage garden is ‘informal’ or ‘unsophisticated’. It is a style in which a random mix of plants is grown. Look for self seeding varieties of annuals and biennials that will pop up wherever they like, creating color combinations that change each year, and team them with a range ...
Do you have an area that needs some tall plants, but you can’t use shrubs there? A wall that needs some drama against it, but snow falls from the roof and would break woody plants in winter? A driveway that needs a screen along it, but snow plowing into the area would kill evergreens? Tall ...
Quaint and charming are two words that can describe a cottage style house. When it comes to the landscape design of a cottage style house, you might envision the colorful and vegetative-abundant setting of a Thomas Kinkade painting. You can create a landscape design with an extravagant array of flowers and shrubs to accentuate the ...
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