Gardens are so much fun to plan. Rose gardens are especially enjoyable, with their showy fragrant blooms. With proper care, the rose bush will boom profusely and return year after year for garden enjoyment. When planting a garden, there are no hard and fast rules. Gardeners can use whichever plants that please them to create ...
Large trees, such as oaks, maples, beeches and ornamental crabs are valuable additions to the landscape, but they present challenges to the gardener. Large trees have long lives,. It would be a shame to cut down a majestic tree to make room for a garden. Trees create shade, with lovely protection from the sun and ...
Many homeowners often wonder what they can plant in their shady spots in their home landscape. While full sun gardens tend to boast of the large, stunning flowering perennials, there are some amazing perennial plants that can thrive with little sun and can set up a magnificent show. Shade can be a blessing when you ...
Gardeners are often mystified about what to do with the shady places in the landscape. Landscapes with a lot of beautiful, valuable trees and shrubs often also have a lot of shade that makes growing flowers challenging, but not impossible. A woodland garden may simulate the look of a wild forest, Romantic willowy flowers sit ...
Perennials are favorite feeding spots for hummingbirds. These little birds add a fairy tale quality to a backyard that displays blooming perennials with little darting hummingbirds feasting on the nectar. Here is a list of the perennials that hummingbirds find super savory. Plant them once, and they bloom every year, attracting these adorable, colorful birds ...
The use of perennials is a great way to easily keep spring planting work to a minimum. Every year I look forward to my perennials emerging from underground to see what my garden will look like this year. I have five favorite plants that have sparked many conversations when my friends and neighbors stop by ...
Red flowers seem to be quite common, but there are a number of red flowers that are unique in every way. There are red flowers with eye-catching blooms that are as red as the scarlet feathers of a male cardinal. Red flowers such as these will turn heads and make your flower garden a showstopping ...
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a fairy hand in hand…” From the poem The Stolen Child – WB Yeats There are vegetable gardens, flower gardens, herb gardens and within each variety of garden there are categories that go on as far as the eye can see to the ...
The great State of Iowa has the pleasure of being host to at least two species of hummingbirds on their migration route, both North to South and South to North. The two hummingbird species that are commonly documented in Iowa are the Ruby-throated Hummingbird and the Rufous Hummingbird. These tiny birds are guests in Iowa ...
Heuchera is one of the easiest to grow of all the shade perennials and one of my personal favorites. I’ve always been attracted to beautiful foliage plants and heuchera fits the bill. But beauty needs to have reliability and endurance for my perennial garden these days. Heuchera thrives in the shade and tolerates the heat ...