Every year it is fun to add annuals to your garden for variety and color. Perennial plants, however, enable you to keep your garden filled with beauty without replanting year after year. Planting perennials is a great way to save time and money. Some of my favorite perennials are common favorites among gardeners, other perennial ...
Avid gardeners are familiar with this plight: you spend the cold months stuck indoors carefully planning a new garden, only to find that come springtime local garden centers don’t carry the plants you picked, and the whole design falls apart. Most people don’t consider shopping online for plants, as most of us like to carefully ...
Designing and planting an attractive garden is the dream of many flower lovers. While local landscaping and garden centers may have a good selection of plants and seeds, you can find even more through mail order gardening. This article will give an overiew of the top ten garden plant catalogs available in the United States. ...
Rising early one Saturday morning, I sauntered around my garden while “talking to the plants” and admiring most of them for having grown full and well a few months since my husband and I planted them. Some plants take only a few months to be fully grown, while others take years to grow to their ...
Wait. Is that begonia or ranunculus? Phlox or stonecrop? Have you ever had one of those moments where you stand looking at your garden and wonder which plant is what? If you aren’t one of those nifty planners who maintains a constantly updated, precise schematic, you might want to think about labeling your garden plants. ...
