Tweet Borders in a garden, do not have to be boring. There are many ways to add decorative touches, without using flowers. Most of them require little to no maintenance at all. There are four kinds of borders that you can easily use in your garden. The most simplest of these is ‘banked’ borders. These [...]
Color All Season Long With Foliage Plants
06/17/2013 by Leave a Comment
Is your garden summer ready? I mean, are you going to have plants that give you color throughout summer and into fall? If not, then you might want to start to think about what plants can give you color all season long. There’s plenty of plant material out there that has flowers, but flowers kind [...]
Cannas For Extra Drama In The Garden
06/15/2013 by Leave a Comment
In the world of summer-flowering bulbs and in the world of colorful foliage, cannas probably stand out a bit because of the fact they offer the gardener the ability to produce a plant in short order that has dramatic foliage as well as interesting flowers. If you want something that is dramatic in the garden, [...]
Sun Gardening
06/14/2013 by Leave a Comment
Tweet With the warmer days of summer just a week away, sun gardening may be just your thing if you have a bright sunny area. But rather than telling you about all the great sun-loving plants there are and leaving it up to you to decide on the color combinations yourself, I thought I’d try [...]
Zinnias: Easy Fantastic Flowers
06/13/2013 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Just about every garden has some kind of plant that at some point will display dazzling flowers. But the only flowering plant I’m going to write about are zinnias. They always had a prominent display in my mother’s garden. Not the hybrid kinds you can get nowadays, but the good “old fashioned” big and [...]
Pallet Garden For Small Spaces
06/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Whether you are a novice or expert gardener and looking for ideas to garden in small areas, you just might be interested in how to transform a pallet into a pallet garden. When for a you’re looking for a pallet you can transform into a pallet garden, check smaller retailers in your area that [...]
Beginning Gardeners And Common Mistakes
06/11/2013 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Sometimes beginning gardeners give up when it seems like everything they plant withers and dies. But you know, there are usually six things that beginning gardener always do wrong, and it doesn’t set them up for success. If you are the many beginning gardeners, maybe this article will help you out. You know, getting [...]
Container Gardening Summer Care
06/10/2013 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Container gardening is not a new concept whatsoever. As long as people have cultivated plants they have put things in pots and maintained them somewhere on their property. But summer care for container gardening poses additional challenges. An interesting thing about container gardening is that anybody anywhere can have a garden. So, no matter if [...]
Seniors Garden With These Easy Projects
06/07/2013 by Leave a Comment
Seniors who have cultivated gardens for years may find themselves pulled away from that activity because of poor health, mobility problems or living in small spaces. There are ways that seniors can keep on caring for plants even though they may have problems that seem insurmountable. The goal for senior gardening projects is to make [...]
