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Five Ideas for Fall Flowers

When picking fall flowers to use for your garden, there are many options to choose from. Most believe that spring and summer are the two seasons to highlight a colorful flower garden full of sunny blooms. However, there is no comparison to the richness of color that a fall flower garden may offer...

Planning Your Fall Annual Planting

The end of summer doesn't need to mean the end of beautiful flowerbeds when you carefully plan fall annuals to make the most of every bit of the gardening season. There are great plants that can help extend your gardening season and create fabulous fall flowerbeds. Why Bother With Fall Annuals...

Best Houseplants for Beginners

Houseplants are a great addition to any space, from small work cubicles or a simple apartment or condominium to a large, multi-story house, a classroom, corner executive office, ranch home or luxury suite. No matter where they will be placed, however, if you've never had a houseplant before, it's...

The Issue With Overwatering Houseplants

Houseplants need regular watering in order to take up nutrients from the potting soil, to nourish new growth, and to keep their foliage lush and full. But overwatering can cause a variety of problems, and can even be fatal for a houseplant. The Watering Houseplants Need Different houseplants can...

How and When to Can Summer Vegetables

A bountiful garden doesn’t have to be a source of delicious, nutritious food only while it is actively growing and ripening. If you plan how and when to can summer vegetables, you can enjoy all your produce throughout the year. Why Bother Canning? You don’t need a large garden or a commercial...

Watering Plants? Use Cooking Water for Extra Nutrition

We all have been at fault at some point in our lives for trying some crazy tactic for attempting to make our plants grow. Whether it is homemade fertilizer or sun lamps, everyone has their own tricks. Here’s another trick you can use to water your plants, plus its cheap and effective. This trick...

Protecting Indoor Plants This Winter

With windows closed and the heat on, the winter months can be extra hard on indoor foliage. Here's a simple solution: Place a humidifier near the plants. For a more low-tech approach, put the planters on top of a tray filled with loose-stones or pebbles and water. This way, water slowly...

Holiday Plants – The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Plants are popular holiday gifts that recipients can enjoy long after festive feasts are eaten, glittery decorations are packed away and joyous carols are silent. In fact, many holiday plants can flourish for years, reminding that someone special of your caring and thoughtfulness no matter what the...

Caring for Garden Mums

Mums are beautiful blooms that come in a wide range of bold tones and rich autumn hues, and savvy gardeners can keep mums healthy and flourishing for weeks in late fall with the proper care. To care properly for mums… Plant Early: If you plan to overwinter these perennials so they survive into...

Autumn Flower Box Ideas

The end of summer doesn’t have to mean the end of beautiful flower boxes. Even as the days shorten and summer wanes, these autumn flower box ideas can add gorgeous seasonal flair to your home, garden, and landscape. Cleaning Out Flower Boxes for Autumn Before you jazz up your flower boxes for a...

Thoughtful Watering

Unseasonably hot weather can make your flowers and vegetable plants start to look peaked. Although rainfall does help, you should remember to water thoughtfully. To determine if you have watered sufficiently, dig down into the soil to see if more moisture is needed. Dig down with a trowel blade...

Your Guide to Air Plants and Air-Purifying Plants

Houseplants are a beautiful addition to any décor, and they can serve several practical purposes as well. Understanding air plants and air-purifying plants can help you choose the best houseplants to incorporate into every room of your home. Benefits of Houseplants Houseplants are more than just...

Monarch Magnets

Swarms of butterflies can transform a backyard patch into a magic garden. But there's no mystical tip for making them flutter around your house. You see, butterflies are attracted to flowers that have a heavy perfume because they contain more carbohydrates that are needed to fuel their high...

Combine Annuals and Perennials this Spring

Have you ever planted a rainbow? The colors you see in the sky after a rain are fleeting, but the hues in your garden can reflect their beauty for entire seasons, even years. A combination of annuals and perennials timed to bloom in tandem and at intervals year-round, can transform your garden...

Tips For Planting Your Garden

Chances are, if you haven’t started planting already, you’re at least thinking about getting your hands dirty. We’ve assembled a few tips for you to consider before coming in and picking up your supplies. Plan first and shop later When thinking of what you’d like to grow, be sure to choose...

How to Make a Holiday Porch Pot

Your porch is the gateway to your home and the first place your guests see when they visit, and a holiday porch pot can set a festive mood right at your door to welcome visitors with elegant seasonal style. It's easy to use a combination of container gardening guidelines and floral arranging tricks...

Go Beyond The Poinsettia This Holiday

The Holiday Cacti or Cyclamen are great alternatives to the traditional poinsettia. These plants offer colorful holiday blooms, plus you can enjoy them all year 'round. The Holiday Cactus, also known as the Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) or the Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera), can...

Preparing Your Garden For The Colder Months Ahead

Autumn is right around the corner and for gardeners, this means winter is not too far behind. As winter begins to get closer and the temperature begins to slowly drop it’s important to take action now to prepare your garden for the colder months that lie ahead. To keep your garden from becoming a...

Brighten Up Beds With Mums

Chrysanthemums are a mainstay for color in the fall garden. Buy plants with unopened flower buds. Mums in full bloom may not produce additional flowers this fall. Plant in a sunny to partly sunny location and keep well watered. Deadhead regularly, and when all of the flowers have faded cut the...

Plants To Attract Bees

Bees are critical pollinators essential in the garden and flowerbeds. A yard with a healthy bee population will have larger crops of healthier fruits, vegetables and flowers, and it is important to offer plenty of different plants that will entice bees to lend a helping buzz in the garden. Best...

Winter Your Fall Mums

Chrysanthemums are one of the most beautiful blooming plants in your fall garden, coming in a variety of colors and shapes. Many of you have tried to plant them in your gardens, some successfully, others not. Here's a few reasons why they might not have worked for you. Mums that come from a floral...

Winter your Clematis

Clematis are one of the easiest flowering vines to grow if you follow a few simple rules! They come in a wide assortment of varieties, shapes and sizes, and are one of my favorite flowers for summer long color. First thing to remember is that clematis is another shallowly rooted plant, so it needs...

DIY Indoor Succulent Garden

Houseplants have many wonderful benefits – they purify the air, enhance mood and even improve focus and concentration. Succulents are some of the easiest and most versatile houseplants to add to your décor, and creating a do-it-yourself indoor succulent garden is a great way to bring these beauties...

Watering Words of Wisdom

Spring is the time for preparing beds and planting, and fall's time may be taken up with harvesting and other chores. But summer gardening can be pretty tedious, especially when you hit a dry spell: water, water, water. During droughts, like the ones much of the country experiences this time of...

Don't Slight Summer's Bulbs

Once the blooming season is over, you can't just ignore those summer bulbs you planted (such as dahlias and gladiolus). Prior to the first killing frost, you need to dig up your summer bulbs (tuberous begonias being the major exception). And now's the best time to dig them out because the soil...

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