Gardening Articles
286: Growing A Brush Cherry Bonsai In Your Garden
The Brush Cherry can add wonderful color as well as interest to your garden. This evergreen shrub will enhance your gardening efforts by yielding puffy white flowers along with round berries all in contrast with it's glossy leaves which can have a lovely red tint.
The Brush Cherry Bonsai is an evergreen shrub that loves a warm climate like that
287: Growing Impatiens In Your Garden
Impatiens are a popular garden flower often seen as edging or used for splashes of color in window boxes. They belong to the family Balsamineaceae and can be planted in most any part of the garden. They are beautiful annuals that grow easily and are great for summer plantings every year.
Like most any other garden flower, impatiens need some ba
288: Growing Roses 5 Secrets to Growing Show-Quality Blooms
My interest in growing roses is always re-charged when I get to visit my local rose show, and
whenever I attend one of these annual events I like to take another rose enthusiast with me.
Our afternoon at the show always seems to produce the same sort of questions regarding the growing of show quality blooms and the inevitable inquiry--what's
289: Growing Roses In Your Garden Guide
Roses have gotten a bad wrap over the years for being difficult to grow and manage. If you are thinking of rose gardening do not let this rumor stop you. While rose gardening can prove to be challenging and exciting, once you get the hang of it, it really isn't that bad.
When you first begin rose gardening, you will have to choose what type
290: Growing The Right Plants For Profit
Owners of small "commercial" greenhouses are alert for ways to save labor and stretch their producing areas. Both ends can be served by starting annuals (including bedding plants) and tender perennials in flats in late winter or early spring, and moving them to cold frames as soon as freezing - weather is past. Once the flats are moved out, the gre
291: Growing Your Own Spices
One of the great things about spices is that you can grow them yourself with relative ease. And then you will always have fresh spices to use in your cooking. Herb gardens are a delicious way to enjoy your food more and to enjoy the fulfillment that comes from growing plants. Studies have shown that gardening and growing plants actually helps peopl
292: Guide To Basic Container Gardening
Container gardening can be very convenient for individuals with minimal space in their homes or those who wish to have plants inside their homes. Container gardening enables the gardener to bring in a splash of color to their homes. Compared to single pots, most containers used in container gardening are relatively large and can contain several pla
293: Guide to the Ultimate Flower GardenPart 1
What is a garden without flowers? A boring one that does not stand out from the crowd as visually appealing, simply because all of the color revolves around green, the color of the grass. There are popular flowers that can make a garden glow as well as the rare ones that make your garden unique.
I will be letting in on some of the great flowers
294: Heirloom Roses Overview What Are Antique Roses
Centuries ago, William Shakespeare's Juliet said, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Perhaps the saying is not as true as we would think. As modern rose gardening developed, so did the hybridizing of rose varieties. Encouraged to produce hardier specimens with larger blooms and heavier producing
295: Herbs Are Easy To Grow
Want to grow your own produce but don't have much time or experience? Then a herb garden could be the answer. With very little space or expertise you can cultivate sweet smelling, pretty plants that give your cooking or well being a lift, all year round.
Herb gardens have been popular in the UK since Roman times in private plots, monastery garde
296: How To Fight Bugs Responsibly
We all have to fight bugs. Let me correct myself. Those of us who have ever done any sort of gardening have definitely had to deal with those pesky critters. Most of us try to find the best bug repellant and exterminator we can find and just try to avoid making our plants and/or veggies toxic. Dealing with bugs in your garden can be a tremendous he
297: How To Grow Beautiful Bulbs Inside
There are very few more rewarding tasks in the cultivation of a home garden than forcing bulbs into riotous bloom in the middle of winter. With a little practice and a little foresight you can assure yourself of some wonderful spots of color throughout your house that will continue all winter long. It is an inexpensive way to beautify your home, an
298: How To Grow Your Own Summer Hedging
Most hedge plants bought in the UK each year are bare-rooted. These have many advantages over those grown in pots, but all their size, strength and low cost cannot overcome two huge shortcomings.
Not all hedging stock can be successfully planted when bare-rooted, irrespective of the time of year. Secondly, if you want to plant in the summer
299: How to Have Your Own Organic Garden
If you want to start a garden where you know you will have healthy vegetables and plants, the best garden to choose is an organic garden. Not only are these gardens healthier and better for the environment, but they are also less expensive because you don't need to buy any kinds of chemicals, pesticide or herbicides. In this type of garden you use
300: How to Keep Indoor Plants Healthy
It's always easier (and better) to prevent the disease than to cure the patient. That's just as true for house plants as it is for people. Thousands of words have been written on plant diseases and blights; we can read books on insects and plant insect infestation but the number of house plants that fall prey to these ills is infinitesimal when com
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