Fill Your Home With Spring Blooms
If you start in the fall, you can have lovely spring flowers by the middle of winter. It’s fun and easy to grow bulbs indoors. It also takes up very little space. The idea is to make the bulbs think it’s winter. By placing potted bulbs in the refrigerator, in [...]

Whether you are just beginning your adventure with gardening or you have been doing it for years, there is nothing better then knowing just where you should be going for all of your shopping needs. You could have a large garden or a small backyard garden because no matter, which, you are still going to [...]

Gardening design, the essential basics
Designing a garden is a delightful combination of art and practicality. Following proper design principles you can create a scene that is both beautiful to look at and serves your purposes well. Professional landscape designers begin that process by considering the space available and dividing it into ‘activity zones’.
An [...]

Designing a shade garden
“You can’t control the weather” is a common enough gardening phrase. But you can control, to a degree, the amount of shade or sun your plants receive. Even though you can’t move the clouds or redesign your house, you can still select which plants you’ll put in a certain area, this [...]

Gardening Tips how to effectively water your lawn.
The two most basic chemicals your lawn needs are water and fertilizer. Ah, you weren’t used to thinking of water as a chemical? Well, H2O is certainly a chemical formula.
These two work together to give your lawn everything it needs from you. The rest it gets [...]

Gardening Design-Tending to your lawn The two most basic chemicals your lawn needs are water and fertilizer.
These two work together to give your lawn everything it needs from you. The rest it gets for itself. Even these, of course, may be supplied in other forms or from other sources, depending on the soil and [...]

Designing a garden to attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies
One of the most beautiful gardening designs incorporates plants and structures to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. These colorful creatures add a wonderful natural touch to a garden and landscape. Hummingbirds, with their colorful bodies and fast-flitting flight, are a delightful contrast to the multi-colored butterflies who move [...]

Gardening Design With Shrubs
Garden designers often consider the color provided by flowers, the convenience and beauty of stone walking paths, the shade and fruit of a nice apple tree and other elements. But no landscaping effort is complete without the proper selection and placement of some great shrubs. You’ll want to select a shrub [...]

Gardening Design – Winter Choices
Most gardeners who live in cold climates just pack up for winter and head inside. Watching the landscape through a window, they see stretches of snow covered ground, dead stalks and a few hardy evergreens. Not a bad view, actually!
But for the truly adventurous there are many choices of [...]

If you want to add a unique touch to your garden, carnivorous plants are bound to get attention. There are several interesting exotic species to consider, such as the ever popular Venus Flytrap or the Cobra plant. Both these plants consume insects and can be of benefit to any garden in that way and in [...]