Wildflower gardens are excellent to plant into open fields and empty lots, as well as specific areas of your yard too. They work wonderfully around a mailbox post for instance, because they grow in a variety of different colors and heights. Having wildflowers grow around your mailbox post can give your home a country design type of look which is quite popular and attractive. Planting wild flowers usually gives you a low maitenance, natural looking garden that nature takes care of on its own. Read More

While winter is the ideal time to move plants they can be successfully moved at any time throughout the year provided care is taken.
Smaller plants, under three feet high, are the easiest to move.
The first step is to trim the plant by about one third.
The next step is to dig the plant out ensuring that the root ball is approximately the same diameter as the plant.
The plant can then be transplanted in the new position in the garden and the soil around it firmed.
The procedure with bigger plants in the …

When you notice yellowing or browning on the leaves of your plants then it’s quite possible you have leaf scorch. It generally begins on the edges or the tips of the leaves and eventually will cover the whole of the leaf. Sometimes the leaves will fall off.
It is usually caused by hot and dry winds. It will also happen with salt laden winds that can occur if you are living close to the sea.
Often you will only notice this condition on one side of the plant and that will be …

If you have ever wondered how to keep children occupied for hours on end then it’s time to introduce them to the joys of gardening. Kids of any age can really enjoy growing plants particularly if they have their own area of the garden where they can see the results of their own efforts growing there.
It will give them a sense of reward to see what they have been able to accomplish, whether it is from a flower garden or a vegetable garden.
It is also a very healthy pastime that …

Isn’t it amazing that all that waste food that we can’t or don’t want in the kitchen is such a good food source for the plants in our garden?
What makes it better is the fact that we can grow vegetables in our gardens, cook and eat them, and whatever we don’t use goes back into the garden to make the next lot of vegetables grow better and healthier than ever.
Compost not only helps to feed your plants by improving the quality of the soil but it can also control diseases …

When you are buying plants there are a few things that you need to look at before deciding to plant them in your garden. Nobody is perfect, so even if you shop at your favorite garden cetre, there is still the possibility that the plant might not be the healthy specimen that you might expect.
The first thing you need to do is look at the plant and see whether it looks healthy. Obvious huh? Well, we often assume that buying from a garden center will assure us of a healthy …

If you are growing plants in baskets there are a few things that you will need to take care of if the plants are to survive. Obviously you will need to start with the best and healthiest seeds or plants.
It is important that you choose good quality container mix too. There are proprietary hanging basket mixes that you really should use as they have been developed to provide the best growing conditions in these unique situations.
For aesthetics you will probably want to get the basket looking as ‘full’ as possible …

Ground cover has many different uses in the garden. It can be used to help reduce the amount of weeds that will appear in the garden by covering over the space between plants where the weeds might grow.
There is a downside to this though, as weeding can become a bit more difficult when you need to remove the weeds that will still invariably grow in amongst the ground cover.
Ground cover can also help to keep the moisture in the soil by stopping it from drying out from direct sunlight.
It can …

In many climates growing plants in the winter months can become quite frustrating, and if you are finding that you are in that situation then it might be time to consider getting a greenhouse.
Greenhouses are available in many different sizes and there are some very compact versions that will suit most budgets. Having one of these greenhouses tucked away in a sunny corner of your garden will be a godsend when the weather dictates that you would normally have to stay inside rather than venture out into your garden.
With the …

Topiary can be a lot of fun if you have an imagination and some patience. Topiary is the art of shaping trees and shrubs into shapes of all types and sizes.
There have been some quite outstanding topiary shapes created by garden artists over the years and many people get pleasure from practicing this art in home gardens across the country.
While it is not quite as popular as it once was it is still something that can create a focal point in any garden and is an alternative to other forms …