Plants for Special Needs and Problem Areas
There are plants that will grow in your garden, no matter what your growing conditions. Good garden design requires consideration of what plants will grow well in your particular garden as well as what plants combine well together.
Top Plant Picks - Top 10 Lists of Garden Plants for Specific Needs
Need a clay buster? A rose for shade? What to try growing some of those heirloom vegetables you've heard about? Wish your annuals would self-seed? These lists will give you some top plant varieties, whatever your garden needs.
Need a clay buster? A rose for shade? What to try growing some of those heirloom vegetables you've heard about? Wish your annuals would self-seed? These lists will give you some top plant varieties, whatever your garden needs.
Perennials - Easy Care, Low Maintenance Perennial Plants
All flowers are not created equal. These perennials provide lots of bloom and interest without lots of work.
All flowers are not created equal. These perennials provide lots of bloom and interest without lots of work.
Long Blooming Perennial Flowers
Keep your garden in bloom with perennials that provide a long season of interest.
Keep your garden in bloom with perennials that provide a long season of interest.
Perennials - Fall Bloomers for the Perennial Garden
You'll wait all season for these flowers to bloom, but they're worth the wait and they bloom when everything else in the garden is fading.
You'll wait all season for these flowers to bloom, but they're worth the wait and they bloom when everything else in the garden is fading.
Cool Season Annual Flowers for Spring & Fall
Get your garden off to a great start and end with a blaze of color, by planting annual flowers that love the cooler weather.
Get your garden off to a great start and end with a blaze of color, by planting annual flowers that love the cooler weather.
Self-Seeding Annuals: Garden Volunteers
These garden volunteers will be popping up throughout your gardens for many seasons to come. There's no easier way to make your garden look natural.
These garden volunteers will be popping up throughout your gardens for many seasons to come. There's no easier way to make your garden look natural.
Roses: Fragrant - Top 10 Great Roses for Frangrance
The nose knows. These fragrant beauties have some of the best scents in a flower known for it's fragrance.
The nose knows. These fragrant beauties have some of the best scents in a flower known for it's fragrance.
Roses: Hybrid Teas - Top Choices of Hybrid Tea Roses
Every rose grower wants the prize winning hybrid tea blossom. Start with a great plant and you're guaranteed great flowers.
Every rose grower wants the prize winning hybrid tea blossom. Start with a great plant and you're guaranteed great flowers.
Roses: Shade - Top Roses for Shade Gardens
No rose will grow in total shade, but there are some that can happily tolerate partical shade.
No rose will grow in total shade, but there are some that can happily tolerate partical shade.
Bulbs - Deer Resistant Spring Blooming Bulbs
Stop crying over lost tulips and open your eyes to spring treasures the deer won't bother with. (Hopefully)
Stop crying over lost tulips and open your eyes to spring treasures the deer won't bother with. (Hopefully)
Bulbs - Summer Flowering: Keep Color in the Garden All Summer
Don't think bulbs are through once spring is over. Summer flowering bulbs are a wonderful way to add color and even a touch of the tropics to your garden.
Don't think bulbs are through once spring is over. Summer flowering bulbs are a wonderful way to add color and even a touch of the tropics to your garden.
Shade Gardening - A Garden Made in the Shade
Shade gardening offers the opportunity to work with a diverse variety of plants and to garden in a cool spot both the gardener and the plants will appreciate. There are shade plants suitable to the different degrees of shade. It is possible to create a shade garden with color and interest, if you choose appropriate shade garden plants. Here are some tips and suggestions for making the most of your shade garden.
Shade gardening offers the opportunity to work with a diverse variety of plants and to garden in a cool spot both the gardener and the plants will appreciate. There are shade plants suitable to the different degrees of shade. It is possible to create a shade garden with color and interest, if you choose appropriate shade garden plants. Here are some tips and suggestions for making the most of your shade garden.
Butterfly Gardening - Garden Design to Attract Butterflies
A true butterfly garden is not just designed to attract adult butterflies, but also to afford a place for them to hibernate and lay eggs and for the larva, or caterpillars, to feed. Different species of butterflies have different preferences in plants.
A true butterfly garden is not just designed to attract adult butterflies, but also to afford a place for them to hibernate and lay eggs and for the larva, or caterpillars, to feed. Different species of butterflies have different preferences in plants.
Edible Flowers - Growing Flowers that are Beautiful& Delicious
Please do eat the flowers. You'd be surprised how many common flowers are edible.
Please do eat the flowers. You'd be surprised how many common flowers are edible.
Cutting Gardens
Repeat blooming annuals are favored for cutting gardens, but many perennial flowers do wonderfully well as cut flowers. What makes for a good cut flower is a stem that is long enough and sturdy enough to hold the flower in an arrangement and a flower that lasts and looks good for several days. That gives the gardener a wide choice for choosing flowers to grow in a cutting garden.
Repeat blooming annuals are favored for cutting gardens, but many perennial flowers do wonderfully well as cut flowers. What makes for a good cut flower is a stem that is long enough and sturdy enough to hold the flower in an arrangement and a flower that lasts and looks good for several days. That gives the gardener a wide choice for choosing flowers to grow in a cutting garden.
Ornamental Grasses for Containers
Of course you can grow ornamental grasses in containers. And what better way to keep them from taking over your garden?
Of course you can grow ornamental grasses in containers. And what better way to keep them from taking over your garden?
Ornamental Grasses for Fall Color
One the the great features of ornamental grasses in the garden is the long season of interest. These ornamental grasses really come into their own in fall.
One the the great features of ornamental grasses in the garden is the long season of interest. These ornamental grasses really come into their own in fall.
Ornamental Grasses for Winter Interest
If you live in a cold climate, few plants are going to give you interest throughout the entire winter. But these sturdier grasses should hold up until you start to see the promise of spring.
If you live in a cold climate, few plants are going to give you interest throughout the entire winter. But these sturdier grasses should hold up until you start to see the promise of spring.
Clay Busters: Perennial Plants for Gardens with Clay Soil
Gardening in clay soil is a challenge that can be met. Their are many plants that will grow very well in clay soil and some that will even help improve it. Rugged natives and tough, tap rooted plants can make a garden even in the difficult conditions posed by clay. Here are some to get you started.
Gardening in clay soil is a challenge that can be met. Their are many plants that will grow very well in clay soil and some that will even help improve it. Rugged natives and tough, tap rooted plants can make a garden even in the difficult conditions posed by clay. Here are some to get you started.
Fall Blooming Perennial Flowers for Fall Color
The fall garden is one of the most colorful seasons in the garden. Many fall blooming perennial flowers display jewel tone blossoms that complement the fall foliage display of trees and shrubs.
The fall garden is one of the most colorful seasons in the garden. Many fall blooming perennial flowers display jewel tone blossoms that complement the fall foliage display of trees and shrubs.
Xeriscape Gardening - Planning for a Water Wise Garden
Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.
Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.
Shrubs & Vines with Colorful Fall Foliage, Flowers & Fruit
Shrubs are the backbone of the garden and these offer a triple play.
Shrubs are the backbone of the garden and these offer a triple play.
Texture - Plants for Texture in Garden Design
Texture, in garden design, generally refers to the surface quality of the plant. This is a feature, taking in conjunction with color and the overall form or shape of the plant, used to create interest and balance in garden design. Plant textures run the gamut from delicate and fine to coarse and bold, as with the examples listed here.
Texture, in garden design, generally refers to the surface quality of the plant. This is a feature, taking in conjunction with color and the overall form or shape of the plant, used to create interest and balance in garden design. Plant textures run the gamut from delicate and fine to coarse and bold, as with the examples listed here.
Vines and Climbing Plants - Choosing and Growing
Vining and climbing flowers and plants can add an element of height to a garden or be allowed to scramble along the ground or through other plants. Vines and climbers can fill many garden design needs, from covering eye sores to creating privacy on your deck. Consider some of these vining plants when planning your landscape.
Vining and climbing flowers and plants can add an element of height to a garden or be allowed to scramble along the ground or through other plants. Vines and climbers can fill many garden design needs, from covering eye sores to creating privacy on your deck. Consider some of these vining plants when planning your landscape.
Dwarf Evergreens To Provide Structure and Four Season Interest
Truely 4 seasons of interest. Color, texture, form and they even attract birds!
Truely 4 seasons of interest. Color, texture, form and they even attract birds!