The Proper Care of Plant Bulbs

The only way to keep up with the latest about Caring For Your Plant Bulbs is to constantly stay on the lookout for new information. If you read everything you find about Caring For Your Bulbs, it wont take long for you t

Selecting Just The Right Rose Variety

There are an extremely large number of rose varieties available at this time, most of these varieties are suitable to raise in your home garden. With so many different types to choose from deciding which roses to grow ca

The Different Colours in Your Garden

Colour affects our emotions, moods, physical, and spiritual well-being. It has a significant effect on everything we eat, drink, and touch and influences our physical environment including our home, office, and garden.

Compost Tea for Your Garden

If you would like a nice garden, youll need a bucket of water and some garbage. That simple recipe is all you need to grow healthy, beautiful plants all summer long. But before you start floating a tin can in a some wate

The Miracle of Mother Earth: The Dandelion

The Latin name for dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, translates to official remedy for disorders. Dandelion is a native of Europe and the name comes from the French term dent-de-lion, meaning lions tooth, which refers t

How to Create Your Own Rose Garden

The texture and the fullness of the rose is unlike any other flower, and they come in a wide variety of scents and colors that range from a very bright yellow to a dark deep red. It is curious that such a beautiful flow

Using Carpentry To Bring Elegance To Your Garden

Wooden Garden Furniture makes your Backyard or Courtyard a paradise. Wooden Garden Furniture includes Chairs, Round Tables, Benches, Swing Arbor, Arches, Bird baths, Bird houses, garden lighting, dog houses, ponds etc. B

7 Things You Need To Know To Make Your Compost Pile Work For You

Compost, made from decomposed grass clippings, leaves, twigs, and branches, becomes a dark, crumbly mixture of organic matter. Learn how composting works. Even a newbie to composting can make good quality compost. It ca

The Work Of Your Heart: Your Garden

There is immense satisfaction in creating your own garden plan -- the satisfaction derived from relaxing or entertaining in the garden as well as the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. The effort that you expe

Instructions for Seeding and Germination

It is important to maintain the freshness of the seeds in order to facilitate proper germination. This is why we store all of our seeds in a refrigerator dedicated for this purpose. Therefore, in order to preserve their

The Historical Hickory Trees of America

In 1792, William Bartram reported in his book, Travels, the discovery of a native shagbark hickory nut that he called Juglans exaltata. Today, shagbark hickory is called Carya ovata. Bartram reported that this shagbark h

Award Winner of the American Horticultural Society

Past honorees have been pioneers in print, radio and television. Their names have graced campus buildings and public gardens. For a dairy farmers grandson from Maine, the news that he was to receive the Ameri-can Horticu

The History of the Fig

The fig tree, Ficus carica, possibly originated in Northern Asia according to archeological fossil records. Spanish missionaries brought it to the United States in 1520. Historical Sumerian tablets record the use and con

Gardening Outside Of The Garden: Balconies, Patios, And Courtyards

People choose balcony, patio, and courtyard gardening for many different reasons. Some are moving from a large house to smaller accommodation, some dont want the hassle of a large property, and some chose to live in ren

Guard Against the Dangers of Toxic Mulch

Mulching beds has become extremely popular these days, and mulch can be really beneficial to your plants and the soil in your planting beds, but there are things you need to watch for. Here in Ohio the most popular type

The Right Conditions for Plants Part 1

It certainly is true that many modern houses of the better sort do not offer very congenial conditions to the healthy growth of plants. It is equally certain that in many cases these conditions may be changed by differen

The Right Conditions for Healthy Plants Part 2

After so much advice as to the possibility of making conditions right for the growing of plants in the house, the inexperienced reader will naturally want to know what these conditions are.LIGHTIn the first place, almost

Combating Your Gardens Most Vicious Enemies

Unwanted insects in your garden are just that: unwanted. Unwanted insects may eat and destroy your crops, something shared by any farmer or home gardener. Organic gardening is a means of controlling unwanted insects natu

Building Your No-dig Garden Bed

This method of vegetable gardening is what I prefer. As you might have guessed, it doesnt involve digging. This method is particularly suited to older people or people with physical disabilities. But I just prefer it bec

Techniques for Growing Plants in the Autumn

As a home gardener, fall should be a very special time for you. Fall is the best season of the year for plant propagation, especially for home gardeners who do not have the luxury of intermittent mist. The technique that