The Tough and Colorful Barberry
Would you like to have a garden with bright color for months and months, but your soil is poor, your winters cold, and you don’t really have much time available? If that sounds…
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Spring Care of Houseplants
As spring returns to the outdoor world, spare a thought and a moment for your houseplants, which at this time are usually looking a little sad, after months of low light levels and…
Shrubs for Planters, Pots and Boxes
With the gardens of new homes getting smaller and smaller, and particularly with more and more of us living in town homes and apartments, there is a lot of interest in growing plants…
Design Your Garden – Part 2
A couple of weeks back we started talking about designing your garden – something people often want to do in spring. If you read that first part – and if you didn’t, you can…
Months and Months of Camellias in Bloom – It’s Easy!
If you live in southern parts of the country, you probably know the camellia, that gorgeous evergreen bush with large, often rose-like flowers, at different times during the winter and spring. If you…
Design Your Garden – Part 1
With winter drawing to a close in most parts of the country – and flowers already showing on early bloomers in the south – it seems like a good time to put some…
Growing Encore Azaleas in Pots
Encore Azaleas, with their continuous flowering from spring to fall, have become THE most popular azalea in warmer states, displacing the older types, that only flower in spring. Not only are the Encore…
White in the Garden
Planting up your garden is a big project, depending of course on how big your garden is, and how complex you want it to be. Along with choosing sizes, shapes, evergreen or deciduous,…
Cypress Trees – The Complete Guide
Introduction Gardeners today have access to a wide variety of evergreen trees, both those with broad leaves and those with needle leaves. These are used in a variety of ways in the garden…
Plants for the Beach
The days are beginning to lengthen, and although we are still in the grip of winter in most areas, spring cannot be far away. Within a few weeks it will be time to…
