Posts Tagged ‘Flowers’

One of the items that we’ve received questions about are unheated greenhouses. The reason for them is always being questioned. Realistically, many people never heat their greenhouse at all, so for those of us who do, we may have questions about that as well. The best greenhouse to get if you’re just starting out in gardening will be an unheated greenhouse. It has a great many uses that you may not even have considered. Learn More

Roses are thought to be the queen of the garden, but they do need some care in order to thrive and bloom. Pruning is normally done during the colder parts of the year so that the branches being cut will not harm the plant and it will have time to recover before the onset of spring growth, but you can prune early in the year.This year, the roses seem to be blooming quite early and many are in bloom already, offering a few garden issues to the person who left the pruning and care a bit late. Learn More

When you are out walking in the wood or the fields, and you find some gorgeous wildflowers, most of us wish that we could find a way to make them last a great deal longer. Believe it or not, preserving wildflowers nearly in their original shape is just not at all difficult. I was taught this trick by an old mountain man, heaven knows where he got it. It has proven to be the best way to dry flowers for me. They end up looking nearly perfect.

There is a great way of drying what you picked up along the way when you’re gathering wildflowers. It doesn’t require a lot of money and it doesn’t take a vast amount of time or energy.  There is an old favorite detergent that  is particularly good for drying yellow or white flowers such as dogwood or yellow roses. More useful than you may know is the old tried and true favorite detergent which used to be called 20 Mule Team Borax. Read the rest of this entry »

Even in a small gardens space you can create a butterfly garden to be proud of. It does not require a lot of space to make a garden that will attract birds and butterflies. In fact, most of them will haunt your small garden just as frequently as they do a large garden, so long as you have elements and plants that butterflies use as food. Learn More

Growing native is a simple way to minimize your labor in the garden as well as draw in native animals and birds., From the desert to the prairie, to the northeastern or northwestern alpine forests, you can plant native and get a great look that takes so much less effort for you. Read the rest of this entry »

Native plants are a wonderful choice for your landscaping project regardless of whether you have a tenth of an acre, or twenty acres in the country, because they seem to have a resonance that is lacking in the less natural landscaping projects. Read the rest of this entry »