Look no further than the reliable charm of clematis. If you have long, cold winters and want to make the most of a short growing season, these vigorous climbers provide an easy way to add color and texture to your garden. Growing clematis successfully in cold regions, such as USDA Hardiness Zones 3-4, starts with picking the right plant – not all can handle sub-zero temperatures. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
My hope is that after reading this review of some of the most attractive and functional outdoor benches available, you’ll think about adding one or more to your outdoor landscape, to bridge the ever-widening gap between us and our natural world. Bottom Line Up Front: Our 11 Top-Rated Garden Benches The following eleven models have risen to the top, favorite selections on our radar that offer quality, versatility, originality, aesthetics, and value we know you’re going to appreciate....
Right? For a well-intentioned gardener, repurposing the remains of our morning pick-me-up in the garden seems like a win-win! After all, java grounds are a great natural fertilizer. Right? And you can use these dregs to acidify the soil around crops like blueberries and strawberries. Right… ? My friends, it’s quite possible that we gardeners have some mistaken ideas about the nature of used coffee grounds and how we can best repurpose them in our gardens....
While bergenia is generally resistant to pests, there are two exceptions: weevils, especially black vine weevils, and gastropods. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Slugs and snails are also nocturnal creatures that can cause damage. In this article, we will cover what you what to look for and how to protect your bergenia plants from these pests....
This variety of Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, is the most popular type for commercial growers involved in vegetable oil production. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. To begin with, they’re iconic, an emblem of summer, whether you plant a whole patch in rows or a couple in a container. They’re also easy to grow, reliable about blooming, and a wonderful source of food for songbirds and other wildlife....
Tying up the outer leaves is not a required step in the growing process. As long as plants are healthy, they should produce a head regardless of whether they are tied or not. That being said, binding the loose outer foliage can help to protect plants from strong sun and pests, and may result in tighter heads as well. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Still, I have learned some things that I would like to share with you. First of all, I have learned something about proportion. I remember that when I first started gardening in Baltimore, everything I planted in our townhouse garden outgrew its space by summer’s end. Every August, my husband would complain that our garden was beginning to look like a jungle. However, this spring when I began planting the flats of impatiens, coleus, and begonias that had filled the spaces between perennials in our city garden with color, they just sat in these large beds like displaced persons, looking lost and forlorn....
You have an image in your mind of the picture-perfect roots that you’re about to dig up, after all those weeks of working and waiting. You can already imagine the earthy aroma as you pull the roasted vegetables out of the oven. But when you lift your prize out of the ground, the darn things are split or rotting! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
With their sunny coloring, yellow roses somehow manage to be dramatically elegant and humbly cheerful at the same time. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Then there are those standouts that deserve all the poems, songs, and homages that we can give them. Up ahead, we’ll go over 13 exceptional options, including: Whether you want a rambler to cover your cottage or you’re looking for a petite stunner to amp up your patio, there are many plucky yellow bloomers that will provide a bright, colorful display....
These beautiful and sunny annual flowers are available in an impressive array of bloom types, colors, and plant sizes – and all of them are gorgeous, so it can be hard to know which to choose! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. We’ll have a look at the coloration of the flowers and what height to expect from the plants, and offer some ideas on how to use them in your landscape....
And they come in a dizzying array of colors, shapes, and styles that the butterflies will love nearly as much as you do! Not sure where to begin, or how to decide which ones to select? Read on for our guide to choosing between different zinnia species and bloom types. This means you can find a zinnia in pretty much any color scheme you desire, with different patterns, shapes, and sizes ranging from a few inches to several feet tall....
Once you start experimenting with roots your grocery shopping experience will never be the same! Ginger, (Zingiber officinale) is a perennial which is native to Asia with reed like stems and long, narrow leaves. Its fleshy rhizome has a sweet pungent flavor and is used for culinary and medicinal purposes. Ginger is Hardy to zone 10. Keep the soil moist when growing, I live in Minnesota where it is cold and my Ginger comes up year after year and is a good spreader....
There are a few reasons you may want to learn about this plant’s cold tolerance. Maybe, like me, you live in a drafty old house, and you want to make sure you’ll be able to find a location to keep your Christmas flower from getting chilled. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
About the only thing more fulfilling is having your own stash of heirloom seeds, safely stored and waiting patiently for their turn to dazzle and delight. Saving your own tomato pips is a great way to preserve those varieties that have proven themselves as dependable performers in your garden. And it also prevents disappointment next season, when many cultivars disappear from store shelves if they didn’t prove to be popular....
While the Japanese species take a lot of the limelight, the hardworking red, silver, sugar, big leaf, and paperbark maples are humbly offering up their vibrant foliage and sweet sap to practically anyone in a temperate climate. There’s a lot of diversity in the Acer genus, which means no matter your decorative garden needs, there’s probably a tree in the maple world that fits the bill. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
That’s the rubber tree. Its gorgeous, uniformly large, waxy leaves and amazing colors – variegated green and white, burgundy, nearly black – will beckon you to touch them. They’ll feel as though they were molded by hand of a material that you can’t quite name. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Rubber tree is in the Moraceae family, and belongs to the Ficus genus, also known as the fig-bearers....
But in the gardening world, we have a particular reason to thank this diverse nation on the southern tip of the African continent. Also known as African daisies, the cape marigold (Dimorphotheca sinuata) is a botanical gift that now thrives in many parts of the United States as a lovely annual that has even naturalized itself in California, Oregon, and Arizona. After a brief interruption, we’ll tell you all about this hardy beauty and how you might be able to add a piece of Africa to your own garden....
They bring that rich color indoors – even when your space doesn’t have the bright light that many blossoming plants require. Whether you’re bringing a beloved potted plant indoors for the winter or you want a year-round addition to your interior, this guide will help you make it happen. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
While they’re perfectly gorgeous growing in the ground, there’s no reason they have to stay there. These popular plants can make a big statement when you put them in containers, whether alone or with other companions. Instead of serving as accents in the garden beds, they can be the crowning glory of your patio or garden space. Or you can create a welcoming display in a shady spot on your porch where other plants fail to thrive....
This variety has the white flowers you might be used to seeing on gourd vines, yet it produces long fruits that can be eaten just like you would eat any other kind of summer squash, such as zucchini. These fast-growing fruits are rumored to appear and grow so rapidly that it may be possible to enjoy a harvest every single day at the peak of the summer. Some gardeners claim that their fruits grow up to ten inches in a single day....
