Articles related to "Blooming Plants"

Fall is a time of richness and warmth in the garden. See some of the best autumn cut flower plants you can grow to bring that beauty indoors.

Easy-to-grow crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia) dwarf shrubs are newcomers to landscape gardens. Heat tolerant, pest-resistant and summer flowering, they ensure design novelty.

Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia) are summer-bloomers in southern U.S. landscape gardens. Grown for over two hundred years, these plants are often called "southern lilacs."

Perennials, plants that come back each spring, periodically need to be divided in order to thrive. Here are the signs when to separate and how to accomplish this task.

Fall is the second busiest gardening season. While gardeners put their gardens to bed for the winter, they are also planting. Plant in fall for a natural spring lawn.

Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.

Summer blooming plants, like annual geraniums, are easy to grow. Geraniums are low maintenance plants, whether planted in a container or garden bed.

Zonal geraniums are an easy to grow flowering favorite for gardeners everywhere. Their showy blooms make them a must for every flower garden.

For the rose-challenged gardener, or those who can't devote a lot of time in caring for more traditional roses, the Knock Out Rose delivers long-season bountiful blooms.

Rose-colored flower heads start out as a mass of dark pink buds which open to release the scent of Cashmere Bouquet soap.

Spring is here and there has never been a better time to glean the spiritual and therapeutic benefits of gardening. Learn what plants to choose and get started.

Let's examine a some of the winter blooming plants that we can add to our gardens to create that year round beauty and interest. Add some winter color and excitement!

The tree peony is another type of peony worth growing in scented flower gardens. Paeonia suffruticosa is a flowering shrub with large fragrant blooms.

These ornamental flowering shrubs are mostly hardy and prefer slightly acid soil. They produce brilliant displays of bold white pink or scarlet blooms from late winter.

Mums are easy to grow plants that bloom in the fall. Read on for tips on how to prune, plant and care for chrysanthemums.

Plant a collection of fragrant blooming plants then add summer annuals. Magnolia, Syringa and peonies grown in one planting bed will create a scented flower garden.

There is something delightful about the a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See part two of the twelve best plants!

With all of the advantages from starting beautiful gardens from seed it is no wonder that more gardeners are using seeds to start plants.

Snapdragons are charming long-time favorites when it comes to flowering garden play-things. See how to grow and use snapgdragons in the garden and some popular cultivars.

Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.

These annuals all provide exciting color in the spring when gardeners are ready for the first signs of life in their garden. Here are some favorite early annuals.

Many perennial plants are just breaking dormancy in the spring and won't be blooming until summer or fall. These great plants however add spring color with early flowers.

Gardeners become familiar with different types of annual geranium plants. Explore all Pelargonium's cultivars for plant beds and container gardens, indoors and outside.

Chinese New Year begins with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year. Festivities end on the full moon about 15 days later.

With the cooling days of autumn, many summer perennials begin to cease their blooms. Gardeners can keep the color going for the autumn months by including these plants.

A simple and easy to follow tutorial on growing various silene armeria like a pro.

An easy tutorial on successfully growing poppies: Papaver rhoeas, and those like them.

The moss rose is one tough annual whose papery-pastel blossoms can take the heat.

July might seem a little early to plan a fall garden, but the timing is just about right.

While cranberries are nearly ubiquitous in American celebrations of Thanksgiving, there is some dispute about whether they were a part of the pilgrim's first thanksgiving

Spring fast approaches-welcome it into your home with quick, easy changes to liven up your space! From free to inexpensive, these tips are sure to please.

A community garden is a cooperative between neighbors to better their existence.

House numbers are crucial for locating a home. While they are required, there is no need for them to be utilitarian; decorative house numbers add curb appeal.

Eastern redbud trees and cultivars enrich landscape gardens with varieties of form, silhouettes and unusual seasonal color. Site selection is essential for good display.

Here are types of Nicotiana for growing in a variety of themed gardens. The many species of flowering tobacco plants inspire many ideas for annual flower gardens.

Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.

This is an easy to follow tutorial on putting in a bog garden for water plants and other aquatic life.

Let the kids decorate clay flower pots for gifts that are fun and creative. Add a live plant for celebrating Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Christmas or any occasion

A perennial is an ornamental, usually flowering plant that comes up year after year. The cost of replacing flowering annuals is making perennial gardens more popular.

Chosen and located correctly, plants and flowers can act as a universal Feng Shui cure. They are an additional source of vital energy for an office or home.

Persons young, aged or disabled benefit from gardening therapy. Indoor plants have natural calming effects for caregivers, the elders in their care, or ailing loved ones.

July and August in Texas can sometimes seem devoid of color. The roadsides and even some lawns are turning brown and the sky is white-hot with only a trace of light blue.

A Spanish flower garden is made up of many types of flowers that result in colorful and attractive blooms.

Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.

Pale berries echo the beauty of the snow in the winter garden. Learn about a few plants that produce white berries for winter garden interest.

Allium plants are garden flowers that deter foraging deer and rodents. Ornamental onion plants are drought tolerant, a necessary asset in today's flower gardens.

While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.

To design gardens that shine in shade from spring to frost, fill your beds and borders with perennials that bloom in fall as well as plants for spring and summer.

Snowdrops and daffodils, the first flowers of spring, with tulips, hyacinths and crocuses are among the most popular bulbs to ensure colorful winter and spring gardens.

Familiar holiday plants have a colorful history in Christmas tradition. Some are wrapped in lore stretching back to medieval times; others rise from more recent legends.