Articles related to "Cutting Flowers"

Add some summer blooming annuals to your garden for beautiful indoor cut flower plant arrangements. See five of the best annuals and tips for cutting and care.

Add a few cool-season annuals to your garden for color during off seasons. See five of the best cool weather annual cut flower plants.

Flowers add color and beauty to the landscape. Capturing some of that beauty by cutting and placing it in a vase will reward friends and family.

Cutting flowers to bring indoors - a luxury of having a home garden that everyone should enjoy. Here are a few perennial plants with summer blooms that last indoors.

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.

Astilbe plants are an excellent choice for gardeners to add color to a shade garden and flower heads also make good cut flowers.

Grow these flower bouquet favorites for home decorating, weddings, or gift giving. Roses, lilies, and other florist flowers are easy to grow without chemicals.

Whether you purchase a loose bunch of flowers from your local florist or pick them from your own garden, cut flowers should be conditioned to prolong their vase life.

The perennial larkspur plant is an easy and delightful thing for many landscapers and gardeners, adding old-fashioned charm to any bed or border.

Floral bouquets are beautiful. But unless you take time to preserve them, they won't last more than a few days. Here are some tips for preserving cut flowers.

As Spring to Summer makes flowers more strident, start sorting out different shapes of vases to display cut flowers when staging a home.

The Aalsmeer flower auction is the ultimate place to see every conceivable flower under one roof.

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.

The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.

From providing a glorious show of color in the spring garden to producing unsurpassed indoor fragrant cut flowers, the Peony Rose is a versatile perennial plant.

Summer is the season when perennial plants take center stage with bright, long lasting flowers that stand up to the summertime heat. See eight perennial garden favorites!

Lately my spring garden planning has been interrupted with an endless barrage of requests from daughter to buy her a horse. All I want to do is buy bulbs.

You'll be glad you gave Glads a try in your cut flower garden.

Winterberry Hollies add color to the winter landscape with red and gold fruit. But not every female holly likes every male holly...

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.

Chrysanthemums have an interesting history and have developed into one of the most popular plants for the garden and landscape.

Dahlias are easy to grow. Follow these quick tips to growing perfect dahlias and enjoy dahlias blooming in the flower garden and as cut flowers, too.

Indoor plants are useful to accentuate the decor of a room with or without flowers. Potted plants are very versatile and can be used in casual or more formal settings.

When creating a bouquet to bring inside, choose a good amount of both annuals and perennials, and even some foliage plants such as Lamb's ear or artemisia.

From heirloom cottage gardens to today's modern landscapes, the twining sweet pea adds colorful fragrance to any home garden space.

Strikingly beautiful and easy to grow, Purple Coneflowers are a must-have for butterfly gardens.

It's hard to find a flower that exceeds the Zinnia in beauty and ease of care. This sun worshiper makes a striking impact in any yard soon after seeds are sown.

Calla Lilies are beautiful flowers that have been enjoyed for centuries in gardens and homes. Today they are used widely in weddings and even occasionally in funerals.

Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.

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.

If you love flowers, there's no limit to the number of ways to make your layouts bloom! Your floral embellishments can be subtle, sophisticated or whimsical - you decide!

Whether you're looking at bleak, snowy days in the high desert, or chilly winds in the low desert, now's the time to think about what your garden will look like next year

If you've admired orchids from afar but are hesitant to commit to what you fear will be a demanding relationship with a finicky plant, here's a no hassle arrangement.

Learn the uses, care and varieties of perennial lobelia in the garden. Cardinal flowers are a popular choice for many gardeners; find out why.

What better way to add to the celebration than decorating with the flowers and crystals of the season to create a joyous atmosphere for the festivities?

A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed by James Fenton is a light-hearted read that will inspire a newfound freedom and creativity in your flower garden.

There are four award winning plants in three categories for 2007. Here are some details about growing them, why they're special and how they won.

Stocks, a hardy annual, pay big dividends in fragrance, flowers, foliage, and fortitude in the cool-season fall garden. In a bare garden go bullish with stocks!

Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.

Whether growing for the delicious seeds, to attract wildlife to the landscape, or for cut flower blossoms, gardeners love sunflowers.

Sri Lanka's mix of lowland tropical climate and cool hill country temperatures makes for successful propagation of different varieties of stunning flowering plant species

The spectacular Heliconia is exotic and graceful. It is ideal as a landscape focal plant, thrives as a potted plant and lasts for ages as a decorative cut flower.

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

The world's first online organic florist, Organic Bouquet, opened up shop in 2000 and is headquartered in Northern California.

The soil under trees can be dry even with regular watering because the roots use the moisture quickly. See seven perennials that thrive in difficult shady conditions

Bright and colorful blooms that last for weeks make Cosmos a popular plant choice for gardeners. See more about growing and using Cosmos plants in your landscape.

An alphabetical listing of all the plant profiles covering flowering plants, garden shrubs, ornamental trees and more. An online plant encyclopedia with growing details.

There are many simple ways to ensure that flowers retain their freshness and also give a better appearance to the finished arrangement.

As the last few months of winter wane, spring is in everyone's minds. Garden expert P. Allen Smith demonstrates some easy ways to bring a spring garden inside.

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.