Articles related to "Gladioli"

Directions how to lift, divide, dig & save gladioluses for planting in your flower garden next year to increase and grow more of your favorite varieties or save money.

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

The bulb growing season can be extended by using tender bulbs or other summer flowering, perennial bulbs in the yellow themed garden.

The language, legends and history for the gladiola - the flower for those born in the month of August.

Bulbs are a great way to add accent and color to mixed containers to increase the drama and impact. See some favorite bulb plants for baskets, pots and planters.

Go green in the garden by adding new varieties of green-flowering plants - old favorites have upgraded to green!

A reader asked about the meanings of the FTD funeral flowers delivered online and sent same day for sympathy situations. Here's what the funeral arrangements meant.

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.

Colors, textures, blooms, and types--so many choices are available to the gardener in creating a beautiful yard. Here are some helpful tips to make choices easier.

By properly storing seeds and tender perennials in the fall, you can ensure an early and less expensive start to next year's garden.

How to store the frost tender bulbs of cannas, dahlias and gladiolus plants over the cold winter months.

Certain flowers have specific meanings. Graduation is a special day, so say something meaningful with these graduation flowers.

Come spring, the mail order gardening catalogs flood into mailboxes everywhere - pages of temptation, enticing gardeners to want one of everything.

Fall is a busy time in the flower garden. Use this list of reminders and tips to keep up with your fall garden chores, prepare for winter and anticipate spring!

ITV1's big new supernatural drama pitches Philip Glenister and young stars Christian Cooke and Zoe Tapper against London's hidden vampires and monsters.

Most people know their horoscope sign; there are garden plants associated with each zodiac sign as well. Perhaps we should ask "What is your bloom?" when we meet someone.

These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.

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

Many perennial flowers should be staked. Learn the best techniques and methods to use in your flower garden and when and why to stake your flowers.

Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer.

As in many parts of China, it's still the custom in Hong Kong for a street to specialise in a particular trade. There's no mistaking what's on offer in Flower Market Road

All flower arrangements, except the oriental or the abstract, are done in a specific shape or pattern. Starting with a shape in mind leads to a successful floral display.

Summer is the time to show off the rich colors of flowers in a garden. Optimum planting creates enjoyment throughout the summer.

With a hard frost past in most areas, fall cleanup of the perennial beds should be underway. Here is what to do and why.

Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.

Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.

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.

Top tips on wedding flowers for day and evening, as well as what goes best with your hair colour. Includes lists of seasonal flowers and inspiring ideas.

There are many choices of flower colors for wedding bouquets; bridal bouquet colors of white, pink, lavender, red, yellow, orange or blue flowers are always in season.

Spring is heralded by the appearance of daffodils, crocuses and tulips. Summer brings geraniums, baby's breath and morning glory. And if your dog eats them, he could die.

Spain contains many of the Mediterranean plant species of Europe; plants of Spain include deciduous and evergreen trees, orchids and aromatic herbs of lavender and thyme.

Spring in Andalucia brings an unsurpassed wildflower display from January to its climax in May. See Mediterranean wildflowers at their best in the Alpujarras and Axarquia

Giverny is the home town of painter Claude Monet, famous for his water lilies painting. Enjoy a tour or casual visit to this historic water garden in Normandy.

Flowers have a long history of use in weddings but it is only in more recent history that various styles of wedding bouquets have become available.

At the nursery this year, we have many landscape customers buying tropical plants. Cannas are a top seller because they are easy to use in the garden and in containers.

Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.

Gardeners can commemorate the birth of a child visually in the garden, honor the loss of a loved one or celebrate a special event or wedding anniversary with plants.

Edible Chinese Water Chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis), sometimes known as Matai, can be an excellent backyard or medium-scale crop.

As the leaves change and weather turns cooler, tasks such as weeding, mulching, digging up bulbs, and planning for spring need to be done.

Flowers are beautiful as they bloom in spring and summer. Here are some fun flower crafts for your kids. Also enjoy four super coloring pages that you can print at home.

Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.

Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!

Plant communities work well together because of similar growing needs. The Geranium, Heliopsis, Crocosmia and Miscanthus combination is one example for summer gardens.

Hummingbird gardens attract pollinators by offering food, water and a place to rest. It is helpful to understand a pollinator's habitat to grow a hummingbird garden.

It can be difficult to let a garden go for the winter after weeding, watering and feeding plants all summer. Here are tips for maintaining plants over the winter.

A new supernatural thriller comes to UK network ITV1 on Saturday 3 January, conjuring the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula above and below the streets of modern-day London

Tiny but prolific thrips deform flowers and carry diseases, especially in greenhouses. You can control these pests without chemicals with a four-step approach.

All months have birthstones and flowers. Combined, they are those of the seasons. Enjoy reading the qualities of these flowers and precious and semi-precious gems.

Top heavy floppy perennials need staking. Learn ways to stake flowers such as peonies, lilies, delphiniums or gladiolus to hold them safely upright in the flower garden.

Life on Mars star Philip Glenister leads the cast of a new ITV1 drama series to air in January that sets the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula in modern-day London.