Articles related to "Hardiness"

Defining if a plant will survive in your area.

There are two things that determine your success as an organic gardener - soil and weather. You can change soil; you cannot change weather.

Find out more about what plant hardiness means and how to improve it in your garden.

Experienced gardeners know that every plant variety and locality has a growing season. Knowing the North American growing zones will save money and plants!

The National Arbor Day Foundation has updated the plant hardiness zone map. Find out what impact the planting zone changes will have.

The Mexican Hydrangea is an import from China. The flowers smell wonderful, and both the flowers and and the leaves are beautiful.

Ornamental spring-blooming trees can be either deciduous or evergreen. See how to grow some of the most popular spring flowering trees.

Vegetable gardening in the hot, sandy, bug and pest filled climates can be difficult. The following tips can help make your garden productive.

Use the USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map to ensure the plants you choose for your landscape will survive even the most extreme weather conditions.

Trees and shrubs that produce colorful berries bring winter beauty to landscape gardens. They may also provide winter shelter as well as food for fruit-eating birds.

Choosing the perfect hanging basket plant is clearly up to the consumer who will be viewing the handing basket. Some good choices are listed for hanging baskets.

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.

When August rolls around, waterwise gardeners begin to take some action for a bountiful fall harvest.

Global Gardening Zones gives resources for gardening zones worldwide, including information on what gardening zones are and how to use them to plant your garden

Why would anyone deliberately cultivate blackberries, when they grow rampantly along the roadsides? Inviting these unruly plants into one's garden isn't just a wild idea.

How to grow beautiful cannas (Canna generalis). The most common is the red canna, but others can be found with burgundy leaves and hot orange flowers.

Here are some evergreen and deciduous trees suitable for some desert gardens.

Planting vegetables in desert areas needs to be timed with climate, date of last frosts, and other factors.

Salt cedars were introduced into North America in the early 1800s as an ornamental. But since that time, it has wreaked untold havoc on North American waterways.

Don't pull out those spent tomato plants and relegate them to the compost heap just yet. They've got one more use before recycling.

In a desert garden, do some homework before choosing a tree.

When you plant seeds which you will transplant outside in your garden depends upon many factors.

Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.

Find out how to prepare herb gardens to survive till spring in cold-winter climates.

The earliest blooms in the garden frequently give us a taste of spring, a promise that warmer days are coming. These spring flowering plants make a garden burst alive.

Succulent plants are interesting in appearance, fabulous in their ability to be easy growing and low maintenance, and can even be useful in other ways.

Echinacea (coneflower) hybrids are up-to-the-minute plant breakthroughs. American plant breeders work to bring bright flower and plant color to landscape garden designs.

Gardening in Texas is not one-size-fits-all. The extraordinary diversity of Texas includes 10 climatic regions, 14 soil regions, and 11 distinct ecological regions.

Choice of broadleaf evergreens for northern garden landscapes is limited since they lack winter survival adaptations. Description and images are included.

Orchids have an exotic reputation that sometimes deters novice gardeners. Some species can be grown relatively easily if the choice of orchid is made carefully.

Organic gardeners can experiment with winter sowing methods to start seeds of hardy vegetables, flowers, and cover crops outdoors; no greenhouse is required.

As gardeners strive to conserve water while still providing beauty, fragrance, and forage for humminbirds and butterflies, Agastache is proving to be a good choice.

Ayrshire roses have been used for hundreds of years in a variety of ways in gardens. Find out why, and how to care for your own piece of Old World charm!

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.

Recognizing and working with environmental factors helps to avoid expensive and distressing landscape design mistakes. Environmental factors interact with each other to make every site unique. Paying attention to these factors is also essential for a yard or garden plan to be successful over time.

Dreary landscapes come alive with the bursting buds of the Forsythia. In both formal and in informal settings this hardy shrub is a carefree addition to your landscape.

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.

We often see these white, trumpet-like flowers adorning churches Easter Holiday, but Easter Lilies are actually fantastic plants to add to your garden. Here's how....

Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...

Knowledgeable plant selection leads to dynamic garden landscape designs. One key decision factor is knowledge of site environment.

Recognize plant characteristics and functions; identify roles plants play in specific landscape designs. Informed plant selection leads to successful garden landscapes.

Determine the growing season for a specific area, using the Climate Atlas of the U.S. Understand the importance of freeze probability to agriculture and planting times.

Hawkweed, plantain,and the dreaded dandelion: nuisance plants that people trying to cultivate a flawless lawn are constantly battling. Why are weeds so difficult to beat?

Selecting the right rose plant can be a daunting task. Take a look at the modern rose classifications to find a class of roses suited for your garden area.

Hollister House Gardens (Washington, CT) demonstrate how garden designs furnished with plants matched to regional- and micro-climates allow garden landscapes to thrive.

House of Flying Daggers (2005 - USA) Film Review - a love story folded into a Chinese martial arts or wuxia film set in meadows, deciduous forests and bamboo groves.

Logee's Tropical Plants Company specializes in ornamental tropical plants for growing indoors, or outside, in containers. Add exotic charm to your garden, inside or out!

These small, reef-compatible, hardy angelfishes are colorful and relatively affordable fishes for even the beginning aquarist.

All daffodils are deer and garden-pest resistant. Daffodils planted with minor pest-resident bulbs create stunning and hardy spring displays in garden landscapes.

Here is a resource for Desert Garden readers, along with links to definitions and articles on Desert Gardens topics. Please feel free to use this list.