Articles related to "Northern Gardens"

Northern gardeners can add blueberries to a sustainable kitchen garden by growing hardy plants. Homegrown blueberries provide fresh fruit despite blueberry virus news.

Opunita humifusa is an eastern prickly pear cactus. This North American native perennial is an excellent drought tolerant choice for growing in a sustainable garden.

Warm season crops like melons can be grown in containers where summers are a short season. Many vegetable plants fitting into small gardens are easy to grow in the north.

A list of monthly chores and checks needed for vegetable, fruit and herb gardens in the month of June.

Once the home of Poppaea, wife of the Emperor Nero, this villa was the perfect elite holiday home, complete with bath house, gardens, guest suite and swimming pool.

Sweet almond verbena is a drought tolerant shrub for a southern garden. Perennial verbenas benefit bees and butterflies with fragrant flowers and leaves.

Successfully growing roses in a cold climate starts with choosing hardy types of rose bushes. Northern winter care for roses means developing a plant maintenance plan.

These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.

Losing leaves helps a tree go dormant and survive winter. These same leaves can help your plants survive winter and improve the garden soil.

Japanese maples and elderberry plants have heavily dissected leaves and fall interest for the garden. However, Sambucus shrubs tolerate colder winter conditions.

Hemerocallis comes in many flower forms. Learn about unusual form and spider daylilies, two types of beautiful flowers that will add movement to flower gardens.

A guide to when to start sowing seed indoors. How to decide when to start seeds according to your growing zone.

For architectural structure in the cool perennial border or woodland garden, the pendulous mid-summer blooms of Monkshood are hard to beat.

North American native annual vines are colorful through the summer and easy to grow from seed.

An easy to follow tutorial on planting and getting the best blooms out of hardy hibiscus acetosella.

Starting a patch of salad greens in the vegetable garden is a wonderful way to welcome spring. Mix and match a blend of different lettuce varieties to eat this season.

Easy to grow grape hyacinth bulbs become low maintenance plants in the flower garden. Late summer is the time to plan Muscari for fall bulb planting.

Eco-friendly paper mulches offer many advantages to gardeners.

Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge and Everything in Between is written by Horticulturalists, Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford.

Rugosa roses are easy to grow plants perfect for tough landscapes. Gardeners who like naturalized gardens will find wild shrub roses low maintenance 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.

While the sight of an inchworm arching across a leaf might delight a youngster, it should trigger alarms in the minds of gardeners who grow cruciferous vegetables.

Pruning hydrangeas correctly at proper times produces large, eye-catching flowers. Hydrangea plant structure and bud formation determine pruning methods.

Buying plants and garden supplies by mail order from a catalog or web site is handy and can be educational but read flower plant and nursery catalogs carefully!

Sweeping landscape plantings of the corn (Flanders's Field poppy) and its cousins are a knockout. These plants are true annuals though they may live for several seasons.

Gardeners will spend time this winter planning their purchases for spring planting. Here are ideas for each US gardening zone.

You can lug large container plants into the greenhouse or garage for the winter, or you can provide each plant with frost protection right where it lives.

Learn what bulbs will give you the earliest spring color.

Autumn is the perfect time to plant bulbs for an early burst of color in the home garden next season that can last well into the summer.