Articles related to "Perennial Flowers"



Perennials: Design to Impress
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
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Blue Perennial Flowers
If you want a blue flowered theme garden or just like blue flowers in your flower garden, be sure to plant some of these blue flowering perennials.
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Daylily Basics
This article covers the basics about Daylilies. We recommend the varieties and places to purchase Daylilies.
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Eight Easy Perennials
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.
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Herbs for My Hummers!
Planting flowering herbs as hummingbird attractants and nectar sources in backyard flower gardens.
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Home History and Conifers
Gay and Kees live in an historical home and this tells you the story of a murder that took place in their garden
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Perennial Flowers All Season
Every perennial gardener wants a showy display of flowers all season from spring to fall. Here's how to get it. Follow this guide for your best perennial garden yet.
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Perennial Flowers Summer Care
Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!
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Perennial Rusts
This fungus in diguise is actually a very interesting item indeed. Learn and enjoy, then wipe it out into oblivion using the tips revealed in this article.
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Tips to Find Free Perennial Garden Plants
It is easy to build a spectacular flower garden if you have an unlimited budget. With time and patience you can create the same floral landscape for very little money.
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When Hardy Perennials Aren't
Landscapes filled with perennials flowers are many a gardener's dream. But sometimes these "low maintenance" plants don't seem to live up to popular belief, and sometimes they die out unexpectedly. This article will discuss some of the problems with perennials flowers in the landscape and how proper garden design and horticultural care can ensure a healthy, vigorous garden.
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Annual or Perennial?
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
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Overwintering in the Greenhouse
With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.
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Planting Flowers in Spring
When is the best time to plant my flowers? Is it too early? Too late? Is there a difference between when to plant annuals and perennials? Find out!
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Spring Planting: Perennials 2
It’s spring! But is it time to plant perennials yet? Can container grown hardy perennials be planted before the last spring frost? Maybe yes, maybe no. Find out why.
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Easy Care Perennials for Hot Sun
Every garden has a difficult hot sunny spot where most flowers fail. Plant some or all of these proven hardy perennial performers in your flower garden this summer.
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Flower Garden Style
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
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Jerusalem Artichokes
Flowers and food from an easy-to-care-for native American plant.
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Kids' Garden, Hollyhock House
No children's garden is complete without a special place to meet friends or hold tea parties. Here's how to make a hideaway from hollyhock plants.
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Perennials Grow Over Time
Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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The Beautiful Scent of a Violet
The beautiful scent of the sweet purple violet flower has been grown for centuries to create exotic perfumes.
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Top 30 Low-Water Use Perennials
If you're interested in water conservation, but also want a beautiful garden, take a look at these low-water-use flowering perennials.
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Top Five Flower Gardening Tips
Grow your best flower garden yet with these super tips on plant selection, soil preparation, watering, mulch, fertilizing and care for annual and perennial flowers.
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WINTER FLOWERS FOR YOU, TOO
Winter, a dreary time in the garden? Maybe you can grow these beautiful Winter flowers
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Starting With Perennials
Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.
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Red White and Blue 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.
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Special Seed Germination Tips
The secret to successful seed starting. Step by step instructions how to pretreat many flower and other seeds with special needs so they germinate and grow.
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Add A Little "Scents" To Your Garden
Have you ever taken a drive on a balmy spring day and caught the scent of a stand of lilac bushes? Perhaps in the summer, you have notices a hint of honeysuckle on the air. Scents can bring back powerful, long forgotten memories. It can create marvelous new ones. This article is going to explore some of the choices of scented plants available to gardeners of the Great Lakes Region. Don't let that stop you if you don't live in our neck of the woods! Many of the plants discussed do well all around the United States and Canada. Come and visit for a while, and be prepared to become inspired!
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Blue Annual Flowers
Flower gardeners are always looking for more blue flowers. Grow these blue flowered annuals in your garden either in a blue themed planting or mixed with other colors.
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Cottage Garden Flowers
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.
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Fall Division of Perennial Plants
Divide perennials for propagation, to renew plant vigor, or limit spreading. Tip: Many plants may be divided in the fall. Do it now and have more time next spring!
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Flower Gardeners II
Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti
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How to Cold Stratify Chill Seeds
Many perennial flower seeds (tree and shrub seeds, too) need to be chilled or cold stratified to germinate. Step by step instructions using refrigerator to stratify.
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My Quiescent Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden
It’s that time of year once again . . . my garden sleeps. Another summer has passed, and fall has surreptitiously surrounded us with a splendid array of vibrant colors. Old Man Winter is not far behind. It's time to get your butterfly and hummingbird garden in shape before he descends.
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Plant Profile: Cranesbill Geranium
A favorite of English and Cottage Gardeners, the garden cranesbill is an excellent choice of flowering perennial for any garden situation. Here's how to care for them.
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Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
Spring is glorious in the Cottage Garden -- find out what's in mine.... I hope you like purple! Don't you just love spring!?!
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Romantic or Realist - Establishing A Wildflower Lawn or Meadow
Steps important in establishing a wildflower lawn or meadow free of undesirable plants are listed and discussed.
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Spring: New Life for Butterflies and Gardens!
Spring is a time of renewal and new life for both butterfly gardens and butterflies. Perennial flowers, bulbs, shrubs and trees of every variety that rested during the cold days of winter are again springing to life. New generations of many species of butterflies are winging their way northward, eager to find appropriate homes to safely rear the next generation of their species. 'Tis the season to get your butterfly gardens a-bloom to greet these magical "flying flowers!"
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The Blue Flower Garden
All kinds of blue flowers for the garden: plant all blue flowering plants and accessories in blue for an overall blue theme or plant a few blue accents. We all love blue!
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The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
A fun, tongue in cheek look at the many "rare and exotic" plants and non-plants gardening mothers grow to please their children!
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Welcome Flower Gardeners
Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t
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Shady and Native Blue Flowers
If you like blue flowers and need blue flowers for shade or prefer native plants with blue flowers, try planting some of these unusual flowers in your flower garden.
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A Passion For Bedding Plants - Part Two
Victorian parterres often had designs which were similar to seventeenth century parterres, but the planting was very different from earlier parterres.
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Blue Garden Decor
All gardens need a bit of blue, the all blue theme garden needs more. Decorative blue accent pieces as well as the creative use of blue paint continue the blue theme.
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National Garden Bureau Market Trends
Over the past five years there has been a huge increase in sales of berries, herbs, water garden features, containers, bulbs and houseplants. This growing trend is expected to continue according to Bruce Butterfield, Research Director at the National Garden Bureau.
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Vines with Blue Flowers
Blue flowered vines offer a unique way to bring more blue flowers into your garden, whether to complete an all blue flowers theme or to provide a blue accent.
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Blue Flower Bulbs
Blue flowers and spring naturally go together, so begin your spring bulb display with as many blue flowers as possible.
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Blue Flowered Ground Covers
Blue flowered ground covers offer another opportunity to add the color blue to your yard and flower garden.
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