Articles related to "Perennial Garden"



A Garden in the Jungle of Weeds
Use self sown annual and perennial flower plants in garden design for right plant right place and naturalized plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies
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The Perfect Perennial Garden
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Tips on Caring for a Perennial Garden
It's one thing to plant a garden and another to keep it looking its absolute best. Follow these guidelines for healthy perennial gardens that dazzle.
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A Perennial Garden for the New Year
Designing a perennial planting is much like planning a party. When essentials are combined with thought and skill, there is sure to be success.
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Garden Design Tips
If taking measurements and plotting on graph paper just isn't your style, you can still have a beautiful garden by following a few simple rules.
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Gardening from Scratch
Daffodils with perennials in the garden.
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil - Part 4
Part 4 of a series of articles on plants that have thrived in dry, clay soils, in light shade.
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More Perennial Tips for Summer
Watering, mulching, pinching, planting and cutting flowers are featured.
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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 Punctuation Points
Originally this article started out as being about Spireas, but I abandoned ship about 1/4 way in and started writing something I'm much more interested in - Punctuation Points.
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Planning a Pink Perennial Garden
Perennial flowers offer a stunning display in shades of pink from March to November. Look for these new versions of old favourites, from ground cover to shade plants.
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Quick and Easy New Home Perennial Garden
Perennial gardens can be stunning in just a couple of years. A big budget helps, but there are cost-cutting tricks to building beautiful perennial gardens.
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Roy Diblik's Small Perennial Gardens (A Review)
Roy Diblik's Small Perennial Gardens: The Know Maintenance Approach is a how-to for growing perennial plants in a Midwest climate. This garden book review explains why.
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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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The Four Seasons Perennial Garden
A simple How-To tutorial on creating a beautiful perennial garden that is gorgeous in every season!
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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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Whiskey Barrel Perennial Gardens
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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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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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The Low Maintenance Edible Forest Garden
The Edible Forest Garden is an Agroforestry garden landscape designed to grow a lot of organic food with minimal work and resilient in the face of climate change.
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An English Summer
I explore the plants of an English garden in high summer.
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Autumn - Time For Change
Autumn is the best time of year to start making changes to your garden
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Kalmia
Kalmia, or Mountain Laurel, is one plant whose buds are just as neat and lovely as the open flowers. Sometimes the buds are a completely different color from the open flower, and since the flowers don’t open all at one time, the effect can be very lively. It is one of the most beautiful of native U.S. shrubs in flower.
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Garden gazing in southern Ontario
Pack up the car with a few friends, water bottle and sun hat and hit the road for a tour of the gardens in southern Ontario.
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Grow Baptisia Geranium Calamintha and Sporobolus
Grouping of plants makes a sustainable perennial garden easier to grow. One plant community includes Baptisia, Geranium, Calamintha and Sporobolus.
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Onions in Your Flower Garden and The Beauty of Bulbs
Bring onions to your flower gardens (really) by planting alliums in the landscape. Learn all about these bulbs that can add dynamic color and form to your garden. Plus, discover a way to use bulbs to create a blooming springtime garden in a small space.
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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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Shade Flower Garden Design Tips
Shaded flower gardens are a delight when done right. Learn how to design and plant a lovely shady flower bed to enjoy all season long. You'll have it made in the shade!
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Soil Wizardry for Daylilies
Get a grip on enhancing your soil for optimum Daylily health. Read this article for recommendations on the first step to take to improve your soil
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Stevia Rebaudiana
Attractive and hardy, and a potent natural sweetener, stevia is rapidly gaining popularity with home gardeners.
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Taking stock of the garden
Taking a hard, critical look at the garden is not as easy as it sounds. Here's a five-point plan for taking a fresh look at the overgrown daylilies, the withering vines and the clashing flower colours.
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The Beth Chatto Gardens - Part 2
Continuing from the last article, looking at Beth Chatto's waterside and woodland plantings.
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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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Dog Safe Flower Gardens
A simple how to article on creating a canine safe garden.
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Easy, Organic Garden Weeding
Piles of old newspapers are a non-toxic way to kill weeds and grass in perennial and vegetable gardens
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Feverfew, Healer of Migraines
Medicinal herb shown to help prevent migraine headaches and reduce fever. Feverfew, member of the aster family, is a hardy perennial with white daisylike flowers.
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How to Grow Perennial Asparagus
Asparagus is a gourmet and highly nutritious perennial vegetable and is one of the best investments a gardener can make, producing a crop for decades.
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Lovely Camassias
Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.
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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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Sustainable Plant Community for Small Gardens
Mix Achillea, Salvia, Coreopsis and Calamagrostis in a small sustainable garden. Learn about this perennial plant community ideal for Midwest growing.
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The RHS comes north
The Royal Horticultural Society comes to the north-west of England. With so many town and urban gardeners close by, including myself, this was an event not to miss.
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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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Frederick Meijer Gardens
Frederick Meijer Gardens, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a truly unique garden. It unites the art of humankind with the art of nature; an unforgettable experience.
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New Plants for 2004
Many new plants are introduced each year. I trialed these in my home garden last year.
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Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
Plant catalogs are the stuff of dreams. Find your favorite here! Brilliant descriptions and fabulous plants beguile and bewitch us. Year in and year out, we read and dream. Connect with The Catalog of Catalogs.
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How to Find Garden Books for Holiday Gifts
Here are garden books for plant lovers on Santa's holiday gift list. This guide includes historical and cozy mystery books gardeners will enjoy reading this holiday.
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Online Nurseries - Part 3
Online nurseries featured: Daydreamer's Perennial Gardens and Country Gardens Nursery
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Plants for Problem Places
Plants for Problem Places, written by Graham Rice, presents common problems, suggests ways to alleviate them, and identifies plants likely to thrive in the problem area.
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Something to Click Upon
A guide to websites disseminating perennial information, for your summertime perusing pleasure.
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State Botanical Garden of Georgia
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, located in Athens on the campus of the University of Georgia, showcases native plants, All-American winners, and plants in history.
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