Articles related to "Perennial Growing"

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.

How to grow perennial plants from seed. Is it cost effective? Is it different from growing veggies and annuals from Seed?

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.

Rediscover the fragrant peony, a long-lived perennial growing in cutting gardens. Plant rock gardens with the bold flowers and fern leaf foliage of dwarf paeonias.

As summer winds down, there are blooming plants that will display rich textures and hues long into the fall. Here are a few plants that help extend the beauty of summer.

Desert soil, when mixed with water, will have the consistency of concrete. So, when potting desert plants,you'll need to create your own soil mixtures.

Not all flowers will thrive in the zones of 7a to 8b, those zones of South Carolina. These will. Choices for the garden include annuals and perennials.

Bluestone Perennials specializes in bulbs, plants and shrubs that live for more than one growing season and for many gardeners form the main bulk of their garden.

Catnip herb is a mystery to non-cat owners. To herbalists and others, it is a beneficial herb for cats and humans. Plants can be divided, and cuttings can be propagated.

Foliage plants play a big role in garden design. They offer contrasting leaf color and texture, and help to ground the colorful flowers in a mixed border.

These plants are authentic choices for a Japanese garden and provide color, contrast of form and a meditative beauty to a reflection garden area.

Plant lovers spend millions of dollars on seasonal plants and throw them away when winter cuts them down. Buy perennials and divide them to save money.

Spring is the ideal time for American Gardeners to take divisions of perennials, spring bulbs, grasses and even multistemmed shrubs. All are easy to do when the plants emerge in the spring.

Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.

Oenothera, the evening primrose, or sun-cup flower is a beautiful scented perennial that shines in the summer evening garden.

Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.

Many perennial plants are just breaking dormancy in the spring and won't be blooming until summer or fall. These great plants however add spring color with early flowers.

In this time of economic hardships, new gardeners can't afford to buy plants in 5 gallon pots. So new gardens can look very bare.

Meat and fish were plentiful but what kind of vegetables did the pilgrims and native people share at the first Thanksgiving? Here, we will take a look at what is known.

With another dry, hot summer expected here in California, more and more homeowners are thinking about removing thirsty and needy plants and replacing them with natives.