Articles related to "Rhizomes"

Save your cannas for replanting next spring! In fall, canna rhizomes or roots are dug up after frost and stored for the winter. Learn how to dig and store canna roots.

Ginger is one of the most fragile of all the spicy ingredients because its heat fades so quickly after processing and when cooked.

Many plants reproduce by rhizomes.

Ginger is a very versatile spice that can be used fresh, frozen, pickled, and ground into powder.

Versatile, easy-care Christmas Ferns are an elegant solution to many problems in the shade garden.

Ginger is a joy to use in cooking because it is so versatile.

An explanation of the different types of iris and pests to watch out for.

A brief history of this graceful plant grown from a rhizome

Winter is fast approaching. Which tropical plants are best to overwinter and which ones should you save seeds from to start each spring?

All varieties of iris flowers can be easily grown in any lawn or garden by following a few simple care and maintenance guidelines.

It can be difficult to let a garden go for the winter after weeding, watering and feeding plants all summer. Here are tips for maintaining plants over the winter.

Not a fruit but a vegetable, bitter tasting rhubarb can be transformed into a delicious filling for pies and tarts. Rhubarb grows in UK gardens from spring to autumn.

With careful selection and attention to control, bamboo can be grown in pots, as a landscape accent or as a privacy screen.

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.

While all flowering plants reproduce sexually, there are some species that are able to fall back on vegetative reproduction if needed.

The White Ginger or Butterfly Flower, with its scented white flowers and luxuriant foliage, is a fine example of a beautiful garden plant turned environmental weed.

Mother-in-law's tongue, also known as Sansevieria or Snake Plant makes an ideal indoor plant. It produces elegant variegated foliage, yet is an easy to care for plant.

Calla Lilies are beautiful flowers that have been enjoyed for centuries in gardens and homes. Today they are used widely in weddings and even occasionally in funerals.

The Red Ginger plant is a spectacular focal plant in the garden and with its glossy green leaves and showy flowers is ideal for tropical flower arrangements.

The German bearded iris is a traditional perennial flower for the full sun garden. Bearded iris differ from beardless iris by appearance and culture.

Seasoned desert gardeners know what problems field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) can cause.

Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.

Find the best vegetarian restaurants in Vancouver, BC, serving meat free food to diners.

It's called Prairie Sage, wormwood, mugwort, gray sagewort, and white sagebrush and it can make a nice addition to any waterwise garden.

Pachysandra, also known as Japanese spurge, is a common and prolific herbaceous ground cover that is easily propagated and also makes excellent living mulch.

All stems perform three basic functions: support of the leaves and flowers, fluid transport between leaves and roots, and food storage.

Vascular spore plants such as the ferns and related species possess complex bodies but are primitive in their reproductive patterns.

Gardeners can share plants inexpensively or increase perennials in their landscapes, through division. How do you divide rhizomatic perennials?

From providing a glorious show of color in the spring garden to producing unsurpassed indoor fragrant cut flowers, the Peony Rose is a versatile perennial plant.

Lily of the valley is a woodland plant that is native throughout the cool, temperate Northern Hemisphere. It's delicate white floral scent is a true herald of Spring.

Easy to care for and lovely to look at. Once you read this, you will wonder why you didn't plant water lilies sooner.

The cattail is an excellent choice for the water garden. It is a hardy, useful food plant with beautiful foliage.

At the nursery this year, we have many landscape customers buying tropical plants. Cannas are a top seller because they are easy to use in the garden and in containers.

"This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes, these onions all will become me. Such a tasty fact!" (Mike Garofalo)

Cannas are sun-loving plants that can quickly fill a garden spot with lush foliage and brightly-colored flowers. They require little care and look great in any garden.

Ginger is a great plant to grow, as well as one that has been used in homeopathic and natural healing. Learn more about growing and using ginger.

Vegetative propagation of plant structures is an important tool in horticulture and gardening. The use of cutting is one method of propagating plants vegetatively.

Florida beaches attract tourists, including plant enthusiasts. Sea oats and foliage stabilize sand dunes. Large dunes act as a natural barricade against coastal erosion.

Ferns and their taxonomic relatives are complex of body but primitive in their mode of reproduction.

From tough sword ferns to delicate maidenhairs, ferns flourish on the moist, shady forest floor of temperate rainforests of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

A look at three ferns that stay under two feet tall in a landscape.

Landscape fabrics work for specific projects. Some plant groups thrive and are easier to maintain than other groups when used with these erosion and weed control fabrics.

Repotting an orchid is not difficult, just different. Here are some tips to help you successfully transfer your orchid to a new container.

Poultry, such as chicken and turkey, benefit from this simple marinade made from orange juice and white wine. Lightly flavored with garlic, shallots and spices.

While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.

Sweetfern, also known as Fern Gale, is an aromatic herb native to eastern North America, but is not actually a fern.

There is good news for lovers of rock gardens and blue flowers: an abundance of choices awaits. Among these are Asia bell and corydalis.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), Virginia Native Plant Society 2009 Wildflower of the Year, is an early blooming native plant at home in bog and water gardens.

Ginger is traditionally used as a spice for culinary purposes; however, the essential oil of Ginger has been used extensively for centuries for aromatic properties.

The spectacular Heliconia is exotic and graceful. It is ideal as a landscape focal plant, thrives as a potted plant and lasts for ages as a decorative cut flower.