Articles related to "Wildlife Gardens"

Some plants are known for their ability to attract songbirds to the garden. These annual plants are a must for a bird-friendly landscape.

Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.

There are some simple things that gardeners can do to help provide for honeybees no matter how small their space.

Native plant gardens are not only easy to grow but are also excellent choices for attracting wildlife.

London's Natural History Museum is one of the most important of its kind in the world, with over 70 million specimens. There are many 'hand's on' activities for children.

The Carolina Children's Garden in Columbia, South Carolina provides a retreat for families to connect with nature, each other, and eco-challenges facing homeowners.

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

Making a butterfly friendly garden is one of the easiest first steps into wildlife gardening. It can add to the enjoyment of your garden and help butterfly conservation.

Inviting bees to your garden will not only help ensure their survival but it will boost your flower, herb, and vegetable garden's performance.

This pink and lilac garden highlights showy North American native species that will be colorful from June to early fall.

By meeting a few simple guidelines you can certifiy your backyard as a wildlife natural habitat with the National Wildlife Federation and support the environment.

When planning your garden, choose plants that flatter the style of your home and attract complements from birds, butterflies, and neighbors.

An Ohio public garden at Ashland High School is open to the community. Oriental gardens are blended with attracting wildlife and a memorial garden dedicated to students.

Activity books for children aged 5 to12 make wonderful gifts for holidays or birthdays.

Community Gardens and City Farms focuses on the United Kingdom. Gardening information on starting or locating a community garden or city farm near you.

These annual plants will add a climbing wall of color to your garden landscape areas and are perfect for small garden spaces.

Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.

Butterfly weed and lantana are used in xeriscape gardening to attract bees, butterflies or hummingbirds. These drought tolerant plants are food sources for pollinators.

Decorative arts of the sixteenth and seventeenth century inspired knot gardens. Garden historians can visit Garden Museum's knot-style garden, being restored, in London.

Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.

Pair the best-loved flowering shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla, with your well-loved mother on Mother's Day.

Pyracantha berries are not just, "for the birds." Contrary to a common myth, they are not poisonous. Pyracantha, a relative of apples and roses, is entirely edible.

From flowering climbers and shrub roses to ground cover and patio plants, the different types of roses come in a wonderful variety of shapes and colours.

The lives of Thomas Bewick, one of England's finest wood engravers and George Stephenson, father of the Railway, overlapped during the late 18th to early 19th centuries.

Rising fuel and food prices are making more people seek out visitor attractions that don't charge an entry fee.

In Gaia's Garden, Toby Hemenway presents the theory and practice of Permaculture, and brings them home to the average backyard. A challenge no gardener can miss out on.

The intertwined histories of the three entities - Coram's Fields, Coram, and the Foundling Museum - are unwound here as having grown out of the 1752 Foundling Hospital.