Articles related to "Winter Protection"

Protecting plants during the winter is vital to insure healthy plants next Spring. Frosts, freezing temperatures and rain can injure plants if they are not protected.

Cleaning and tidying the garden in fall serves two purposes. One is to secure the health of the garden and the plants within. The other is ensuring less work in spring.

Protecting the garden from the onslaught of winter is important to ensure it flourishes in the next growing season and comes through the deep freeze unscathed.

Grape vines may be grown against a fence, on a trellis or arbor or as the canopy of a patio, providing a comfortable vine-shaded retreat.

Organic gardeners in Northern climates, high elevations, or a locale with cold temperatures, frost, or snow can minimize Winter damage to plants with some preparation.

Cool-season annuals provide early color in a spring garden. They also provide the gardener with an opportunity to start planting before the weather warms.

Lavender herb plants are an aromatic and useful choice for cottage gardens, drought tolerant landscapes and other garden situations.

Alstroemeria flowers are easy-to-grow perennials which require only minimal care and routine maintenance to thrive in the garden for many years.

Small greenhouses can be heated many different ways with out purchasing expensive heaters.

In freezing conditions, wild birds could use a hand finding fresh water and food, and with a little ingenuity and some planning, you won't even need to buy a feeder.

Garden mulches can be very useful when they're applied properly.

Northern gardeners can add blueberries to a sustainable kitchen garden by growing hardy plants. Homegrown blueberries provide fresh fruit despite blueberry virus news.

Grow these flower bouquet favorites for home decorating, weddings, or gift giving. Roses, lilies, and other florist flowers are easy to grow without chemicals.

Rosemary is a popular garden perennial useful in herb, fragrance and container gardens. See the different types of rosemary available and how to care for them.

Climbing roses make a beautiful addition to the garden, but they don't climb without help from the gardener. They just send out long shoots that wave around in the wind.

Losing leaves helps a tree go dormant and survive winter. These same leaves can help your plants survive winter and improve the garden soil.

Forget-me-nots and Trillium are plants found in early spring, flowering in shade. These naturalized wildflowers light up woodland gardens.

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

Herb gardens are easy to maintain and need little care. Fragrant varieties also make great additions to flower gardens.

You can plant clematis for stunning effects in almost any garden aspect or site, and a small selection of these flowering climbers will give year-round garden colour.

Fall is a busy time in the flower garden. Use this list of reminders and tips to keep up with your fall garden chores, prepare for winter and anticipate spring!

To design gardens that shine in shade from spring to frost, fill your beds and borders with perennials that bloom in fall as well as plants for spring and summer.

Hugely diverse flowering shrubs, clematis's exotic blooms range from tiny nodding bells to huge saucers. They grow from 2 to 40 ft high and thrive both in sun and shade.

Colorful hedging spruces up the landscape for picture-perfect curb appeal. Rows of flowering shrubs are easy to care for and add a little more punch than cedar or privet.

In the wild, species roses are free to climb up through trees at the edge of a forest. Any climbing or rambling rose will offer the gardener the same wild possibilities.

Pruning roses is necessary if you want them to grow and bloom, but when should you prune them?

Beautyberry, hydrangea, and Persian lilac use little space and are easy to care for.

See top six picks for perennials with weeping or cascading growth habit. From ground cover to larger near-shrubs; did your favorite plant make the list?

Alba roses are one of the Old Garden Rose classes and are characterized by their white, or nearly white flowers. But that's not all these lovely rose bushes offer.

See how to care for, maintain, and use camellias in the garden. More than beautiful winter flowers and evergreen foliage the camellia has a lot to offer gardeners.

Here is a list of the recognized rose classifications for Species and Old Garden Roses and ideas for using rose plants in various garden designs and landscape situations.

Variegated evergreen shrubs provide loads of color and interest to the garden, year round. These shrubs all have green with white, yellow or cream colored leaves.

Winter burn and leaf scorch of broadleaf evergreen shrubs - rhodies, mountain laurel, boxwood, etc. - is caused by drying winter winds. Prevention is the only cure.