Articles written by Barbara M. Martin
All 136 articles written by Barbara M. Martin
Descanso Gardens Visitor Guide: Where to See Roses Camellias and Lilacs in Southern California
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Tourists and local visitors alike will thrill to the flowers, plantings and natural areas at Descanso Gardens. Don't miss the blooming camellias, rosarium and lilacs! more...
Short Garden Quotes and Sayings: Inspiration, Humor and Wit for Signs and Art and Craft Projects
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Words to garden by -- use these quotations and phrases to decorate your yard and garden with inspiration and fun, happiness and joy. more...
Garden Wedding Tips: Helpful Guide to Planning an Outdoor Ceremony with Perfect Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
An outside marriage ceremony in a garden setting surrounded by flowers is a romantic way for bride and groom to begin their life together. Don't stress over the flowers! more...
Flower Gardening Tools: Necessary Useful and Handy Equipment for Gardeners
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
The best basic tools gardeners need (or don't need) from tiller to pruner to spade and trowel. How to pick the right equipment for your essential flower gardening chores. more...
Spring Flower Bulbs Grow too Soon: What to Do if Tulips or Daffodils Sprout Early or Come Up in Fall
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Spring bulbs sometimes grow too soon in spring or come up in the fall. Why they emerge now, what to do (and what not to do) when spring flower bulbs sprout extra early. more...
Official Designated State Flowers: National USA List by Common and Botanical Name
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Each state in the United States of America has a formal flower. Some blooms are claimed by more than one place. Check this complete state by state listing. more...
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Ten simple ways to stop wild animals from digging, eating or stealing your newly planted tulips & crocus. Save your bulbs from hungry wildlife or destructive critters! more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Buying plants and garden supplies by mail order from a catalog or web site is handy and can be educational but read flower plant and nursery catalogs carefully! more...
Flowers Add Instant Curb Appeal: Easy Home Spruce Up to Help Market and Sell Your House Faster
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
First impressions count! Curb appeal sells houses. Inexpensive pretty flowers in beds, border, pots and containers quickly fix up the street view appearance of your home more...
Summer Flower Garden Weed Control: Three Quick & Easy Steps to Stop Summer Weeds
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Whether you went on vacation and came home to weeds or you have been battling weeds in your garden all season, follow this guide to summer weed control now. more...
Flower Garden Summer Maintenance: Garden Calendar Caring for Flowers in the Summer
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
A quick guide to flower care during the hot summer months -- and tips on how to enjoy your flower garden more, too. more...
Flowering Herbs for Flower Gardens: Grow Herbs with Flowers and Flowers that Are Herbs
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden? more...
Shade Flower Garden Design Tips: How to Select the Best Flowers and Design A Shaded Flower Bed
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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! more...
Hanging Basket Tips: How to Select Plant and Care for Hanging Planters of Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
A hanging basket or pot of flowers is the perfect decoration for your porch or deck. Use this guide to grow your best looking hanging containers ever. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Every garden has a difficult hot sunny spot where most flowers fail. Plant some or all of these proven hardy perennial performers in your flower garden this summer. more...
Top Five Flower Gardening Tips: Tips on How to Plant Water Fertilize Mulch & Care for Flower Garden
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Grow your best flower garden yet with these super tips on plant selection, soil preparation, watering, mulch, fertilizing and care for annual and perennial flowers. more...
Five Fun Flowers for Kids Garden: Children Love Gardening with Special Kid Friendly Flower Plants
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Children's gardening or gardening with children is more popular every year. Get ideas for a child's garden and what to grow with your kids. Have fun gardening together! more...
Staking Perennial Flowers: Using Peony Ring Stakes String Grids Pea Sticks to Support Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Top heavy floppy perennials need staking. Learn ways to stake flowers such as peonies, lilies, delphiniums or gladiolus to hold them safely upright in the flower garden. more...
Flowers for Shade or Part Shade: Easy to Grow Shade Loving Annual and Perennial Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Plant these beautiful, easy to grow flowers in your shady or partially shaded garden for colorful blooms all season from spring through summer and fall. more...
How to Grow Scented Geranium: Easy Care Guide to Scented Pelargonium Potted Indoors or Outside
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Scented geranium (Pelargonium) is easy to grow. Learn scented geranium care: correct light, soil, watering, pruning, fertilizer, repotting, pest prevention. more...
Plan and Construct a Raised Bed: Solves Soil Problems Increases Yield & Looks Great in Landscape
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Raised planting beds or planters offer many benefits and are easy to build. Learn how to plan and construct your own raised garden bed to enhance your landscape. more...
Grow Flowers in Pots and Planters: Guide to Success Planting & Growing Annual Flowers in Containers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Enjoy colorful blooms wherever you want them all summer! Instructions, tips, advice on how to select, design, plant and care for flowers in pots, planters & containers. more...
What Makes a Good Retail Nursery: Tips on Where to Buy Flowers and Plants
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
How to find a good quality plant store or nursery when you shop for flowers and plants. Use this handy check list to evaluate retail nurseries in your local area. more...
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Design a perfect tiny fairy theme garden for flower fairies or flower faeries. Plant favorite fairy flowers, add the best fairy toys, treasures and trinkets. more...
How to Cold Stratify Chill Seeds: Chilling or Cold Stratification Treatment of Seeds Before Planting
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Many perennial flower seeds (tree and shrub seeds, too) need to be chilled or cold stratified to germinate. Step by step instructions using refrigerator to stratify. more...
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Seedlings need light. To grow healthy seedlings or transplants indoors, grow them under lights, not on the windowsill. Fluorescent or gro lite? Here's how. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Keep old seeds or throw them out? Are they worth planting? What's the shelf life of seeds? Will seeds you already have still sprout or germinate and grow? Test them! more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Whether you need a holiday gift or a birthday gift or a thinking of you gift, here are ideas for the perfect gardening present for the special gardener on your list. more...
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If your paperwhites usually grow too tall, flop over or need staking, water them with a little drink of alcohol to stunt their height by half to a third. It works! more...
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Would you like to keep your amaryllis so it can bloom again next year? Follow these simple care instructions to keep your amaryllis bulb healthy and flowering every year. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Daffodils are easy to grow with minimal care. Nurture the bulbs in your yard or flower garden by correct fertilizing, mulching, deadheading and division. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Plan ahead and plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs in a pot to grow showy fragrant flowers indoors this winter. Easy fun project for decorating or holiday gift giving. more...
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Amaryllis bulbs are sold in the fall for forcing into flower around the holidays. Learn how easy it is to plant, grow & bloom your new amaryllis bulb successfully. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Fall is daffodil (Narcissus) bulb planting time. Learn where to plant, how to plant, and how and where to purchase good quality bulbs to plant in your garden or landscape more...
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Flower gardeners are always looking for more blue flowers. Grow these blue flowered annuals in your garden either in a blue themed planting or mixed with other colors. more...
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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. more...
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Save your dahlias for replanting next spring! In fall, dahlia tubers or roots are dug up after frost and stored for the winter. Learn how to dig and store dahlia tubers. more...
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If you want a blue flowered theme garden or just like blue flowers in your flower garden, be sure to plant some of these blue flowering perennials. more...
The Blue Flower Garden: Blue Flowering Plants to Grow in the All Blue Theme Garden
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
All kinds of blue flowers for the garden: plant all blue flowering plants and accessories in blue for an overall blue theme or plant a few blue accents. We all love blue! more...
Harvesting Flower Seeds to Save: How to Select Collect and Save the Best Flower Seeds in Your Garden
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
To save flower seeds successfully, select and save seed from your best plants. Learn how and when to collect your seeds so they are fully mature and ready to harvest. more...
Saving Flower Seeds: Reasons and Benefits of Seed Saving Why Gardeners Save Seeds
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Many gardeners save their own seeds each year. Some do it to save money, some to preserve genetic diversity, some to hybridize, some do it for fun .... Start saving now! more...
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There is a dahlia bred for every taste, from simple to exotic. Every flower garden should include dahlias for color and excitement from July until the first fall frost. more...
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Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants. more...
Perennial Flowers Summer Care: How to Care for Flowering Perennials in Summer
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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! more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Select the right named variety of annual flower to grow a specific color or height flower, complete a theme garden, or to try something new and improved -- or different. more...
Designing the White Garden: Theme of All White Flowers Sparkles by Day and Gleams at Night
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these! more...
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There are so many white roses just perfect for the white garden or moon garden. How can you pick just one?! Here are a few suggested white roses for your flower garden. more...
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Flowering vines add another dimension to the flower garden. Enjoy the many spectacular, romantic and often fragrant vines suited to a white garden or moon garden. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Flower gardeners need to keep written and photographic records for future reference. The best place to do that is in your garden journal. Every good garden deserves one! more...
Flower Garden Style: Get the Garden Design Style You Want From Formal to Informal
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake! more...
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Planting in patterns such as rows, circles, knots, or symmetrical blocks is a traditional flower garden style. Tips on spacing a mass planting with bedding plants. more...
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Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden. more...
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How do you make your final selection when it comes to buying a rose bush? Here’s when NOT to go by the book! Hint: Have you experienced it in bloom up close in real life? more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Buying a new rose bush requires careful inspection to avoid potentially disastrous disease problems. Do you know the signs of black spot, rust and rose mosaic? more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Before buying a rose bush, you should kick the tires. Is the plant a healthy one worthy of being planted in your flower garden? Here’s what to look for in a healthy rose. more...
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Don't you have better things to do than weed the garden? More simple steps to controlling weeds in the flower garden all season long -- with minimal work. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
When is the best time to plant my flowers? Is it too early? Too late? Is there a difference between when to plant annuals and perennials? Find out! more...
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Is it warm enough yet? Wait until after the last spring frost to plant those annuals! Get your frost date and learn how to harden off your annual flowers. more...
Starting With Perennials: Easy Beginner's Guide to Planting and Growing Perennial Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
More sun and shade tips. How to analyze the light conditions for a foundation planting, pointers on how light exposure changes by compass point, season and time of day. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!) more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
After removing grass and weeds, loosen the soil and add organic matter to the flower bed. Soil preparation is the most important step to growing beautiful flowers. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Planting your first flower garden from scratch is exciting – and a challenge! Start out right with this simple guide to selecting the best possible site for your garden. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters! more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti more...
Garden Poetry and Quotes: Inspirational Sayings and Sentiments for Life and Happiness
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Say it with flowers! Gardens have made the heart sing in poetry and verse, a natural inspiration since the beginning of time. Find your favorite gardening quotation here. more...
Sensory Garden Design Tips: Planning a Flower Bed or Border to Use all Five Senses
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Increase the enjoyment of your garden by designing a better lay out to please all five senses -- touch, taste, smell, hearing and of course, sight! more...
Winter Flower Garden Indoors: Blooming Plants to Grow In the House during Cold Weather Months
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Every winter gardeners crave blooms, color, flowers, green leaves and spring! Try raising some of these easy flowering plants inside. more...
Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew: Old Fashioned, Antique, Historic, Heritage or Heirloom Gardens
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time! more...
How to Mulch the Flower Garden: Gardeners Get Great Results Mulching Beds and Borders Year Round
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Mulch is the flower gardener's number one tool, offering multiple benefits for your flowers and the soil all year long. Take advantage of this work saving secret weapon. more...
Flowers and Herbs for Halloween: Lore to Ward off Evil or Witchcraft or Spirits and Keep You Safe
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Old fashioned cures, remedies, protections, amulets and charms from your herb and flower garden to make your Halloween trick or treat night a safe, relaxing experience. more...
Fall Flower Care after Frost: List of Seasonal Flower Garden Tips for Fall Maintenance
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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! more...
How to Dig & Store Gladiolus Corms: Divide Keep and Save Gladioli Bulbs to Replant Next Year
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Directions how to lift, divide, dig & save gladioluses for planting in your flower garden next year to increase and grow more of your favorite varieties or save money. more...
Cottage Garden Annual Flowers: Easy Annuals to Grow from Seed or to Self Seed in the Flower Garden
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Cottage gardens should be filled with flowers all season long. Grow these pretty and popular annual flowers for masses of easy color in the cottage garden. more...
The Frugal Flower Garden: How to Spend Less Money & Grow Beautiful Plants on a Tight Budget
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Follow this simple how to guide to garden frugally and save money. Easy ways to grow beautiful flowers and stick to a limited budget. more...
Red White and Blue Flowers: How to Design and Plant a Patriotic Fourth of July Display
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer. more...
Cottage Garden Flowers: Plant Old Fashioned Flowers for Traditional Cottage Garden Style
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more. more...
Perennial Flowers All Season: Perennial Garden Design Guide for Blooms in Spring Summer and Fall
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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. more...
Flowers for Butterflies: How to Design & Plant a Natural Garden or Habitat
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard. more...
Problem Cats in the Garden: How to Get Cats Out of the Yard Now Using Easy Humane Methods
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Problem cats can turn your garden into a litter box, ruin plantings, bring in disease, ticks or fleas. Try these humane ways to discourage and repel nuisance kitties. more...
Garden Edging and Borders: Using Edger to Outline Flower Bed and Border or Separate Lawn
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Your landscape and flower garden look neat and professional with the right edging to border the flower beds. There are many choices. Which border edging is best? more...
Staking Flowers: Guide to When and Why to Stake Perennials and Other Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Many perennial flowers should be staked. Learn the best techniques and methods to use in your flower garden and when and why to stake your flowers. more...
Shady Flower Garden Design Tips: Planning Ideas for Beds or Borders with Little Sun or No Sun
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Follow these practical design tips and planning advice to plant a flower garden in part or full shade. more...
Scented Geranium (Pelargonium): Grown for Beauty, Fragrance, Essential Oil, Culinary & Medicinal Use
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Scented geraniums are heirloom plants still grown today for their fragrance, essential oil, culinary use and foliage. Learn about these fragrant, easy care plants. more...
Collecting Scented Geraniums: Historic Pelargoniums are Fragrant,Easy to Grow,Collectible and Fun
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Scented geraniums are highly collectible, fragrant plants. Children (and adults) love them. Find out what to collect and where to buy your scented geraniums. more...
Soil to Fill Raised Planting Bed: How Much Soil and What Kind of Soil Dirt or Compost for Raised Bed
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Once you install or build a raised garden bed you need to fill it with good soil before planting. How much dirt, top soil or compost do you need? What kind is best? more...
ABC Theme Garden of Animal Flowers: Design an Alphabet Animal Theme Garden or Flower Plant Zoo
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
An animal theme garden or plant zoo is fun to design and plant. Use this plant list of animal name flowers from A to Z to start your own pet theme garden. more...
Plant A Fragrant Flower Garden: Favorite Scented Flowers to Grow for Fragrance and Blooms All Season
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Plant these flowers to grow a garden that is deliciously, wonderfully, romantically fragrant, perfumed with floral scent and in bloom all season from spring through fall. more...
Special Seed Germination Tips: How to Stratify Chill Scarify Soak or Treat Seeds Before Planting
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
The secret to successful seed starting. Step by step instructions how to pretreat many flower and other seeds with special needs so they germinate and grow. more...
Recycle Seed Starting Containers: Reuse or Improvise Pots for Germination and Growing Transplants
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Tips on finding and planting cheap or free, recycled or improvised seed starting containers from seed pan to individual plant pot to waterproof tray. Garden green! more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
How to plant and start seeds to grow transplants for your garden. Practical step by step seed planting directions. more...
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Keep a garden journal as a garden record, reference and resource full of factual information but pack it full of personal garden design ideas and inspiration, too. more...
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Follow these simple poinsettia buying tips to purchase a fresh and healthy poinsettia for the longest lasting display this holiday season for yourself -- or as a gift. more...
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All gardens need a bit of blue, the all blue theme garden needs more. Decorative blue accent pieces as well as the creative use of blue paint continue the blue theme. more...
Vines with Blue Flowers: Crown Your All Blue Flower Garden With A Blue Flowering Vine Overhead
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Blue flowered vines offer a unique way to bring more blue flowers into your garden, whether to complete an all blue flowers theme or to provide a blue accent. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
If you live in a warm climate or if you enjoy container plants, consider adding some of these special, tender, non hardy or exotic blue flowers to your flower garden. more...
Amaryllis Bulb Growing Tips: Tips and Advice Forcing Healthy Potted Hippeastrum Bloom Every Year
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Having trouble with your potted amaryllis? Follow these practical tips and suggestions for better amaryllis bulb growth and blooming year after year. more...
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Daffodils are long lived flowers so plant them right! Learn some shortcuts and avoid mistakes using these planting tips and tricks from a long term daffodil gardener. more...
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Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden. more...
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If you like blue flowers and need blue flowers for shade or prefer native plants with blue flowers, try planting some of these unusual flowers in your flower garden. more...
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Grow blue flowers that bloom in the fall season whether you are planting an all blue theme garden or just enjoy a few blue flowers in your flower garden. more...
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Blue flowered ground covers offer another opportunity to add the color blue to your yard and flower garden. more...
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Blue flowers and spring naturally go together, so begin your spring bulb display with as many blue flowers as possible. more...
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Divide perennials for propagation, to renew plant vigor, or limit spreading. Tip: Many plants may be divided in the fall. Do it now and have more time next spring! more...
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It's fun and easy to save seeds from your flower garden to plant next year. Learn how to select, collect, harvest and safely store your own flower seeds. more...
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Dahlias are easy to grow. Follow these quick tips to growing perfect dahlias and enjoy dahlias blooming in the flower garden and as cut flowers, too. more...
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Spreading organic mulch on your flower garden keeps plants and soil healthy. Mulch naturally prevents weeds, keeps soil cool and moist, and supplies organic matter. more...
Perennials: Design to Impress: Big Tall Bold and Beautiful Perennial Flowers for Every Garden Style
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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!" more...
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A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden. more...
Eight Easy Perennials: Easy to Grow Low Maintenance Perennial Flowers for Beginners
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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. more...
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A shaded white garden or moon garden can be the most magical of all: sharp contrasts of white flowers and silvery foliage against deep shadows and dark corners. Oooh! more...
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Trees bring gravitas. Every white flower garden or moon garden needs a special white flowering tree, either nearby or in the garden itself. more...
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More white roses perfect for the all white garden or moon garden. Every flower garden deserves at least one rose! more...
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To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers. more...
White Flower Garden or Moon Garden: Design A White Garden or Moon Garden With All White Flowers
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Learn to design the white garden, a flower garden with only white blooms. Or design your own moon garden -- a white garden designed to be seen at night. Magic! more...
Perennials Grow Over Time: Plan and Design Your Flower Garden for Mature Perennial Size
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
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. more...
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More tips and techniques for planting flowers in a formal pattern, such as planting staggered rows. And, just how precisely should you plant? more...
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Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2) more...
Flower Garden Design Series: Ideas Themes Inspiration Tips & Practical Advice on Beds or Borders
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Successful flower gardeners use both art and science to achieve their flower garden design goals, no matter what their garden style. You can, too. more...
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A good quality rose bush has a healthy root system right from the start. Learn to recognize potential root problems and avoid purchasing a badly grown rose. more...
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Beyond overall looks and vigor, check your new rose bush carefully for pests before you bring it home from the store. Does it have aphids, whiteflies, or spider mites? more...
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Buying a rose bush is an investment. Will it thrive and flourish in your flower garden? Follow these rose buying tips and be an educated rose consumer! more...
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Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long. more...
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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. more...
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Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must. more...
Sun or Shade?: What is a Partial Sun or Sunny or Shady or Partially Shaded Garden
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Some flowers and plants prefer sun, some prefer shade. Is your garden sunny or shady or part sun or part shade? Find out how to tell the difference. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Some plants prefer sun, some prefer shade so how do you handle part sun/part shade locations? These practical tips will help you decide. more...
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Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape. more...
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Organic matter, soil type: what's the big deal? Well, your flowers can sure tell a difference - and so should you! Get up to speed on organic matter and soil preparation. more...
Clearing A Flower Bed: How to Remove Existing Grass or Weeds to Prepare for Planting
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
First: clear the ground for your flower bed. Quick how-to guide on weed removal by hand or with a sod cutter, smothering weeds organically, or using herbicide. more...
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How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size. more...
Cool Season Containers: Pots of Flowers Bloom in Cool Spring Fall & Mild Winter Weather
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Cool season annual flowers bloom into late fall and earliest spring and sometimes flower all winter. Ideal in pots or planters by the door, walk or mailbox. more...
Category: Flower Gardens (general)
Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t more...
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