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When you are designing a perennial flower garden or landscaping make sure that you have something that is blooming at all times. Each of the seasons...
People who grow plants are touted as having a green thumb. Those who kill plants think the green thumbs know magical secrets that keep their plants...
When you are designing a perennial flower garden or landscaping make sure that you have something that is blooming all the time. Each of the seasons...
Growing your own food doesn’t have to be rocket science. In the words of Confucius, “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”...
For the majority of rosarians, those of us who live in climates where winters are cold, April is the beginning of the rose season. It’s the...
Hanging baskets are popular with customers in the spring. Sales begin in earnest around Mother’s Day. When raising plants and early vegetables in a heated greenhouse,...
Looking for something exotic to add to your plant collection? Consider tropical pitcher plants from the genus Nepenthes. Once thought to be demanding and difficult to...
It’s National Rose Month, and with good reason. Roses everywhere are blooming now, and rosarians are gathering flowers for the table, blooms for the bride, and...
June is the month of the rose, a flower that has provided inspiration to gardeners, artists, musicians, and writers for over 5,000 years. That kind of legacy...
May showers bring June roses or something like that? Warm climate gardeners are deadheading their first bloom to make way for the next delicious round of...
April is a banner month for rosarians everywhere. In warm climates, it’s time for first bloom, that glorious moment when all the roses bloom at the...
Spring is in the air, or if not yet, it soon will be. Roses, like other perennial plants, begin to wake up when the days lengthen...
Originally discovered growing wild in Tanzania over 110 years ago by a German officer with an interest in botany, the African Violet has become one of...
No matter where you live, there comes that time of year when the roses just aren’t pretty any more. In cold climates, this is in the...
Warm-climate rosarians should be thinking now about forcing dormancy on their roses.? Warm weather keeps roses growing year-’round- or nearly so- it’s incumbent on the rosarian...
