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As we head into Autumn, new landscape decorating options are available at garden centers and nurseries throughout PA. You will find fall flowers available in every color that will highlight and enhance your home and existing landscaping. In particular, mums or Chrysanthemums used in a mass of color look outstanding and will [...]
One of the easiest and cheapest ways to fill your garden with flowers and just one leaf can produce many plants.
The first thing to do is prepare a tray with potting compost in preparation for your leaf cuttings.
One of the easiest plants to grow from a leaf cutting are the begonias. Remove one of [...]
Following just a few simple growing tips for hydrangea will produce healthy plants with fluffy colorful blooms year after year. Hydrangea are small deciduous shrubs or climbers that usually have thick clumps of pink or blue flowers. Many newer varieties now offer more brightly colored or white flowers. The most popular questions that come up [...]
Modern scientific techniques make it possible for people to grow plants, vegetables and even fruit right in their drawing room in indoor gardens. With the some effort and knowledge you can now grow a variety of plants indoors, either with hydroponics, which is a soil less growing technique or by using suitable techniques for conventional [...]
Of all the birds, the hummingbird is the favorite of many birders. Their dazzling colors, petite size, unbounded energy and extreme migratory patterns provide endless hours of fascination. We know this because we have created what is truly a “Hummingbird Haven.” This was even declared to be so on the front page [...]
You don’t have to wait until you move into a house where you have
your own yard to be able to grow a garden of fresh vegetables and
spices. There are quite a few plants that can be grown in window
boxes or on the patio of your apartment. Container gardening is
another [...]
So many garden owners in dry climates are fearful of planting flowers because they either think that the flowers won’t survive long hot summers, and if they do, it’s at the price of consuming large and unacceptable quantities of water. They’re right of course on both counts, but mistaken in believing that growing herbaceous flowering [...]
How many of you have admired some amazing displays of Snapdragons (Antirrhinums), and wished that you could keep those plants going indefinitely. While they havent managed to get those bright displays into a perennial form of the same standard, yet. There are some things you can do right now. Many people are aware that [...]
Bonsai trees are in essence miniaturized trees that are made this way by the powers of nature for the wild bonsai varieties, or have purposely been made this way by specific pruning of the crown and roots on a constant and regular basis. The size of these miniature trees also depend on the size of [...]
So no matter where you decide to plant any garden, there are generally three important steps toward conditioning the soil in your garden:
a) Analyzing the Soil
b) Conditioning the Soil
c) Fertilizing the Soil
Before you even get started planning out your garden, it’s best to test your soil and determine what you’ll be working with. You may take [...]