Summer flowers and bedding plants are a great way to instantly add color to your garden and balcony. Summer flowers start appearing in garden centers in the early spring, but you should be careful to plant only after the danger of freezing weather has passed. Summer flowers produce the best results when purchased ready to… Read More How to Choose the Perfect Summer Flowers
Container gardening is an easy way to add a splash of color to any outdoor space, big or small. Roses are among the most spectacular and rewarding choices for a container because of their combination of color, fragrance and season-long blooms. Also, with advances in hybridizing, roses are easier to grow than ever before. Planting… Read More Planting Roses in Containers
How to Grow Lavender Growing lavender is fairly simple and can be done from just about anywhere since it can be grown both indoors and out. Lavender has been widely grown in gardens for its natural fragrance and for its use in arts and crafts. Growing lavender has become more popular; however, for its use… Read More How to Grow Lavender
Once you’ve got your greenhouse ready, it can be difficult to know exactly what to grow. All sorts of things will grow in a greenhouse, and most will grow at least a little better than they would outside it, but there isn’t much point in doing all that work just to end up with a… Read More What to Grow in a Greenhouse
Growing tomatoes in buckets and pots Suffering from the limited gardening space? If you are into the hobby of home gardening and would like to grow tomatoes, then fear not! Because as long as you have sunlight, tomatoes can be grown anywhere. Growing tomatoes in buckets and other containers is a practice not only constrained… Read More How to Grow Tomatoes in Containers
How great it would be to have a vegetable garden in your backyard? You’d be able to pick fresh, home grown vegetables whenever you want! If you have kids I bet they’d love to start cultivating their own vegetable patch too. Before you start your own backyard vegetable garden, take some time to plan ahead.… Read More How to Start a Backyard Vegetable Garden