Flower Gardening

Once you decide to plant a container garden, the first step is choosing if those plants are going to be grown indoors or outdoors. Or you can take advantage of the opportunity to move the containers inside during the cold weather and outside when it warms up.   A lot of people think container gardening is only …

Disclaimer: I received some of these seeds for free in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are honest and my own. Below I share with you everything I know about growing dianthus from seed after years of experience germinating a wide variety of dianthus seed. Dianthus is one of my favorite flowers. I love the …

The White House ought to have an allergy-free landscape! The oldest Obama daughter, Malia, age 10, has allergies, as much of the world now knows, ever since all the talk about them getting a dog, and needing an allergy-free dog. What the Obama’s may not understand though, is that any dog that runs around in …

  I was a little suprised when I saw this combination of winter aconite and miniature iris growing in my garden this week. Both of these plants are early spring blooming bulbs. I did plant them both, several years apart, not really thinking about how they would look together, or to be truthful, even caring. …

  Understanding the life cycle of a plant can lead to a better success growing them. Understanding how seeds develop can mean the difference between successful seed starting and failure. Put the two parts together and they equal a formula for success. Plant Parts Plants have several parts that we are all familiar with, the …

Spring is the time of year when many gardeners wonder about pruning and tidying up the garden. While it may be tempting to trim everything to make it look tidy this is not the best way to go. It is important to know what plants you are growing, when they like to be pruned and …

Late spring is the time of year when flowers are bursting open on a daily basis. The garden, for the most part, is a flurry of activity. Bees, hungry after the long winter are flocking to the opening flowers and dandelions to gather nectar. Butterflies are arriving. The birds are flying around looking for bugs …

Clitoria is an easy care-free vine that can thrive in a variety of conditions. Although this plant prefers well-drained soil it can thrive in poor soil or even sand and under various lighting conditions.   The flowers of this plant are available as both single and double varieties. A little known fact is that they …

Baby, it’s cold outside, but spring is just around the corner, so even if you don’t garden year-round outdoors, now is the time to prepare for spring. Getting a head start on the growing season indoors will insure your garden lights the landscape up come spring. Make a list of what you want to grow, …

Germination Tips: I planted seed of this during the early winter of 2003. I placed the seed in a peat pot filled with 3/4 potting soil and 1/4 vermiculite. The seed was pressed into the vermiculite and slightly covered. The seeds had just begun to form roots on October 25, 2004. I potted them up …