Container by container, Favorite Annuals part 2

Posted in Featured Articles, summer annuals [Part One] [Part Two] Continuing to feature some of the beautiful ways that annuals can brighten up a garden. By joining the container recipes and annual plant highlights in the post, this gives ideas you can use in your garden beds, too. Simply increase the numbers of the same plants combined in the containers to give visual impact in flower beds! See More…5 Container TipsPlant...
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Papaver Rhoeas, Fairy Tale Flowers

Posted in plant profiles, summer annuals These are flowers to illustrate fairy tales, and so easy that a child can grow them successfully. In fact, once you plant them, they may just grow on their own happily ever after. They are one of my favorite reseeding annuals. The petals of the Shirley poppy are described as tissue paper or tissue silk, and for such a sturdy plant everything about them seems impossibly delicate. From...
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Containers of Flowers

Posted in Featured Articles, Gallery, containers, summer annuals Pretty Up Just About Anyplace Be sure to see…Favorite Container Ideas5 Container Tips Creating your own brightly colored accents Containers make eye catching focal points, or can even comprise an entire garden picture when grouped together. With the variety within the components of container style, size, and combination of plants the effects and uses are many. Container gardening has...
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How to plant those flats of annuals

Posted in Featured Articles, easy garden lessons, hints and tips, summer annuals You bought beautiful annuals by the flat, you have loads of colorful annuals that in your minds eye will fill your garden with bloom, but now you need to put them in the ground. Here are a few tips for good success. First, make sure you keep those plants well-watered before they go into the ground. They are growing in very small amounts of soil and dry out and wilt quickly, so keep your hard...
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