Papaver Rhoeas, Fairy Tale Flowers

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 the fairy-winged...

Containers of Flowers

Containers:To Pretty Up Just About AnyplaceCreating 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 become increasingly popular due to the easy effects and versatility for...

How to plant those flats of 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 spent money and...