How To Transplant Peonies
May is the time when Peonies begin to bloom, and we start wondering “How to plant this beautiful plant in MY garden?” Why...
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Fancy A Forsythia?
The Forsythia Shrub, Is It For You? It is the season for forsythia in the sun and shadow days of April showers. Mine is blooming full and...
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How To Train Pyracantha
Pyracantha is a stiff, thorny, strongly upright shrub, and one of the best ways to grow it is as an espalier or trained into an upright...
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Annuals For Your Garden: Nasturtium
Lovely Summer Nasturtiums Tropaeolum majus are a favorite for a Child’s Garden because their seeds are large, easy to handle, and...
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A Garden of Simples, Growing Medicinal Herbs
The Medicinal Herb Garden A “Simple” was an herbal plant grown on its own as a medicine. “Simple” being a term...
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Annuals For Your Garden: Nicotiana
Nicotiana For Summer Evening Fragrance Nicotiana, Flowering Tobacco, is an annual flower that scents the night air and comes in the most...
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Annuals for Your Garden: Dahlberg Daisy
Thymophylla tenuiloba, The Dahlberg Daisy A tiny annual plant that goes by this big name is one of the plants that I like to use every...
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Fragrant Flowers: Mignonette
For years I had planted mignonette, one of my favorite flowers, but then I couldn’t find a source for the seeds and it has not been...
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Annuals for Your Garden: Calendula Officinalis
Calendula Officinalis Called “Poor Man’s Saffron” and “Pot Marigold” the proper Latin name of Calendula...
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Vegetable Gardening Tips
Your Vegetable Garden Soil Did you know that most vegetables grow better on an alkaline soil? If you have an acidic soil (one that has a...
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How To Make A Fairy Garden Terrarium
If you live in a cold climate, you know that for at least half the year (from October through May) frost threatens the garden. If you have...
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Iberis Sempervirens
Iberis sempervirens is a well-loved perennial, whose deep green foliage and pure white flowers create form and color at the front of the...
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Oenothera, Evening Primrose
Oenothera, Prairie Beauty Evening primrose is the name for a number of pretty flowering plants in the Oenothera genus, belonging to the...
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Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare
Fennel, A Surprising Ornamental From The Kitchen Garden I started growing fennel in my front yard because I liked the ferny purple foliage...
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Burr Oaks, Quercus Macrocarpa
The first oak species to profile, as a part of the oak tree series, would have to be the Burr Oak, Latin name Quercus macrocarpa. Why?...
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Why You Should Buy And Plant Oak Trees
“One generation plants the Trees; another gets the shade.” “The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty years ago. The...
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Grow Mesclun, Mixed Greens for your Salad Bowl
Winter Garden Crop For Your Home Garden Though mesclun could be labeled ‘Spring and Summer’ crop, too One of the easiest...
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5 Choice Small Bulbs for a Spring Garden
There are more small bulbs than the usual crocus and snowdrops that are not so widely written about and planted. They can prove to be...
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Small Spring Bulbs, Chionodoxa
Low Growing Bulb for Spring Bloom Glory of the snow, or Chionodoxa is one of those small bulbs with a big name, one which has that...
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Speak Softly: The Language of Flowers
Tussie Mussies, those dainty old fashioned bouquets, were once a domain of theLanguage of Flowers. In Victorian times the choice and...
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