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Enjoy a collection of gardening tips!

How To Grow and Care for Camellias

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Camellias are hardy evergreen shrubs that will provide visual interest in your home garden year-round. The glossy-green leaves shine throughout the year and the fragrant blooms will appear in late winter/early spring, or late autumn/early winter, depending on the variety being grown.
Are you wondering how to grow and care for camellias?

With over 250 varieties to select from it’s easy to find the right camellia (Camellia) to thrive in your environment. Follow these growing and care tips so you can enjoy the fragrant beauty of camellias in your landscape.

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Home-grown Potatoes That Taste Amazing and 2 Potato Recipes

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Growing your own potatoes means a whole host of benefits. First of all, they taste far better than store-bought ones, and if you’ve grown your own before you’ll already know this.

Second, you can keep them for a long time. When stored correctly, fresh potatoes will last for months and still taste better than their store-bought cousins.

Most commercially grown potatoes are doused with chemical pesticides and herbicides, and they are often a year old before even reaching the grocery store. Obviously when growing your own, you know exactly what goes into them and can avoid anything you don’t want.

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Evening Primrose and its Health Benefits

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Evening primrose (Oenothera) is one of those rare flowering plants that only open their blooms late in the evening. This hardy perennial (some varieties are biennial) will open its’ fragrant blooms around 4 o’clock in the evening and the blooms will remain open all night until the sun shines on them the following morning.

Some people consider evening primrose an invasive weed because plants grow rapidly and are not much to look at during the daytime. However, this flowering plant is extremely easy to grow, fills the air with a sweet, orange-like aroma, and has several health benefits.
If you’re interested in growing this unusual, colorful, and health-benefiting flower, it can be contained easily and will make a great addition to a moon garden.

Let’s find out more about evening primrose and its health benefits.

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5 Tips To Enjoy Your Garden In This Winter

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The garden is a drab, dull place during the winter. Nothing is growing and the view is either snowy slush, muddy gray, or a combination of both. Not very enjoyable after a spring, summer, and autumn filled with vibrant colors.
There are a few things that can be done to liven up a winter garden and make it more eye-appealing. Use these 5 tips so you can enjoy your garden in this winter.

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How To Grow Vegetables Indoors In Winter

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Growing vegetables indoors during the winter months will provide you with fresh food, help reduce the grocery bill, and the plants will help keep the indoor air cleaner.
Vegetables grown indoors during the winter have the same requirements as vegetables grown outdoors during the summer–sufficient sunlight, warmth, moisture, and fertile soil. If you can provide plants with those four elements, then you can grow a productive garden indoors in winter.

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What Are 10 Long Blooming Flowers?

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A well-planned flower garden will provide colorful interest for most of the year. Bloom color, leaf texture, and ornamental berries can be visible in your flower garden from early spring through mid-winter with the right plant choices.
Long-blooming flowers will help keep the color alive and pollinators visiting your landscape for months. Plus, if you plant some of these 10 long-blooming perennials, it will mean less work in the flower garden for you.

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How to Look After Cyclamens indoors

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Cyclamen is a genus of 23 plants in the Primulacaea family. These species are perennial. Its petals come in lighter and darker shades of white, pink, red or violet. Cyclamens are somewhat frost hardy species with sweetly scented flowers. The most commonly sold cyclamen by florists is Cyclamen Persicum. It is commonly called “Florist’s Cyclamen” and is a house plant that is native to the Eastern Mediterranean region.

It is prized due to its blooming nature in winter and is cherished and gifted around holidays. Due to being a perennial, indoor and a winter blooming plant, its care is a little different from most indoor plants. Proper care is essential if you wish to keep your tuberous plant alive year after year.
Let’s look after a cyclamen better this year with these tips.

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How to Grow Juniper

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Juniper is a popular evergreen shrub that range in size from ground-hugging plants to trees that reach 130 feet (39 m) tall when mature. Junipers provide 4-season interest with colorful foliage that range from steel blue to shiny gold. Plus all junipers, regardless of size or foliage color, produce berries.
Juniper berries are the seed of the female plant and most of the berries are edible. Berries are typically dried and used as a spice but some are used for medicinal purposes. Some juniper berries are bitter and some are poisonous, so be sure of the variety before consuming the berries.
Are you wondering how to grow juniper? Read on.

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How To Grow Phlox

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Phlox is a happy, easy-care perennial plant that comes in many different varieties and fits in well with any landscape. Creeping phlox does not even need to be grown in a flower bed or container, it makes an ideal ground cover in the landscape.
Creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) creeps along the soil as a ground cover and remains green most of the year and summer phlox (Phlox paniculata) reaches a mature height of 3-feet (90 cm). Variable bloom times among the different varieties allow for phlox to be in bloom from early spring through fall and there’s a wide array of bloom colors. Are you now wondering how you can grow phlox? They’re easy to plant and grow with these tips.

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Understand and Adjust Microclimates in Your Garden

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A garden is filled with life both above the soil and below it. Plants and sub-cultures are developing within the soil and how well they develop depends a lot upon the microclimate in the garden.
All landscapes and gardens have various microclimates in them and it’s a climate within a climate. It’s why the hilltop is covered with snow and the valley only received frost on the same morning. A microclimate also explains why certain plants thrive in one area and die in another area of the same landscape.
Let’s understand and adjust microclimates in your garden.

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