Enjoy a collection of gardening tips!
Calendula (Calendula officinalis) is an attractive perennial flower that offers several benefits besides adding beauty to the landscape. This flower is edible and contains healing properties that are good for the skin. So how can you grow Calendula?
Use these tips for growing calendula in your home garden so you will always have some on hand to look at, eat, and treat minor skin irritations.
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This beautiful autumn flower has an unusually common name, Helenium is better known as ‘sneezeweed’ because the dried leaves were used to make snuff, a powdery tobacco product. This plant can be an annual or perennial, depending on the variety planted. So if you’re wondering how to grow Helenium for your Autumn/Fall garden then keep reading!
Helenium is in the daisy family and bears yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers from late summer until the first frost of Autumn/Fall. Attract those late-season pollinating bees and butterflies to your fall garden by planting some easy-care, colorful Heleniums.
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Very few flowers in the plant world are true blue, but the balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) is one of those few. On top of its unique color (other bloom colors also available), balloon flowers are an easy-to-grow perennial that requires very little maintenance and the unusual name comes from the way the flower bud resembles a blown-up balloon just before it bursts open into a blue bloom. So how do you grow balloon flowers then?
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Are you wondering what Fall/Autumn flowers are for your garden?
Just because the season changes and the weather cools down doesn’t mean that your flower garden has to quit producing bloom color. With the right plants, you can keep the blooms coming and the color alive throughout autumn.
Check out some of these fall flowers that are easy to grow and that will extend your flower gardening season several more weeks.
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While summer plants are wrapping up their
growing season and producing their final blooms, September is the time to get
some new seeds in the ground so the bloom colors can continue for a few more
weeks.
Plant some of these fast-growing, frost-tolerant flowers in September so you can enjoy bloom color in your garden through November. Depending on your climate, flower species and planting location, you might even coax colorful blooms from the plants until Christmas.
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The end of the summer garden season is winding down and fall/autumn is quickly approaching, but that doesn’t mean garden season is over. The cooler weather and shorter days are just ushering in a new season for growing different vegetables. How do I prepare the garden for fall/autumn?
Use these tips to prepare the garden for fall/autumn planting, or just to get it ready for next spring.
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Perennials are the backbone of most gardens, returning year after year with glorious color and fragrance.
To keep these hard-working garden plants healthy, they need a little TLC at the end of the summer. Let’s prepare your perennials for fall and winter with these gardening tips.
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A cottage garden is one of the easiest types of flower gardens to plant and grow. But how do you design a cottage garden? At one point I started developing an interest in cottage style gardens.
It’s a hodge-podge of color, texture, height and fragrance that looks as though it naturally grew that way.
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So, how to make roasted dandelion tea from your garden? Dandelions grow wild all over the world. Some people call them weeds, children call them wish makers, but those in the know realize that dandelions offer free food, beverages and medicine.
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