Enjoy a collection of gardening tips!
You will need to plan where to plant your herbs in your yard as the first step in designing your own herb garden. Depending on how much space you have available and how many herbs you want to plant, there are several options at your disposal.
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In the modern age of hustle and bustle, many people are opting to garden as a hobby to mentally relax and produce fresh foods. While all people do not have access to large and sunny backyards and gardens, you can still produce excellent vegetables.
Vegetables grown in the shade produce succulent eatables and the quality of edible portions can be greatly improved by various management measures and production practices. Growing vegetables in the shade is an excellent strategy to protect vegetables from extreme heat and careful management can raise the quality and quantity of produce.
Let’s find out which vegetables are in this category and how to grow them!
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The Geranium is a true scented garden flower with bright colored blooms all around in the spring. If you are one of those who praise the natural beauty and want to keep the lawn loaded with bright flowers, Geranium is a must-have flower due to its versatile beauty.
So, arrange a garden bed or buy a hanging basket to add its charm at your place as it can perfectly grow in beds, containers, or even in the hanging baskets. Then why delay to grow Geraniums when you have this guide on how to grow Geraniums easily without any pests.
Let’s dig in this super easy guide!
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As the sun’s scorching heat blazes across your garden landscape it can evaporate any moisture that your precious plants are trying to hold onto, burn the tips of leaves, and leave them hanging desert dry!
However, instead of withdrawing back to the air-conditioned indoors, you need to rise to the challenge and save your plants before it is too late. Summer can be an enjoyable season for you, and your plants if you are willing to put in the effort. Wipe those beads of sweat off your forehead, and get to work!
Here’s how you can beat the summer heat by creating a cool summer garden:
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June is a fun and busy month for gardeners. It’s a month of planting, watching things grow, and harvesting early spring vegetables. The garden will be a productive and enjoyable place to be for the next several months if we get things set up correctly in June.
Put these gardening tasks on your June to-do list so you can spend more time enjoying your garden instead of dreading seeing it.
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There’s nothing like the flavor and sense of accomplishment that fresh vegetables grown in a home garden can give. Being able to take a tiny seed or small plant and watch it grow to produce something you can eat is an awesome feeling.
But should you grow vegetables from seeds or plants? Which is the best way to get a vegetable garden started? Let’s look at some of the pros and cons of both, then you will be able to answer the question.
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Moss. You either love it or hate it when it covers the outdoor space where lawn grass should be growing. Some people love the moss because it creates a no-maintenance ground cover in the landscape that is soft underfoot. Others hate the moss because of its invasive habit and appearance.
If you’re in the latter category and want to get rid of these spreading plants, discover how to kill moss in lawns without chemicals by reading this article.
I am in the latter, so let’s do this!
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We typically think of brightly blooming flowers, floral fragrance, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators when we think of a garden. And that is the normal type of garden setting with the idea being ‘the more the merrier’. However, just the opposite is true for a peaceful garden seating area.
Colorful blooms and pollinator activity should be kept to a minimum to create a calm and peaceful seating area. One focal plant surrounded by low-maintenance green plants that don’t produce blooms (or very small blooms) and descend in height to create layers of green is ideal.
Try these 5 plants for a peaceful garden seating area that will create a beautiful, inviting, and tranquil. scene
An evergreen southern magnolia will make an ideal backdrop for a garden seating area. Place a wooden bench in front of the magnolia tree to block out the sights and sounds that are on the other side of the large tree.
If your climate is not good for growing southern magnolia, select a native evergreen tree for your garden seating area. An evergreen should be the center-point and/or backdrop so you won’t be stressed by fallen leaves that need to be cleaned up.
These beautiful bushes planted on either side of the southern magnolia or other evergreen tree will thrive in the shade the tree provides. A conifer evergreen would also increase the soil acidity that hydrangeas love.
Hydrangeas reach 6-feet (1.8m) tall and wide when mature. They will produce large colorful blooms in spring that remain on the bush to dry and change colors.
You may be interested in my other article, How to Create Shade For Your Summer Gardens.
Any type of ornamental grass that is native to your climate will work fine as the 3rd layer of green plant life for a peaceful garden seating area. Consider trying some of these:
Muhly grass reaches a mature height of 3-feet (90cm) and produces a bloom that looks like a Burgundy cloud.
Blue fescue produces brilliant blue needle-like foliage and grows to around 3-feet (90cm) tall.
Monkey grass is evergreen, drought-tolerant, reaches a mature height of 2-feet (60cm), and produces a small spike of purple flowers at the end of summer.
This is a perennial groundcover that thrives in tree shade. It bears fragrant blue, pink, or white flowers during spring and summer. It reaches a mature height of 6-inches (15cm) and is drought-tolerant and good for planting in a shady container garden.
I have an article about 5 Scented Lawn Substitutes. You could plant these as groundcover too!
Containers of plants will finish the appearance of the garden seating area. Select foliage plants that grow well in your climate and create a container to place at each end of a garden bench. Plant:
*An elephant ear (Colocasia esculenta) as the central thriller
*Persian shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus) as the filler
*Coral bells (Heuchera americana) as the spiller plant
for a well-rounded appearance.
You may be interested in my other article, 5 Best Flowers for Hanging Baskets.
Creating a peaceful seating area in the garden sounds really fascinating. Let’s start working on a project this week!
I always wanted to know what good and healthy soil is and why it’s so important for growing plants. I recently had a chance to get in touch with a lovely gardener who is enthusiastic about sustainable gardening and growing food organically. Today’s article is about organic garden soil and it’s benefits she has taught me.
I hope you can learn something from this!
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German camomile (Matricaria recutita) is the flowering herb used to make the popular camomile tea. It’s a plant that is easy to grow in the home garden and the flowers resemble daisies.
You can add colorful beauty to your garden and delicious, health-benefiting tea to your cup of tea by growing camomile too.
Let’s do it!
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