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  • Three Excellent But Little Known Bulbs

     Here are three wonderful bulb plants that are seldom grown but flower profusely.Achimenes is an easy plant to grow if you give it part shade and lots of moisture. It makes an excellent container plant and deserves to be grown more often.More

  • Growing Lotus Successfully

     Growing lotus in the water garden is no feat of magic. This plant is remarkably easy to grow if you give it full sun and very damp soils.The trick is in establishing and planting them properly.More

  • Keeping Houseplants Alive During Summer Vacation Droughts

     One of the problems I have with taking summer vacations is getting my houseplants watered. Sometimes when I come home from a week on the boat, surrounded by water, I find my houseplants wilted from the lack of it. This trick, and its variation, works wonders for both my plants and my conscience.More

  • Three Tips for a Better and Cheaper Lawn

     Here are several things you can do for your lawn right now that will make it a better lawn all summer.The first is to move the mowing deck to its highest setting. Mow the lawn tall.More

  • Unusual Daffodil Stories

     Stories about flowers always interest me and those about daffodils are particularly interesting. Did you know that if you keep chickens, you may not want to bring daffodils into the house. An old saying in Herfordshire U.More

  • Put Your Lawn On a Diet

     Those wonderful green lawns many homeowners care about so much can be made much more healthy if we put them on a diet. Overfeeding causes as many problems with lawns as it does with people. Fat lawns are not healthy lawns.More

  • 3 Easy Tips for Successful Container Gardening

     Here are several tips for creating a wonderful hanging basket or container this summer. The first is to use an artificial soil composed mostly of peat moss. Good soils such as Fafard or Pro-Mix use perlite, peat, and other ingredients to produce a soil that will not compact over the summer.More

  • A Portable Perennial Garden

     I currently rent my house and while I’m planning on buying later this year, I can’t refrain from obtaining new and interesting perennial plants right now. After all, it is spring out there and new plants have always been a major part of my spring activities. But, what can you do when you have a rented property and you’re planning on moving.More

  • Japanese Beetles in the Roses

     Adult Japanese beetles are one quarter to one half inch long with copper colored wing covers and a shiny metallic green head. Between the green head and tiny tufts of white hair along their side you’ll recognize them easily as they happily munch on your roses.While they generally don’t eat dogwood, forsythia, holly, lilac, evergreens and Hosta, they’ll eat darn near everything else.More

  • Pond Liners - Which One to Use?

     There are several kinds of pond liners available in pond stores.The first is EPDM rubber – and this is extremely durable, resists punctures and quite flexible. It is normally sold in 40 or 45 mil thickness.More