Plant Gardens 101

The average number of days from the last spring frost to the first fall frost. See also frost-free days.

Most every garden you wander through has it – Garden Decor! There’s a garden bench at the end of a lovely meandering path, the soothing sensation of a waterfall or bubbling water garden fountain, or maybe a laughable or awe-inspiring garden statue.

It’s decorations in your garden. Non plant elements – “Garden Decor”.

Garden Decor is part of what makes your garden inviting, comfortable, interesting, enticing, unusual, perhaps hilarious, soothing, cherished and more!

There’s no place I prefer to be than in the garden. I work and relax in it, my daughter photographs it. We wander through it, dig our hands into it and we ENJOY it’s bounties while we are amazed at it’s complex nature and how the garden fills our senses completely. Sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste as well as our spiritual senses are all beguiled in the garden. Linger with us a bit as we saunter through the garden. (more…)

Sepals and petals that are similar in size, shape, and color, as in the flowers of tulips, alliums, and many lilies.

See trough.

The main vein or any prominent ridge or vein of a leaf or other plant organ.

The loveliness of flowering plants needs little embellishment by description. Certainly every gardener seeks the beauty and color that can be brought to his grounds by a variety of flowers. The proper arrangement of flower beds in your garden and attentive care to them can insure you a continuing bloom of lovely flowers year after year.

For with planning, it is possible to maintain flowers in your garden during the entire length of the growing season. Borders and beds are planted with flowering annuals and perennials which bloom at different periods during the year. By choosing carefully initially, and by caring for the flowers thereafter, the blooms will overlap each other, so that there will never be a period when an old bloom disappears but that a new one will start to show its color. (more…)

A plant that steals all its food from another, to which it is attached and which it typically injures. Tree-perching plants such as orchids and bromeliads are often mistakenly called parasites; they are actually epiphytes. Mistletoe, witch grass, and dodder are parasites, as are many fungi.

Many fine gardens evolve gradually through the loving attention of their owners with little or no outside help. But when it comes to creating a new garden, or taking over an existing one that has fallen on hard times or that does not suit your taste or needs, it is well worth seeking advice from a professional garden designer.

The issues involved can be surprisingly complex, from drainage and construction through to siting trees and planting a border. How to deal with slopes and levels? How to forge a harmonious relationship between house, garden and surrounding landscape? What materials to use? How large to make a patio or pergola, how to site a water feature, pond or lake? How and where to incorporate outdoor lighting? Might planning permission be needed for any of this, and what order of costs might be involved? (more…)

A term used to describe any material that contains carbon compounds and is derived from living or once-living plants or animals.

An organization with chapters in each New England state and a program of propagating and exchanging seeds with botanic gardens. Its Garden-in-the-Woods, located in Framingham, Massachusetts, contains the largest landscaped collection of northeastern native plants in the United States.

An accidental variation in a plant, such as the formation of variegated leaves or double flowers.

“TFCSOTSPBWL OCTOBER XVIII MDCCC.” This curious inscription was carved by a stonemason, John Lewis, into a block of granite that he had lain as a support for a bridge that was being built by Timothy Palmer. Because of space restrictions, he simply used initials, instead of writing, “The first corner stone of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge was lain on October 18, 1800.” When the bridge was nearly finished, in 1804, a Philadelphia judge, Richard Peters, suggested that, in order to preserve its trusses and extend its life, the bridge should be covered. The cover was designed and built, and the first covered bridge opened for travel on January 1, 1805.

Judge Peters had no way of knowing what he was starting. His simple idea for covering that bridge led to a wellspring of folklore, legend, myth, and mystique, that would turn the reasoning behind it as murky as the waters surrounding its original cornerstone, which, it is believed, still supports what is now known as the Market Street Bridge. (more…)

Someone who supervises the creation of a new landscape, including construction, soil preparation, and planting, usually in accordance with plans drawn up by a garden designer or landscape architect.

Covered with short dense hairs.

A system of pipes, hoses, and emitters that delivers a slow steady trickle of water and fertilizer onto the soil.

The botanical name for palo verde.

Love Of Gardening
Foremost, the art of flower gardening is beginning to get increasingly acknowledged than it ever was. Consequently, a lot more men and women are starting to pay attention to this as they concur that it has the potential to effortlessly light up their residences as well as their lives. Thus, whether your desire is gardening in general or flower gardening in particular, this article is going to be assisting. If you are one that loves flower gardening, you surely can prevent other work at the time of the approaching flower gardening season by getting all the waste out from your garden and covering the soil with compost, peat moss as well as other wholly organic nutrients. This is in line with the famous idea which goes – a stitch in time saves nine! (more…)

The coating of fine hairs on the underside of some leaves, such as those of some magnolias and rhododendrons.

The botanical name for everlasting.

A roofed, open-sided structure, usually round or octagonal, used as a shady resting place in a garden.