Plant Gardens 101

The botanical name for strawberry.

While having a great looking garden is important you will need to consider ways and means of allowing the beauty of your garden to show through in various types of weather situations. Some people also like to have the option of having their garden lit up in the night. For these many people looking at various landscape lighting options will allow you the ability of having your garden looking just the way you want – attractive – no matter what the lighting conditions are outside.

To provide the right landscape lighting conditions you will be able to choose from a variety of lighting fixtures. These fixtures can be in the form of lamps, lanterns, spotlights, halogen lights and even solar lights. The price of these lighting fixtures varies for each type of light. (more…)

The common name for several beneficial burrowing worms that improve the soil as they burrow through the ground, loosening and aerating it and helping to break down organic matter.

Bent downward or forward.

Are greenhouse kits for the beginner gardener? Actually, greenhouse kits can be the perfect thing for someone who is just getting started in gardening.

Greenhouse kits are the right answer for the novice gardener for one, because they are easy to assemble. You can build it yourself following the directions or have someone put it together for you. There are very few places that greenhouse kits can not be built. There is a greenhouse kit for every type of climate and every size of space.

When you purchase a greenhouse kit it won’t be long before you are ready to garden. After the greenhouse is built you can move right in and get started. You may want to put up some shelves and purchase a few accessories like pots and tools. You can keep your gardening to a minimum or fill the greenhouse with plants and flowers immediately. (more…)

The botanical name for trumpet creeper.

The botanical name for maple.

A small garden in Portland, Oregon, that features a very special collection of rhododendrons, lilies, primroses, and other plants that grow well in the Pacific Northwest.

Composting has become a popular means of recycling organic materials so that they can be used in beneficial ways instead of adding them to a landfill. In addition to being a great way to participate in recycling efforts, composting is also a great way to generate rich organic materials that can be added to soil for organic garden projects. Compost bins provide a simple and easy way to help people get started composting and are particularly good solutions for people who have limited living space.

There are a number of different types of composters on the market to meet a variety of needs and situations. Bins for composting can be built from materials that you already have around the backyard, or they can be purchased from garden supply stores, especially those that specialize in organic gardening. In some municipalities, the recycling centers provide bins free or at a reduced cost to encourage people to recycle their organic materials themselves. (more…)

Any insect that improves the soil, pollinates plants, or controls harmful pests. Beneficial insects include earthworms, bees, ladybugs, and lacewing larvae.

The former home at various times of Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and Arturo Toscanini, located in the Riverdale section of New York City. Occupying a spectacular site overlooking the Hudson River, it is considered one of the most beautiful public gardens in the United States, notable for its “unpublic garden” look.

The growing of grapevines for fruit or winemaking.

Composting is easy so long as you have the right materials and equipment necessary, but did you know that even the worms are your best friends in this process? Vermicomposting or vermiculture is essentially the process of composting with the use of worms and their castings (i.e., worm waste). An easy and fun way to compost for your garden or house plants, vermicomposting can be done both indoors or out, and requires very little space.

Red worms or red wiggler worms, which are different from earthworms, are the best worms to use for your composting process. You want to stay away from using earthworms because they weren’t made to be composting worms; red worms will take your food scraps, eat and digest them, making worm castings full of nutrients for your soil. Earthworms on the other hand, are burrowing worms; they’ll aerate the soil and take everything on the surface down with it. Therefore, they’ll be absolutely useless for what you want to do, which is compost!

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The botanical name for bugloss.

As part of a species name, means “slender or thin.” For example, moss verbena, Verbena tenuisecta, has leaves divided into slender segments.

A single seed surrounded by a large hard shell and covered by pulp. A peach is an example of a stone fruit.

A technique for reviving old, overgrown shrubs by cutting them down to the ground in early spring. Some, but not all, shrubs respond to this with a flush of new growth.

Imagine waking up on a stunning, sunny morning in delayed April. You can hear the birds singing. Smell the airiness of the dew on the lawn and see the trees and plants growing. Then, look across your yard and see an award of loyal tulips immovable at awareness, waving a signal in the morning breeze.

No count what country you may live in, with a little creativity and forecast, you can mean and grow a multihued, partisan tulip plot. There are many different shades and insignia of tulips that are commercially untaken from the important tulip growers that can loan themselves to a plot. No issue the nationality or ethnic background, a quaint tulip backyard can display the insignia of the identify or area hues that are important to your heritage.

Let’s say that you want to construct an American loyal tulip backyard. Simply construct and works a letter of azure, red and colorless tulips. Candidates for downcast tulips enter the gorgeous Skagit Valle tulip, whose colorless petals are edged with azure. You can also add indigo hyacinths for more incline. (more…)

A term used to describe a plant that has long stems that hang down or sweep along the ground, often rooting as they go.

A plant of the family Orchidaceae, which is generally conceded to be the largest family of flowering plants, variously estimated as between 600 and 800 genera, with 17,000 to 30,000 species plus numerous hybrids.