Plant Gardens 101

Others find rose gardening, or just plain gardening a delight within itself. At its simplest, rose gardening consists of five parts, or five “Ps”: Plan, Prepare, Plant, Prune, and Protect. Whatever it is your purpose for doing rose gardening, if you’re still a beginner, you have to know a few things first. Rose gardening is not a simple task, you don’t happen to notice roses grow just about anywhere, don’t you?

Roses like six hours of sunshine where possible and shelter from cold winds. Roses are thirsty When healthy, roses in your garden will exude byproducts that attract organisms in the soil that allow the garden to maintain a balance.   (more…)

A concentration of special cells at the tip of a stem, shoot, or root. When these cells divide and expand, the stem or root grows taller or longer.

Diagram of a root apical meristem.
Cortex and central cylinder have
separate initials; epidermis and root
cap have a common origin.