Plant Gardens 101

When you are planting tulips for next leap’s tulip patch, don’t make the same error that I did last year. Making a confound at planting time in the plunge is costly. If you make this oversight, you may as well as buy tulips next pounce instead of hurtful clean ones for your own tulip bouquet.

Are you indeed that you are putting tulip bulbs in the best soil to grow? If you have doubts about rising tulips as you diagram your skip backyard, consider these gardening tips.

Let me enlighten. I like tulips, even while the flower playhouse is only two to three weeks long from mid March to tardy May. Last fall, I planted about 60 purple tulip bulbs in my backyard. I eagerly waited at Spring to come so I could bouquet those gorgeous plants. The frost was long and cold with more snow cascade than in preceding years. So, I was timely for Spring to come. Nevertheless I was astounded. Of the 60 flower bulbs I planted, only one tulip flower grew and blossomed. I couldn’t total it out. Later in the Spring, I planted my impatiens. When I went to dig up my tulip bulbs, I discovered that they were smooth and syrupy - like pickled onions. (more…)

If you have a koi pond in your property, then you can make it more accessible and better-looking by making it a positive element in your home. Not only will the pond serve as a home for your fish but it can also be a very great decorative structure in your garden or property. Of course, to be able to do this, plants, a few pebbles can help as well as a nice looking wooden bridge. Bridges for koi ponds not only make the pond accessible but it can also add a beautiful touch to your property.

What to Look for when Shopping for Bridges for Koi Ponds

1. The Right Size
Before you go bridge shopping, you need to know a few details about your property, particularly, the pond. You must take measurements before you order for a custom-made bridge so you can have a bridge with the perfect dimensions. If you can do this by yourself, better. If you know nothing about taking measurements, then you can ask the help of someone who is reliable since it is important to be accurate. (more…)

A very sweet substance, chiefly sugar and water, secreted by many flowers to attract pollinators.

Gardening in the fall can be one of the most rewarding times to be outside. The weather is cooler and all of the end of season flowers and plants being to bloom. One thing to remember is that when you winterize your garden you need to take care of your hose. Many landscapers are so busy winterizing their lawns, gardens, shrubs and trees that they quite forget about a piece of equipment that has served them well on all those areas of the landscape during the spring, summer and fall — the garden hose. Our garden hoses lie around on their garden hose reels for so many months consecutively that they become a landscaping fixture that we take for granted. But northern gardeners pay a great price for this oversight when winter arrives, bringing temps in the teens. Bring garden hoses in for storage prior to winter! Also bring their reels in for storage, especially if the reels have any metal components. And more important than a garden hose being ruptured through freezing is what the garden hose is connected to — your water pipes. Ruptured pipes are costly and inconvenient to replace. So what is the answer? The easiest and best solution is get a garden hose reel. Retrieval of hose or cable is accomplished by several types of rewind: manual, spring, and powered. Manual rewinds are popular where there is no convenient power source. Four methods of manual rewind are available: disk, direct drive, gear-driven crank, and chain-driven crank. Spring-rewind garden hose reels are ideal when a power rewind is required, but there is no available power source. Reels are installed in virtually any position. Spring-rewind reels have less torque than other types of rewinds and are best suited for hose lengths from 50 to 90 ft. (more…)