Plant Gardens 101

Verbena family
Verbenaceae
Ver-bee’na. Vervain . Tender or hardy annual or perennial herbs, comprising about 200 species, natives of America, with the exception of a few species found in Eurasia.

Description
Leaves generally opposite, usually lobed or toothed. Flowers in various shades of white, lilac, red, and purple, small, sometimes stalked, in terminal spikes or terminal roundish clusters. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, its lobes 5, the tube long and narrow. Stamens 4, in pairs.

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Flowering landscape trees are the crown jewels of the yard. Perhaps no other plants, individually, can have as great an impact on how a yard looks in spring. Browse the articles to which I’ve linked below for information on particular varieties of flowering landscape trees. Pictures are included.

Crape Myrtles: Landscape Trees of the South

A popular choice in flowering landscape trees for Southerners, crape myrtles have a long blooming period (mid-summer to fall). The blooming clusters of these flowering landscape trees come in pink, white, red and lavender. The clusters appear on the tips of new wood. Northerners can sometimes get away with treating these flowering landscape trees as perennials that die back in winter but come back in spring. (more…)

If you’re concerned about the future of the planet and the damage which humans are doing to it, you’ll always be on the lookout for ways of decreasing your carbon footprint. You’ll know by now that some of the best ways start at home, with ordinary people doing what they can to make a difference.

Don’t forget that your garden can also play a valuable role. Greenhouses for your garden offer you the chance to grow at home what you might otherwise buy from the supermarket, so that you’re in control and can be sure you’re making green choices.

Supermarkets are among the worst contributors to global warming because of the way they ship produce between countries, often flying in thousands of miles from its point of origin. This can be the case even with fruit and vegetables which grow in your local area, as the differing cost of labor may make it cheaper for the supermarkets to buy them abroad. (more…)

A narrow trench in which seeds are planted or fertilizer is added near a row of seeds.

Easy Grow Greenhouse protects growing plants and trees from the harmful elements of the environment such as the extreme heat of the sun or the gusty winds that comes around without warning. It shelters the elements under it from heavy rains that can drown these tender plants causing their untimely demise. It is also an ideal place and size for our favorite plants to grow and for other seedlings of trees to nurture. The greenhouse is not really green in color but it is called as such because it houses greens or plants, and plants usually have green leaves.

This particular shelter allows plants to grow undisturbed coupled with proper care until such time that they become full grown. By the time they are ready to survive the elements of the natural environment they can be re-potted or moved to their respective spots. This type of greenhouse provides either temporary or permanent shelter mostly to ornamental plants. These plants may be relocated every now and then from inside and outside of the shelter. (more…)