Plant Gardens 101

Pruning your roses is one of the most needed and the most annoyingly difficult tasks that goes with proper rose care. It takes a steady hand the proper procedure to ensure the best possible roses that you can get.

Pruning your roses is basically the act of getting rid of dead and damaged pieces, and teaching the new growth to grow in the correct outward facing direction. That just means that you are training them to grow facing the outside of the shrub or bush. This gives your roses the correct amount of circulating air to thrive in.

Here is a list of the proper techniques to guide through the pruning process.

* Soak your pruning shears in equal parts of water and bleach. This will help to protect your roses from diseases and insects.

* Pruning in the early spring, just after the snow melts is best. However you want to do it before any new growth appears. The best time would be when the buds are swelled, or red.

* Hand shears are the best tool for pruning the smaller branches. (about 4 1/2 inches thick) Loppers are best for the branches that are thicker or the thickness of a pencil. This will make it easier. You should use a heavy pair of rose gloves to avoid the thorns. (more…)

Pruning bonsai trees is important if you want them to stay healthy and looking their best. If you’re new to the process, there are a few things you need to know. This article will give you a few tips to get you started.

Timing
You should make sure that you prune your bonsai at least once every year. Most gardeners do this during the growing season. By pruning away new growth, you will help maintain the shape of your tree. If you’re looking to get rid of old season’s growth, you should do so in the fall.

Pruning bonsai trees can also be done during the winter if you want. If you have a deciduous tree, it will be a little easier for you to see what needs to be cut. However, you shouldn’t prune if the temperature outside is below freezing. The wood will likely shatter when you cut it. (more…)

Insects

The only ones troubling house plants are the green fly, the mealy bug, the scale, and the red spider.

The green fly is to be killed by a smoking with tobacco. Put the plant under a barrel with smoking tobacco; let it remain, say fifteen minutes; then give it a syringing.

Mealy bug is to be searched for and destroyed. Frequent sponging does much to keep down this pest.

Scale is to be treated in the same way. Warm soap-suds are peculiarly distasteful to the creature.

Red spider, which is seldom found on house plants, is nourished by a dry, warm atmosphere. Water is certain death. Keep the foliage syringed and atmosphere moist, and you will have no red spider. (more…)

The practice of Bonsai began in China and Japan hundreds of years ago, and is simple the miniaturization of naturally occurring plants and trees. Bonsai trees are not “special small” trees, but rather trees that ave been slowly miniaturized from their full size.

The main areas of tree care are the following:

Watering your Tree

Bonsai Trees require more watering than most plants, as they are grown in less soil and the soil itself is free draining (meaning it doesn’t retain the water and lets it pass through). The type of tree, the sunlight it is exposed to all factor in to how much watering should be done. You can tell if your Bonsai Tree needs water by looking at it, feeling the soil and if you prefer; by using a moisture meter to be certain. (more…)

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Pruning your trees, shrubs and plants can be beneficial for almost all landscapes. Pruning is done primarily for the following reasons:

1.Promote flowering

2.Promote higher fruit yield

3.Improve the health of trees, shrubs and plants

4.Improve aesthetics / appearance

5.Control growth

6.Maintain a desired shape

7.Removal of dead, damaged, diseased, and infested limbs (more…)

To keep things growing well, sometimes you have to prune, or cut back your plants. It’s not just that way with plants, actually as some say to get your hair to grow really well you have to trim it back. But when pruning you can’t just drag out a pair of pruning shears and cut away. You have to have studied the methods of pruning before you begin to cut away. Same as you wouldn’t want someone to just go cutting on your hair if they didn’t know how. And when pruning grape vines it’s not different, you have to know what you’re doing.

Pruning grape vines is not hard to do once you know the right time and length in which to do your pruning. For instance, you will need to prune your grapevines before Christmas because if you prune after Christmas the vines will “bleed” sap. Once a vine begins to bleed sap there is no way to cure that problem, although when the leaves begin to emerge and grow, it will decrease. By saying that keep in mind that if the bleeding happens it will never stop, further weakening the plant, which could result in a dead vine. That would really be terrible. So remember, try to prune grape vines before you go hanging your holiday ornaments.

The main problem that is seen with pruning grape vines is that people who grow them for home use seldom prune enough. When you go to prune your grape vine you will need to cut back approximately seventy-five to ninety percent of the new wood that had grown in the previous season. (more…)

The act of bonsai pruning is actually more tiring than it seems. In integrity, bonsai pruning is akin to diagram by connecting dots. You have to pursue a pre-intended conduit and you’ll end with the chosen smooth. The quantity of preparation made before bonsai pruning however is what bonsai enthusiasts should primarily focus on.

Tools for Bonsai Pruning Before you get into the act of bonsai pruning, make positive of course that you have all the required tools.

Bonsai Shears – These are a special kind of scissors designed for bonsai edge or pruning. There are assorted designs of bonsai shears so make solid that you hold right what you want. (more…)

Pruning your roses is one of the most needed and the most annoyingly difficult tasks that goes with proper rose care. It takes a steady hand the proper procedure to ensure the best possible roses that you can get.

Pruning your roses is basically the act of getting rid of dead and damaged pieces, and teaching the new growth to grow in the correct outward facing direction. That just means that you are training them to grow facing the outside of the shrub or bush. This gives your roses the correct amount of circulating air to thrive in.

Here is a list of the proper techniques to guide through the pruning process.

* Soak your pruning shears in equal parts of water and bleach. This will help to protect your roses from diseases and insects.

* Pruning in the early spring, just after the snow melts is best. However you want to do it before any new growth appears. The best time would be when the buds are swelled, or red.    (more…)

Many people correlate pruning with varying the edifice of your hierarchy to fit a different sculpt or manner. However, this is not the argument. Altering the makeup of the hierarchy is known as “Tree Training.” This is a, much better way to polish an exchange form for your ranking. Pruning should be worn to avert diseases, check lopsidedness, and press improved fruit evolution.

Pruning is also worn to swear the correct whittle for the ranking. For example, if you have abundance of kindling on one particular region of the ranking, then you will use pruning to get rid of the bigger segments which weigh down the hierarchy to one flank. Think about it more in provisos of maintaining fairly than changing. While pruning is helpful occasionally, usually you can use exercise as a better and more able alternative.

Training has not been around for very long. Through tying down brushwood or propping them up from the ground, one can absolute the expansion of the ranking to take suchlike smooth they want. This scheme is typically used in the early years of the hierarchy to encourage it to improve wholly. If you point the ranking and get it happening off on the right foot, you’ll recover manually a lot of pruning time later. (more…)

Some plants will not do well come spring if you wait and prune them too late in the season, especially your perennials. Pruning your plants in the spring will not only help guarantee a beautiful garden but you can also use the debris to make compost for later use.

Plants that are diseased or infected should have been pruned back in the fall and should never be used in your compost bins or piles. Leaving the old growth as a marker for the new growth as it starts to appear on your perennials will help you to determine exactly where to start pruning back on plants that emerge later in the spring season.

Depending on what does or does not work best for you depend primarily on what you have or had planted. Many perennials are better off when left alone and not pruned at all until spring when the new growth starts to appear. (more…)

Here it is fall and the garden is ready to snooze. Hold it, there is more work to be completed. Some mulching and some pruning. Those fallen leaves and dying annuals are not for the trash but that organic material is black gold for the garden.

A step that is both ordinarily and commonly neglected, to lay the garden to bed for the winter, is the addition of organic matter. More people should use organic matter in their beds rather than casting off their yard waste.See, this is right at our feet, yard waste. It has to be raked or mowed, so why not utilize it for Mother Nature’s blanket – mulch.

It is impossible to put too much organic matter into the soil. Fall is a good time for many reasons. One good reason is all of the materials that you want are there for free, leaves and dying plants. (more…)

WHY AND HOW TO PRUNE YOUR ROSES.
Rose pruning is a seasonal job that must be done for the health of your roses. You must prune your roses if you want them to thrive and be lovely.

When you decide to prune, no matter what type of rose you are growing, you are making certain that you have healthy roses. Even if you don’t follow the exact directions, rose pruning will make your roses grow better.
Rose pruning stimulates your roses growth and gives your roses exposure to light and air.

If old roses are not pruned their nutrients will be blocked off, causing the roses to not grow and bloom as much as they could.

Bugs and diseases find roses a great warm place to winter over in, pruning takes away most of your problems.
By removing dead wood you are making more room for your healthier roses to grow. (more…)

First Things First – Starting Lavender The Right Way

Most lavender bushes start from a cutting taken from a Mother plants. This often works well. Growing lavender from seeds may sound like a good idea, but it can be difficult. It is hard to find the seeds, and they have a short shelf life (even if you find them, they may not grow). And it can take a long time to grow the seeds into sizeable bushes. The most difficult situation is that the most popular lavender varieties do not make seeds!

Pruning Lavender

It is important to prune lavender in order to maintaining a young, healthy bush. When pruning lavender, the key is to begin when plants are young and still in pots. Pinch out new growth to support lateral branching. Cut off the flower buds in the first year so that you will get a larger bush and more spikes in the second year.

Cut back the plant at yearly. If you prune the plant in the fall, do it well in advance of a hard freeze. You can easily use a weed eater or a hedge trimmer when pruning lavender. You can also prune the plant after it flowers I the spring or early summer. When you do prune lavender, make sure that the leaves are still green. (more…)