15 Best Pool landscaping Plants
When decorating your pool for summer use, you always want to create a warm and friendly ambiance. Just as important as having the proper furniture and a clean pool is …
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15 Low Maintenance Flowers You Can’t Kill
Traveling is difficult when you have a lot of high maintenance plants in your garden that you need to care for. Not everyone has a green thumb, so finding someone …
10 Best Plants for Balcony Gardens
My balcony is a location that I retreat to when I want to relax, but I have never had much luck with growing plants in the space. The temperature and …
How to Grow and Care for Marigolds
As a child, I always helped my mother tend to the garden, and one of the flowers that I always remember planting is marigolds. They are bright orange or yellow …
Gladiolus Plant Guide: How to Grow and Care for Gladiolus Flower
One of my favorite flowers to add to a bouquet is a gladiolus. The spiky plant has bright blooms in shades of orange, pink, yellow, and white that are all …
Tips on How to Use Epsom Salt for Beautiful Roses
Roses are one of the most beautiful flowers that you can have in your garden, but they can also be difficult to grow. Insects love them, and they require a …
Wax Begonia: How to Grow and Care for Wax Begonias
Wax begonia is a hardy perennial that brings bright blooms to your home and garden for the majority of the year. There are more than 1,000 species of begonias, and …
20 Beautiful Climbing Plants for a Stunning Pergola
Many outdoor gardens have structures like pergolas or arbors that help give some character to the space, but if you have a climbing plant to accompany the structure, you will …
How to Grow and Care for Balloon Flowers
One of the most unique flowers that I remember my mother growing in her garden when I was a child is the balloon flower. I remember “popping” the blooms to …
Tips on Growing Black-Eyed Susan Vines from Seeds
Black- Eyed Susan vines are not to be confused with the bushy Black-Eyed Susan wildflower (Rudbeckia Hirtathat) that is native to the U.S. The Black-Eyed Susan vine (Thunbergia Alata) is …
How to Deadhead Hibiscus?
You may have a question concerning your beautiful flowering hibiscus and how to deadhead, which means to pick off the dead blooms by hand when the plant begins to show …
How to Repot a Moon Cactus
The moon cactus has become a very popular houseplant in recent years. Their colorful buds and delightful curves make them an attractive indoor plant, as well as being a relatively …
How to Grow and Care For Bleeding Heart Plants
Bleeding-heart (Lamprocampos spectabilis, formerly Dicentra spectabilis) is an old-fashioned favorite in the shade garden. Many gardeners have fond memories of the pink, heart-shaped flowers with their white teardrops and ferny …
How to Grow and Care for Fuchsia Plants
Originating in Central and South America, Fuchsia plants are perennials that produce beautiful, exotic flowers. They are grown throughout the United States and are commonly seen draping out of pots …
10 Lovely Plants that Bloom in The Fall
As an individual who loves having flowers in bloom around my home, I need more than flowers that bloom in the spring and summer in my garden. Fall blooming flowers …
Tips on How to Divide Hostas
In this video, Chris Alexander from HostasDirect is going to walk you through the three Ds of dividing Hostas. The three D’s include digging, de-dirting it, and dividing it. In …
10 Tips for Growing Amaryllis Indoors
The Amaryllis flower is often associated with Holland and that area of the world, but it turns out that in 1828, a young doctor was searching for medicinal plants in …
Foxglove: How to Grow and Care for Foxglove
The first time that I saw foxglove (Digitalis) in a garden was when I was studying abroad. My life in London was definitely a cultural change, but one of the …
10 Tips on How to Grow Baby Blue Eyes
Baby blue eyes are beautifully breathtaking, but I’am not talking about the eyes of a newborn child. Baby blue eyes, which are also known as nemophila menziesii, are soft white …
Tips on How to Repot Jasmine
Do you have a Jasmine plant that you are not sure how to repot? Do you worry about causing damage to your plant when you repot your Jasmine? Jasmines are …