Growing Oxalis Adenophylla: How To Care For The Wood Sorrel
Wood Sorrel is native to North America and Eurasia. Though it can be found in Canada and nearly every state of the United States, it is most abundant in the
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Growing Cigar Plants: How To Care For Cuphea Ignea
The bright tubular flowers of the Cigar Plant, often called the Firecracker Plant, are a magnet for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. his is the perfect product for borders and beds.
Fertilizer For Impatiens: How To Care For Busy Lizzie Plants
Busy Lizzie (or impatiens) is a tender, long-lasting plant that flowers continuously through the summer and fall and sometimes right up to the frosts. The impatiens are adaptable, compact-growing plants
How To Enjoy Earlier Blooming Chrysanthemums – Yours for the Effort
Chrysanthemums, once thought of primarily as flowers for autumn gardens and greenhouses, are now grown all year round. With an eye to scientific research, Horticulturists discovered that chrysanthemums bloom when
Growing Agapanthus Plants: How To Care For The Lily Of The Nile Plant
The agapanthus (a-guh-pan-thuhs) plants are outdoor garden perennial flowers that bloom in the summer. They are more commonly known as the “Lily of the Nile” or the African lily plant.
Tips On How To Grow Big Flowered Mums
Glamorous greenhouse mums can be grown outdoors. An enthusiastic group of backyard gardeners in St. Louis, Missouri, proves it. Although none of these enthusiasts use identical methods, they all manage
Growing Primroses From Seed In The Garden
Today many of us think of primroses almost entirely as potted plants where the two Chinese species, Primula obconica, and malacoides, are the most popular. Of course, if one has
Iris Bulbs: Tips On Planting And Using Iris Color In The Garden
Perhaps you haven’t seen irises lately. You may recall them as those early fleeting blooms in drab violets or washed-out yellows seen everywhere some 60 years ago, thriving on neglect
What Are Hardy Geraniums? It All Depends
What do you think when geraniums are mentioned? In frostless or near frostless regions, Florists and gardeners probably visualize the showy pelargonium or one of its ilk. But speak of
Growing The Hanashobu Iris aka Japanese Iris Flower
For more than 400 years the Japanese have cultivated a kind of iris almost entirely unknown to the average American gardener. Near Tokyo there is the garden Kotaka-en where these