For perfect container plant combinations, we got advice from Sarah Raven, the Sussex-based author, grower, cook, and lifestyle guru. Here are her 7 top tips:
Water features are soothing, but can be expensive to purchase or DIY. So how do you get the appearance of a constantly flowing water feature without the
Gladioli are beautiful plants and a favorite of many gardeners. Due to their height, many people often wonder if it?s possible to have a gladiolus container garden. This article will help with that.
Brighten up your yard with these perennial planting combinations for colorful flower garden ideas.
Growing plants and flowers in hanging baskets can brighten up an area and create more structure to the garden by lifting plants up off the ground. When you are a plant addict like I am,
Peonies are compact in size, which leads many people to wonder if they are suitable for growing in pots. Here we look at the best ways to grow peonies in containers, and how their care differs from peonies grown in the ground.
March 21 is National Flower Day. What is spring without flowers? Pollinators, birds, and life wouldn't exist without these beauties. See three fun ways to bring flowers into your garden.
En viktig del i julstämningen hemma hos oss är blommorna, jag vill ha många och börja tidigt så att man hinner njuta länge! Nu har amaryll...
One of the tiny offices on the third floor, with orange tulips at mid-day. In 2003, a building housing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) was slated for demolition to make way for updated facilities. The closure was a time for reflection and remembrance as the MMHC had been in operation for over nine decades and had touched thousands of patients and employees alike, and the pending demolition presented a unique problem. How does one memorialize a building impossibly rich with a history of both hope and sadness, and do it in a way that reflects not only the past but also the future? More
Here are some of the best heat-loving annuals and perennials to plant in your flower garden, to make sure you have blooms all summer long.
If you want to add some different climbers to your collection, then check out these Cool Indoor Vines People Usually Don't Grow in their homes.
DIY Projects to Try - I'm always in awe and inspired by creative people. Today I'm sharing a collection of some of the favorite DIY projects and ideas that I've recently found.
As fans of Nancy Meyer’s movie "The Holiday" know, a script writer’s ‘meet cute’ is when an unusual situation throws two people together who ordinarily might not meet. Our horticultural ‘meet cute’ pairs rooted plants, in or out of their pots, together with cut flowers in one arrangement. This kind of arrangement can last a long time, with occasional changes of the cut flowers. Of course, the trick is regularly watering the plants! These potted plants come from the supermarket, the nursery and the farm stand. From back clockwise, purple leaf Sedum, ivy, maidenhair fern and ornamental purple peppers. The maidenhair fern has been taken out of its pot and put in a plastic bag with the soil level left open for watering. Do provide some protection from overwatering leaks in the form of baggies over the pots. Choose a large container. This wooden box is 12” deep so almost everyplant needs something to perch on. A shallower basket, bowl or box would not require so many extra mechanics! Clockwise, a Tupperware cylinder with a pin holder, oasis, a plastic container upside down and piece of dry oasis. Later I added more pieces of Styrofoam and two water filled jars. This is an ad hoc kind of presentation - anything can be used as the 'container'. The new Crate & Barrel catalogue has lots of interesting baskets that would suit this. Salad bowls or planters or window boxes would be fine. If the container isn't as deep as the one above, you avoid having to fiddle with all the hidden pieces. However, my box = my fiddling. Looking at it from the rear, the plants are lined up with the container of water (with one gladiola stem) behind them. Add the gladiola stems in the pin holder in the container plus any other flowers in the oasis. In between the plants and the cut materials, put moss or other filler to hid gaps and all the plastic and the pots. Here you are looking at the front of the box and can see the entire 'back' row of the box, styrofoam plants, jars of cut stems and moss hiding containers. I decided I didn't like the messy thread-like brown eucalyptus in the right front of the box (first picture) and substituted a creeping fig plant from the supermarket. In doing so I changed the order of the plants. Here is the pot et fleur with the changes to the group of materials. What was missing (picture one) is a cohesion of all the different colors and textures into one unit. This is a little better. Have fun with this! Cheers!
Bienenfreundliche Balkonpflanzen? Hier haben wir 20 bienenfreundliche Pflanzen für Balkon und Terrasse aufgezählt, die Bienen wahrlich anziehen.
Did you know that hostas are the perfect shade perennials that can thrive in pots? Come learn tips and tricks for planting hostas in pots.
Decorating your home can be a fun experience. You can enhance its strengths, hide its weaknesses, and make it a reflection of yourself. Or you can put the toilet in the kitchen, transform the pool into a flower pot and call it a day. It's your choice. Just don't be surprised if photos of your chateau end up on the internet and people laugh their heads off.
In late June, I left my patch of Canadian woodland far behind to travel overseas to the Netherlands and Germany. I was a gardener on a mission to meet some luminaries of contemporary Dutch planting design and explore their gardens and nurseries in my version of a midsummer night's dream. Above all else, this trip was about the chance to again meet visionary Dutch planting designer, Piet Oudolf on his home turf ...
Many people start Narcissus from bulbs. If you're doing this, plant the bulbs in moist potting media with the pointed end facing up. Keep...