Attract bees with flowers
A bee is said to make three journeys in order to bring one drop of nectar to the hive; and 25,000 foraging trips are said to be necessary to gather the raw material for ...
June Perennial Flowers
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Disbudding Flowers and Fruit Garden Plants Design Information
DISBUDDING FOR BETTER FLOWERS AND FRUITS
How to Do This
Disbudding is a term used in gardening to describe the process of limiting the number of flower or growth buds on plants. The...
Exhibiting Flowers at the Fair
Planning to enter flowers at the fair this summer? Here are some tips for blue ribbon entries.
First and foremost, flowers must be fresh. When you pick the blooms and how you handle them d...
Growing information on Annual flowers
Annuals
Most of the flowering bedding plants sold in the spring are annuals. Annuals usually bloom continuously for months and are then killed by frost. They are often used as companion pl...
A bunch of Deadhead Flowers
Most of us, male and female, know what it is like to be overdue for a haircut. One day you wake up and your hair is going in all kinds of new directions. Old cowlicks return like bad checks, curl...
Streptanthera cuprea ( Harlequin Flowers )
Corm producing perennial with sword-shaped leaves. Spikes of funnel-shaped, orange, red, and sometimes white flowers with yellow and violet markings bloom in spring and summer. Sometimes referr...
Sparaxis tricolor ( Harlequin Flowers )
(Plant width:undetermined) Corm producing perennial with lance-shaped, basal leaves. Spikes of funnel-shaped, orange, red, or purple flowers with dark central markings bloom from spring to earl...
Sparaxis grandiflora ( Harlequin Flowers )
(Plant width:undetermined) (Plant height:3 to 18) Corm producing perennial with lance-shaped leaves. Spikes of funnel-shaped, reddish purple flowers bloom in spring and summer. Less vigorous th...
Achillea ( Flowers of Sulphur Achillea )
Clump-forming, carefree and generously blooming perennial for early and midsummer. Reaches 24 inches tall and about 18 inches wide. Leaves are linear and broad and grayish green in color. Flowe...