December brings family and friends together to celebrate the holidays. Ensure you have a safe season by taking a few precautions before your guests arrive.
For starters, take care with...
Fun Facts about Poinsettias
Are you a trivia buff? If so, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing a little bit more about the poinsettia plant you buy every Christmas.
For example, did you know that the poin...
Primula vulgaris ( Miss Indigo Primrose )
Primula vulgaris, also called Primula acaulis, bears clusters of 3 to 25 fragrant, usually pale yellow flowers, 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide, early in the season. This is an evergreen or semi-evergre...
Growing Primroses the Guarantee Way
The few requirements for primroses are easily met and are found in practically every garden. They do require shade throughout Mid-America, but this is always available on the north side of the h...
Variegated leaves of plants win gardeners over
It seems, as the numbers of people getting into gardening still rises, the same applies to the numbers of new plant introductions. With so many plants being introduced every year, there are alwa...
True Blue Anchusas
There is a rarity about blue flowers that appeal to most gardeners. Many flowers are called blue, but comparatively few are a pure blue. Catalogs in general make little distinction between blue ...
ANDROMEDA, Pieris – Gardening History
Legend has it that Cassiopeia, an ancient queen of Ethiopia, bragged to Poseidon, god of the sea, that her daughter, Andromeda, was more beautiful than Poseidon’s sea nymphs. Poseidon was touchy...
Tomato Growing Problems
As a gardener, it’s important to recognize that you have a cooperative relationship with Nature. This ongoing connection involves learning how to effectively manage the various conditions ...
FLEUR DE LYS – Gardening
The big, bearded German iris (Iris germanica) in my backyard are going to need dividing this year. As it is, each plant has a full complement of muscular sword-shaped leaves, out of which sprout ...
Gardening tasks to Do in July
Of all the fragrant annuals, the petunia is the best known and the most profuse flowering.
At the time we buy plants in the spring, the moon vine is a poor-appearÂing plant; otherwise,...