Give yourself an advantage when dividing your perennial flowers by watering them well before you lift them out of the ground. Most perennial flowers will need to be divided to remain vigorous and continue blooming season after season. Division of perennials is an easily mastered gardening technique that is good for the plants and your garden.
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Dividing Perennial Plants
Sunday, January 24th, 2010The idea of dividing perennials can scare new gardeners. Division of perennials is an easily mastered gardening technique that is good for the plants and your garden. Most perennial flowers will need to be divided to remain vigorous and continue blooming season after season.
Consider A Cutting Garden
Monday, January 11th, 2010Cutting gardens or cut flower gardens are a great way to bring your garden indoors. Well planned cutting gardens can grow enough flowers to create bouquets for the entire growing season. Cutting gardens can include long flowering annuals, seasonal perennials and colorful foliage. Here are some ideas.
Flowering Plants for Dry Areas
Thursday, January 7th, 2010It’s a smart idea to study up on which plants can adapt to dry areas, because sooner or later every garden will experience a period of drought. While water is crucial to growing healthy plants, there are many perennials that can withstand periodic dry spells, if they are given a chance to become established before they are severely stressed.. Here are 10 perennials that may surprise you with their drought tolerant constitutions.
Consider A Cutting Garden
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Cutting gardens or cut flower gardens are a great way to bring your garden indoors. Well planned cutting gardens can grow enough flowers to create bouquets for the entire growing season. Cutting gardens can include long flowering annuals, seasonal perennials and colorful foliage. Here are some plant ideas for your cutting garden.
Flowering Plants for Dry Areas
Thursday, November 12th, 2009It’s a smart idea to study up on which plants can adapt to dry areas, because sooner or later every garden will experience a period of drought. While water is crucial to growing healthy plants, there are many perennials that can withstand periodic dry spells, if they are given a chance to become established before they are severely stressed.. Here are 10 perennials that may surprise you with their drought tolerant constitutions.
Dividing Perennial Plants
Saturday, October 24th, 2009The idea of dividing perennials can scare new gardeners. Division of perennials is an easily mastered gardening technique that is good for the plants and your garden. Most perennial flowers will need to be divided to remain vigorous and continue blooming season after season.
Pumonaria
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Pulmonaria, or Lungwort, is far more charming than its name would imply. Blooming when few other perennials have even emerged after winter, Pulmoniaria offers distintive speckled and splashed foliage and small, but profuse and vivid flowers in blues, pinks, corals and whites. There is a Pulmonaria for almost any garden and they are profiled here.
Consider A Cutting Garden
Monday, September 21st, 2009Cutting gardens or cut flower gardens are a great way to bring your garden indoors. Well planned cutting gardens can grow enough flowers to create bouquets for the entire growing season. Cutting gardens can include long flowering annuals, seasonal perennials and colorful foliage. Here are some plant ideas for your cutting garden.
The New Perennial Garden
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Advocates a new way of using perennials that works with rather than against nature.
