Watering Plants – How, When & Why Proper watering is an important part of gardening. Lasting damage can occur when leaves and stems wilt. Regular watering helps keep plants and trees growing. Flower and fruit the following spring will be much better with regular watering, and so will fall color. Vegetable gardeners know that even …
Mail Order Plants Whoever said “hope springs eternal in the human breast” must have been talking about the mail-order plant business. On dreary winter days we all love browsing through mail order plant and seed catalogs, chuckling over the retouched photos of luscious produce and oversize flowers. When faced with so much temptation it takes …
Groundcover Plants Weeding and mulching are the two most time-consuming and expensive maintenance steps for most landscape beds, and the least fun. So are cleanup and raking of windfall leaves, sticks, litter and debris like pine cones. Mowing on steep banks is another dreaded task. Groundcover plants can reduce or eliminate all of these tasks. …
Mosquito Repellent Plants – Fact or Fiction? Now that we’re into the mosquito season and we’d like to enjoy family time outdoors, repelling mosquitoes is on all of our minds. None of us likes chemical-smelling mosquito repellents, so it’s appealing to think about plantings that repel mosquitoes. We’ve all heard of “Mosquito Plants”, hyped as …