Garden Articles

• Gardening
  If gardening is your hobby, it is said you have a green thumb. Most gardeners, though, find their hands usually covered with dirt instead. The therapeutic value of digging into the soil is familiar to everyone who loves working out of doors.
  
  
• Perennial Gardening
  The art of perennial gardening like anything else requires knowledge and skill. It is learned from research complimented by experience.
  
  
  • Shade Perennials
    Shade perennials are plants that re-grow for at least two years – and usually three to four before they have to be replaced – but cannot take a lot of sunlight.
    
    
  • Perennial Flowers
    Perennial flowers will bloom for three to five years depending on the type and if you do a very little maintenance they will bloom for many years more.
    
    
  • Perennial Seeds
    Are you looking for a good source for perennial seed? Are you unsure what nursery will give the right prices, the best advice, and and the largest selection of perennial seed?
    
    
  • Perennial Bulbs
    The main consideration with perennial bulbs is dividing them. This is done every couple of years to ensure that the bulbs do not become overcrowded.
    
    
• Landscaping Shrubs
  To decide where you would like to place a landscaping shrub in your yard, stand back from the yard so that you can see the entire yard.
  
  
  • Lilac Shrub
    The lilac shrub is a unique type of plant because it is a mix between a shrub and a flower providing the yard or garden the best of both worlds.
    
    
  • Azalea Shrub
    Spider azaleas are one of the most fascinating and desirable of azalea shrubs. Their light yet heady fragrance is unique among azaleas, and their elegant, almost feathery blossoms lend an exotic air to any garden.
    
    
  • Rose Shrub
    The rose shrub is one of the most popular versions of landscaping shrubs available. Many people love it because of the romance it symbolizes.
    
    
  • Shrub Tree
    Similar to a shrub, the shrub tree will need to be pruned periodically in order to maintain its shape. The limb of the shrub tree can tend to grow very long.
    
    
• Retaining Walls
  Retaining walls primarily counteract soil erosion and keep stabilize both soil and rock so that structures resting atop the soil do not shift or slide downward.
  
  
  • Landscape Retaining Walls
    And the art of landscaping retaining walls puts both of these skills together. To say that creating landscaping retaining walls is a difficult task would be a tremendous understatement.
    
    
  • Wood Retaining Walls
    Wood retaining walls are fine for providing the support that they are expected too. As an added bonus, wood retaining walls also can be incredibly visually appealing.
    
    
  • Concrete Block Retaining Wall
    These concrete block retainer walls generally consist of block pieces—or cinder blocks—that are either held together by gravity (hence the term “gravity wall”) or are held together by mortar of some kind.
    
    
  • Stone Retaining Walls
    Stone retaining walls provide the same service that other types of retaining walls provide: they keep earth and soil stable. The difference is that stone retaining walls are generally built without the use of mortar!
    
    
  • Concrete Modular Retaining Walls
    Besides providing the functional support that a retaining wall provides, modular retaining walls are pretty darn cool to look at.
    
    
• Garden Weeds
  As such, garden weeds can upend even the most orderly and structured and visually pleasing garden. Garden weeds are unwelcome and unwanted guests in a garden. Actually, to call garden weeds guests is a real stretch. A more accurate term to apply would probably be gatecrasher.
  
  
  • Lawn Weeds
    A solid investment in quality lawn weed killer will help return one’s property to a respectable appearance. That is clearly preferred to the alternative: a piece of property that is rendered hideous by the over population of lawn weeds.
    
    
  • Weed Whacker
    A weed whacker that is powerless against even the most stubborn weeds is useless. If you are going to sacrifice one area for another in your selection, power should not be the one to go.
    
    
  • Pond Weeds
    Before the pond weeds start to grow in your pond, you can take some precautionary measures to keep them from growing in the first place.
    
    
  • Weed Control
    Weed control is vital if you would like to have a yard that has ‘curb appeal.' Your neighbors will all want to know how you got your yard to look so good.
    
    
  • Homemade Weed Killer
    Did you know the ingredients you need to make a homemade weed killer are right under your kitchen sink?
    
    
• Shrubs
  If you have little time for pruning, then you should look at a hedge shrub such as forsythia or privet. If, however, you want a more formal hedge shrub, and you have the time to invest in keeping it pruned, your options are much broader.
  
  
  • Boxwood Shrub
    The American or Common boxwood shrub is by far the most useful and versatile of plants for creating outdoor rooms. Its dense growth habits and the ease with which it prunes into shape make it ideal.
    
    
  • Holly Shrub
    Not all holly shrubs are recognizable as holly; certainly they look nothing like the Christmas hollies we're familiar with. Yaupon hollies, for example, have no berries and tiny leaves without prickles. Some holly shrubs have no berries; others have berries, but no prickles on the leaves.
    
    
  • Evergreen Shrub
    Unlike most evergreen shrubs, the arbovitae leaves are rarely prickly, like pine or cedar. Instead, they have a soft, springy feel to them, a bit like heather. They range from low-growers of only about three feet to enormous trees of forty feet or more.
    
    
  • Shade Shrub
    The best thing about the shade shrub is that it does not require a lot of sunlight in order to grow and thrive. This means that no matter what factors are limiting the amount of light that the shade shrub receives, it will still grow because a large amount of light is not needed.