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Take Better Care Of Your Flower Garden
Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health. 1. The essentials must always be given major consideration. Your f...
Flower Gardening Gives Rewards And Satisfaction
Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular, every day. Flowers can brighten everyone’s day, they smell nice, and are a great hobby. Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun. Flower gardening can be done for yard decoration,...
How To Plant Geranium Flowers In Container Gardens
Geraniums are popular flowers all over the world. They flaunt their beautiful colours and are hard to beat for a happy looking display. They come in red, scarlet, rose, pink, and white blooms, that few other plants can rival. They are well known ever...
Growing Succulents In Your Garden
To ensure that your succulents get the very best growing conditions, particularly if you are going to grow them in pots, you will need to buy good quality specially formulated succulent mix. This is generally the same type of mix that you would also ...
Gardening With Beautiful Clivias
There are six types of Clivia indigenous to South Africa, but the most charming is the Clivia Miniata. It is the first to flower in spring and has large clusters of orange, trumpet like flowers. It also attracts the pretty Swallowtail butterfly, to t...
Garden Flower Delights For MidSummer
Well, once more, our friends in the Northern Hemisphere have reached the wonderful, magical time of midsummer, when the garden is full of beautiful blooms and a fantastic array of colors. Many of these wonderful blooms fill the air with their piquant...
The Basics Of Rose Gardening
Roses are those wonderful little miracles that do wonders of highest orders, which a million words can’t do. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but roses speak volumes. The flowers speak when the lips seal with emotions, which are so tough...
Choosing The Best Plants For Your Garden
Many times we buy plants on impulse, then find there is nowhere in the garden that really suits them. Before buying plants, carefully examine your garden to see how much sun and shade it gets, whether the soil is well drained, or waterlogged and whet...
Take Care Of Your Flower Garden
Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health. 1. The essentials must always be given major consideration. Your f...
Bulb Plants The Lily Family
This article on popular bulb plants takes a look at the Lily family. We have produced 7 articles on the different types of bulb plants. We have looked at an overview to bulb plants and then covered many of the different types available. This included...
More Summer Bulb Plants
In previous articles on bulb plants, we have looked at an overview to bulb plants and then covered many of the different types available. This included some indigenous species, some general species, the planting requirements, the flowers, those suite...
Bulb Plants – Dahlias
In this article, we look at the some of the general summer varieties of bulb plants. Some are best suited to beds and some to pots. In the previous articles in this series on bulb plants, we have looked at those bulbs indigenous to South Africa and ...
Summer Bulb Plants
In previous articles on bulb plants, we first covered some winter varieties, that are indigenous to South Africa. We then went on, to other varieties, of winter bulb flowers and in the last article, we covered the summer varieties of bulb plants, ind...
Some Other Summer Varieties Of Bulb Plants
In this article, we start with reviews of some of the summer varieties of bulb plants. As with the winter section, we start off with a few that are indigenous to South Africa. In the previous 3 articles we looked at the various types of winter bulb...
More Varieties Of Winter Bulb Plants
This is a big topic and our reviews of the different types of bulb plants has necessitated the splitting of this article into several parts. Again, we emphasize the fact that we are talking about seasons in the southern hemisphere and more particular...
Bulb Plants Some Winter Varieties
In the last article on bulbs, we looked at a few of the winter bulb types available and their characteristics. All were indigenous to South Africa. We continue, from where we left off, with some other general winter types of bulb plants. As with last...
Bulb Plants An Introduction
I have been receiving more mails and questions lately and a few of these have been with regard to bulbs. I must be honest and say, that although I have planted many bulbs and worked with them for years, it is not a subject that I would have conside...
Sweetpeas Are Popular Spring Flowers
Well, spring has sprung and summer is approaching. At least, this applies to most folks living in the northern hemisphere countries, while most in the southern hemisphere are starting to experience the cold weather. For northerners, who are keen gard...
Tulips Are A Favorite Bulb Plant
Once summer is over and the winter starts to approach and the leaves start to fall from the trees, most people immediately think of packing away the gardening supplies, for the winter and getting ready to snuggle up, indoors. But wait! Before packing...
The Colors Of Rose Flowers Have Special Meanings
In the local nursery, the other day, I saw this chart on the wall and thought you would find it as interesting as I did. I jotted down the meanings, on the back of my shopping list and have tried to make it into a chart, like the one I saw. Accordin...
How To Grow Fuchsias In Your Garden
Fuchsias are originally from South and Central America, with a few varieties originating from New Zealand and Tahiti. These delicate flowers bring a touch of magic to one’s garden, whether planted in the ground, in pots, or in hanging baskets. They...
How To Use Colourful Frangipani Flowers In Your Garden
There are many types of Frangipanis which come from the West Indies and Mexico. They vary in size, from 3M small to large rounded 10M trees. These are the most sweetly scented of all the tropical flowers. In India, they are known as the Temple-flower...
Some Handy Tips About Growing Roses
Last week, I ran a series of articles on rose gardening for beginners and I promised to follow up this week, with a refresher article, on some of the most important points. So, here we go. Roses are said to be the queens of the garden, as wherever y...
A Beginners Guide to Roses part 7
Well, we have now covered all the basics of growing Roses, in the last 6 articles. Today is the last article in the series and time for you to take the plunge and apply your new knowledge. Get out in the garden and get those roses growing. Other Hel...
A Beginners Guide To Roses part 6
Well by now, you should have settled on the type of rose you want to grow and investigated all your options. Hopefully, without too much bother, you have been able to plan and prepare an area in your garden and you are ready to start planting. How t...
A beginners Guide To Roses part 5
In yesterday’s article we started looking at some of the different choices of rose. Today, we continue with popular choices and some of their characteristics. Creeping Roses As the name suggests, the creeping roses grow, by creeping along the grou...
A Beginners Guide To Roses part 4
In the previous 3 articles, we have looked at what you want to achieve, where you will do this, the climate and soil conditions and what impact this project will have on your garden. Now we need to decide on the type of Rose, to grow in your planned ...
A Beginners Guide To Roses part 3
The next article in our series of articles on Roses, deals with factors such as climate and soil. If you haven’t yet read parts 1 and 2, go back and read them first. Knowing the Climate The climate is another important factor to consider, when thi...
A Beginners Guide To Roses part 2
We are running a series of articles on growing Roses, like a short course. Yesterday we started off with an overview and today, in part 2, we continue, with some advice on selecting the right space, in which to grow these beautiful flowers. Consider...
A Beginners Guide To Roses part 1
Due to an overwhelming interest in the couple of articles I did recently on Roses, I have decided to run a series of articles on Roses. I had prepared a short book, which I was going to sell, but I decided to break it up into articles instead. I will...
