You’ve worked hard on your garden. You’ve spent months cultivating those tiny seedlings. You’ve banished weeds and bugs as best you could.  Your toil has been rewarded with some fruits, but there’s still more on the vine.  And now… vacation time. If you’re relatively new to gardening, it can be a worrisome thing to let [...]

An orchid, (with apologies to Shakespeare) by any other name may smell as sweet, but not every orchid is ideal for growing indoors. The first names to look for when selecting orchids are “Phal” and “Den”. Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis are perhaps the easiest orchid hybrids to grow at home. At one time, this fragile flower [...]

A greenhouse is ideal if you wish to grow a large amount of flowers or a large amount of vegetables. If you wish to plant only a few, then there are plenty of planters that would do just fine for your purposes. However, there are some plants that make having a greenhouse a necessity. If [...]

What do the colors of the flowers you plant in your garden symbolize? Are you drawn to certain colors without even knowing it? Do you have lots of pink and red in your garden, or are you more partial to yellow or purplish-blue shades? Read on to find out what the colors that adorn your [...]

If you are preparing to plant roses any time soon, then there are some things you need to know. It is recommended that you choose disease resistant types of roses because the maintenance required is much less than other types.