THOSE PESKY GARDEN PROBLEMS - APHIDS
So, if you are wondering what is the best way to control aphids in the
home garden? — the answer for severe infestations, or rather the
non-chemical answers are simple and cheap.
Out In The Garden With The Bard of Ely
I grew up knowing (and even being related to) some interesting characters, so I’ve always been appreciative of those among us who are purely authentic and unique individualists. One of the early examples I had was, Euell Gibbons, for example, who was a fellow garden author and friend of my grandmother. Today, I’m privileged enough to share an interview with another such unique individualist — who some know as The Bard of Ely from other websites.
Read MoreAll In The Plant Family - The Poppy Family
I believe to know a plant’s name and recognize it’s family members, is to love it. Some plants are literally crying out in their beauty for our love and attention. How many plants or flowers do you know by name? The average number of plants for most people to be able to name is around fifty. If that is so, that is just a small portion of the known plants on earth today. Here’s another plant family that you should get to know better.
Read MoreHerbs In Your Lovely Garden
Having a number of gardens at our house, I’m especially enjoying this spring season, in experimenting with growing herbs for food and beauty. As most people know, anyone interested in cooking and with even a little plot of land to use, out to have a garden of fresh herbs. The difference in taste between fresh basil, thyme, or mint and their dry-as-dust counterparts found in the supermarkets is considerable.
Read MoreGrowing Patience With My Impatiens
The minute I saw the first batch of Impatiens at the front of the garden center, all I could think of was the miracle that must have brought them to us from so many thousands of miles away from their native damp Usambara Mountains, in far off Tanzania. This area, is known to be the original home of most of the garden Impatiens we know today. Naturally, I just had to bring them home.
Read MoreThe Buttercup Plant Family and Recognition
The petals of buttercups gleam like polished gold when the wind makes them dance in a sunny meadow. The buttercup has many cousins, in fact, there are over two thousand members of this plant family, here are just a few:
Read MoreIn The Rose Garden
Perhaps it’s the sun, or the heady sweet perfume of the garden rose blossoms, because immediately I am taken back to that same time period — when the women of my grandmother’s Blue Rose Society, dreamed an impossible dream — perfecting the first double blue rose. As a young girl, sitting on the sidelines, while they held their weekly luncheon meetings, I was certain they’d lost their minds or at least were drinking something more than mint julep tea.
Read MoreSpring Begins With Forest Flowers
Regardless of when the exact moment is, I’m just glad spring is here, and more or less thinking that in the spring, the motto of all flower-lovers should be Robert Browning‘s quote, “Look thou not down, but up.” — since the trees are often the first to present their flowers.
Read MoreNature's Spring Fling
Early spring, is a time when every gardener around the world dreams the same dream — of warmth filled days, and the joy of seeing first new leaves and flowers emerging, showing us green and color to ease us out of our wintertime doldrums. There in those visual moments, springs forth visions of a lovely garden, even if it only exists in our minds or memories due to space, time constraints, or life circumstances. Lovely gardens are some of the most phenomenal of places, where inspiration begins in the human heart and mind. We each deserve and need a lovely garden in our lives.
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