Perennials
Add color to your garden with plants that keep coming back
year after year.
How to make your Phalaenopsis orchids flower again and again
Phalaenopsis orchids are among the easiest of all orchids to care for and it is not hard to make them flower again and again. Despite this there is a lot of people who think they are unable to get the orchids to flower again and therefore throw them away once...
How to grow Lavender from cuttings
Lavender plants, in all of their varieties are popular garden perennials. These plants thrive in rockeries and gritty or sandy soil and are notoriously hardy. Relatively self-maintaining as well as providing the garden with unrivalled colour and scents; it is easy to see what lavenders are gardener’s favourites. Growing lavender...
Dividing Perennials: How to Make the Most of Your Flowers
One of the most rewarding parts of gardening is when your flowers are successful enough that they begin to outgrow the space you’ve provided for them. The good news is that you can divide your flowers and replant them in other areas around your yard, adding to the aesthetic beauty...
Stretch Your Gardening Budget with Perennials
If you allow it to be, keeping a garden can be expensive. Planting flowers year after year in your beds can be quite costly. Rather than choosing annuals, many gardeners are turning to perennials to make their gardening dollar stretch farther. When planting perennials, though, you need to do a...
Time to Celebrate!
We may have only just welcomed 2012 into lives but a gentle stroll will prove that spring is most definitely on the way. On close inspection of the garden, snowdrops have appeared and begun flowering, whereas the fragrant pink blossom is hanging daintily already from the cherry trees! Of course...
