Ready to grow some roses? These tips will get you started with a successful rose garden. Pruning Roses No matter what type of rose you grow, pruning is inevitable to keep these lovely flowers blooming and strong year after year. The type of pruning you do will depend on the type of roses you grow. Hybrid Tea Roses Hybrid tea roses are common and widespread for their color variety and strength, but need disbudding to maintain bloom size and quality....

Garlic chives (also known as Chinese chives) are a versatile garden plant commonly grown in culinary herb garden settings and as an ornamental flowering perennial. At first glance, you could easily mistake garlic chives for common chives, or regular chives but on closer inspection, you will see their leaves are very different and they taste like garlic. Table of Contents This amazing herb is a staple in Chinese and Japanese cuisine where it is treated as a vegetable and lightly steamed or cooked in broths, soups, egg, and seafood dishes and stir fry recipes, adding a delicious mild garlicky flavor....

In addition to being popular in the kitchen, the horseradish plant has its fans — and a history — in the medicinal plant world, too. Armoracia rusticana While it’s quite possible you’ve tasted horseradish (Armoracia rusticana) and appreciated its sinus-clearing and deliciously flavorful bite, has it ever occurred to you to grow it? How fun would it be to mix up a batch of Bloody Mary drinks for your brunch guests, using your own homegrown horseradish?...

Growing Poinsettias from Cuttings and keeping them in pots indoors is the best way to add a Christmasy vibe to your home all year round! Let’s have a look at how to grow and maintain it successfully! Botanical Name: Euphorbia pulcherrima Check out the best poinsettia varieties here Poinsettias Poinsettias are often associated with festive decorations, but you can keep this colorful houseplant, with a red and green hue, in your indoor garden after festivities are over easily and enjoy its vivid colors for months to come....

Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are grown throughout the world as a nutritious, convenient, shelf-stable food. Potatoes are the #1 most-consumed vegetable in the Americas, Europe, and Asian countries. I cannot imagine life without potatoes, can you? Table of Contents Potato cultivars vary in appearance, days to maturity, growth requirements, and culinary qualities. If you live in a temperate climate region like I do, if you plant potatoes in late April they will be ready for harvesting from mid-summer through early fall....

QUESTION: How do you fertilize spinach? Can you suggest an organic fertilizer? -Frank D. ANSWER: Prior to planting spinach, amend the soil by working in a combination of compost and a balanced fertilizer. Amend the soil just a few days before planting so that the fertilizer has a chance to break down some. Once established, a balanced fertilizer will work fine for spinach, but something with a bit more nitrogen might work even better....

Aloe Vera and all the other plants that belong to this genus are warm-climate plants but can be grown in cold temperate regions as well. This succulent is a low-maintenance plant and is often killed due to extra care. You can either grow it in a pot or on the ground. But if you live below USDA Zone 9, plant it in a pot because it doesn’t tolerate frost. Aloe Plant Care & Growing Requirements *Do you know a well-cared aloe vera plant can live up to 100 years?...

Feed Yourself and Feed Your Neighbors Too We live in a time where people are beginning to take a second look at growing their own food. Raising your own produce saves money at the grocery store, having fresh produce at hand is convenient, you know exactly what was and wasn’t sprayed on the food you are about to eat and gardening can be very therapeutic for us as well. For centuries people in the United States grew their own fruits and vegetables....

By Erin Marissa Russell Do you know how to protect your trees from winter sunscald, sometimes called “southwest injury”? Without treatment, sunscald damage can be severe enough to result in serious damage and even death of the tree. Luckily, there are things you can do to reduce the likelihood of damage to your thin-barked trees and even to reverse damage when it has already occurred. But first, you have to be able to identify winter sunscald, so you’ll need to know what to look for....

Growing up to 10 feet tall, depending on the variety, members of the Berberis genus have a uniform growth habit and produce attractive foliage. Berberis spp. Barberry bushes are robust evergreen or deciduous shrubs with bright green, red, orange, or burgundy foliage. Whether you’re growing it as a hedge, as a foundation planting, or even as an individual specimen in your ornamental garden, the barberry bush is one to consider if you’re looking for a hardy, adaptable, low-maintenance option that’s appealing throughout the year....

While it’s a cousin of the North American native honeysuckle, L. sempervirens, the Japanese variety was introduced to the continent and has naturalized in many areas, with the exception of the southwestern part of the US. Lonicera japonica What is the appeal of the honeysuckle vine? The nose knows. In some parts of the world, it’s considered the definitive scent of summer. The fragrant blooms beckon to pollinators in the summer months, with the intoxicating, vanilla-like aroma drifting on the warm breeze....

Leaf gall is one of those diseases that can turn a stunningly beautiful camellia into a display that makes you scratch your head. Plants are weird and wonderful. Some days they look picture perfect and other times they look decidedly… wrong. Sometimes the problem is a branch that is growing oddly crooked, or maybe the sun scorched the leaves of a shade-loving species. And then there are those times when disease strikes and causes your plant to do some strange stuff....

Are you into purple plants? Do you like the notion of a plant that is low-maintenance, rarely has any pest or disease issues, and which will brighten up a room? In that case, consider the Persian shield plant! Table of Contents This tropical plant, which originates in southeast Asia, makes a fantastic plant whether indoors or out. The leaves are nearly iridescent or metallic purple when it’s in full color, edged in a deep, dark green, and it can really liven up a room!...

To show you some great examples of and tips for selecting low-maintenance roses, we’ve teamed up with the Knock Out® Family of Roses. These floriferous, easy-care shrub roses come in some pretty stunning hues from white, yellow, and peach, to a spectrum of pink. (I have to give a little shout-out to Rainbow, with its coral-pinkish petals and yellow center.) What to look for when selecting low-maintenance roses Keep an eye out for the following traits when selecting roses—or any perennial, for that matter—to add to a low-maintenance garden....

Have you ever thought about having a garden where you sit down on a chair, stretch your legs over a silky grass, smell fragrances of Jasmines and Gardenias, sip coffee while brushing up your dog’s hair and then you get up to pluck your garden grown juicy red tomatoes, cucumbers and chilies? Isn’t it wonderful? Of course, but you say—“I live in an apartment and there is no space to have even a ‘G’ of Garden”, I know because I live in an apartment too, and how limited space I have, still I have a garden— beautiful and engaging, thriving like nowhere; a Balcony garden....

Gardening can be hard work. Every year you pull out the tiller and plow through the rock and weed filled ground to make it loose enough to plant in. In addition there are tasks like amending the soil, planting, watering, and weeding among other tasks. For some people it just begins to take too much time, or too much energy. I used to plant my garden the old-fashioned way too. I would put in all that effort and my harvest would be mediocre at best....

If you are wondering why your favorite flowering plant is failing to display blooms, then it might be due to several reasons. Let’s dive deep into them and know What to Do if Your Plants Are Not Blooming! What to Do if Your Plants Are Not Blooming 1. Lack of Sunlight The number one reason why most of the flowering plants fail to bloom is the lack of sunlight. Contrary to popular belief, where people think 4-5 hours of sunlight may be more than enough, most flowering plants actually need more than 6 hours of bright sun every day to bloom profusely....

Why planting onion seeds is better than planting sets Onion sets are immature bulbs that were grown from seed that was planted in mid-summer of the previous year. The partially-grown bulbs are pulled from the soil in the fall and stored in a dormant state through the winter to be replanted the following spring. Many gardeners plant onions from sets because they’re widely available and it’s easy, but there are a few reasons why this may not be the best way to grow a good onion crop....

Splash a pop of colors into your green bed with these Beautiful Color Changing Flowers! We have listed the best ones for you. Have a look at the best multicolor flowers here Beautiful Color Changing Flowers 1. Hydrangea Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla Hydrangeas change colors depending on the acidic content of the soil. The star-shaped flower clusters take a blue hue in an acidic medium i.e 5.0 to 5.5 pH and turn pink in alkaline soil with a pH range of 6....

If you want to multiply herbs quickly–Propagate them from cuttings, a less time-consuming and straightforward process than sowing seeds. But do you know what is even easier? Planting Herbs that Grow from Division! Have a look at the best houseplants that grow from division here Growing Herbs from Division Autumn and spring is the ideal time to grow herbs from division when the growth is minimal. Moisten the soil and carefully take out the entire plant from the pot using a digging fork....