Download Free Garden Guide, Zone Chart, Or Garden Planning Worksheets Download our free planting guide and other helpful worksheets for planning and growing your own vegetable garden at home! Planting a home vegetable garden can be fun and pretty simple to do with just a few tips to help you...
I know that to everything there is a season, but I’m a gardener and I start counting the days until spring the day after Christmas. I live and grow in Zone 5b where I care for my large garden of roses and their companions. Read on here. Looking for something? Search for: Read mo...
About a month before the last frost date is the best planting time for potatoes in my zone 7b garden. That starts the planting season for potatoes here in Tennessee in Mid March. If you need a better guide than that think of St. Patrick’s Day and plan around it within a few days....
Located in Ocean County, NJ at the Jersey Shore in planting zone 7a Maturing Gardens, Expansion Plans, Pests and New Additions New Jersey food forest with edible perennials, native flowers, fruit trees, berry bushes and ground… Read More ...
I want to renew the foundation plantings on the north side of my house *without* poisoning my Lab puppy, who is still very "mouthy". The azaleas that are there now are apparently nontoxic but I want other shrubs as well. Some that I know do well in my area (zone 7a) and should...
Hardy to USDA Hardiness zone 6 to 9, these hydrangeas are hybrids of several types with a unique ability to set blooms along the entire length of its stems. They bloom primarily on old wood, so don't trim this one or you'll risk snipping off next season's blooms. Spring Meadow ...
When it blooms:Late spring to early summer Why we love it:The delicate pink, purple, or white flowers bloom in profusion atop dainty fern-like foliage. Cranesbill is a super-hardy ground cover plant that has a pleasant, minty scent that causes deer and rabbits to leave it alone. ...
It depends on the variety and the zone.I know the first year Ii saw mine come back I wondered the same. Also, keep in mind that although you may see Marigolds come back in your garden each year, they may not be perennials, but they may be a product of seed having been dropped in...
Rose of Sharon(Hibiscus syriacus)is a deciduous shrub hardy in USDA growing zones 5 through 9, good news, zone 6, we’re in! It will lose its leaves in the winter and put out new growth in spring. Very little pruning is required as these shrubs maintain an upright growth pattern. ...
I do get to drag the hose right past one of my favorite garden additions of the last few years.Bulbine frutescensis a South African native that thrives in dry, dry, dry. USDA Zone 9 or thereabouts on the ol’ hardiness scale. We’ve planted it in our tiny scree garden, where several...