Trees like Japanese maple, star magnolia, crabapple, flowering dogwood, sugar maple, arborvitae, blue spruce, and desert willow add beauty and color to the landscape. Shrubs like rose, holly, lilac, azalea, flowering quince, and spirea have a smaller footprint with beautiful flowers perfect for ...
Rabbits also have an extremely high reproductive potential, so keeping them around might quickly cause a total garden infestation. They can produce up to three litters of six babies per year in the north and up to six litters of three babies yearly in the south. The first litter appears in ...
Two summers ago, as I pondered how to address ground ivy(Glechoma hederacea)in the front yard, my husband stopped mowing there so the bees could feed on the plant’s early flowers and nest in the bare patches of soil between. By fall, when the ground ivy had continued to spread and I...
When you are ready to plant the seeds, fill a plant pot -- which has bottom drainage holes -- to within 1 inch of its rim with a damp mixture that is 1 part seed-starting mix and 1 part sand. Space the seeds 1 inch apart on the surface of the mix, and cover them with an add...
I have had 2 mimosas grow from seeds. They were beautiful and lived for a couple of years. They both suddenly died, each at different times. Any idea what killed them? I would love to grow one and it stay alive for a lot of years. Please tell me what I am doing wrong with the ...
Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba) Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) PERENNIALS Adam’s needle (Yucca filamentosa) Creeping phlox(Phlox stolonifera) Foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia) Lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina) Meadow rue (Thalictrum rochebrunianum) ...