Examples of perennials: black-eyed susans, purple coneflower, sedum, peony, bearded iris, daylily, salvia, coreopsis, hosta, phlox, false indigo (Baptisia), yarrow, aster, Russian sage, and bee balm. Examples of annuals:zinnia, petunia, impatiens,marigold,and sunflower. See the easiest peren...
Annuals serve as the workhorse of the ornamental flower garden. Just pop a few sturdy annual plants into the garden and you've got color to last the entire growing season. Annuals perform an entire life cycle in one growing season. A few months takes this plant from seed to a mature pl...
Herbaceous andtender perennials, on the other hand, are plants with soft green stems that die back to the ground once thecolder climatesor months come. They grow back in warmer climates, or the chilly season passes, or it’s the end of the season and continues to bloom. Examples of this...
for cultivating annual flowers. The depth of the hole for the flower should be between six and eight inches while spacing between the flowers should be between four and five inches. Annuals need plenty of water to grow well. Some examples of annuals include petunias, sweet peas and zinnias...
Explains how and when to rearrange perennial flower borders. The author's experiences; Examples; Yearly program of thinning and dividing irises and other perennials; Need to move plants out of tree shade; Need to correct a poor gar...
A lawn with flower beds and perhaps a vegetable patch has become a sought-after advantage to home ownership. The increased interest produced an unprecedented expansion of business among horticultural suppliers, nurseries, garden centres, and seedsmen. Books, journals, and newspaper columns on garden ...
Leaves“Do I have to rake up the leaves that fall on my lawn and flower beds?” There is no hard and fast rule here, but there are guidelines. Piles of leaves that get trapped on turf can smother the grass in the spring once they become wet and packed down, so you might want to...
Most garden perennials have only a limited flowering period, but, with maintenance throughout the growing season, they provide a leafy presence and shape to the garden landscape. Popular herbaceous perennials include bellflowers, chrysanthemums, columbines, dahlias, larkspurs, hollyhocks, phlox, pinks...
(Toxicodendron diversilobum) is rather a pleasant shrub on a sunny hillside in the open country; in a camp ground it is a definite health hazard. Such examples could be given ad infinitum to cover every aspect of agriculture, forestry, highway, waterway and public land management, arboretum,...
inThe Garden of Eden(1652), Sir Hugh Platt, an English agricultural authority, wrote of the possibility ofcultivatingplants indoors. Shortly thereafter, glasshouses (greenhouses) andconservatories, which had been used during Roman times to force plants to flower, were built in England and elsewhere...