Following is a list of pests and diseases to look out for, along with solutions to keep your roses healthy.
Category: The Flower Garden
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The small yellow, attractive, daisy-like flowers are freely produced throughout the summer. An excellent rock-garden plant.
Roses can be used in the kitchen, in the bath, and even as an essential part of gifts for special occasions.
Treating sunflower seed with a fungicide may be considered where seeding is done very early when the soil is still cold and germination is delayed.
The history of roses begins long before one would imagine.
In this article, we’ll provide a brief overview of sunflowers in an historical context. We’ll explain their origin and describe how they’ve been used for generations. You’ll also learn how the sunflower was discovered by those who traveled from other countries.
A lot of professional growers neglect to take preventative measures to ensure their seeds are unharmed. Here’s how to store the seeds properly.
Full sun perennial plants are excellent for areas that receive an average sunlight of 6-7 hours on a daily basis.
With a cutting garden you are not trying to create a perfect landscape, rather you want a garden that will work for you and produce copious amounts of cut flowers.
One of my favorite topics is the many uses for liquid worm castings, ‘worm tea’, in the garden. This unique organic fertilizer is especially effective when used to grow roses, perhaps the most favored flowers on earth and certainly the most discussed.
Foxglove is an essential healing medicinal herb and is a biennial plant that grows easily from seed and leaves a legacy of offspring.
Hollyhocks, they are useful in the treatment of chest complaints, and a decoction is used to improve blood circulation, for the treatment of constipation, dysmenorrhoea, haemorrhage etc
Lavender is a very ornamental plant that is often grown in the herb garden and