My lens is devoted to a love of gardening and nature. It's my goal to include something for everyone...the beginner and the gardening enthusiast as well. When you have a love for plants and flowers, there's always a way to include them in your life.
It doesn't matter if you have a large yard or an apartment balcony, where there's a will-there's a way! Gardening can be a huge perennial border or a container filled with plants you love sitting on a balcony. It can even be a indoor window filled with tropical plants!
I also enjoy writing gardening articles and it gives me a chance to help others learn about gardening, plants, and a wildlife friendly landscape. I'm happy to share this passion and I will continue writing articles, sharing and growing....and it's always more fun to share gardening with others.
The links below will take you to some of my gardening articles. I hope you enjoy them. I will be adding new ones as often as possible.
Unfortunately, I'm off to try to control weeds the natural way in my perennial borders. Not a fun chore, but an overdue one!
I admit it's almost worth the labor if I remember to bring my camera and get lucky enough to photograph a beautiful butterfly. This photo shows an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on my buddleia one morning this summer enjoying the sweet nectar.
Nature really is amazing!
See you soon, have a great day!
Perennials
- The Hosta is a Favorite Shade-Loving Perennial
- The hosta is another one of my favorite perennials. I've always been drawn to plants with beautiful foliage and the hosta has so much to offer for minimal effort!
- The Daylily is a Perennial for Every Garden
- Everything you always wanted to know about daylilies! This is a perfect perennial for the beginning gardener. The only difficult thing about daylilies is making a choice between the more than 60,000 cultivars available.
- Lily-of-the-Valley is a Hardy Shade-Loving Perennial
- What a beautiful and tough perennial for those areas under shade trees and shrubs..
- Phlox is a Perennial Favorite
- This article is about one of my favorite perennials, it really is easy to grow and so fragrant! Butterflies and bees love it.
- The World's Largest Wisteria Vine and Its History
- This article is just plain fun! I had no idea an antique wisteria vine in California is listed as one of the 7 Horticultural Wonders of the World!
- Perennial Ground Covers for Shade
- This article highlights several perennial groundcovers suitable for shade with various soil and moisture requirements.
- Tips on Growing a Wisteria Vine
- The beautiful and magical wisteria vine, this will help you to understand more about this fragrant vine and just how long it really takes to bloom!
- A Gardener's Guide to Geophytes
- What are they and what will they do for your garden, you ask? Read this...
- Tender Summer Bulbs: Tips on How to Grow and Store Them
- A useful article for those favorite summer bulbs, some of which happen to be my favorites for containers every spring and summer. These bulbs can be stored over the winter months, instead of replaced each year.
- Gardening Tips: Hardy Summer Bulbs to Plant in Spring
- These bulbs, rhizomes, etc. can be planted in the spring to be enjoyed during the summer. Most of these are pretty cold-hardy. USDA Zones are included for each plant.
The Great Outdoors
- Tips for Choosing a Healthy Tree
- A tree is a long-term investment. Take your time and check the tree for signs of stress or disease. This article tells you how.
- The Flowering Dogwood Tree (Cornus florida)
- This dogwood is the classic American beauty that's native to the eastern U.S. It graces the edges of woodlands in the spring where it it glows with brilliant white blossoms.
- Easy Tips to Start a Cottage Garden
- The cottage garden might just be the perfect beginners garden. After all, part of the beauty of a cottage garden is its lack of design...read on, you'll see what I mean!
- How Annuals Bring Color to the Flower Garden
- Don't forget the importance of mixing annuals in the garden, I love, love, love the rainbow of colors available with annuals, plus most annuals bloom all season long...
- How to create a Certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat
- This article will outline what is necessary to create a backyard habitat for wildlife, I thought it would be so hard.. it's not!
- Tips to Help Container Plants Survive the Winter
- If you love container gardening, this article will give tips to help container plants survive cold temperatures and greet you in the spring
- Easy Tips for Owning and Using a Birdhouse
- Putting a few birdhouses in the yard will increase the types of birds that might settle in and raise a family
- How to Grow Aromatic Lilacs (Syringas)
- Lilacs are a sweetly scented old-fashioned deciduous shrub. They're easy to grow and are available in several colors and sizes.
- Easy to Grow Trees and Shrubs for Birds and Wildlife
- Easy to grow trees and shrubs that include something for home gardeners in almost every part of the US.
The Soil and Nothing But the Soil
The soil is the foundation for everything we grow. These articles will highlight ways to amend the soil in our gardens.
- The Importance of Adding Organic Soil Amendments
- This article highlights several ways to amend the soil organically.
- Use Autumn's Fallen Leaves to Get Nutrient Rich Soil
- Let fallen leaves improve the soil, this article will show the ways.
So Much To Do...So Little Time
When spring fever hits, but it's too early to plant...what do you do?
- Spring Chores You Can Do Early
- Well, I know what I have to do for starters. Basic clean-up chores in the garden!
- How to Re-pot Plants
- Just the basics, but great for beginners. These re-potting tricks help for indoor or outdoor gardening.
The Great Indoors
- The African Violet: Beautiful and Easy to Grow
- African violets are much easier to grow than most people realize, the picture in this article is one of my violets!
- How to Plant a Terrarium
- A terrarium is fun project and an easy way to start a miniature indoor garden...a fun project with children.
- Easy to Grow Tropical House Plants
- This article is just the tip of iceberg where indoor tropicals are concerned, but it highlights 5 easy and hardy plants for beginners.
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- windowbox windowbox Jan 20, 2009 @ 4:03 am
- Great Lens.. abt gardening but people who do not have such space at there home can move to container gardening by using containers like Flower Window Boxes, Window Box Planter, Window Box
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Useful (Must-Have) Gardening Websites
- Mailorder Gardening Association
- This is a wonderful website that combines useful information on gardening catalogs, many well-known and a few I've never heard of. It has direct links to each catalog's website along with regional locations and telephone numbers.
- National Arboretum-USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
- Here is the link to the USDA Zone Map. This map is for determining the COLD hardiness of plants. Before purchasing a plant, be sure to check the plant tag for the zone requirements.
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