Huge showy flowers in shades of red shout CELEBRATE – that’s amaryllis! Elegant and joyous, blooming amaryllis add fresh beauty to your holiday decorations like nothing else can. Tips for planting amaryllis bulbs: Plant 6-12 weeks before you’d like it to bloom –...
By Wilma R. Penland As children along with our dogs we liked jumping into piles of leaves, crunching through them, or throwing handfuls in the air. My folks used them as bedding for farm animals. Leaves were composted and used to enrich the garden. Oak leaves were...
Perennial Garden Design By Ruth Gonzalez There’s nothing like a perennial garden! Perennials come back every year getting a little fuller with each season, and they usually have a particular bloom time during the season. Some well-loved perennials are found in many...
Hydrangeas – Summer Beauties By Wilma R. Penland The genus Hydrangea contains a wide variety of species and cultivars (at least 75). Some of the most popular are those in the Hydrangea macrophylla (bigleaf) family. These bloom blue, pink, or shades in between...
Ladybugs can control pests naturally. Did you know? Each ladybug will eat 50 or more aphids per day. If they lay eggs on your plant, when the eggs hatch their larva will eat aphids with great enthusiasm too! For best success with ladybugs: 1) Refrigerate your...
IT’S EARTH DAY and we are celebrating the beauty and wonder that plants bring to our planet and to our everyday lives! Imagine a world without plants…that’s hard to do because we are surrounded by plants. Just look out the window and feast your eyes on something we...
