A recent blog described planting a strawberry jar with my son. But a strawberry jar doesn’t have to be planted with strawberry plants alone. Here are five different ideas for non-strawberry strawberry jars! Each combination describes plant choices for the various levels of the strawberry jar. Salsa Strawberry Jar: Homemade salsa is popular at our house…
Category Archives: Themed Gardens
Seasonal Fragrance Garden Plants
One of the often overlooked beauties of a garden landscape is the fragrance given by certain landscaping plants. Sometimes in an effort for ornamental or long-lasting flowers, we forget to think about fragrance. But a fragrant flower is somehow MORE of a flower, in my opinion. So to that end I am writing a series…
What Are Some Spring Blooming Plants for Garden Landscapes?
Spring is a beautiful time for the garden landscape and presents gardeners with a wide choice of blooming plants including bulbs, shrubs, perennials and annuals to include in your garden. Here are a few favorites. Spring Blooming Bulbs One of the first categories of plants many spring gardeners think of are spring blooming bulbs. These…
Celebrating Fourth of July in the Garden
I love theme gardens – both in design and in name. These plants all have patriotic or Independance Day themed names perfect for creating a Fourth Of July Theme Garden! Enjoy! Angela <><
New Evergreen Plants for Shade PLUS a Rose Hedge
Today I planted a series of plants for the shade area near the patio, part shade in the front of the patio and for the rose hedge along the side of the driveway where the picket fence will go (if I ever manage to save up enough money and stop spending it all on plants!…
Growing Popular and Charming Cottage Garden Plants
These plants are all romantic, charming plants that have been grown in old homestead and cottage style gardens for years. Enjoy these plant profiles with how-to tips, cultivation information, ways to use them in a garden and cultivars of important note. Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) Plant Profile Thyme (Thymus spp.) Plant Profile Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) Plant…
Bulb Garden Pictures
The first tulip bloom of the season layered with grape hyacinths. All three bulbs blooming together – lovely complementary colors! A close up of the grape hyacinths becuase I think they are so beautiful. These bulbs were layered using the technique described in this article about Layering Bulbs for More Color.
Cottage Garden Plants
I have been working on a two part article about Heirloom Cottage Garden Plants and I am absolutely falling in love with some of these plants, I have to tell ya’. There is something so awesome about a plant that has been around for centuries. Technically heirloom is 50 years or more but some of…
Weeping and Cascading Perennials
There are several perennials I found with a graceful cascading habit but I also found some almost shrub-sized plants that have arching branches or weeping flower stalks. I chose six of my favorites and you can see the full list! http://plantsbulbs.suite101.com/article.cfm/weeping_perennials What do you think? Any ideas for my next article about cascading annuals?
Winter Interest in the Garden
How’s the weather where you are? After two days of freezing rain and ice storms I finally caught a glimpse of weak sunlight for about ten minutes today. I grabbed my camara and ran outside to catch some pictures of the beauty created. These pictures show a perfect example of what I was talking about…
