Entries for the 'PLANTING PRUNING AND GROWING PLANTS ' Category

The only decision you should make in the garden center concerns the quality of the plants in the pots. What constitutes a good plant, and what should you be looking to avoid?

Growing a climbing rose involves some work and expense. When trained according to the espalier technique, the results can be spectacular.

Many water-conserving plants have fallen into disrepute in recent years, because of a relatively high failure rate. The answer is to know how to grow them

While Crape Myrtle is generally pruned in order to produce more and better blooms, do not forget that too much pruning can weaken a tree and cause its premature decline. In any case, Crape Myrtle has immense value as an landscape tree, irrespective of its fabulous floral display.

Here are five tips for cultivating flowering bedding plants while keeping WITHIN your annual water consumption budget.

Many home gardeners equate the growing of perennial plants with low-maintenance gardening. There are some excellent reasons for preferring perennials to annuals, but saving time and maintenance costs is not one of them.

Due to the many crucial garden tasks that have to be carried out in the spring, it’s best to get the feeding out of the way as early as possible at the onset of spring.

An essential part of a viable garden design, is considering the costs involved in care and maintenance. Ignoring this is like buying a great sports car, only to find afterwards, that you can’t afford the insurance!

When looking for plants in a garden center or plant nursery, avoid the temptation of buying on impulse.

Cheap is dear is a well-known and well-worn expression. Nowhere is it more relevant than in plant nurseries and garden centers.

All to often, ground cover plants do not fulfill their promise and end up being a major disappointment for the home garden owner. The biggest single reason for failure is weeds growing out of control, so here are some tips for protecting your new plants.

Climbing, vine-like plants are often an exciting element in the garden, but can be more trouble than their worth. This article shows you how to choose wisely.

Spring is the season for pruning many but not all garden plants. Knowing what, when and how to prune, is a critical factor behind the success of your garden plants.

Hedges have lost some of their popularity in recent years partly because many home gardeners do not know how to grow them. Here are the principles behind successfully growing a garden hedge

Growing a landscape bush as a small tree can turn an ordinary plant into a special element in the garden

A secret that can turn your garden into a special one! An idea particularly suited to a dry climate garden.

If you want a have a great garden you've got to put a lot of work into it. This article puts the idea of low maintenance gardening into perspective.

Home gardeners in Mediterranean climates tend to forget that their plants need nutrients through the winter. Feeding in the autumn is probably the best time to ensure they receive what they need.

Home gardeners in Mediterranean climates tend to forget that their plants need nutrients through the winter. Feeding in the autumn is probably the best time to ensure they receive what they need.

The full potential of a great lanscape or fruit tree may never be realized if it is planted in an incorrect location. Avoid making this needless but potentially costly mistake.

Correctly pruning a Pomegranate tree is a question of whether you are growing it as a landscape tree or just for fruit. Read on if you want to get the best of both worlds!

Damage caused to trees and shrubs from pruning can often be fatal. Here are some guidelines for pruning that takes the future health of the plant into account.

The way your garden trees grow and how long they will live, are to a great extent a reflection on how they have been pruned. Considering that the tree is the single most precious item in the garden, it is worthwhile knowing a few things about pruning.

Pruning is the key to successfully growing shrubs and bushes. When it comes to flowering types, the techniques are somewhat different as compared to purely landscaping species.

Pruning at the right time is crucial for the growth, development and long-term health of your garden plants. This is what you should and should not be doing in the spring.

To get the best out of your plants in the fall, it is often necessary to carry out some pruning. There are some traps and hidden dangers though. This article will help you avoid them.

Different types of pruning are suitable for different purposes and plants. Here are some tips for shaping landscape bushes.

Pruning, however necessary it may be, always exacts a price from the trees and shrubs in terms of their long-term health. Here are some tips for minimizing the damage.

On the subject of pruning, there’s one thing that gardeners in a mild winter, Mediterranean climate must understand.

Gardeners in Mediterranean and other mild winter climates are sometimes tempted to prune their trees and shrubs in the autumn, when the weather is still warm. This can sometimes prove a costly mistake.

Pruning at the right time is crucial for the growth, development and long-term health of your garden plants. This is what you should and should not be doing in the spring.

To avoid disappointment from your rose bed, it’s important to know how to care for the plants in a Mediterranean climate, especially during the winter.

Despite the large number of species and their wide geographical range, most Sages require similar growing conditions. Most are suitable for dry climate gardens.

Spring is the season for pruning broadleaved, evergreen trees, and cold sensitive species of tropical or sub-tropical origin. While pruning, the home gardener should treat the fruit trees as though they were ornamental landscape trees.

If anyone needs convincing about the need for sustainable horticulture, you can just ask one simple question. Do you care if your children and grandchildren will be able to enjoy gardens and gardening?

When it comes to growing and particularly to pruning Crape Myrtle, it’s necessary to think somewhat outside the box.

A garden that is too time-consuming to look after, or expensive to maintain, is not going to stand the test of time. Here are some tips for the home gardener.

Essential late autumn gardening tasks in a mild winter climate

The tree is such an imposing, massive thing that some people see it as impregnable. Despite its size and splendor it would be more advisable to look on your garden tree as a big baby. Precious, delicate and vulnerable!

Trees can seem perfectly healthy, yet be slowly dying. Appearances can be very deceptive.

If you garden in a mild Mediterranean climate, it is crucial that you do not prune your trees and shrubs at the beginning of winter.

When looking for plants in a garden center or plant nursery, avoid the temptation of buying on impulse. The first thing to remember is that a garden center is not a supermarket.

It is commonly thought that the winter is not the right time for planting. This may be so in cold climates, but not in the mild winters of a Mediterranean one, where the benefits of winter planting far outweigh the drawbacks.

There are numerous benefits to the healthy growth and development of garden plants by hoeing the soil, but these are all matched by mulching. Despite its initial cost, mulching is preferable to hoeing.

Pruning trees and shrubs in the right season is essential for satisfactory results, no more so than in a mild winter, Mediterranean climate, where pruning too early or too late can cause serious long term damage to the garden plants.