With its aromatic, edible leaves and airy white flowers, lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla) adds value to the kitchen gardens and ornamental, low-water landscaping. It thrives within U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 to 10, where it rises as an herbaceous perennial in frost-free areas. Once established, lemon verbena demands small hands apart from Read more about How to Plant Lemon Verbena[…]
Snaking around your precious vegetable and flower plants, a soaker hose can become your garden’s best friend. It can eliminate the time-consuming task of watering with a garden hose, mitigate evaporative water loss through an overhead sprinkler system and prevent potential diseases from attacking your plants. Siting a Soaker Hose Soaker hoses shine in flower Read more about Tips for Watering With a Soaker Hose[…]
The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) is among the most extensively used trees worldwide and strongly connected with tropical landscapes. This plant, hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zone 10 and warmer areas, serves as an excellent specimen planting or backdrop tree and may, especially when it’s young, provide potential as a container specimen. Read more about Truth on Coconut Palm Trees[…]
A well-kept line of trees down a fence line may enhance an area and make more interest than the simple straight lines of rails or forks, which is why lots of people plant trees close fencing. However, your trees are not considerate plants, and in case you’re not careful, they will damage the fence by Read more about How to Grow Trees Close to the Fence[…]
The notion of cutting a plant’s origins sends many new and inexperienced gardeners into a fear. Request bonsai aficionados how they maintain their treasured plants so little and, apart from painstaking pruning, you will find out they also prune the plant origins. While the careful handling of roots is vital with a young plant, elderly Read more about Cutting Coral Honeysuckle Roots[…]
Meanwhile, the “Aristocrat” is a cultivar of this Callery pear tree (Pyrus calleryana), which grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9. These trees are known more for their beautiful, showy leaf than they’re for their fruit. The tiny little across pears that these trees create are hard and nearly inedible, Read more about Do Aristocrat Pear Trees Produce Edible Pears?[…]
The Bing cherry tree (Prunus avium “Bing”) is a sweet cherry variety loved for its big, juicy, dark red fruit that ripens in the summertime. It also bears fragrant, white spring blooms and dark green leaves that turn bronze or gold in fall. Though it grows well in completely sunny places throughout U.S. Department of Read more about A Leaf Fungus Is My Bing Cherry Tree From the Heat and Humidity[…]
“Hearts of Gold” redbud (Cercis canadensis “Hearts of Gold”) remains healthy and vigorous if grown in full sunlight to light shade, but planting considerations shouldn’t stop there. The stunning leaf color that inspires this redbud’s name shines brightest in complete, direct sunlight. Lightly shaded spots will not diminish its health, but they’ll impact leaf color. Read more about Can You Plant Hearts of Gold Redbud in Shade?[…]
A dry and fragile bonsai tree is experiencing trouble taking up enough water to remain healthy. The reason for deterioration of this bonsai could be under-watering or root damage that prevents water from being absorbed. By the time a tree is fragile, it may have irreversible harm, but you may attempt to improve the tree’s Read more about Why Is My Bonsai Dry and Brittle?[…]
When you develop cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. Capitata) in your garden, you do not necessarily have to settle for one harvest. By cutting your heads at the ideal time and place, you may delight in a batch of cabbage rolls, another round of coleslaw or other pleasures from a cabbage plant. A Careful Cutting The Read more about Can Baby Heads Reappear After Harvesting Cabbage Heads?[…]