Flower Garden

Who wouldn’t love to get a beautiful bouquet of Roses? A fresh bouquet of roses can brighten up anyone’s mood. It can really add a splash of color to your room. If it seems like your fresh cut...

Over-sized blossoms splashed with a variety of colors are the signature characteristic of peonies, a favorite perennial flower. Bush peonies, often called herbaceous peonies, and tree peonies...

Once milkweed pods open, they begin to dry on the stem. Their open milkweed seedpods make an interesting, autumnal decoration, providing both an image of autumnal fertility and winter slumber. The...

Mexican Heather blooms every summer with small, colorful blossoms in shades of pink and purple. The plant won't do well in cold climates, where it is considered to be an annual. But if the weather...

Bidens are garden plants featuring long green stems and small yellow blooms that resemble that of a daisy, with larger and fewer petals. While they are not suited for garden pots due to their...

Agastache, the anise hyssop, is aromatic, flowering perennial herb which makes a beautiful, nearly care-free addition to any herb, perennial or hummingbird garden. The licorice-scented native...

Snowball bushes have beautiful large flowers and, depending on the size of your bush, can grow hundreds of beautiful snowball-shaped flowers from early spring to the beginning of the summer...

Sweet Annie is a variety of artemisia, or wormwood, often grown for its sweet-smelling leaves and blooms. This herb keeps its scent, which makes it a good choice for fresh flower arrangements....

Mock oranges--botanically known as Philadelphus--are hardy deciduous shrubs that flower in early summer on wood grown the previous year. Varieties include the popular Minnesota Snowflake and...

It's fascinating how well fresh cut flowers look by the time the florists receive them not to mention by the time they become ours with all the traveling and transferring they go through. One...

The hardy hibiscus plant produces some of the largest flowers of any perennial with colors including pure white, bright yellows and oranges, pinks and deep reds. Foliage is also beautiful with...

Carnations are a popular flower of choice for flower arrangements. This is typically due to the fact that carnations are inexpensive and you can dye the petals to suit the color you desire. While...

Do you love fresh cut flowers? Do you want to bring those outdoor beauties indoor? Regardless your have a flower garden or not, you can always bring those bright colors, great fragrances, and...

Most people probably don’t know that almost all tap water contains minerals in it that make it alkaline, or that alkaline water has difficulty moving through cut flower stems. Because of this,...

Gerber daisies are an extremely popular flower when it comes to wedding bouquets. Once cut, the flowers often undergo some pretty serious stress. Gerbers are fairly delicate as far as cut flowers...

Although carnations are naturally white growers have cultivated all colors including a green carnation called the Prado. Most of the variegated varieties that you see for Holiday sales, however,...

A beautiful display of fresh flowers is one of the easiest ways to brighten a room whether it is for your own table centerpiece or a gift. Mothers Day is coming soon and arrangements of fresh...

Spring and summer flowers are often too beautiful to just discard. While they are still perky and colorful, follow these instructions to dry and display vibrant flowers any time of the year.

A cactus is a plant in the family cactaceae. All cacti are succulents, meaning they can store a lot water. This is useful for a plant that grows in arid parts of the world.

Wondering how to prune your Princess Flower or other shrub into an upright, or multi-stemmed shrub? Check out this tutorial and video to see how!

Just as some nutrition deficiencies in humans can be identified through a person's appearance, so too can nutrition deficiencies in plants be identified by abnormalities in the leaves, stems or...

Tulips have long been a favorite of gardeners all over the world. They are a welcome sight each spring, often becoming an early herald of the season. Their delicate blooms and sensational colors...

Here is how to arrange flowers and keep them looking fresh for a long time.

Some cactus plants have the largest flowers relative to their size. Succulents come in sculptural shapes and forms. When these plants are designed well in the garden, they can create a fabulous...

I love hydrangeas – the varying shades of blue, pink and lavender. Now, there is a way to preserve these lovely blooms and use them indoors.

Forsythia bushes are a favorite early spring bloomer. If you're too impatient to wait for the warm weather, you can force them to bloom. This article tells how...

Deadheading is the removal of spent flowers from a plant before it goes to seed. This encourages the plant to continue blooming for the rest of the growing season. For echinacea plants, this...

There’s beautiful bunches of lilies and an entire patch of wild roses blooming in your backyard. But like many other timid gardeners, clipping and organizing those beautiful sprays of flowers into...

Growing a flower garden has the duel benefit of making your yard look beautiful while allowing you to bring that beauty inside with fresh cut bouquets. These few simple tips can make the flowers...

With tall stems, greenish-white, bell-shaped flowers that hang down and blue-black fruit, Solomon's Seal is one of the more unusual looking wildflowers and is often used by landscape artists. It...

Few pleasures in life are so simple as surrounding yourself with flowers, indoors and out. Great satisfaction comes when your vases are overflowing with homegrown blossoms. Spread the joy by...