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Growing Sweet Peas to Add More Fragrance to Your Garden

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Flower Gardening, flowers, home gardening tips

The gardeners and farmers know Sweet Peas (Lathyrus Odoratus) for hundreds of years now. Fragrance of the sweet peas is beyond comparison and simply takes you to heavens. If you are planning to grow sweet peas in your garden then you must pick the right variety. These days genetically engineered hybrid varieties are also available […]

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Growing Tree Peonies: Getting Closer To the Nature’s Love

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Flower Gardening, flowers, home gardening tips

The beauty and elegance of tree peonies is simply beyond any comparison. Just imagine almost six feet high plants loaded with a hundred large blowsy blooms of snow white, pink, purple, and lemon yellow flowers covering a prominent space in your garden! Your visitors just cannot pass without praising your sense of gardening with love. […]

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Tips on How to Re-Pot and Divide Orchids

June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Flower Gardening, by plant, care and watering, container gardening, flowers, home gardening tips, houseplants, indoor gardening

A gardener growing orchids in the garden knows when to re-pot it. However, for someone who is a beginner with this lovely plant ,it is very important to know when the leaves and bulbs start getting packed completely in to the pot in such a way that it becomes bulging. At this stage, you should […]

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Growing Lovely Thryptomene Shrubs in Your Garden

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Flower Gardening, Shrubs, flowers, garden plants, home gardening tips, houseplants, indoor gardening

“Plant Genus Thryptomene” represents almost 40 different types of plant species of evergreen shrubs.Thryptomene is a Greek nomenclature, which means ‘coy’ or ‘prudish’. It is named on its appearance because when you see the shrub for the first time it will appear like coy or prudish.
Thryptomene is a native plant to western, central, and […]

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Summer Gardening: Beat the Heat with Perennials

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Flower Gardening, Gardening Techniques, garden method, garden plants, home gardening tips

Summer time during the month of June is good for new plantings. Earlier perennials used to be marketed either bare-root or field-dug but now use of plastic and other containers has made it easy as the new plants get acclimatized to the new surroundings and environment.When gardening in the month of June you must ensure […]

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Pollinators and Flowers: Welcome Your Garden Guests With Their Favourites

May 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Flower Gardening, flowers, home gardening tips

Open light and bright sunlight in your garden will certainly invite several guests to give you moments of pleasure. Your children and grandchildren would be extremely happy while spending time with these beautiful pollinators.
Firstly, you must bear in your mind that your garden must have multi-collared flowering plants. You should plan in such a way […]

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Plant Flower Bulbs to Have a Great Flower Garden

April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Flower Gardening, flowers, home gardening tips

“Flower Bulbs” are the enveloping future for flowers to bloom. A complete flower starts growing from the bulb only. It in fact exists inside the bulb and waits to come out at the right time.
You can have a lovely flower garden easily with the flower bulbs. In order to derive maximum flower-pleasure you just […]

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April Blooming Flowers

April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Gardening News, flowers, garden plants

April is the blooming time for several of the ornamental plants. Spring gives favorable environment for many ornamental plants a high-time for blooming.
Compilation of various types of horticultural reports reveals that some of the plants have their blooming dates spread over the whole month while some other plants are specific to a particular week of […]

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