Caladiums Bring Bright Focal Points to Shady Gardens
Caladiums brighten shady spots with flamboyant leaves in hues of pink white and green. They grow from tubers require little care and thrive all summer to frost. fancy leaf and lance leaf varieties suit mass plantings containers and indoor displays.
Size And Seeds Tips For A Simple Backyard Garden
A compact guide to starting a small backyard vegetable garden. Start small to keep gardening enjoyable. For 10 by 10 feet you can harvest salads. 10 by 20 feet adds cooking vegetables. 20 by 20 feet could reduce your grocery bill. Choose nursery plants if inexperienced. start seeds for carrots peas and beans. Indoors use seed starting mix then harden seedlings outside before planting. Early spring crops include broccoli beets Brussels sprouts cabbage carrots cauliflower collards kale lettuce onions potatoes turnips. Sweet potatoes are frost sensitive.
Rising Stars Among Bedding Plants
Rising stars dominate garden beds as easy care alternatives to geraniums and petunias. Vinca and salvia thrive in hot sun, while verbena provides dense color all season. these varieties suit borders, containers, and rock gardens.
Less Is More in a Race For Space Container Gardening
A new gardening approach fits in tiny spaces from apartment courtyards to balconies. Containers and bags of mix enable flowering displays with Hollywood geraniums and Cascade petunias, while raised beds like square foot gardens maximize yields in small plots.
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Colorful Color by Color Garden Plan List
A garden color guide lists color themed plant groupings from blues to yellows. It suggests planting in flowing informal groupings with rear or center focal points and offers specific color matched plant names for blue red orange pink white and yellow schemes.
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