Holly (Ilex) ‘Little Rascal’ (Plant Pat. 9999)

This neat holly with no berries makes a handsome drive liner or hedge for a home.

Enjoy Flower Growing – Be On Your Way To Becoming A Greenthumb

What type of work do you feel you would be attracted to? Do you like the outdoors, or enjoy working in the garden. Imagine how happy you would be to look at the painting you have just finished, remembering how empty the canvas once looked. Compare that with the feeling when you look at the plant, you had been nurturing from its seed stage on your once empty soil, blooming with flowers today.

Garden Furniture: How to Care for Your New Wooden Investment

This article provides basic care instruction for wooden garden furniture, and gives information on how to get the most out of you new investment

Ways To Get Your Kids Into Organic Gardening

What a great legacy it is to teach our children how to garden organically. But how do we encourage them into the garden? By making it fun for them and giving them choice. Organic gardening is a great way to spend time with your kids and to help them understand the value of growing their own healthy, delicious food.

The Soil Benefits

The most important element in determining a garden’s success is according to experts its soil. Paying attention to soil quality dramatically improves the odds of producing healthy, verdant plants.

Your Garden Design Basics

As landscape matures, things change. Garden design is the process of designing the layout and planting of domestic gardens while keeping this change under control. But as people’s lifestyles change the areas once used for kids play or for dining out evenings, may no longer be needed.

Have Green In Your Yard All Year With The Ever Green Evergreen

Learn about 12 great evergreen shrubs and their care needs.

Fall Blooming Wildflower – Small White Aster

This wild, fall blooming wildflower is so covered with small, pure white blossoms that it seems to explode with color. It usually is found in fairly large colonies in fields and meadows bordering woodlands. From a distance the plants almost seem like an intense white cloud of color, and when blooming in conjunction with goldenrod the effect can be quite breathtaking in the autumn sun.

Six Rose Diseases And How To Treat Them

Roses can be challenging to grow but well worth the effort. here’s 6 ways to overcome diseases and pests in your rose bushes.

Ancient Fig Trees Through History

A history of the modern fruit tree.

Gardening…It Can Create Serenity, Relaxation, and a Sense of Accomplishment

Gardening is more than an activity. It can create calmness, peace, and that special feeling of being in an aspect of nature that you helped create.

Fountains for Your Garden

A garden is a beautiful place to relax after a long day at work. Besides growing lovely plants and flowers in the garden, you could also consider placing a fountain in your garden. With a garden, you not only increase the beauty of the garden, it also adds some personality to your garden. You are sure to feel more relaxed and happy in the tranquil atmosphere that the fountain creates in your garden. And just imagine, the fountain will be something that you can show off to your friends when they visit you!

10 Steps To A Perfect Bonsai Garden

If it could be properly narrowed down to ten steps in terms of getting the perfect bonsai garden, it would probably end up being a lot easier than it actually is to take care of the bonsai trees that make up your bonsai garden.

Flowers How to Buy Them when They are Fresh

Flowers form the best gifts and it takes some time and consideration for selecting the right Flower for the right occasion.

October Gardening Tips

October gardening tips for the Desert Southwest. For color pansies, snapdragons, dianthus, calendula, and stock will bloom thru winter.