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74Five Tips For Saving Storm Damaged Plants
My wife and I worked hard this spring on our planting beds and containers. We spread eight yards of wood chips, planted new shrubs and flowering perennials. We put a dozen new rose bushes in a new bed along one side of the house. We made beautiful containers filled with flowering annuals. I even got two great hubs out of all the work, one on hydrangeas and one on mums. The yard had never looked better. Then, the wonderful spring thunderstorms came. In a span of twenty minutes, the yard and the b
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67Breakfast in a glass
This smoothie is ideal if you run out of fruit because it uses nutritious dried fruit. However, if you do have fresh berries why not add them to make it healthier. The muesli provides quick and slow-release energy. dried apricots,dried pitted...
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70Principles of Pruning
Pruning serves both practical and aesthetic ends and is designed to develop and reveal the best qualities of a plant. It entails the cutting away of any parts of a plant that are not required, and is particularly applicable to shrubs and trees. The...
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78How To Care For Olive Trees
How to care for olive trees in Tuscany through the seasons. An an annual cycle-chart shows which months the work gets done.
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81videoHow To Prune Olive Trees
Franco from Tuscany shows how to prune olive trees for light, air and healthy growth.
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74How to Grow Rose of Sharon
Among my favorite of flowering plants or shrubs is the Rose of Sharon. There are few things to me more beautiful than when this outstanding flower producer shows off its blooms in the latter part of the summer. Being part of the hibiscus (Hibiscus...
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74How to Grow Mint Indoors
Learning how to grow mint indoors is an easy and rewarding experience. Several factors impact the ability to grow indoors - the growing container, soil type, propagation methods, light requirements, and pruning methods are very important when growing mint indoors.
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60How to Grow Blackberries in the Southeast
I love Raspberries. But living on the coastal edge of Florida and Georgia makes me an avid blackberry grower. Raspberries don't like the southeast, it's just too hot for most varieties, but blackberries like it just fine. I first started cultivating...
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74How to Grow Lady’s Slipper Orchid
The lady's slipper is a wonderfully unique orchid that produces extraordinary blooms for decades once it's established. Lady's slippers have gorgeous blooms, coming in pink, mauve, greens, yellows and browns. They can bloom for months under the...
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