Growing & Preserving Cut Flowers
There is nothing more cheerful than vases full of fresh flowers placed around the house that have been grown and cut from your own garden. A cut flower is one that has been cut at the stem and placed in a vase of water. Cut flowers are grown from both annual and perennial plants. Here is a short list (by common name) of cut flowers that you can grow in your own garden to enjoy for many years to come.

How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
Visualize watching a bright green hummingbird in your garden moving from flower to flower in search of the tasty nectar within.  These beautiful and tiny birds weigh about 2 to 20 grams and are found in a wide variety of environments from the high Andes to lowlands, and from dry desert areas to rainforests.

Ladybugs, Ladybugs Come to My Garden
Ladybugs, also called lady beetles or ladybirds, can be a gardener’s best friend.  The ladybug’s bright coloring brings welcomed cheer to the garden, as well as helping with pest control.  Since medieval times, ladybugs have been valued by farmers all over the world.  Many believe that the ladybug was divinely sent to free crops of insect pests.

Trust Your Plants They Know How to Grow
I've done a lot of container gardening over the years, and one thing is a given for potted plants: it's a life of constant change. Moving around from one part of the garden, patio or sunroom to another, moving indoors and back outdoors again, and of course the inevitable periodic re-potting.

How to Create a Wildflower Garden
In today’s gardens often populated by geraniums, roses, and zinnias, wildflowers can provide a simple and graceful flair.  Almost any garden or landscape can be beautified by their presence.  Not only are wildflowers easy to grow but they possess a natural resistance to pests, disease, and harsh climates.  They can survive in clay soil, nutrient poor soil, sandy soil, and practically no soil at all.

10 Free Gardening Products
One of the pleasurable spin-offs in organic gardening is finding alternative ways of coming up with the same, if not better, end result..... Household throwaways can be valuable to the alternate enthusiast. Here are ten recyclable ideas to make gardening a little less hard on the pocket!

5 Perennials for Shade Gardens
You can create a beautiful garden in the shade that can act as a cooling retreat on those hot summer days. By using perennials, your flowers will come up year after year for a lifetime of enjoyment.

Getting Started with Garden & Patio Design
Designing a patio - or a garden, is much like designing a living room or a park. It's all about space, and how you use it. To start with, you have empty space with nothing in it. Then you add plants, statues and other decorative items to fill that space and make it feel like a homey, comfortable space.. but wait! You don't want to actually fill it with stuff

Gardening - Natural Science Not Rocket Science
Don't force yourself out of the most profitable hobby in the universe because you think it's too hard to learn...It isn't!  Gardening is fast becoming the world's number one hobby, and with all the latest 'alternative' information we have to hand, gardening as a natural science is fun to learn about and rewarding in the extreme...

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