Home » Gardening » Page 16

Gardening - page 16

Monarda, or beebalm

Monarda, the plant that bees love that helps prepare soothing balms

Perennials
Paulownia, a fast-growing shade tree

Paulownia, racing for the heavens… to provide blissful shade for all!

Trees
How to harvest and keep fall fruit such as walnut, chestnut, apple and pear

Harvesting and keeping 4 key fruit crops in Fall

The fruit Orchard
Lagurus ovatus, bunny tail grass, in full bloom

Little bunny foo-foo, hopping through the garden!

Ornamental grasses
Cuor di bue tomato, here a small one

Cuor di bue, the original beefsteak tomato

Gardening
White eggplant varieties

White eggplant, different color, taste, feel… same care!

The Vegetable Patch
Large goat's beard shrub, Aruncus dioicus

Goat’s beard, feathery white plumes of the Aruncus dioicus plant

Perennials
Winter aconite, eranthis hyemalis

Eranthis hyemalis, the aconite with short gold yellow blooms in winter

Bulb flowers
Rice hulls turned into mulch at home

Home-made mulch, the DIY-solution is better than stores!

Special reports
Ivy latching on to bare rock

Grow climbing plants in your garden

Climbing plants
Fagus sylvatica, common beech

Fagus sylvatica, beech tree: varieties, planting and care

Trees
Caring for eggplant

Eggplant growing at last? Proper care leads to great harvests!

The Vegetable Patch
Vegetable patch with no maintenance

An effortless veggie garden

The Vegetable Patch
Rhipsalis plant

Rhipsalis, a plant that looks like hair

Cacti and succulents
yuzu tree

Yuzu, a hardy citrus for colder climates

Citrus
Goosefoot leaves, young ones are purple

Goosefoot, more than a weed: a leaf vegetable!

The Vegetable Patch
Different eggplant varieties in a crate

6 superb eggplant varieties, from egg-like to stunning black beauty

The Vegetable Patch
cotinus smoke tree

Cotinus, the smoke tree that catches fire in fall

Shrubs
Hypericum

Hypericum, yellow-studded shrubs from ankle-height to hard-to-reach

Shrubs
Kaffir makrut citrus hystrix

Kaffir lime, a small, lumpy citrus with a tasty Asian tang

Citrus
Olearia traversii

Olearia, the chatham tree that fell in love with the sea

Shrubs
Winter to spring, flowers that bloom in each month

Flowers from winter through spring, every month gets its blooms!

Bulb flowers
Flowers and leaves of prunus laurocerasus

Prunus laurocerasus, a shrub with leathery evergreen foliage

Shrubs
Savory, a herb that's delicious and easy to grow

Savory, an herb for even tastier grilling and cooking

Herbs and spices
Root parsley

Root parsley, the double-decker parsley

The Vegetable Patch
Hibi

Hibiscus moscheutos, a huge-flowered shrub with stunning blooms

Perennials
Panicum virgatum

Panicum virgatum, switch to switch grass for flower beds and pots!

Ornamental grasses
Mandarin orange tree

Mandarin, the ancestor of Clementines, delicious fruits and hardier tree

Citrus
Light shining through bamboo plants

Bamboo, a plant with mysterious secrets

Trees and shrubs
Phormium grass, New Zealand flax

Phormium, a grass-like clump of color in the garden… or pot… or terrace

Ornamental grasses
blue shrubs for dry garden

Silver and blue, 3 stunning flower shrubs for dry gardens

Shrubs
Choosing the right bamboo for planting

Choosing the right bamboo for planting: running, dwarf, black canes?

Trees and shrubs
Cold tolerance Citrus Trees

Citrus hardiness, which species survive as it freezes and gets colder

Citrus
Sagina subulata, a ground-cover plant that looks like grass and moss

Sagina subulata, the moss-like ground cover that flowers before summer

Perennials
Three different garden birds and how to identify them

Garden birds, learn to identify our singing and tweeting feathered garden friends

Special reports
Campanula carpatica, the carpathian bellflower

Campanula carpatica, the Carpathian bellflower: violet dots, lush growth

Perennials
Unusual hydrangeas

New hydrangea varieties that sure look different!

Garden Flowers
Callistemon is a fabulous shrub that also does great in cities

Callistemon: it looks like a bottlebrush and smells like lemon!

Shrubs
Tillandisa, the air plant

Tillandsia, succulent-like leaves… with no roots at all!

Foliage houseplants
White willow branch with catkins against a silver body of water

White willow, a light, breezy willow to line riverbeds and lakes

Trees
Sea orache, or salbush, leaves

Sea orache, the saltbush for seaside gardens… with edible leaves!

Shrubs
Cordyline australis - Cabbage tree

Cordyline australis, a palm-like plant that does great in cold weather

Trees
Phyllostachys bamboo with stems and leaves

Phyllostachys bamboo: plant, contain, and care like a pro

Trees and shrubs
Torino tomato

Torino tomato, the healthiest tomato: 10x more lycopene

The Vegetable Patch
French garden designs include patterns, hedges, and much more

French garden, landscape your own Jardin à la Française!

Special reports
cardoon

Cardoon, planting, care, blanching

The Vegetable Patch
Peacock hiding in a holly bush

5 shrubs that birds find inviting in the garden

Trees and shrubs
Tomato is a fruit that many think is a vegetable

Tomato, a fruit or a veggie? The final answer.

The Vegetable Patch
New varieties of tomatoes produced every year show how important this king of vegetables is for us

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

The Vegetable Patch
Nice sun shining through a windmill palm leaf

Windmill palm, blow those winter worries away!

Trees and shrubs
Fargesia bamboo

Fargesia, the dense-growing bamboo that’s perfect for privacy

Trees and shrubs