Grafting, purpose and best techniques
Grafting, together with preparing cuttings, is one of the most important know-hows to learn when propagating trees and shrubs.
Dog rose
Dog rose is a name for wild roses: from this plant, all our beautiful roses were bred.
11 plant-me-now melliferous shrubs for pollinators
As appealing to us as they are to pollinators, melliferous plant species are where pollinator insects reign as kings. These beautiful flowers are gorged with pollen and nectar offered up for pollinators to feed on, a trade-off that 80% of all flower-bearing species sign up for in order to reproduce.
Grow a garden birds will love!
Attract chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, robin, greenfinch, goldfinch, wren, spotted woodpecker,
Rose health benefits and therapeutic value
Rose trees (Rosa) is a thorny shrub native to Europe and to the Middle East, that sometimes produces edible fruits.
Dog rose health benefits and therapeutic value
Often thought of as a wild plant, dog rose has many health benefits that help cure many ailments. Dog rose is a plant native to North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. It grows in forest clearings and along forest edges, in hedges along grazing prairies and on rather dry soil (especially chalky soil). This […]
Care-free rose trees
It isn’t always easy to choose the right rose trees. They all seem so healthy and magnificent at the nursery store! It helps to have a few guidelines to understand the “who’s who” of roses, especially when you try to consider their resistance to disease.
5 alternatives to invasive Scotch and French broom
Native alternatives exist to plant instead of invasive Scotch or French broom. They’re even more beautiful, if you consider that planting them restores habitats and
12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous
Out with the unending lines of thuja! These days, planting mixed hedges is all the fad. In such a hedge, evergreen leafage, colorful blooms and species that
Asthma, how to treat it with plants
Breathing means life and breathing well makes you feel even more alive!
Edible plants, become a neo-hunter-gatherer!
When taking a stroll in the woods or in the fields, rediscover the joys of collecting edible wild plants!
Dog rose, a rose tree with a rather wild touch
Plant a dog rose bush in a corner of your garden: it will charm you with its beautiful flowers in spring and you’ll eat its fruits all winter long as true delicacies!
