Pruning hydrangea: timing, technique, how much to remove
Hydrangea is a beautiful shrub, and pruning helps boost blooming and makes the plant healthier.
Dried flowers
Dried flowers are excellent to bring a little more of nature in the home.
Lavender, planting and caring for this fragrant flower
Lavender is famous in the Mediterranean for its fragrance and color. Care for it well!
Lavender wand, a fragrant ornament
A lavender wand is a gorgeous, fragrant handicraft made from lavender flowers. Simple to craft, it is an ideal gift for all.
5 keys for a beautiful winter garden
How should you care for your garden in winter? Snezana Gerbault, an agronomist and engineer, packed all her tips in book that was prized in several recent events.
Thistle, a prickly perennial!
Thistle is actually a generic name that includes many different perennials which have flowers that are addicted to needles!
Rhodanthe, superb for dry flowers
Rhodanthe is a pretty little annual that blooms from spring and until the first frosts, offering magnificent pink inflorescences with a yellow center.
Spike lavender, the lavender for wild rock gardens
Perhaps one of the least hardy European lavenders, Spike lavender will thrive in climates that are, at most, tickled
Hops, easy to grow in the garden
Hops isn’t only the famous plant used to brew beer, it is also a fantastic climbing vine.
Yarrow, an easy herb
Yarrow, also called “soldier’s woundwort“, is a nice perennial very much liked for its foliage and for its value as a herb and therapeutic relief agent.
Monarda, the plant that bees love that helps prepare soothing balms
Bee balm is a cute perennial that’s also an herb, native to North America. Useful to all for its many medicinal properties (Monarda) and cooking flavor, it’s also a very ornamental plant.
Fall garden checklist
Days grow shorter and frost spells are just around the corner… Here’s a checklist of what needs to be accomplished in fall before it starts getting cold.
Chives, a delicious herb
Chives are aromatic herbs that are very easy to grow. They produce an abundance of leaves.
Anaphalis, pearly everlasting, a drought-loving plant that blooms without water
Anaphalis is an excellent plant for extremely dry gardens, to the point that its pearly, everlasting flowers make excellent dried bouquets!
Infusing lavender oil, a simple way to make scented lavender oil
Infusing lavender oil is quite simple and doesn’t require any heavy equipment. All that’s needed is a carrier oil and the flowers from any type of lavender. Read also: Making lavender oil Lavender, an easy plant to grow Lavandin, the most productive lavender 3 steps to infuse lavender oil Lavender flowers, when steeped in another […]
Tansy, a wonderfully versatile plant for the garden
Fermented tea, maceration, infusion, decoction… garden tansy sure shares many benefits! Pest repellent and fungicide, it’s also an interesting flower that fosters biodiversity.
Sea lavender, a surprising flower perfect for drought, drying and more!
Impossible not to feel the charm of the statice, sea lavender! With its hundreds of tiny flowers forming cloud-like clusters of blue, yellow or soft pink, it’s hard to resist the enchantment!
Santolina, pruning, care, uses
Santolina is a Mediterranean plant with interesting evergreen leafage.
Preparing a bouquet of dried flowers
Easy to prepare, a bouquet of dried flowers has the advantage of keeping as long as you wish. Dried flowers can be arranged into magnificent bouquets
