Garden design
The false indigo - a plant for your garden Garden design Bring a touch of blue in your garden with the false indigo plant. The name of this North American plant comes from its usage as a substitute of the vegetal originally used for dye, Indigofera Tinctoria. It is also used in the pharmaceutical indus ... | |
Grass can be ornamental Garden design If you thought grass is of a single type you were wrong. There is a large variety, with several purposes: ornamental, resistance to pests, cover for the ground and source of nutrients. We can find grass that grows up to 4-5 feet. The grass comes ... | |
How And When to Trim Bushes? Garden design In every garden or landscape we find bushes or shrubs as they are ideal as hedges, borders and screening, some even as focus points or general green background. Trimming and pruning is an important part of shrub maintenance and while most can tol ... | |
Caring about the Asparagus Fern Garden design Although the name says fern, the asparagus fern is actually part of the lily order. It comes from South Africa and many consider it a weed. Its uses today are decorative so you can find it in many households. The first person to use it this way w ... | |
Choose a bottle brush tree for the garden Garden design This funny called plant, the bottle brush tree, came from Australia. These trees love warm climate, receiving a lot of water and plenty of sunlight. It is also called Callistemon. Its flowers are bright red and are in the shape of a bottle brush, ... | |
Choosing Flowering Bushes For Shade Garden design Nature has provided us with many species of plants, beautiful both in bright sunlight or shade, so if your garden is generally low on sunlight or you have a patch and don’t know what to fill it with, we suggest flowering shrubs – “but how will th ... | |
Choosing Privacy Shrubs for Your Garden Garden design If you prefer the natural look over the hardscape fences (made of wood, concrete or vinyl) try fast growing privacy shrubs which will not only further enhance the beauty of your garden, but it will serve its initial purpose as well. Some of th ... | |
Types of Shrubs For Shade Garden design Shrubs are dwarf trees with multiple stems and they can be a great addition to your garden, as hedges, privacy screens or just central pieces, whether flowering or non-flowering. However, if your garden is shaded and you haven’t found somethin ... | |
How to Identify Some Evergreen Shrubs Garden design Evergreen shrubs are those that don’t shed all their foliage in one go, but instead renews it a bit at a time throughout the year. Some awe with their beautiful flowers, others with their colourful foliage or simply by remaining evergreen. Broad ... | |
Choosing Shrubs For Wet Areas Garden design If you live in a wet climate region but want to take up gardening, raising and caring for them might prove a bit difficult. Most ornamental plants can’t grow in excess moist without proper drainage; but don’t worry – there are plants and shrubs t ... | |