Gardening

How to Identify Shrubs
How to Identify Shrubs
Gardening
Shrubs are a beautiful addition to your garden adding to the pallet of colour with their dense foliage or stunning flowers. They are much smaller than trees, usually between 15 and 20 feet tall. There are so many species of shrubs with such diffe ...

How to make a vegetable garden trellis
How to make a vegetable garden trellis
Gardening
Give vertical plants support for growing and have an easier method to pick the vegetables by building a garden trellis. You can make this a do-it-yourself project. The materials necessary for the job are: saplings/branches, a tape measure, a mall ...

Caring For Holly Plants
Caring For Holly Plants
Gardening
Holly plants with green leaves and red berries symbolize Christmas and belong to the Ilex family. There are many types of hollies with green, blue or variegated leaves, having smooth or spiny edges. They are deciduous plants so if you want them t ...

Caring For Snowberry Shrubs
Caring For Snowberry Shrubs
Gardening
A deciduous shrub, the Snowberry shrub gets its name thanks to the white berries it bears which attract a lot of attention and hummingbirds. With its oval, dark green foliage, white flowers with a hint of pink and interesting fruit, the Snowberry ...

Caring For Junberry Trees
Caring For Junberry Trees
Gardening
The Junberry is a popular ornamental landscaping tree and gets its name because the berries ripen in June. It is a deciduous multi-stemmed tree, native to North America, with star-shaped white flowers blooming in spring, foliage from coppery-p ...

Caring For Carolina Allspice Shrubs
Caring For Carolina Allspice Shrubs
Gardening
This shrub is known for its fragrance which comes from the flowers as well as from the leaves. It’s native to North Carolina and the fragrance is spicier than other flowers, hence the name. It is said that before there were deodorants or body was ...

Caring For Burning Bush Shrubs
Caring For Burning Bush Shrubs
Gardening
A sight to be seen is a burning bush shrub, making your garden unforgettable, ideal as a hedge plant. Because of its winged appearance when in full blossom, the burning bush is called Euonymus alata (alata = wings), and its foliage varies from li ...

The meaning of bonsai trees
The meaning of bonsai trees
Gardening
There is an art through which miniature version of trees and plants are made. It is called bonsai. The growth of the chosen species is suppressed and by pruning the little plants look amazing, almost like illusive things. Let’s go deeper into kn ...

Taking care of Royal Poinciana tree
Taking care of Royal Poinciana tree
Gardening
The Royal Poinciana tree is also known as Delonix Regina (the scientific name). It is a flowering plant and draws anyone’s attention with its vibrant colors of red, orange, vermillion or yellow flowers. In some areas it will shed its leaves, but ...

Caring for a pine bonsai tree
Caring for a pine bonsai tree
Gardening
Bonsai is an art dedicated to growing miniature versions of large trees. The pine bonsai tree is one of the species that is use for this art and is suited for beginners, especially. How to take care of a pine bonsai tree: The first thing yo ...