Category: Garden Tips
How To: Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders
How To Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders—Tips From Duncraft Each spring when hummingbird feeders go up, Duncraft begins to get calls from customers asking how to keep bees away from the sweet nectar. If bees or wasps are a problem, Duncraft offers these tips: Aspects HummZinger Ultra Thank you for these tips, I’m definitely going to try [...]
How To: Find Landscaping Ideas
For the person who wants to give their garden a face lift they have some options available to them. These options will range from simply adding new plants and other garden accessories to your garden to hiring landscaping firms. You could look at some landscaping ideas before you begin any major sweeping changes to your [...]
How To: Grow Your Own Herbs
If you’re not the type of person that wants to spend their time managing an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden, you might consider planting and maintaining an herb garden. While the product might not seem as significant, you’ll still enjoy the constant availability of fresh, delicious herbs to flavor your meals with. First you’ll want [...]
How To: Choose the Right Roses
There are an extremely large number of rose varieties available at this time, most of these varieties are suitable to raise in your home garden. With so many different types to choose from deciding which roses to grow can seem more like a difficult task than a part of the fun of growing roses. By [...]
How To: Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging
Adding edging around your garden or landscape is as important as the garden itself. The edging frames your garden much like a picture frame. A picture can be interesting and beautiful but it needs a frame to enhance its appearance, so it is with your garden. There are various types of garden edgings. Many people [...]
How To: Plant Spring Flower Bulbs
Spring is the favorite season of many. It is a time of rebirth, renewal, and rejuvenation. One of the greatest joys of spring is the beautiful assortment of flowers. You can get this joy at home by planting spring flower bulbs. These are bulbs that bloom in early spring while other plants are still developing. [...]
How To: Choose The Perfect Flowers For Summer
Summer flowers and bedding plants are a great way to instantly add color to your lawn. Summer flowers start appearing in garden centers in the early spring, but you should be careful to plant only after the danger of freezing weather has passed. Summer flowers produce the best results when purchased ready to plant rather [...]
How To: Find Cheap Pond Liners
Installing a garden pond is no longer a distant dream but an easy goal. Concrete ponds have been replaced with artificial, preformed and flexible Pond Liners which make the task of installing a pond easier and cheaper. When building on a budget, one can settle for a small water garden that holds less than 1,500 [...]
How To: Ensure Your Bulbs Bloom Early
I often notice when visiting gardens the great quantities of Daffodils and other early bulbs that we plant to herald in the spring. But how do we ensure we have a great display each year? The Early Flowering Bulbs Quite a few seasoned gardeners have had their first horticultural “experience” by the planting of a [...]
How To: Take Care of a Flower Garden
Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health. 1. The essentials must always be given major consideration Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and [...]
