Professional Plant Hunter Daniel J. Hinkley's Garden Windcliff Is Stunning

Adored by florists and gardeners everywhere, lilies are delightfully flamboyant with gorgeous flowers and heady perfume.Renowned for their big, bold blooms i

A sprawling, green lawn might be a suburban landscaping classic, but there are other ways to landscape your yard. Phase out a grass lawn by adopting ground cover plants instead, and you can conserve water, spend less time behind a mower, and attract vital pollinators to your backyard. Plus, many of these hardy low-lying plants are edible, native species that will spruce up not just your backyard but your kitchen as well.

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Botanical Name:  Begonia spp

If there’s one thing that gets my goat, its, what’s in and what’s out in gardening. Now honestly I don’t want to alienate myself, of course everyone’s entitled to an opinion but don’t you sometimes think there is a bit of inverted snobbery going on. I have always loved gardens and gardening, I like the subtle garden with foliage of different hues and perhaps white flowers giving that relaxed feeling. I am mad about the Summer mixed perennial borders which give that great to be alive feeling. The Rose borders are charming, the Scottish Heather borders can look great. Here’s the crunch, I absolutely also love the in your face loud, brash, garish front gardens which are packed with blindingly bright Summer bedding, makes me smile, makes me laugh. Picture of our front garden, I promise it was once more packed when the flower borders were wider than this. Whats not to like.

Window boxes and troughs are the perfect way to dress your house, but it’s not as easy as simply planting them up and forgetting about them. Even before you start putting plants into soil, it’s well worth thinking about the practicalities. If you can’t easily and regularly water your plants, for example, consider installing an irrigation system or buying self-watering window boxes (try lechuza.co.uk). Your choice of compost is also important, as many multi-purpose composts are too light and will dry out in a flash, so choose a soil-based compost such as John Innes No. 3 or make your own mix from topsoil and multi-purpose compost.

We all know what it’s like to come home from the grocery store and dig into the strawberries only to find them too bland, too tart, or too far gone.And when we get a nice, sweet, juicy batch we inhale them within a

The garden heliotrope, Heliotropium arborescens, is a tender shrubby perennial, or sub-shrub, of the borage family, with clusters of sweetly-scented blossoms in shades of purple, blue, or white.With a backdrop of dark green pleated leaves, plants bear a resembla

Finding color in the garden during the spring and summer is easy, with so many gorgeous flowers in bloom. But did you know you still enjoy attractive, colorful plants throughout the cooler months of autumn, and right into winter?We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy f

I think we can all agree: the world just wouldn’t be the same without garlic.This pungently potent vegetable is delightfully easy to grow. And as a natural pest and fungus

Check out these cool DIY Planter Ideas that you can use to utilize old furniture in your home in unique ways to grow plants.

If you are a fan of a patty and a burger and love to experiment with different flavors and tastes then this is the article for you! Try growing these Things to Grow for Tastiest Burger Ever!