Archive for December, 2009

Landscape Your Yard With Rose Trees For Stunningly Beautiful Views

December 28th, 2009

If you are an amateur gardener who is looking for a project to enhance the look of the area that surrounds your home, you should consider rose trees. The colorful blooms that come every year will liven up any landscape! Rose trees, which are at times also called rose standards, are a bit different from your typical rose plant or rose bush. They are actually created by grafting a central cane to rootstock at the bottom, and to a grandiflora or floribunda rose bush at the top. This presents a Read More...

Wise Choices for the Novice Gardener: Marigolds

December 6th, 2009

Marigolds deserve the medal for being the flowers with the lowest maintenance required. In fact, some experts claim that marigolds are nearly care free. That’s not quite true, but if your garden color scheme runs to yellows and oranges, you can’t go wrong with the trusty marigold. Although marigolds are one of the few popular garden plants where it’s possible to grow from seed indoors and plant outside later, novice gardeners would do better to buy the plants already started Read More...