Often overflowing with colours, textures, and sweet scents, cottage gardens will delight your senses. Traditionally, cottage garden plants were more practical, providing food and medicinal herbs for the tenants. Today, however, cottage gardens have evolved into something more personal, including wild, whimsical mixes of ornamental flowers as well as medicinal and edible plants. This informal
Finding the right plants for your shaded garden may feel like an impossible task at first, but no need to despair! When it comes to dressing up these locations, beautiful partial shade perennials can add a whole new dimension to your landscape design with their alluring colours and textures. To help you nurture happy, healthy
If you only have a small space, no room to grow plants outside or, like me, you have accumulated a lot of little pots over the years, small pot plants are for you. Small pot plants are a great way to fill tricky indoor spaces such as desks and window sills with life and color.
Backpack foggers may seem like an intensive way to treat pest infestations, but they are actually quite useful and can provide the average homeowner with several hours of pest-free outdoor activity. Of course, a backpack fogger is not the ideal pest control option for everyone. In today’s article, we are talking about backpack foggers, what
Bermuda grass is one of the most common lawn grasses in the United States. Popular for its rapid growth rate, dense texture, and vibrant color, Bermuda grass is a favorite for athletic fields, golf courses, parks, and now suburban lawns. However, there are pros and cons to growing Bermuda grass, and if this is the
Creeping Charlie? It sounds like a character out of a horror movie, but in reality, this is a flowering plant in the mint family that is sometimes used for medicinal and culinary purposes. However, for many gardeners and landscapers, Creeping Charlie can be a true nightmare. This insidious weed has a way of creeping into
It’s a fun time to be a gardener because there are no hard and fast rules anymore. Your garden can have no style at all, or be 15 different types of gardens combined; choosing the best design for your space is ultimately about how the result makes you feel. The best part is that modern
Commonly thought of as a tropical plant, the fern is actually one of the most versatile commonly grown plants. Select the right type and you can grow a fern almost anywhere, both indoors and outside. Choosing the right types of ferns can be daunting. Especially when there are so many different types of ferns on