Winter Gardening in Inland Southern California
Southern California is a gardener’s delight. While other parts of the country are blanketed in snow, our winter vegetable gardens are thriving.
Avoid Weeding with These Weed Suppressing Plants
Get rid of those unwanted weeds by planting these flowers…
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Forcing Spring Flowering Shrubs: How to Bring Color and Life Into Your House in The Dead of Winter
Instructions on how to force spring flowering shrubs to provide beautiful natural bouquets this winter.
I Can’t Grow Radishes
A humorous look at things that escape what I consider my pretty good gardening skills.
March on Into Spring in The Northwest
Tips and guides to seed starting, varieties suited to the Pacific Northwest, avoiding the tomato blight and the use of sterile mediums.
Special Care for Cut Flowers
If you like to have cut flowers in the house, there are quite some tricks to make them last longer. By investing just a bit of time, you are able to enjoy them for a far longer time than by just plonking them in a vase. And there are some flowers that can be kept for quite a long time even when cut.
Creation of an English Cottage Garden
How to choose the plants and design an old-world fragrant English cottage garden.
African Violets
I had a grandmother who used to collect African violets. I always looked at these colorful plants when I was a child, as they rested on her window and dressers or on top of lace doilies in tiny groups.
Guide to Growing Chili Peppers
Chili’s can be grown all around the world however they originated in the Americas and are more suited to the warmer climates, This article will describe how to successfully grow your own.
