Blogs Posts in Landscape Plants category; 30 blog posts

Landscape gardening- creating and maintaining the greenery

The art of designing, creating and maintaining the greenery and green areas is commonly known as the landscape gardening. A house looks like a paradise if it is surrounded by a beautiful, well maintained garden. If you want to lend that b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Gardening Landscape Planting Guide - Guides To Making Your P...

The article aims to educate people on the importance of following landscape planting guides. Discussed below will be the different kinds of guides and the ways that it should be used. Getting Started Landscaping is an endeavour that t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Many Varieties of Hostas

The Hosta is a shade plant and comes in a wide variety of greens and whites. Some have leaves that are small, curly and variegated while others have wide, broad leaves and a single shade of green. Grows from spring till fall, then will di [...]

Posted On : Jul, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Choosing Pool Landscaping Plants

Choosing plants for your pool landscape is a difficult process that is unique to each individual, depending on decor, region and style. Some plants are more suited to different locations and others may have traits that are particularly de [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Wildlife garden bylaw to lie fallow until 2011

Wildlife gardeners will have to wait another year before the city changes its bylaw to allow tall grasses and wildflowers to flourish in people's yards. "Based on our resources and current workloads, we won't get [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Grace your home landscape with versatile sasanqua

Those pretty plants you see blooming now in your neighbor’s yard are sasanquas. Sasanquas are one of the most useful and versatile plants that anyone can ever have in their home landscape. Sasanquas have rich, dark green foliage and w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Gardening Articles: Landscaping Trees, Shrubs, & Vines

Barberries are attractive landscape plants. Their thorns can repel deer and other animals, they spread quickly to create a protective hedge, they are widely adapted to poor soils, and they grow in part shade to full sun. The red berries are [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Purifying Your Indoor Air - Plants

This is Part I of a three- part series - Many homes add green, luscious plants to their decor for a natural, decorative look that helps compliment any room. Besides looking great and adding a vibrant pop of color, plants can also purify t [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Lee's Landscaping And Design Announces Five Tips For Spring ...

Popular Minneapolis landscaping services firm, Lee's Landscaping and Design, Inc., recently announced five useful tips to help homeowners maintain pristine lawns throughout the Spring months. By following the firm's practical lawn maintena [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Alternatives to Invasive Landscape Plants

Many of the most familiar plants in our gardens, fields, and even our forests are not native to New Hampshire . Over the last 400 years or so, immigrants have brought plants from their countries of origin, importing such specimens as Japane [...]

Posted On : Feb, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Mum's the word for every landscape

This time of the year, "mum" is the word at Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Experiment Station in Crystal Springs, and it certainly should be at your home, too. We have hundreds of species of flowers from salvias to ros [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Local options for learning basics of D.I.Y landscaping

Once you start looking for landscaping "don'ts," you'll find them everywhere: a huge oak tree planted close to a house; a holly bush planted beneath a window and covering the view; a solitary island flower bed, floating by itself, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

As Nature Intended

While they may be pleasant to look at and easy to find, invasive plant species can be detrimental to both wildlife and the environment. David Faecke, a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas, said there’s a better way to garden [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Only the strong survive: Lake Elmo plot a laboratory for new...

Harold Pellett is perhaps the northern gardener's best friend, having dedicated his nearly 40-year career to breeding landscape plants capable of surviving harsh winters, sandy soils and a number of other challenging growing conditions comm [...]