Blogs Posts in General Information category; 309 blog posts

Hold your nose - Corpse flower to bloom at butterfly center

The corpse flower is so rare that only 28 have ever been known to bloom in the United States. The 29th is poised to open any day now at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The lime-green bud, which resembles an oversized endive, w [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

How to ensure the grass in your garden is easy to maintain a...

Colin Berridge of Peterborough Grass Machinery says cut the grass according to the weather. If you cut it tight now and we have two weeks of sun and no rain it goes brown very fast. So be cautious and set the blades a little higher. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Fountain Plant

The Fountain Plant can be a beautiful and fulfilling addition to an aquarium and has a normal variety that reaches 8 inches (20 cm) in height, as well as a dwarf variety (Ophiopogon japonicus var. kyoto) that only reaches 4 inches (10 cm [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Make your garden a safe habitat for wildlife

The never-ending, heart-rending sight of the Gulf oil spill and its devastating effect on human and wild residents alike has us all horrified. While there may be little we New Englanders can do for the fish, turtles, mammals and birds of [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society pick top...

The International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society annually polls aquatic-plant experts around the world to build a list of candidates in the running for its pond plants of the year. These plants in three categories includ [...]

Posted On : Jul, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

How Gardening Teaches Patience

The other day I was weeding my asparagus patch. Asparagus takes three years to get going enough for you to start eating it. The first year you plant asparagus, it takes its good old time getting going, and you have to fight the weeds and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Five plants anyone can grow

There are plants that I never get questions about. Nothing ever troubles these sturdy specimens and gardeners never need to coax them along. If you are a new gardener or are starting a new garden in challenging conditions (such as any ne [...]

Posted On : Jun, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Garden Gives City Kids A Taste For Veggies

City kids learn a lot of valuable tools for survival, like how to ride subways and push the buttons on elevators. But a lot of city kids think that green is just the color of a streetlight. Not Annie and Veda, two 5-year-old girls living [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Turn a garden into a jewel box with glass

While lecturing on low-cost planting ideas, I referred to the succulent jewel-box garden. I was told afterward that many in the audience had no idea what this means. This unique design style was made famous by Thomas Hobbs' 2004 book [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening beneficial to the home and the homeowner ‎

Gardening is one of the ways through which property owners can transform their homes into tranquil spaces that can be nice to relax in and they require basic skills to achieve this. With simple do it yourself know how, householders can g [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Aussie garden gets Chelsea Flower Show nod

A miniature version of the Australian native plant garden from Cranbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens will be recreated in Chelsea in May next year. It will be one of six major displays at the show. Chief executive of the Cranbourne gard [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Bee species that builds its nest with petals

In a rare coincidence, researchers working in both Turkey and Iran discovered on the same day how a rare species of bee builds its nest with petals of pink, yellow, blue and purple flowers. The females from the solitary species Osima [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Why gardening can be the best form of therapy

Coming in from the garden, once again I’m heading for the medicine cabinet. This time it’s for disinfectant to help to work out a rose thorn splinter, yesterday it was thermal rub to ease back pain, and soon it’ll be an [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Ten gardening tips

You should excuse the pun — gardening is rapidly growing into the number-one North American hobby. Maybe we’re trying to save money by growing our own veggies or maybe gardeners are returning to the soil as a means of wo [...]