Oriental Lilies: The Climates They Love and How to Care for Them
April 15, 2009
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Oriental Lilies: The Climates They Love and How to Care for Them
A cluster planted garden patch of Oriental lilies is truly a spectacle to behold. They are graceful and elegant, yet strong and will take a commanding presence in your garden. Growing and caring for them takes a little practice but once you get the hang of it, they will repay you will splendid blooms.
Oriental lilies prefer acid soil and temperate, and moist summers. Provide these by shade, mulching, or container culture if necessary. Their enormous flowers, heavenly fragrance, and late summer bloom time are worth the extra efforts!
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March 16, 2009
Incorporating Hostas and Ferns in Your Garden Design
If your garden has oodles of shade, you can still make it appear green and inviting using such shade loving plants as hostas and ferns. Both are wonderful ornamental foliage plants that add grace and charm to any garden area, including in pots on patios and decks.
Hostas and ferns can be best enhanced by appropriate placement of landscape garden garden elements such as statuary, or a stone bench, brick walk or birdbath nearby (also known as hardscape). Such elements make a nice contrast to the rich, lush and graceful greenery that both ferns and hostas provide?just visualize yourself relaxing on a hot summer?s day on a stone bench set in a cool, soothing and serene border filled with hostas and ferns!
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February 14, 2009
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Hostas make wonderful plants all by themselves, but when you start grouping a few together or you make an entire hosta garden, the effect is strikingly beautiful.
Hosta plants come in such a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and textures that it’s sometimes difficult to choose just a few to start a hosta garden with. Most people actually end up with hostas in their yard or garden, because they’re thought of as being shade loving plants. And this is true to an extent.
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January 15, 2009
Bulb Gardens
Bulb gardens tend to be a favorite of many, particularly when you want a formal looking garden which has lots of vibrant, cheery color in it. When you mention bulb gardens to most people though, they automatically think you’re talking about tulips or daffodils. There are in fact though, many variations of plants that grow from bulbs.
Tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths are some of the most popular types of flowers to grow in a bulb garden, but others you may like include many different kinds of Lily flowers, snowdrops, crocus, dahlias, canna lilies, irises, begonias, amaryllis, and many others. All of these bulb flowers are gorgeous in almost any type of garden you can imagine. They come in a large variety of sizes, colors, textures and shapes, plus they blossom wonderfully throughout a variety of months each year.
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Different types of Hosta Plants
Hosta plants are most well known for their ability to grow in shady areas, and their amazing variety of colors and textures. Not everyone knows this, but many types of hosta plants actually produce flowers too, and these flowers can be quite beautiful in and of themselves.
Flowering hosta plants usually need a little more sunlight than non flowering ones though, and this is particularly true for hostas which produce flowers that have a nice scent to them. How much sunlight these plants need will depend on the strength of sun in your own garden zone though, and there may be a bit of trial and error involved before you discover just the right location for them.
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