Make sure that you keep up on those weeds, the best time to remove
those pesky things are right after you water or right after it rains.
Try to remove every day that way you don’t have a lot to do at time
and you will always won’t have to remove weeds every day.

Welcome Hummingbirds and butterflies in your yard with perenials gardens which is available at your local stores. Just some suggestion for your gardens are: Violet Dusk, Monarda Pelite Delights, Shasta Daisy, Buddleia Nanho Blue, These are best to plant between the months of March and June. Hummingbirds and butterfly’s will love your garden.

I have been trying to grow tomatoes on my screened-in back porch. I’m using those Topsy Turvy planters which allow you to hang the plant upside down so you don’t have to worry about staking. The plants look really healthy and I’ve had tons of yellow flowers, but no tomatoes. I even thinned out the [...]

Easy to grow cone flowers are easy to grow and are very drought tolerant and they attract birds, butterflies. And they also make great arrangements for our homes or offices. Here are just some that are out there for our enjoyment: Echinacea Orange Meadowbrite, Mango Meadowbite, Pixie Meadowbite, Big Sky, and Pink Double Delight.

Cottage plantings are informally arranged and packed tightly with pernnials, shurbs.  During peek bloom they seem to overflow with multi color. You could use the following at your cottage. Dwarf Ailberta spruce, Balloon Flower, Salvia, Lamb’s Ear, Daylily or even Impatiens add great color and a good filler.