Gardening And More

Did you know there are health benefits to having fresh cut flowers in your home or office? Let’s explore the wonderful benefits of having fresh cut flowers in your garden, home, or office. The benefits are easily obtainable and can be created in your garden. There are a wide range of annuals, perennials, bulbs, tropicals, groundcovers, shrubs, and trees that can be used as fresh cut flowers and floral greens. A fresh cut flower garden does not necessarily mean only flowering plants; there are non-flowering trees, shrubs, and groundcovers make an excellent addition for fresh greens in your flower arrangement. There are several flowering shrubs and trees that can be used as fresh cut flowers indoors. Depending on your USDA planting zone you may be lucky enough to enjoy a year-round cutting garden.  Strelitzia nicolai - White Bird of Paradise Some of the plants that are suggested in the newsletter you may already have planted in your garden, and a cutting garden does not necessarily h...

42 Drought Tolerant Perennials Why use drought tolerant perennials? There are several reasons why to incorporate them in the garden. To mention a few: plants considered drought tolerant have key characteristics that help them survive moderate to severe drought; planning a drought tolerant garden will conserve one of our most valuable resources – water; and believe it or not you will have a garden jammed pack with lots of color and action. Several of the plants listed serve more than one purpose in the garden than just being drought tolerant. For example: some plants will deter deer and rabbits; attract hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden; herbs for cooking; and lastly used in fresh-cut or dried floral arrangements. And, when you started planning this project of drought tolerant perennials you were thinking dull, drab garden. Right? Introducing drought tolerant gardening that will have lots of color and action. When planning your garden for drought consider a few things suc...