Greenhouse gardening holds the growing season and is a way to protect plants against unfavorable weather conditions to grow a wide range of plants. No matter how highly experienced or how much of a novice one is at gardening, the experience is going to be made better if gardening is…
Whereas it presents its own set of challenges and opportunities, Zone 1 of the coldest USDA hardiness zones basically embraces areas that have winter temperatures of about -50°F (-45.6°C). The gardeners (xeriscape plants) must then choose plants that can bear this kind of cold climate and length. Happily, though, some…
Introduction A very lovely and hardy deciduous shrub is the false spirea—Sorbaria sorbifolia. Most of the time, one can enjoy its good foliage and elegant white inflorescences. This hardy plant can give a touch of elegance and some wild, natural beauty to a garden or landscape. For growing the spirea…
Introduction of the Yarrow Plant The yarrow or Achillea millefolium is a versatile and hardy perennial herb, popularly used due to its finely feathered nature and for small clusters of daisy-like flowers that decorate garden displays. It has been especially valued for hundreds of years due to its medicinal properties,…
Gardening on the tundra—proud of its extreme cold, very short growing seasons, and permafrost—is challenging but exciting. The tundra biome spreads primarily over the Arctic and Antarctic regions to form one of the most inhospitable environments for plant life. However, with careful planning and selection of plants, including innovative gardening…
Xeriscaping has been one sure way through which a lot of gardeners build sustainable and tough landscapes, with the persistent effect of climate change on the weather patterns around the world. The term xeriscaping literally means doing landscapes and gardening in ways that are resource-friendly and reduce the use of…
More and more gardeners and landscape designers have been getting into gardening with native plants. Birds enjoy native gardens, local critters pay visits, and water – a lot of it – is saved. Get to learn about this and more, inclusive of the principles and the processes of designing a…
What Is a Bird Garden? It can also attract and support numbers of bird species—a bird garden, also a special outdoor space—and it integrates plants, water, and feeding areas to create a habitat adapted to the requirements of birds throughout the stages of their yearly cycles. One of the major…
An ecosystem is, therefore, a complex web of relationships between living organisms and their physical environment. This includes all biotic components like plants, animals, fungi, micro-organisms, and abiotic components linked by energy flows and nutrient cycles. Interactions among these elements give rise to an integrated system capable of supporting life…
Native plants are those types of species that are naturally occurring in a given locale, ecosystem, or habitat without interference by human beings. Such plants have evolved over thousands of years to become appropriate for the local climatic conditions, soils, and ecological processes, therefore forming an integral part of local…
Within the complicated web of ecosystems, there exist certain very pivotal categories for the functioning of healthy ecosystems. These are known as keystone species. As NationalGeographic.org explains, So to put it in terms of plants, planting keystone is the deliberate addition or conservation of such important species that allow increased…
It’s not all about beautifying your space or growing food in gardening. On a systemic level, it may mean that we relate with Earth in a much better way. Earth–conscious gardening can help foster spaces that are rich in biodiversity and offer lots of conservation of resources and mitigating of…
Gardening is a very popular activity among the population due to all the beauty, peace, and even food it can provide in some cases. Then come the unwanted visitors that turn a perfectly fine garden into struggling soil. While the chemical pesticides are very effective against these intruders, they do…
Hover flies, commonly known as flower or syrphid flies, are revealed to be best friends to gardeners in pest control. These small—often brilliant—colored insects not only are good providers of pest control against aphid populations but also are crucial to successful pollination. One should know how to lure and take…
Introduction The green lacewing is a member of the family Chrysopidae and is a very key filamentous green insect in the biocontrol program of pests. It has larvae that are voracious predators of a large number of garden pests, hence becoming very valuable to gardeners and farmers who seek eco-friendly…
