plants

moss
19.10.2023

When creating a beautiful and fruitful garden, you can use moss - it can improve your soil and help your plants thrive. You can use one specific type of moss named sphagnum - it can improve your gardening experience a lot.

Kate Yakimchuk moss sphagnum gardening Garden 19 October 2023
flowers
18.10.2023

To take care of your garden plants well, you should know about substrates - special types of soil needed for plants to thrive. Different plants have different needs, so it's beneficial to use the right substrates for them.

Kate Yakimchuk substrates gardening Garden 18 October 2023
flower
17.10.2023

When doing gardening as a hobby, you still need to know plenty of  terms and basic facts about your plants to help them thrive. One of such concepts is flower stigma - a thing that helps with pollination and reproduction of flowers.

Kate Yakimchuk flowers stigma gardening Garden 17 October 2023
wedelia
17.10.2023

If you want your garden to have a very romantic, fantasy-like vibe, or you just like thriving lush gardens, then you might like creeping plants. These plants are versatile, and they can create beautiful scenery in your garden, so you can choose them for various reasons.

Kate Yakimchuk gardening planting tips Garden 17 October 2023
flower
17.10.2023

While sometimes gardeners want their plants to grow faster, sometimes they actually need the opposite thing. That's why we have growth inhibitors - special chemicals that can slow down your plants, so you can enjoy some benefits.

Kate Yakimchuk inhibitors gardening planting growing Garden 17 October 2023
pruning
16.10.2023

If you want to be a successful gardener, then you need to know about rootstocks and how to use them beneficially. A rootstock is the lower part of a plant, usually a woody stem or root, onto which another plant, called the scion or graft, is attached. 

Kate Yakimchuk rootstocks gardening tips Garden 16 October 2023
plant
16.10.2023

Alocasia is a moisture-loving plant; it loves generous watering, but does not tolerate flooding or stagnation of water. It should be frequent, abundant and regular. The frequency depends on the growing conditions and directly depends on the thermometer readings.

Diana Dashkevich plants care plants tips Garden 16 October 2023
sprouts
16.10.2023

When growing plants, you can see zero shoots, also known and sucker growth - and it's often better to get rid of them. Removing sucker growth can benefit your plants a lot, making them more resilient and healthy.

Kate Yakimchuk gardening planting Garden 16 October 2023
gooseberry
16.10.2023

When learning more about plants, you can find lots of terms and methods you have to learn to become more experienced and successful. One of such terms is meristem - that's how some plants are described, and these plants have a few curious features you should know.

Kate Yakimchuk meristem gardening tips Garden 16 October 2023
roses
15.10.2023

To become a great gardener, you need to know more about various gardening techniques that can help your plants a lot. One of them is plant banding - a method that can help you protect your plants from pests and make them more resilient and healthy.

Kate Yakimchuk banding gardening pests tips Garden 15 October 2023
flower
15.10.2023

Kirkazon is distinguished by large ovate leaves with a matte, rough surface. They are round in shape and heart-shaped at the base. Just like the shape of ivy and grape leaves, the leaf shape of the kirkazon was used in architecture and taken as a model for Gothic ornaments.

Diana Dashkevich flowers gardening tips Garden 15 October 2023
orange flower
14.10.2023

If you love flowers, and just want your garden to be full of blossom and beauty, then you need a perterre - your personal heaven! A parterre is a type of garden focused on flowers and  decorative plants only, and if it's your passion, then you can make one by yourself.

Kate Yakimchuk parterre gardening tips Garden 14 October 2023
fern
14.10.2023

Ferns are one of the most beautiful decorative plants you can grow in your garden - their shapes and colors can be truly stunning! For a keen gardener, it's not hard to grow ferns, but it might be a challenge for a new gardener.

Kate Yakimchuk ferns gardening tips Garden 14 October 2023
offshoot
14.10.2023

When multiplying your garden plants, you can use offshoots to do it faster - it's a very convenient gardening method that works every time. These baby plants are naturally made to create new plants, so you can help your plants reproduce easily.

Kate Yakimchuk offshoot gardening planting nature Garden 14 October 2023
peony
14.10.2023

Gardening is an amazing hobby, because it provides plenty of opportunities to experiment and create new sorts - it's like your own playground! By using methods like plant budding, you can combine plants to achieve amazing results.

Kate Yakimchuk budding gardening tips Garden 14 October 2023
fertilizing
13.10.2023

When taking care of your garden plants, new gardeners often tend to choose the fastest and the most effective options available. Meanwhile, in some cases you should rather use slow release fertilizers - they can be quite beneficial.

Kate Yakimchuk fertilizer gardening soil Garden 13 October 2023
planting
13.10.2023

If you want to generate lots of new plants, then you might use a mother plant - this method of propagation is pretty beneficial. A mother plant is a robust and healthy specimen of a particular plant species or variety that serves as the source for generating new plants. 

Kate Yakimchuk planting gardening tips Garden 13 October 2023
garden bed
13.10.2023

If you want to grow resilient and strong plants, then you need polyecious plants - they can adapt to almost anything! Growing these plants can be quite beneficial for you, your harvest, and even your soil, so you shouldn't neglect them.

Kate Yakimchuk gardening nature Garden 13 October 2023
lichen
12.10.2023

If you're a keen gardener, or just love nature and spend time outdoors, then you probably know a lot about lichen. While it often appears in nature, it's not always great when it appears in your garden, because it can affect it quite a lot.

Kate Yakimchuk lichen gardening nature Garden 12 October 2023
roots
12.10.2023

Plants need roots to grow, but sometimes they also need rhizomes - weird horizontal root systems growing underground. While not all plants have them, they can be quite beneficial, because they can make your plants strong and resilient.

Kate Yakimchuk gardening roots rhizomes Garden 12 October 2023