plants
Plant immune system: Gardening tips
Just like animals and humans, plants have an immune system - it's their defense mechanism that protects them from infections and other potential dangers. While some plant varieties are just naturally more protected than others, you still can improve your garden's immune system.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening health tips Garden 11 October 2023
Identify plant health through cambium: Gardening tips
When winter is gone, plants start to wake up after cold months, and some plants are way more resilient than others. Even when you can't see it, some branches can be already damaged by cold, and cambium can help you identify that well.
Kate Yakimchuk trees gardening nature Garden 11 October 2023
The healing callus: Gardening insights
Not only animals and humans can heal themselves - plants can also heal their wounds when damaged. When a plant is strong enough to survive the damage, it creates callus - a special patch that helps its healing.
Kate Yakimchuk callus gardening nature Garden 11 October 2023
Harden your garden: Tips on how to make your plants more resilient
You can't control the weather, so your garden plants are always at risk - especially if they are very gentle. Good news is that you can harden your plants to make them more resilient and strong.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening tips Garden 10 October 2023
Nymphaea: Growing and Care
Nymphs prefer stagnant water, and if in your pond they are located near a fountain, waterfall, or are splashed, there is a chance that such water lilies will bloom very poorly.
Diana Dashkevich flowers water gardening Garden 9 October 2023
Ferula: Growing and Care
This towering, winter-hardy herbaceous perennial can be grown in the background or as a solitaire plant, such as near a pond.
Diana Dashkevich gardening plants tips plants care Garden 8 October 2023
Creating a swamp garden: Gardening tips
If your garden is naturally wet, then you can choose suitable plants that can thrive there. This is called "swamp garden", and it can be a great idea on how to use natural features of your garden to your benefit.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening swamp tips Garden 8 October 2023
Dioecious plants: Gardening tips
When choosing perfect plants for your garden, you can choose dioecious plants - they can be pretty beneficial for you. Lots of plant varieties can be dioecious, so you should check the varieties before buying seeds or seedlings.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening planting Garden 7 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Ledum
Marsh wild rosemary is best planted in spring or autumn. Since it is a shrub, its seeds will take quite a long time to germinate.
Diana Dashkevich flowers gardening tips gardening Garden 7 October 2023
Benefits of hybridization: Gardening tips
Being a great gardener means learning new things and experimenting a lot - that's how you can achieve the best results. One of the methods of creating strong and healthy plants is hybridization - it allows you to add strength of different varieties to one plant.
Kate Yakimchuk hybridization gardening Garden 7 October 2023
Learning about galls: Gardening tips
If you want your plants to be healthy, then you should keep your eyes on signs that something might go wrong. One of such signs are galls - things that often show that your plants might be seriously ill.
Kate Yakimchuk galls health gardening Garden 7 October 2023
Features of alpine plants: Gardening tips
In some areas, you can only grow alpine plants in your garden - just because your climate is suitable for that. Alpine plants have some unusual features that help them grow in pretty tough conditions, and it can be quite handy.
Kate Yakimchuk nature gardening tips Garden 6 October 2023
Poisonous parts of edible plants: Know your food
Even the most common plants we often eat can be dangerous sometimes - it often depends on what parts you eat. Some plants have delicious and completely safe parts we cook and eat almost daily, but other parts are not that safe for us.
Kate Yakimchuk food poison facts Cooking 6 October 2023
Why forcing can be beneficial: Gardening tips
When gardening, you often want your plants to bloom earlier, but you can't change nature - or can you? By using forcing, you can alter your plants' growth time, and change them a lot, so it can be a quite beneficial method.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening forcing tips Garden 6 October 2023
Evergreens are amazing: Gardening tips
One of the most fascinating garden plants are evergreens - they are resilient and low-maintenance, and they always look great. In nature, evergreens developed a few cool tricks to survive in cold and challenging places.
Kate Yakimchuk evergreens gardening nature Garden 5 October 2023
Coleus: Growing and Care
The plant loves light (then its leaves have a rich color) and tolerates direct sunlight well, but not more than 4-5 hours in a row, so either place it in partial shade or remove it from a sunny place in the shade for 2 hours, otherwise it will get burned . Lack of light directly affects the bushiness of coleus.
Diana Dashkevich gardening plants tips Garden 5 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Dogwood
An open place where there is no shadow is better. The plant does not like the north wind, so it is advisable to provide it with additional protection from it. For protection purposes, you can plant a bush near the wall of a house or any building.
Diana Dashkevich gardening gardening tips Garden 5 October 2023
Vegetative propagation: Gardening tips
When creating a beautiful garden, you can use vegetative propagation to multiply your plants! It's one of the greatest things about gardening - you can buy only a few plants and create new ones easily.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening propagation planting Garden 5 October 2023
Tips for Gardeners: How to Grow Melissa
Fortunately, once the seedlings have appeared, their development proceeds very quickly, so that the first harvest of fragrant leaves can be harvested approximately three weeks after germination.
Diana Dashkevich mint plants tips Garden 4 October 2023
Adaptive plant varieties: Gardening insights
Even if you're new to gardening, then you've probably heard about adaptive plant varieties. These varieties are widely used all over the world, because they can provide amazing results in almost every climate.
Kate Yakimchuk gardening varieties tips Garden 3 October 2023