ORNAMENTALS

Vegetable, Fruits and Flowers to Plant in July by Hardiness Zone Gardening is a season long endeavor, and a year-round thing in warmer growing zones. A trip to any local …

If you’re wanting to grow medicinal echinacea plants, then you’ll want to know which echinacea plants are most commonly used for natural remedies. Top 3 Medicinal Echinacea Plants Echinacea purpurea …

A perennial plant native to the Northern Hemisphere, Yarrow benefits are many, so many in fact that the more we researched, the more we discovered. In addition to the many …

Coloring flowers is a simple and fun project, delightful to kids and adults alike. Here’s how to dye flowers with food coloring. As a child of around 5 years old, …

We had no idea just how challenging it was going to be correctly identify the different varieties of mountain mint. So if you see any discrepancies in names versus photos …

Perhaps you’re wondering about growing basil indoors because you want to keep a living basil from the supermarket alive, or to continue growing your potted garden basil. Either way, the …

We’re growing calendula every spring and enjoy the cheerful presence all summer and into fall. We also harvest the flowers periodically for some of the many wonderful benefits of calendula …

We alway plant medicinal calendula plants in spring, so we wanted to know — and share — the best medicinal calendula varieties. Calendula is a member of the Asteraceae family …

A friend who lives in Florida was lamenting about an extended dry spell with 90°+ days, so naturally it got me wondering about the plants there. So I looked up …

Flowers brighten every landscape and garden. While we love exotic and unusual varieties, we also like to plant native plants of our state. So should you be in the mid-eastern …