Category Archives: Gardening And Landscaping

Types of Purple Weeds in Grass: Identification Guide with Pictures

Purple Weeds in Grass: Identification

Purple weeds in grass can be a nuisance if you want to maintain a lush, green lawn. The pesky purple flowers in the turfgrass can detract from the beauty of your front or backyard lawn. And trying to get rid of broadleaf weeds with purple flowers can be challenging. It seems that as soon as you pull out the purple flower weeds from the grass, they emerge again a few weeks later. Also, some fast-spreading weeds seem to materialize as if from nowhere after rainfall.

Florida Vines: Flowering, Evergreen (With Pictures)

Florida Vines: Flowering, Evergreen (With Pictures)

Flowering and evergreen vines are ideal landscaping solutions for Florida gardens. Climbing plants with flowers or evergreen foliage can grow on trellises, over arbors and pergolas, or hide fences. Additionally, flowering plants with spreading stems can grow as ground cover, help screen a backyard, cascade over a wall, or look stunning in a hanging basket on a patio. Regardless of your landscaping goals, many types of vines are ideal for Florida landscapes.

Types of Lawn Weeds (With Their Picture and Name) – Identification and Control

Types of Lawn Weeds

Lawn weeds are pesky unwelcome plants that can destroy your lawn’s beautiful appearance. But getting a weed-free lawn can be challenging. Not all lawn weeds look alike. And some types of grassy weeds like crabgrass and nutsedge look like grass and are hard to identify. Other invasive broadleaf weeds in lawns can have purple or yellow flowers. Because stubborn weeds like creeping Charlie, dandelions, and oxalis have creeping roots, the unwanted plants can be hard to get rid of in a healthy lawn.

Florida Native Plants – Identification Guide (With Pictures)

Florida Native Plants - Identification Guide (With Pictures)

Native Florida plants are perfect for planting throughout the Sunshine State. Flowers, shrubs, vining plants, and trees native to Florida thrive in hot, humid conditions characteristic of this southeastern state. These native plants are ideal landscaping solutions whether you live south of Lake Okeechobee, in central Florida between Orlando and Tampa, or in northern Florida from Jacksonville to the Panhandle.

The Best Flowers For Trellis – Identification Guide

The Best Flowers For Trellis - Identification Guide

Flowering climbing plants that grow up a trellis can add stunning visual height to a garden landscape. The best flowers for a trellis bloom for a long time, and they grow on stems that have clinging tendrils or wrap around the trellis structure. Vining plants climbing a trellis also help cover walls, fences, and unsightly garden structures or help define borders on an outdoor space.

Florida Privacy Plants (With Pictures) – Identification Guide

Florida Privacy Plants (With Pictures) - Identification Guide

Privacy plants are an excellent choice for planting in a Florida garden. Shrubs and climbing plants with dense foliage provide a natural barrier for screening, increasing security and protecting your front or backyard. Whether you’re looking for evergreen shrubs or flowering vines, there are plenty of options available that will thrive in the Sunshine State. By providing a tall, natural screen around your yard, you can also keep out prying eyes. 

Fence Landscaping Ideas: What to Plant Along Fence Line

Fence Landscaping Ideas: What to Plant Along Fence Line

Planting shrubs and creeping plants along a fence line is ideal for covering a bare or unsightly fencing system. Fence landscaping ideas can include planting evergreen shrubs to hide the fence throughout the year. Or you can plant flowering shrubs to add color, fragrance, and greenery from spring through fall. Additionally, you can landscape along a fence using climbing plants to grow behind the foliage of other shrubs.

Types of Climbing Plants: Climbers For Trellis, Walls and Fences — Identification Guide

Climbing Plants: Climbers For Trellis, Walls and Fences — Identification Guide

Climbing plants are an ideal landscaping solution to grow flowers and leafy foliage over walls, fences, and trellises. Plants with long stems that cling to structures by aerial roots, tendrils, or twisting around branches, wires, and poles can beautify a front or backyard. Many flowering plants with climbing habits add color and floral fragrances to enhance a garden landscape. Additionally, climbing plants are excellent for screening, privacy, and hiding ugly eyesores on your property.

Trellis Plants (With Pictures) – Identification Guide

Trellis Plants (With Pictures) - Identification Guide

Trellis plants are the perfect choice to boost the visual appeal of your garden landscape. Climbing plants and flowering vines add height, color, summer fragrances, stunning flowers, and leafy foliage to a trellis system. In addition, picking the right trellis plants can add a natural screen, privacy fence, or evergreen barrier to your backyard. And the beauty of plants that grow up trellises is that they generally require little—if any—maintenance.

Fast Growing Vines to Cover Fences and For Privacy (with Pictures) – Identification Guide

Fast Growing Vines to Cover Fences and For Privacy (with Pictures) - Identification Guide

Fast-growing vines are an ideal landscaping solution for adding color, greenery, floral scents, and height to your garden. Climbing plants that have rapid growth scramble over walls or chain link fences or climb over trellises, pergolas, and arbors. Fast-growing vines are also excellent for adding height to a garden landscape and removing harsh lines between foundation plantings, lawns, flower beds, and manufactured structures.