Hydrangea: Planting, Transplanting – Care and Growing Guide (Pictures)
Hydrangea flowers are some of the largest, showiest, and most colorful blooms you can grow in a garden landscape. Beautiful hydrangea bushes fill gardens with dazzling, colorful flowers and lush green foliage from spring through summer and until fall. One of the beauties of planting hydrangea flowering shrubs is that they are easy to grow in gardens or backyards. Some stunning hydrangea bushes are dwarf shrub varieties that grow well in containers as patio plants.
Hemlock Trees (Tsuga): Canadian, Western, Leaves, Bark (Pictures) – Identification
Hemlock trees (botanical name Tsuga) are a species of large evergreen coniferous trees native to North America. Hemlock trees are identified by their conical shape, flat, aromatic needle-like leaves, oval or cylindrical seed-bearing cones, and reddish-brown bark. Cultivars of the popular Eastern hemlock or Canadian hemlock are also beautiful landscaping trees or shrubs that are easy to grow.
Dwarf Japanese Maples (Including Weeping): Types, Leaves (With Pictures) – Identification
Dwarf Japanese maple trees are small decorative landscape trees with colorful ornamental palmate leaves. Small varieties of Japanese maples are ideal for small gardens, growing in containers, or miniature lawn trees. A stunning feature of dwarf Japanese maples is their red, orange, yellow, purple, green, and pink leafy foliage. Typically, dwarf varieties of Japanese maples grow between 3 and 10 ft. (1 – 3 m) tall.
Baby’s Breath Flowers (Gypsophila): Plant and Growing Guide (Pictures)
Baby’s breath flowers are small, delicate white, light pink, or yellow blooms, popular in floral arrangements and cut flowers. Flowers on baby’s breath plants grow as airy mounds of tiny blossoms that enhance aesthetics in a garden landscape. Baby’s breath plants are incredibly easy to grow and come back year after year, filling your garden with decorative clouds of cheerful flowers.
20 Japanese Maple Trees (Including Dwarf Varieties): Types, Leaves (Pictures) – Identification
Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) trees are spectacular ornamental landscape trees with colorful palmate leaves. Japanese maples have foliage in stunning hues of red, gold, bright green, orange, and yellow. Unlike other maple varieties, Japanese maples are relatively small trees, with many colorful dwarf Japanese maple trees suitable for small, compact gardens or growing in containers.
Living Fence: 25 Ideas for Natural Living Fences and Living Walls (Pictures)
A living fence is a great way to grow a natural privacy screen, hedge, or windbreak in your front or backyard. In most cases, planting and growing a living fence is less maintenance and more cost-effective than installing wooden or chain-link fences. Evergreen bushy trees and shrubs are ideal plants for creating a beautiful living wall to complement your garden landscape.
Monstera Minima: Plant Care and Growing Guide
Monstera minima is a leafy, tropical houseplant with large, heart-shaped, split leaves. As an easy-care indoors vining plant, a potted Monstera minima is ideal for adding an exotic touch to any room. Monstera minima has lobed leaves that dangle elegantly over hanging baskets or grow up a supporting frame or moss pole. The Monstera minima has smaller leaves and shorter growth than other houseplants that are called Monstera.
How to Keep Rabbits Out of Yard and Garden: Fences, Deterrents, Repellents and More
They may look like cute, cuddly animals, but there are plenty of reasons to keep rabbits out of your garden or yard. Rabbits love to nibble on tender shoots, leafy greens, vegetables, flowers, and shrubs. Preventing rabbits in your yard or garden requires a multi-method approach. It’s vital to protect your garden from plant-destroying bunnies with fences, growing plants rabbits hate and using a range of deterrents.
Vines With Red Flowers (With Pictures and Names) – Identification
Red flowering vines are climbing or creeper plants that add stunning red, scarlet, or dark pink colors to a garden landscape. Vines with red flowers require little maintenance, but their effect in a yard is spectacular. You can grow red climbing plants over arbors and pergolas or up trellises and brick walls. The attractive red flowers contrasting against lush green foliage enhance any garden.
Fluffy, Fuzzy or Furry Moths – Identification (With Pictures and Names)
Many types of fluffy moths are some of the prettiest and most beautiful winged insects you’ll find. Fuzzy moths can be colorful insects with pink, yellow, orange, blue, and white-colored wings. Many beautiful moths have fluffy brown bodies and wings with intricate patterns that can match the beauty of butterflies. Some spectacular furry moths have eye-like markings on their wings.