Preserving the Bouquet With VELCRO® Brand
Spring is coming and to get you excited about the flowers that are starting to bloom outside, how about decorating inside your home with cut flowers? Cut flowers are wildly popular. More than 4 billion cut flower stems are sold in the United States each year and almost 80% of them come from Colombia and Equador. Whether it be roses, lilies, carnations or many others, to keep these world traveling cut flowers fresh after they come home is a challenge.
Create Your Own Houseplants
Winter can be tough on gardeners. It’s too early to start seeds indoors in most locations and too cold to work outside. But one fun project you can do is to make more houseplants through propagation. Here’s the basics.
Create Your Own Holiday Bough
Tis the season for holiday decorating and while trees, poinsettias and wreaths dominate many garden centers don’t forget creating a beautiful, holiday swag. Holiday swags are versatile. They can be hung from doorways and walls indoors and outside or used as centerpieces on your table. You can make them big and gaudy or small and simple.
Create Your Outdoor Halloween Garden
For gardeners in most areas of the country, October means planting garlic and bulbs and wrapping up the garden for the season. But for kids, young and old alike, it’s also about Halloween. It’s fun to use the harvest and garden theme when decorating your yard and porch, perhaps even using flowers and veggies you grew yourself. Here are some fun ways to rock this fall classic.
How to Dry Your Summer Flowers
We’ve had a great summer of beautiful flowers in the garden. It’s hard to image they will be gone soon. But you don’t have to just rely on your memory or photos of your flower gardens all winter. With Resident Gardener, Charlie Nardozzi tips, you can preserve some of that color, too.
How to Care for Container Tomatoes
Resident Garden Expert, Charlie Nardozzi shares how to stay on top of your tomato plant growth with tips on tomato container culture.
