Lifestyles — Home and Garden

• How to Grow Flowering Dogwood Trees from Seed

  Flowering Dogwood trees can be easily grown from seed, however 99.9999% of the seedlings that sprout will be Cornus Florida, which is White Flowering Dogwood. It doesnt matter if you collect the seeds from a White Dogwood or a Pink Dogwood, the seedlings are likely to be white.

• Easy Fall Propagation Techniques

  As a home gardener, fall should be a very special time for you. Fall is the best season of the year for plant propagation, especially for home gardeners who do not have the luxury of intermittent mist. The technique that I am going to describe here can be equally effective for evergreens as well as many deciduous plants.

• Mulch Your Spring Bulbs in the Fall for Spring

  Flower bulbs need a good, long, winters sleep. Like some people we know, if they wake up before they are fully rested, they get kind of cranky, and then they dont bloom well at all.

• The Secret of Growing Landscape Plants from Cuttings

  The secret of growing landscape plants from cuttings can be summed up in two words. Timing and technique. When you do your cuttings is every bit as important as how you do them. So if you do the right thing, at the right time of the year, your efforts are sure to bring success. Through this article you will learn both.

• Tips for a Beautiful Lawn

  A beautiful lawn does not come without some effort. Depending upon what type of soil you have, the amount of effort will vary. For instance when raising trees and shrubs, sandy or a gravel base soil is great. Landscape plants like well drained soiled. A lawn on the other hand is different. Lawn grasses grow constantly throughout the growing season, and need an ample supply of both nutrients and water. Regular watering and fertilization is required to keep a lawn beautiful.

• How to Grow Ornamental Grasses

  Ornamental grasses have become extremely popular in the past ten years or so, and if you buy them at a garden center they are kind of pricey. Learning how to grow them yourself is actually quite easy. They can be grown from seed, but I wont pretend to be an expert at that for several reasons. One, I dont know anything about growing them from seed, and two, I have no desire to propagate them from seed because seedlings require too much care. The easiest and most effective way to propagate them is through simple division.

• Winter is the Best Time for Tree Pruning

  There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the mail. This type of gardening is as easy and sitting in your favorite chair, browsing the catalogs, and either dreaming about what you’re going to do this spring, or actually drawing designs for the gardens you intend to work on.

• Organic Weed Control Guide

  Weeds can spoil the look of a flower bed, rob valuable nutrients from the soil and can be a general nuisance. If you don’t keep up with them, they can be even more troublesome to get rid of. While they can be difficult to get under control, don’t lose hope, it just takes a little persistence and know how.