Flower Gardens

Feature Writer: Christine Eirschele
Welcome to an entire flower garden experience.
Learn how to collect flower garden information on plants like perennials, annuals and wildflowers.
With ideas from theme flower gardens, create sustainable small gardens or attract pollinators with recently released cultivars. In scented flower gardens, consider new plant combinations. Speaking of fragrance, nothing says it like rose garden ideas or public rose gardens to see first hand.
Flower gardeners will gain inspiration visiting public gardens. Heritage flower gardens are rooted in the past or have exotic plant collections.
Here is a sampling of more flower gardens articles sure to prepare gardeners for an extraordinary journey.
For more garden musings check out the Flower Garden blog.
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Christine Eirschele
Nov 25, 2009
Finding Best Poinsettias at Dill's Greenhouse
In: Theme Flower Gardens
From Ohio's Dill's Greenhouse, nursery grower talks about the best holiday poinsettia plants and and culture care to have healthy indoor flora at home.
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Nov 20, 2009
New Sweet Alyssum Flower Called Snow Princess™
In: Flower Gardens (general)
A Lobularia maritima 'Inlbusnopc' is the new Snow Princess™ sweet alyssum idea for summer gardens. This annual plant is easy to grow in hanging baskets or mixed borders.
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Nov 18, 2009
Perennial Heliopsis and Russian Sage in a Garden
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Heliopsis and Russian sage are deer resistant but attract pollinators seeking nectar filled flowers. These perennials bring bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to gardens.
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Nov 17, 2009
Rain Gardening in the South
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge and Everything in Between is written by Horticulturalists, Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford.
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Nov 13, 2009
Salvias and Sages for Blooming Gardens
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Salvia and sage include tough annuals, perennials and herb plants that flower in summer gardens. These plants are easy to grow, drought tolerant and attract pollinators.
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Nov 10, 2009
Pretty Much Picasso™ and Dolcissima Petunias
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Petunia flowers like Pretty Much Picasso™ and the Dolcissima series have multicolored blooms on each plant. These unique annual petunias add variety to summer gardens.
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Nov 8, 2009
Diamond Frost® Euphorbia Complements Poinsettias
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Euphorbia Diamond Frost® is the best plant for complementing poinsettias. Both are easy to grow, classically decorate homes and keep throughout a winter holiday season.
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Nov 3, 2009
Hardy Lilium Martagon for Woodland Gardens
In: Theme Flower Gardens
Species of Lilium have a variety of plant and flower forms, including Turk's-cap. Lillium martagon is a hardy lily that tolerates growing in woodland gardens.
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