Fresh-cut, home-grown flowers transform a house into a home! Cutting armfuls of flowers you grew, and then making arrangements, drying them or giving them away is a true country pleasure. For years, I resisted harvesting flowers from my gardens, afraid I would ruin the wonderful display. The perfect solution was to start a cutting garden.
This [...]

Monterey cypress
Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.                                     
Cypress family (Cupressaceae)
Post-Cook introduction
Medium-sized to large introduced aromatic evergreen
tree with small scalelike leaves. Trunk straight, to 110 ft
(34 m) high and commonly 21⁄2 ft (0.8 m) in diameter,
with conical or spreading crown. Bark dark gray, rough,
thick, furrowed into flat ridges. Inner bark light brown
with outer dark brown layer, slightly bitter, resinous.
Twigs [...]

Glorious beauty! As a little girl, my fantasy was to be surrounded by gorgeous, cheerful, fresh flowers. I just knew my home would have flowers everywhere – huge vases filled with buds and blooms of every color [...]

On this spring afternoon one corner of our vegetable garden is dominated by a clump of volunteer coriander, from seed I ‘missed’ last year. The opposite corner is marked by a bright spray of canary yellow broccoli flowers, from a few side shoots we left in place when we harvested the crop. A few feet [...]

The Rose Bug. - “The Rose-chafer, or Rose-bug, as it is more commonly and incorrectly called, is also a diurnal insect. It is the Melolontha subspinota of Fabricius, by whom it was first described, and belongs to the modern genus Macrodactylus of Latreille. Common as this insect is in the vicinity of Boston, it is, [...]

Beneficial Garden Insects
Beneficial insects will help to keep your garden free of harmful pests and reduce the need for much of the use of insecticides in the home garden.
Encourage beneficial insects to visit your garden by growing plants and flowers which provide food and a home for them. You an also purchase many good [...]

There are many things you can do with the flowers from your garden so that you can enjoy them a little longer. Drying flowers is a wonderful way, and you can use your dried flowers in various arrangements. You can also eat some of your flowers as well! This article will explain the steps to [...]

Yellow Wedding Flowers by Price and Season
A bride who has her heart set on yellow wedding flowers should consider the season in which her wedding will take place, before selecting a type of flower. In addition to the many meanings associated with yellow wedding flowers, the flower itself can symbolize a time of year.
Brides can [...]

Determine Which Flowers Come in Pink and May Be in the Wedding Budget
One of the big decisions that any betrothed couple must make for their wedding has to do with colors. What color dresses? What color flowers? With the latter there are so many options available and one of the colors of choice is pink. [...]

Can’t Find Seasonal Flowers to Fit Your Wedding Plans? Take a Look!
If you’re planning on having a red accent color in your wedding, as I am, you are going to need to find the perfect flowers for your special day! Here are some suggestions on popular red flowers, broken down by season!
There are certain [...]

If flowers could talk, what would they say? What does their language consist of? Well, we will probably never know. However, we can know what we think they are saying. Here are just a few of the things you can say when you give flowers as a gift.
During the Victorian era, people gave bundles of [...]