Garden Experiments
For the love of gardening and wildlife habitat
Great ideas for your garden and simple garden projects that add color and beauty to any spot in your garden. Find the perfect plant color combinations, container garden ideas, solutions for common garden problems, garden design inspiration, and more.
With Halloween just around the corner, I finally got my decorations put up outside. I love seeing the neighborhoods kids in their costumes when they come to trick-or-treat. Some of my scarier decorations have even been known to send little kids running. It’s all in good fun. While I love getting trick-or-treaters at my door on Halloween, I also …
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Holly bushes are notoriously difficult to remove. If you leave even a piece of a root in the ground, it may re-sprout and soon you’ll have new holly bushes and potentially even more growth in different places than you started with. Short of digging the entire root system up and pulling up the stump, is there an easier way to get rid of a holly …
Pink is a common flower color and one of my favorites. I have a lot of flowers that bloom throughout the year that produce various shades of pale pink to fuchsia. These are just a few of my favorites. The photo gallery at the bottom has more photos of the various pink blooms. Knockout Roses in Pink These roses are a breeze to grow (compared …
Life changes quickly and often – that’s just the joy and challenge of being alive. Going with the ebb and flow is sometimes difficult, but learning to do so is one of the most important things that I strive for. I’m not always successful, but when I am, life is much more pleasant. I moved this past weekend, leaving behind my nearly two acres of …
This winter, and even into the spring, I started some seeds in my garage under my new commercial grow light. It worked really well and I am growing marigolds, coleus, tomatoes, African daisies, basil, and more from seeds. It’s a whole lot cheaper than buying plants and I have a much higher success rate with this new light. When you grow …
If you like butterflies, than planting both plants that host the larvae and feed the butterflies are important. These are some of the flowering herbaceous plants (and one vine) suitable for planting in the southeast for the butterflies that we have here. Flowering plants that are host to larvae of the butterfly Flowering plants that provide …
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