Rose Garden Tips

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard


Rose Garden Tips

The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time ofrepparttar day. You can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take awayrepparttar 113400 stress of your day with its beauty. The rose garden that you love and admire so much can be yours if you follow a few easy steps in planning and in raising your roses.

If you have never raised roses before, we have a few great tips and ideas lined up for your reference. One important thing to remember is that roses do loverepparttar 113401 sunshine. Inrepparttar 113402 garden that is full sun areas only, you will have great success in growing roses. If you have a partially shaded area where you want to grow new rose bushes, you may want to consider moving your plants to where your roses will receive at least six hours of sun a day or more.

When first planting or transplanting a rose bush, water will be an important factor. You will need to water your roses at least once a week as your rose establishes itself. The soil that you plant your rose in does need to drain well, this is important. The rose bush will not thrive inrepparttar 113403 area moist all ofrepparttar 113404 time. Refraining from planting your rose in an area that fills with puddles will aid in your successful rose gardening.

As your roses grow and change every year, you will need to pick offrepparttar 113405 dead head flowers. Picking offrepparttar 113406 flowers that are dead will bring new life to your bush. If you find black spots onrepparttar 113407 leaves of your rose bush, this will keep your plant from suffering and from any disease from spreading overrepparttar 113408 entire plant. Treating your plants atrepparttar 113409 first sign of Japanese beetles is going to save their luscious green leaves from these tiny creatures.

How to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard


The flittering ofrepparttar butterfly through your garden is no accident if you planned your garden carefully. The adult butterfly flitters from flower to flower - sipping nectar from many flowers in your gardens, while other adult butterflies search for areas to lay their larvae. It is good to take note thatrepparttar 113399 butterfly garden is going to differ from other areas of your garden. Your natural instincts will be to kill off pests, larvae and creatures inrepparttar 113400 garden, but inrepparttar 113401 butterfly garden your best results are noticed when you use organic gardening: Which means no chemicals at all.

In you want to includerepparttar 113402 use of butterflies in your landscape you will need to create a safety zone for your butterflies to feel safe. Butterflies frequent habitual zones, where they feel safe and where areas ofrepparttar 113403 landscape meet withrepparttar 113404 tree lines. Creating your butterfly gardens near or around trees will help in attracting even more of these graceful creatures to your gardens.

A tip in attractingrepparttar 113405 Black Swallowtail orrepparttar 113406 Anise Swallowtail is this: Plant parsley, dill or fennel in your gardens, these plants attract this certain butterfly. If these herbs are not your favorites, you can attract other types of butterflies using other flowers. To attractrepparttar 113407 Fritillary butterfly for instance, plant Lupine flowers your garden. Or you may want to consider planting Snapdragons to attract butterflies that are native in your own area. Your early butterfly gardens are going to attract butterflies only in passing, but creating and growingrepparttar 113408 gardens that offer a safe haven forrepparttar 113409 butterfly will urge them to stay in your garden.

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