Starting a Shade Garden

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard


Starting a Shade Garden

The shade garden can be exploding with color and texture. No matter how much shade is in your landscape,repparttar right flowers, plants, bushes and bulbs will grow in this area when given a chance. As there are various types of shade, you will need to chooserepparttar 113401 plants that are 'right' forrepparttar 113402 type of shade you have: partial, dense, full, or filtered shade.

In starting a shade garden, one ofrepparttar 113403 easiest shade gardens will berepparttar 113404 filtered shade garden. What you need to do first is look atrepparttar 113405 trees or bushes that are making this area a filtered shade garden. Pruning offrepparttar 113406 lower branches on taller bushes and onrepparttar 113407 tree will allow additional light into your garden. Because you are planning a filtered shade garden, you do want some amount of sunlight in that garden belowrepparttar 113408 tree.

Thinning outrepparttar 113409 bottom saplings that are trying to grow fromrepparttar 113410 tree is needed at this time to ensure they do not grow up in your garden. Underbrush and thorny bushes should be cut down and dug up at this time before starting your shade garden.

Now you can work onrepparttar 113411 soil that is inrepparttar 113412 area that you want to create that new garden. Adding organic materials, more soil, compost, manure or other types of nutrients torepparttar 113413 soil will preparerepparttar 113414 fine garden bed that will hold your shade plants.

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.

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