Rose Tips

Looking for tips on how to grow roses? Maybe you need information on pruning roses or growing roses from cuttings? You can find plenty of rose gardening tips on some of my other blog posts.

How to Prune Roses
Knowing how to prune roses can mean the difference between having healthy, beautiful roses and a blooming mess. Knowing how to prune roses will lead to a hea...

10 Tips for Growing Beautiful Roses
Whether you are a beginner in rose gardening or looking for useful tips on growing roses you have come to the right place. Here you will find tips for everyt...

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings
Learning how to grow roses from cuttings can save you a lot of money and help you extend your rose garden. Growing roses from stem cuttings is easy with the ...

Sundowner Rosa Grandiflora
Sundowner is a beautiful Grandiflora rose. After planting it in my rose garden this spring I think it is now one of my favorite roses. Here you will find tip...

My Sundowner Rose

My Sundowner Rose

Above: pictures is of my Sundowner just as it began to open.

Below: My Sundowner a few days after the two blooms opened. Notice how the colors changed from the bright orange to various shades of peach, yellow, pink, and orange.

For more information on growing the Sundowner Rose check out:

Sundowner Rosa Grandiflora
Sundowner is a beautiful Grandiflora rose. After planting it in my rose garden this spring I think it is now one of my favorite roses. Here you will find tip...

My Floribunda Rose

My Angel Face Floribunda 

My new Angel Face Floribunda is doing great. I just planted it along with several others in my new rose garden. This beauty was the first one to bloom this year and I think it is officially one of my new favorite roses. It's last 8-10 days, smells great and has large, thick-petaled blooms.

My Garden Is Slowly Coming Together...

Over the last week or two I have got quite a bit accomplished in the yard... another reason for my lack of posting and updating my blog.

Well, since I last posted about my yard I have manged to put out about 2 yards of mulch and have 2 more to go. I also planted 28 Crape Myrtles; my proudest accomplishment seeing how I purchased them LAST YEAR and never got them in the ground till this year. They are the pink Souix Crape Myrtles and were planted 3 to a pot about 2 feet high.

I lost a few over the winter but still had 28 healthy crape myrtles left. I paired them up- using to per hole and used them to create a perimeter around my front yard on both roads (I live at the corner of an intersection on old dirt roads...) I am hoping by the end of the year they will be nice and thick and over the next few years put on some height.

My main goal is that in about 5 years I will have a 'screen' type privacy that is still see through, obviously, but adds to the decor.

Top 10 Easy Indoor Plants

Whether you are a beginner or a Master Gardener easy indoor plants may be better for you. I tend to forget about them or not have time to care for my indoor plants as much as I would like to. I have stopped trying to grow high maintainence plance indoors becuase I tend to run out of time to deal with them. Between work, family, and tending to the outdoor plants I forget all about the few I have indoor. I have had to revert to easy plants...

I have compiled a list of easy indoor plants for those of you who may be interested-

Top 10 Easy Indoor Plants
The key to growing indoor plants is to find the perfect plant for your home and gardening capabilities. Easy indoor plants are better for beginners and those...

How to Grow Crape Myrtles

How to Grow Crape Myrtles is a step by step guide for growing crape myrtles. It shares how to plant, water, fertilize, propagate and much more. A must have for any Crape Myrtle Gardener!

How to Grow Crape Myrtles from Cuttings

Crape Myrtles are starting to put on new growth and shortly it will be time to propagate crape myrtles from cuttings. Crape myrtle are easily grown from cuttings and you can learn how to do it at How to Grow Crape Myrtles from Cuttings, a tutorial on crape myrtle cuttings.

How to Get Rid of Carpenter Bees

Well, my new greenhouse is up and running and filling up with plants fast. It's also filling up with carpenter bees. Oh my.... I didn't know much about carpenter bees till I started to tell my husband about all the buzzing and the whole in one of the boards on my trusses in my BRAND NEW greenhouse. I was telling him how the sawdust was filling up one of the trays on my Canna Lilies and he told me that i was carpenter bees.

Ok- a bee. No big deal the bees are actually beneficial in my greenhouse because they polinate the plants. Well much to my surprise Carpenter Bees are far from beneficial. They chew holes in the wood and build nests inside the boards causing the boards to become hollow, less sturdy and eventually break.

Well, as if that ain't enough, getting rid of the carpenter bees consisted of more that spraying them out of their whole with the water hose or trying to squash one and think I was done. With that being said I thought it may be useful to share some of the info I discovered on How to Get Rid of Carpenter Bees.

How to Sell Plants Online

One of the most important decisions of selling plants online is deciding what plants to sell. There are several things you should factor in before making your ultimate decision. Do you have a specific type of plant you want to sell, a variety of plants, cuttings, seeds, rare plants?

Find out more about selling your plants online at How to Sell Plants Online and Where to Sell Your Plants Online

Turn Your Love for Plants Into Profit with a Backyard Nursery

Have a ton of extra plants? Love growing extra plants but don't know what to do with them? Want to open a nursery but don't' have the means or start up costs? Check out How to Start a Profitable Backyard Nursery to learn how to start your own nursery in your backyard with little or no space and no start up costs. Use what you got to get your profitable backyard nursery going!

How to Start Backyard Nursery

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings

Learning how to grow roses from cuttings can save you a lot of money and help you extend your rose garden. Growing roses from stem cuttings is easy with the right knowledge. There are a few things you need to know before getting started. Once you get the hang of it you can quickly increase your number of roses and enjoy them in a few short weeks.

For a step by step guide to growing roses from cuttings visit How to Grow Roses from Cuttings.

* This photo is a picture of my Sundowner Grandiflora that I will soon be taking cuttings from. I will keep you guys posted!