Archive for September, 2008
Pot Pourri – preserve that summer scent
Its easy to make your own rose pot pourri, especially if you are lucky enough to have your own garden. But, even if you have not, keep any fallen rose ...
Creating Atmosphere in Your Home with Flowers
One of the most important elements that makes a home a true home is atmosphere. The place where you live should not just be a collection of rooms, it should ...
Fake Flowers a Major Issue
Officials in Des Plains, Illinois, were considering planting real flowers in hanging baskets downtown, instead of the fake silk ones that are now adorning the city streets. They thought that ...
Mums are Loved by All
Cushion chrysanthemums or mums are already filling the stores this season. Red, yellow, and orange flowers are flooding the shelves of stores, to ensure that you have a flood of ...
“Green” Roses from Africa
A University study showed that buying roses from Africa can be less harmful to the environment than roses from the Netherlands!
Kenyan Roses shown to emit 5 times less carbon ...
Roses Sprucing up Fall Gardens
Peter Kukielski, the curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden and Rose Collection at the New York Botanical Garden, can hardly wait for fall to begin and for late-blooming roses ...
Garden Pests
No matter how much work a skilled gardener puts into their garden, it can all be to no avail if it suffers a bad attack from garden pests.
What to do? ...
Sprucing up Your Deck with Fall Flowers
One of the best ways to welcome the coming fall season is to decorate your deck with containers of fall-friendly flowers. Usually, chrysanthemums are the favourite for fall, but this ...
Keep Your Flowers Going Strong into Fall
Many people would say that with fall just around the corner, they do not have much work left to do in the garden. They are mistaken — there are still ...
A Small Flower that Takes a Long Time to Grow
Nature lovers are flocking to the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), because a flower that blooms once every 10 years is about to put its petals on display.
The Karvy is ...
