Tag: seed
Catalog Shopping Affords More Options
UNITED STATES—Local retail nurseries can sell more varieties of more types of plants than anyone needs. That which is unavailable from one nursery is...
Berries For Autumn And Winter
UNITED STATES—Cool season annuals are less diverse than warm season annuals for one simple reason. Flowers prefer to bloom while their favorite pollinators are...
Division Can Equate To Multiplication
UNITED STATES—Propagation produces more plants from minimal and readily available resources. Within home gardens, propagation is practical by seed, cutting, layering or division. Seed...
Propagation Produces More Garden Plants
UNITED STATES — Seed is the most familiar option for producing new garden plants. Division of perennials, especially overgrown colonies, is another familiar technique....
Grooming Deteriorating Bloom Conserves Resources
UNITED STATES—Spring bulbs are now blooming, and some are already done. Summer bulbs will bloom a bit later, and some will continue until autumn....
Warm Season Vegetables Start Early
UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals that are becoming more available in nurseries are a clue. As they become seasonal, so do warm season vegetables, or...
Wintry Berries Are Already Colorful
UNITED STATES—Seed of most vegetation here finishes developing by late autumn to be ready for winter. It wants to germinate while soil is damp,...
Dried Flowers Were Formerly Fresh
UNITED STATES—All sorts of flowers bloom through autumn as well as winter. Honeysuckle still exudes its richly sweet summery fragrance. Honestly though, most flowers...
Gathering Seed To Grow Later
UNITED STATES—Deadheading, or the removal of deteriorating bloom, is contrary to the purpose of bloom. It conserves resources for subsequent bloom or vegetative growth....
Winter Vegetables Are Starting Now
UNITED STATES—Winter bedding plants are a reminder. They become in season at about the same time as winter vegetables. Therefore, as pansies replace petunias,...
Weed Abatement Beyond Refined Gardens
UNITED STATES—Gardening involves weeds. Gardening outside of refined gardens involves more weeds. A few of such weeds are native species which grow where they...
Layering Can Copy Favored Flora
UNITED STATES—Seed is the most familiar method of propagation. However, some popular plants produce no viable seed. Some produce seed that is genetically very...
Feral Vegetation Inherits Natural Advantages
UNITED STATES—Most vegetation within home gardens is better than it was naturally in the wild. For many, systematic selection isolated the best from average...
Deadheading Redirects Resources For Growth
UNITED STATES—Early spring bulbs that went into their gardens last autumn are now blooming. Some are already done. Some summer bulbs should begin to...
Weeds Are Prolific And Invasive
UNITED STATES—Warming spring weather accelerates bloom and growth. Early spring bloom is now much more colorful than the best of winter bloom. Fresh foliage...
Vegetables Change With The Seasons
UNITED STATES—Annuals are not all that change with the seasons. Vegetables do also. After all, with few exceptions, vegetable plants are also annuals, or...
Berries Get Colorful For Winter
UNITED STATES—Some vegetation excels at exploitation of wildlife. All sorts of flowers use color and floral form to attract pollinators. Also, many flowers rely...
Seed Collection For Another Season
UNITED STATES—Deadheading conserves resources that would otherwise sustain production of seed. For species that bloom more than once, it promotes continued bloom. For others,...
Cuttings Become Copies Of Originals
UNITED STATES—Seed is the most familiar source of much of the vegetation that inhabits home gardens. It is the origin of almost all vegetables...
True To Type Seed Collection
UNITED STATES—Flowers produce seed. That is their priority. Flowers that do not rely primarily on wind for pollination are colorful and fragrant merely to...
