Cool weather–loving garden peas, Pisum sativum, are usually divided into two groups, based on their pods.
Tips for Choosing Peas for the Vegetable Garden
Plants
Filifera Falsecypress: An Evergreen Tree with Great Texture
Virtues: We love sawara falsecypress for its hreadlike foliage in vibrant shades of greens to golden yellows that dangles down in a spectacular weeping effect, gracefully covering the smooth, stunning reddish-brown trunk, which peels away its bark in vertical plates.
This Is Growing Up: Ideas for Vertical Gardening
If you think of your garden as a cube rather than a flat piece of ground, you can easily increase the amount of food you grow.
Kaleidoscope Abelia: A Compact Flowering Colorful Shrub
Virtues: We love Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ for its bursts of spectacular colors throughout every season.
How to Find Companion Plants for Japanese Maples
Japanese maples, Acer palmatum, with their captivating bursts of gorgeous color in fall, add a touch of elegance to your landscape. Although they have plenty of intrigue on their own, there are wonderful companion plants for Japanese maples, sure to … Read Article
Japanese Maples: Small Trees with Great Colorful Foliage
Virtues: We love Japanese maples for their bursts of striking foliage color in radiant shades of yellows, oranges, reds and purples. In spring to early summer, small, deep red flowers bloom, hidden under the attractive foliage.
Growing the Golden Barrel Cactus
Virtues: We love golden barrel cacti for their plump, rounded form textured with sharp ribs that bear bright, yellow spines. These globular plants bloom in summer with vibrant yellow flowers.
Make Amaryllis Flowers Last Longer
Amaryllis flowers (Hippeastrum) are gorgeous, exotic plants that burst with luminous color. With their spectacular intrigue, why not showcase their splendor by displaying them in your favorite vase?
Grow Better Vegetables with Intercropping
Planting two or more veggies together, known as intercropping, can have many positive effects in your garden. It can change the growing conditions for the plants.
Piggyback Plant: a Fun, Easy Houseplant
Virtues: We love piggyback plants for their lush, fuzzy, vibrant green leaves that captivate onlookers with their ability to grow new plantlets where the leaves attach to their stems. These new little plants “piggyback” on top of the foliage.
Growing Cucumbers, Melons and Squash
One of the most frequently asked questions we get is “Can I plant cucumbers, melons and squash together?” The answer is an absolute yes, and no.