Flower Gardening

Grow Fragrant Lilacs
Lilacs in Bloom - Spring Has Arrived!
The beauty and fragrance of lilac flowers blooming is for many, an eagerly anticipated sign that spring has arrived. Although not native to North America, it is a common, hardy and easily grown deciduous plant in most areas of the US and Canada. The lilac is a very versatile plant that can be planted in a hedge, as part of a cottage garden, formal garden, butterfly garden or pruned to maintain it as focal point or a small tree. Lilacs are easy to grow, relatively pest free and are reported ...

Basics Of Flower Gardening
Creativity, beauty and colors are the words which plays a vital role in everyone's life. Combination of all these three words can be found in a flower garden. It's a know fact that planning and setting up your first flower garden can be challenging, but when you will see colorful flowers blossoming in your garden and a perfect sight of natural beauty you will consider that all your efforts have paid off. In order to plan and design your flower garden, you must learn some basics of flower gard...

Flower Garden Book Reviews
Flower Gardening Book Revies - which are the best books?
Flowers are beautiful, I love them all from snapdragons to aquilegias, poppies to carnations, and hundreds of others. Because there are so many different choices you can find it hard to know what to do. Really good books can help you learn all the new details you think you'll never remember, from when to plant out something, to how to sow annual flowers for best impact. When I started gardening for the first time, I found that there was a huge amount to learn. All the terms were really confu...

Deer Resistant Flowers
Stop the Deer from Eating Your Flowers
I know first-hand how disappointing it is to see a prized flowering plant half-eaten or destroyed. Deer are beautiful animals, but they love to eat flowering plants like hibiscus and also enjoy my strawberry plants. It's not necessary to fence everything in and you don't have to drive the deer away. Just plant a selection of flowers that don't appeal to a deer's taste. It's not 100 percent possible to deer-proof your flower garden, but with the right plantings, deer are much more likely to b...

Flower Seeds and Plants from Harris Seeds
News from the Flower Seeds & Plants Department at Harris Seeds
For well over 100 years, the Harris Seeds Company has been very active in finding the very best flower varieties for home gardens and greenhouse production. We work with the very finest flower seed suppliers from around the world, ensuring that the varieties we offer for sale are of the finest quality our marketplace has to offer. Each lot of flower seeds that arrives at Harris Seeds is routinely tested for quality germination and vigor. We were the first company in America to test for accep...