The Best Flowers For Drying

dried lavender

Drying flowers is a perfect way to continue enjoying your favorite blooms indoors or used in decorative arrangements as gifts or as attractive accents for your home. Although many flowers do dry well, keep in mind that the drying process often will highlight the flaws in flowers, so by choosing the best flowers for drying, … Read more

Harvesting Flowers for Indoor Display

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Having flowers in the yard or garden liven up and beautify any home. Fresh cut flowers harvested from the outdoors and placed on a table can bring the beauty inside, as well. Natural arrangements bring with them an organic elegance any gardener can enjoy. Several factors affect the longevity of fresh flowers once they have … Read more

Beginner Flowers Anyone Can Grow

easy grow flowers

Hurray, the season for starting to grow flowers is almost here! Are you looking to decorate your front lawn with some beautiful flower arrangements this year? If you’re just starting out, we decided to suggest some beginner flowers for you to try out. Here they are! Marigolds Marigolds are very practical flowers. There are a … Read more

How to Store Dahlia Bulbs

dahlia bulb

For those who don’t know what a dahlia is, it is a flowering plant that derives from a tuberous bulb. While gardeners tend to love to plant these items, because of the beautiful blossom they create, dahlia bulbs don’t often make it through the colder months. Thankfully, though, there are ways you can store dahlia bulbs over … Read more

Choosing, Planting, and Transferring Easter Lilies

easter lilies

There’s something about the start of Spring that gets us ready for Easter Lilies. It’s probably the name. There’s still something about the pure petals and the luxurious scent that we can’t resist. To prolong your enjoyment of these beauties, you can replant your potted lilies into your garden. (A word of caution, though: If you … Read more