Gardening Articles

Are you looking for a new hobby? Yes, you do know that an herb garden will deliver not only flowers but also edible crops and even much more, but just saying "gardening" brings out a yawn from you? Well, before you pass this by to consider another hobby, how does an "Italian herb garden" sound to you instead?

Knowing the common plant names is the key in order for you to establish a good windowsill herb garden. A lot of botanical shops deal with seeds and full-grown plants using their common plant names, and therefore you need to be able to match these names with scientific names. There are many ways to do such a task. You can use plant databases and plant encyclopedias, as these references would give you images of the plants together with the list of all their names.

October is the month for planting many kinds of bulbs, perennials and vegetables in the South. Lawn planting, too, is at its height, especially preparing lawns for winter color with over plantings of rye grass.

For a mixture of tulips and daffodils that will last for many years, try a combination of tulip orange emperor, which is an excellent and reliable plant, flowering just before, and overlapping with golden spelldown. Clumps of yellow and orange red Narcissus Tahiti make a valuable addition in linking the two colors of tulips. As an alternative arrangement, try a single yellow narcissus such as pipit, along with an orange tulip, which is particularly beautiful and very reliable.

For gardeners who want to experiment and are willing to change their spring borders regularly, the choice of color and the range of bulbs is vast. If you prefer a simpler approach with a longer term planting scheme, you also have an enormous choice but bear in mind that some bulbs are more reliable than others, and there is little doubt that some bulbs naturalize in borders better than others.