A visitor to As the garden grows told me that they’d seen some tiny red bugs on their bearded Iris leaves. Blasting the plant with water didn’t help because the bugs came back out again once the leaves dried off.
Spraying the plants with a blast of water was actually a good move and it [...]
Each garden and therefore each gardener is faced with pests that plague their plants from time to time. It’s something that we have to learn how to deal with, and when possible learn to control those pesky pests.
Some plants such as honeysuckle, citrus trees and other flowering shrubs and vines are infested each year [...]
Crocosmia is a very pretty summer flower that often bears orange or fiery red flowers on vertical stems.
I mentioned that I grow Crocosmia in a recent post and said that some of my clumps were getting quite large and crowding out other plants.
What I didn’t realize was that if the clumps get too large, [...]
Did you receive any ornamental house plants over the holidays? How are they fairing in your home?
As you might know many of the potted plants that you might have received over the holiday season are not usually meant to be kept as permanent house plants. They’re raised in green houses and often don’t [...]
