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 Best evergreens to grow Evergreen flowering plants are the best of both worlds. Many gardeners look for plants with beautiful flowers, while many look for specimens with lush foliage. Both are important: Great floral displays add eye-catching color to your yard in spring and summer, while lush greenery can save your landscape from feast-or-feast syndrome year-round. Of course, you can grow different plants to meet these dual needs. But in smaller yards, doing it that way will run you out of space. It would be best to satisfy as many of these requirements as possible in a single plant. To meet the need of evergreen flowering plants, evergreen shrubs of broad leaf types perform many tasks well. But it is also good for other options, especially when a problem area of ​​the yard requires a ground cover, or when there is an empty space in a flower bed that can really use a perennial with both beautiful flowers and green leaves. Indoor plants Tips 👇 Rhododendrons Rhododendron f

 7 Tips for Creative Hanging Indoor Plants Hanging plants provide vertical appeal to indoor spaces. Here are seven creative ways to display plants that love to follow and climb. 1 Select Backward Races Some plants are destined to go in the way. Perhaps the two most popular hanging plants are pothos and philodendron. Here are the differences between the types. Both produce long stems covered with heart-shaped leaves that hang (or climb). Encourage hanging plants by letting them do their thing. If you want these plants to be bushier, trim the back ends to allow the plant to form more. Suspend 2 hanging baskets from the ceiling Lots of plants are sold in hanging baskets, so all you have to do is hang them in your home. Da-da! A drab corner can be turned into greenery with a hanging fern. Open sunny spots may welcome a hanging basket. Use a strong hook from the ceiling to hang your plant. Hang plants in low-traffic areas, and because your plant is tall, the tendrils won't c

  6 Tips for Creating a Low-Maintenance Cottage Garden Filled with Flowers While formal gardens are all about order and well-defined spaces, cottage gardens are bubbling with cheerful blooms that create a kaleidoscope of hues and textures. According to Darrell Trout, an avid gardener, author, and lecturer, passionate about the easy-to-grow beauty of cottage gardens, their style is "relaxed, colorful and fun." Because nature is allowed to take more of its course in these spaces, they require less work, as opposed to the careful manipulation of other styles. "A cottage garden is less about rules than doing what you really love," Trout says. The following tips and ideas can make growing delightful flowers in your own corner even easier. People Garden Garden Ideas  How to Create a Simple Cottage Garden Cottage gardens are deliberately modest. These tips will help ensure your space is easy to maintain and beautiful in every season. 1. Starting a cottage garde

Tomato Try these 5 tricks Why aren't my tomatoes turning red? This is a ubiquitous question! In this post, I'll talk about when tomatoes should turn red and give you some reasons why they shouldn't. I'll share my five tricks for making tomatoes ripen faster on the vine. Are your tomatoes slow to ripen on the vine? There are nothing more frustrating growing tomatoes than being forced to frantically pick tons of green tomatoes the night before frost. Then you bring them inside to ripen and most of them end up rotting in a paper bag on your counter. Ugly! If you live in a cold climate like I do, you start to get really nervous in late summer when your plants are full of big, unripe tomatoes. If you're tired of being stuck with tons of green tomatoes in the fall, I've got you covered. But first, let's talk about when tomatoes should be ripe and common problems with them being green. Home garden problem and solution 👇 Home garden fix 1 Hom

 August Gardening Tips Get the most out of your tomato and pepper crops with these growing and harvesting tips Tomato Fruits continue to ripen after picking, but larger varieties develop peak sweetness when ripening on the vine. However, many types of cherry tomatoes split as they ripen, so pick them as soon as they show color. Continue tying the vines as you pick the tomatoes; This makes harvesting easier. Remove any lower leaves that are crisp or yellow. Avoid over-watering the fruit in the final stages of ripening: an abundant water supply dilutes the flavor of the tomato and makes the fruit more prone to cracking. Don't worry if your tomatoes stop producing fruit when it's especially hot; Fruit usually does not set well when temperatures exceed 90 degrees F. Pepper Pepper plants often develop black spots on stems where the leaves or fruit are attached. It is not a disease; It is normal color. Pick peppers in any color stage: green, red, or a shade in between. Bu