Geranium Plants

How to Grow Beautiful Geranium Plants in Your Garden

Executive Summary about Geranium Plants by Larry Truett

Of all the flowering perennials you can grow, common garden geraniums are one of the most dependable. They are often seen surviving around old abandoned homes after most other perennials are long gone.

Plant your geranium in full sun to partial shade. Be sure to wait until danger of frost has past before setting your geraniums in the soil. Geraniums are generally healthiest with good air flow, so be sure to space your plants at least eight inches apart.

Be sure that your soil is well drained, and is nice and humusy to provide nutrients for healthy leaves and flowers. Remember that these are perennials, and so you should prepare a fairly large hole even though your transplants are small. While they do not like to be wet, your new plants will benefit from a weekly watering whether from rain, sprinklers, or a hand carried watering pot.

You can obtain your own geraniums by propagating from a cutting, purchasing them from a nursery, or by growing from seeds. This is a fun way to get geraniums, as geraniums are generally a lower priced plant available in a variety of colors.

Adding Color to Your Garden Or Home With Geranium Flowers

Executive Summary about Geranium Plants by Thomas Fyrd

Geraniums are bright and colorful flowers, and they are very popular. If you want a few colorful flowers to brighten an otherwise boring flowerbed, consider traditional geraniums with bright red blossoms.

Double flowered varieties or geraniums with variegated leaves, among many other types of geraniums, are also excellent choices for adding color and interest in a small space. All of these varieties of geraniums share some common characteristics.

When choosing a geranium plant, you should examine the plant carefully. Choose one that is short and bushy instead of tall and stringy, even if the shorter plant is not blooming. The shorter plant will be healthy, and will blossom more in the long run.

Once you select and purchase new geranium plants, water them before planting. Then, carefully remove the geranium out of its plastic pot. If it is a little root bound, gently pull the roots apart so that they can have room to grow in the new pot.

Further in the growing season, fertilize your geranium with plant food, and pinch off any faded blossoms. If you properly care for your geranium, it should flower all the way until the first frost in the fall.

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Tulip Bouquets

The Words of a Tulips Bouquet

Executive Summary about Tulip Bouquets by Ioana Iacob

Having a tulips bouquet in the house is the perfect pop of color and scent that will bring a smile on anyone's face. Because they bloom in mid to late spring, tulips are great for holding on to a season that symbolizes rebirth, but also for reminding the world that warmer times are yet to come, as it dives into the hot summer.

These flowers are said to be the ultimate declaration of love, and have a Turkish legend to support the claim. It is said that when a Turkish prince found out that the girl he loved died, he committed suicide, as he could no longer bear to live without her. After his death, the place where he lay was covered in red tulips, for one grew from each drop of his blood.

If you'd like to arrange a tulips bouquet by yourself, there are some things you need to keep in mind. Firstly, if you buy them packaged, then don't take them out; rather, keep them like that overnight, so they will be straight when you arrange them.

Another thing you have to remember is that tulips are quite unique, because they have the rare ability of growing after they were cut. When you have finished selecting the flowers, bring them closely together, and cut any stems that are not aligned.

Bouquet Tulips - Lucky New Garden Trend?

Executive Summary about Tulip Bouquets by Dave Pipitone

A modern garden trend is planting multiple-blossom bouquet tulips. Some of these varieties have four flowers on one tulip plant. Discovering two blossom and three blossom tulips is a surprise in the garden, as well. But they do exist.

Just so you know, a common tulip plant yields one flower per bulb. That is the way it has been for hundreds of years. In hundreds of thousands of gardens around the world.

Today, with modern science of hybrids, you can buy and plant bouquet tulip bulbs that grow two, three, four, five and even six shoots for every tulip plant. Bouquet tulips come in orange, red and yellow varieties.

Bouquet tulips make excellent tulip arrangements of cut flowers. Make sure to cut the main stem with a sharp knife at an angle. When you cut the tulip plant stem at an angle, you are allowing the plant to drink more water.

Put two or three stems in a vase and you have a beautiful bouquet of tulips greeting you in your house. Cut tulips in a vase can last between four and seven days.

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Bougainvillea Plant

The Bougainvillea Plant Gets You Compliments Galore!

Executive Summary about Bougainvillea Plant by Steve Charles Habib

The bougainvillea is often referred to as the paper flower. This vine-like plant was named after Louis de Bougainvillea, a fine Frenchman who traveled the world around 1767. During the winter it will temporally shed its leaves. Because of this fact it is considered a semi evergreen plant.

With its distinctive woody type-vine, watching it develop can be amazing. The leaves are heart shaped and soft to the touch. The plant has nasty thorns that will pierce your skin if accidentally touched or bumped into.

It can grow to an impressive height of 40 feet or more. This plant will tolerate different types of soil. The plant loves direct sunlight and is somewhat drought tolerant.

The bougainvillea is best used along fences and walls because of their spreading growth and beautiful colored flowers. The flowers come in many colors including pink, red and purple. Once it has reached maturity the bougainvillea will become a great deterrent to burglars. Camouflaged behind its beautiful flowers are large, stiff thorns that make it almost impossible to get through without serious harm.

Bougainvillea - A Beginner's Guide to Bougainvillea

Executive Summary about Bougainvillea Plant by Raymond Baresh

Bougainvillea is a climbing plant. It is mainly grown in the tropical areas and is native to South America. This plant is a member of Nyctaginacea family of plants. There are about eighteen varieties of Bougainvillea plant. There are several cultivars and hybrids, all of which add and make up amazing colors and forms.

Bougainvillea plant leaves are quite lengthy and have brilliant purple or red flower bracts. Bougainvillea grows very quickly with twigs all over it. It's a wooded, evergreen plant with bristles.

These plants are normally grown in different forms, in pots, espalier along fences and walls, used for bonsai and as hedges. Bougainvilleas are a great choice for covering pagodas, fences and carports.

Bougainvillea plants attract wildlife to a great extent. These plants also attract native bees and butterflies.

If you are planning to grow this plant inside, place near a sunny window. They are great water users. However, mulch is very important if you are planning to grow this plant outdoors.

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Peacock Orchid

Ten Tips For Caring For Your Peacock Orchids

Executive Summary about Peacock Orchid by James Wesneski

Peacock Orchids, known botanically and sold as "Acidanthera", are a rather rare sight in gardens yet are some of the most enticingly fragrant flowers one can plant. It's important to note that this flower is not an orchid, rather it's related to gladiolus and iris.

When you look at your Acidanthera after you've cultivated them once or twice you'll know if something is wrong, whether they're 'complaining' of too-wet soil, or their need for lots of sun is not being met.

Make sure the soil you plant your Acidanthera in soil that drains well enough so that the flowers' roots (or the bulbs upon planting) do not rest in water. Your Peacock Orchids will thrive in the sunniest location you can provide for them.  The sun need not shine 16 hours a day, but the more sun the more fragrant the flowers will become. 

Acidanthera can be paired with low-growing foliage such as hostas, as the stems reach 2-3ft and droop lovingly over their lower growing underbrush. Use tweezers or another small instrument to keep weeds and other invading roots/plants from moving in on your fragrant Peacock Orchids.  Keep your Peacock Orchids away from strong winds if possible. 

Your Peacock Orchids are perfect for planting in between rocks as a wonderful visual and scented display, and they can also be grown against heat-reflecting walls. Don't worry about deer gobbling up your Acidanthera, these wonderful, fragrant white flowers are known to be deer-resistant, as well as rabbit resistant.

Acidanthera - Rare and Fragrant Flower

Fragrant flowers are some of the most enjoyable creatures a gardener can cultivate. Of course, virtually everyone is familiar with scented lilies, but there are several lesser-known flowers that pack a fragrant punch and which have begun to show up on the radar amongst gardening aficionados in recent years.

Acidanthera are best planted in bunches in well-draining soil. The foliage produced by this flower is green, sword-shaped and reminiscent of iris leaves.  Acidanthera are variously known as the "Peacock Orchid" or "Sword Lily", and the Latin designation is Acidanthera murialae.  

In very warm areas of the country, e.g. southern California, the flower may bloom twice a year. Acidanthera's growth cycle requires a period in which the bulbs are not watered. This mimics their native habitat in South Africa.

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