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Tips on how to create a wildflower cottage garden from seed, with perennials, or by cultivating wild plants. A planting style that’s as beautiful and eco-friendly as it is low-maintenance Ornamental gardens come in all shapes, sizes, and styles, but one of the classic styles is a cottage garden. Overflowing with foliage and color, they’re…
Step-by-step instructions for how to propagate rosemary from stem cuttings. Includes when and how to take cuttings, encouraging root growth, and aftercare. Use these tips to create dozens of new rosemary plants for free. If you have an established rosemary plant, you can use it to propagate dozens of new plants for practically nothing. Propagating…
Instructions on how to make rose water toner using fresh rose petals. Use directly on your skin as a natural toner or blend it with oils to create creams and lotions People have used rose water for generations as a natural yet gentle astringent. Probably long before we had commercially produced rose water, the average…
How to grow English lavender with tips on cultivars, growing conditions, and growing lavender in containers There are so many reasons to grow English lavender and if you give it the right conditions, it’s fairly easy too. You can plant it in hedges, on its own in a pot, or scattered throughout the garden as…
Use this list of more than fifty flowers, shrubs, and trees to plan your bee-friendly garden. They’re listed by season in which they bloom, so you can plan to have pollinator-friendly blooms all the year-long It can be a little overwhelming to understand what you should plant to create a bee-friendly garden. In the end,…
Get multiple harvests when you grow baby salad greens as cut-and-come-again. All you need is a shallow container, compost, and seeds No matter your growing space, anyone can grow baby salad leaves at home. Using this method, you can get up to four harvests of greens, all for the cost of just one bag of…
Use fresh spring rhubarb and a few other ingredients to make this rhubarb wine recipe. Includes tips on equipment and the full winemaking process. Quite a few people think of rhubarb as strictly a springtime treat but if you grow it yourself you’ll know that you can be pulling stalks of it far into the…