Category: Plants

Self Seeding Garden Plants?

List of Different Types of Self Seeding Plants

Featured is a Self Seeding Fox Glove,  which offers a great variety of different colored flowering plants.

Excellent place to start gardening with self seeding plants!

Photographed in early summer.Shown is a purchased “garden center Fox Glove” plant which produces lots of flowers over several weeks with the assistance of multiple flowering stems.

In the fall, it will self seed, let your garden do the some of the natural rebirth work!  You can harvest the seed pods over the summer. Replant Fox Gloves else where or give extra seeds to family, neighbors and friends.

Below the photos is handy a list of self seeding flowering plants that can save you some money when at the garden center.Got to plant them before summer comes! 

Here is a list of different self seeding plants, the pictures above are an example of foxglove flower, scientific name is (Digitalis purpurea)

Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Borage (Borago officinalis)

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Honesty (Lunaria annua)

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

Verbena bonariensis

Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica)

 

Rock Garden Planning

Colorful Example of a Rock Garden in mid Spring showing a variety of Flower arrangement ideas.

Landscape ideas can be the key to winning design! Scan Google’s internet images, some garden centers offer free design ideas and gardening services, also landscape garden related service companies can help you with idea layouts, pricing and selection costs.

P.S. Year of the Garden? Jack Up your garden Design with some use of different types & shapes of rocks, along with dash different varieties of eye catching flowers and small shrubs.

2 Smoke Bushes

The Smoke Bush can be a shrub to add to your landscape design. Unique to the SmokeBush are it’s green to reddish to purple large plumes that appear on the bush during the summer.

The blooms are very showy and is a top pick specimen for planting at the back of a garden or a shrub border in landscape … as the Smoke Bush can grow 10-15′ high if not trimmed.

Shown are 2 Smoke Bushes decorating either side of a stairway with wooden rails for safety.

Sprinkler Time?


When the hot dry “heat wave” warnings come out you can sit back and relax!

Garden Sprinklers are real convenience for the avid gardener, dry conditions and busy people because many hours of hand watering are saved.


1. Garden Sprinkler System is broken into zones (3 shown) because your water supply volume can’t water one’s entire property all at once. Zones allow one to separate garden areas from lawn areas along with varying each zones water times.

2. Sprinkler water flow can be adjusted at the pop-up heads but it true that some plants or flowering pots may need more water attention.

3. PS Sprinkler systems can have remotes that allow you to test and activate zones on a need basis. A must have!

Wood Pallet Wall Design

Wood Pallets repurposed into a simple wall design arrangement for displaying plants. Different plants are placed in plastic flowers trays which retains water … these small plants can found a typical building store or garden center. 

Used in an outdoor patio area at a pub!   

Cedar Hedge with Onion Tulips Garden

A “Wow Garden” in part has to do with contrast between plants and trees.

If you have mature cedar hedge, it creates a great dark green back drop for bright contrasting garden flowers as can be seen to the photo.

Don’t have 5-8 years to wait for cedar trees to grow, then possibly consider a wood fence.