Forsythia Flowers

Forsythia produces striking bright yellow flowers in early Spring.Forsythia Tip: Increase the number & concentration of Forsythia yellow flowers by shaping and trimming down your Forsythia shrubs increasing the concentration of flowers.P.S. “Must Have” Shrub use as a stand alone or can be grouped into a hedge.

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.

Inuksuk Statute

Stone Inuksuk statue can be used for garden or landscape design accents.   In-uk-suk,  can be difficult to say at first, historically a man-made stone landmark or cairn used by the Inuit, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik people of the Arctic region of North America.

Large stone table with many Inuksuk Statutes of individual design.

Inuksuk Statutes fixed!