garden beds Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/tag/garden-beds/ Gardening is my sanity Mon, 15 May 2023 15:47:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.petscribbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png garden beds Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/tag/garden-beds/ 32 32 Candytuft: Your Ultimate Guide https://www.petscribbles.com/candytuft-easy-year-round-garden-beauty/ https://www.petscribbles.com/candytuft-easy-year-round-garden-beauty/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:47:53 +0000 http://209.236.127.209/~petscrib/?p=319 close up of white Candytuft flowers in full bloom

Candytuft: a gorgeous evergreen perennial with white flowers that light up the Spring garden! Learn why this easy-care beauty is a garden must-have. Whether you love to garden, or you can’t be bothered and just want to put something into the ground and forget about it, Candytuft is a plant you should pick up this...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/candytuft-easy-year-round-garden-beauty/feed/ 2 Lavender Phenomenal: best lavender for heat and humidity! https://www.petscribbles.com/lavender-phenomenal-the-best-lavender-for-heat-and-humidity/ https://www.petscribbles.com/lavender-phenomenal-the-best-lavender-for-heat-and-humidity/#respond Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:15:00 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=13579 lavender blooming in foreground and background of photo

Lavender Phenomenal is one of the hardiest evergreen lavenders around. It handles heat, humidity and rough Winter weather with ease! Learn why you will love this lavender! A few years ago, I wrote an article here about how to harvest lavender the easy way. A reader asked what type of lavender I had in my...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/lavender-phenomenal-the-best-lavender-for-heat-and-humidity/feed/ 0 Portulaca: This plant thrives on neglect! https://www.petscribbles.com/portulaca-this-plant-thrives-on-neglect/ https://www.petscribbles.com/portulaca-this-plant-thrives-on-neglect/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:20:00 +0000 http://209.236.127.209/~petscrib/?p=285 Rose Moss, Portulaca, Moss Rose photo collage of flowers

Portulaca (also called Rose Moss or Moss Rose) is an annual that thrives on neglect yet blooms non-stop Summer into Fall. Learn how to grow these pretty flowers easily. Perfect in hanging baskets and in the garden! If the idea of watering your garden often is not your cup of tea, you should consider drought-tolerant...

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How to prune Stella D’Oro Daylilies, including spent flowers and seed pods. Also how to remove seed pods and prevent them from developing during the blooming season. Helpful images and video included. This article will show you how to prune Stella D’Oro daylilies and answer many of the common questions surrounding pruning and deadheading these...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-prune-stella-doro-daylilies/feed/ 19 Finding the Good in Your Garden https://www.petscribbles.com/finding-the-good-in-your-garden/ https://www.petscribbles.com/finding-the-good-in-your-garden/#respond Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:13:12 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=20563 ageratum and black eyed susans

Today I’m sharing a photo and video collage of what’s blooming in my zone 7, Southern New Jersey garden. I’m doing this to encourage you to do the same and find the good in your garden — after a season of heat, humidity, tropical storms, floods and whatever else Mother Nature has thrown at us...

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How to plan a new garden with detailed advice about effort, sun, soil, deer, rabbits, trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals. With careful planning, you can have a new garden that will thrive! Planning a new garden — especially when you’re starting from scratch or are new to gardening — can seem overwhelming! But the...

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Enjoy this detailed Summer garden tour of my Pinky Winky Hydrangea Garden. In addition to the Pinky Winky Hydrangeas, this garden features a Muskogee Crepe Myrtle, Fothergilla, evergreens and flowering perennials like Geranium Rozanne, Geum and Roses. Includes video! Pinky Winky Hydrangeas are probably one of my favorite flowering shrubs, and right now they are...

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A mini garden shovel makes gardening easier. Read why this is such an essential gardening tool, especially for women. I love this shovel! If you had told me in my 20s — or even my 30s — that I’d be in love with a petite garden shovel, I would have laughed my head off in...

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Here are 7 weatherproof daffodils grown in my garden. These pretty daffodil varieties survive Spring storms perfectly! Featuring tall and miniature, plus early, mid and late season bloomers. All naturalize wonderfully over time. Includes video. I love daffodils, and have been adding them to my gardens over the past few years. This year, I’ve been...

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Enjoy this snowy Winter garden tour of our front yard garden beds, filled with evergreens, grasses and gorgeous Winter-blooming heath. There’s also plenty of fox and rabbit tracks! We finally had snow here in southern New Jersey! It wasn’t much, but the snow was enough for me to enjoy! I filmed a YouTube video showing...

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