The avocado plant is native to Central America and grows in hot, humid, and sunny weather. But you can grow them in the UK environment too. However, growing a healthy Avocado plant requires more attention and care. You need a warm home environment and patience to grow avocado stones into a healthy sapling. However, growing…
Buddleia is a fascinating flowering plant that never fails to impress people who admire gardening. Commonly it is known as butterfly bush. Doesn’t its name itself suggest how beautiful it must be? This name came from the ability of its blooms to attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. It has more than 100 species in…
Lysimachia Nummularia, commonly known as Moneywort, Creeping Jenny, herb twopence, and twopenny grass, is a species of the family Primulaceae. It is a famous groundcover plant that is perfect for covering berths and soil with lush foliage. It has glossy and luminescent green leaves that make it an ideal choice as a creeping plant. It…
Growing red roses in the garden is the ultimate beauty! It adds beauty and fragrance to the space making it pleasant to walk. There are a plethora of rose varieties famous worldwide. Isn’t it surprising? We often distinguish them with colours – but you will be astonished to know there are more than thirty thousand…
Begonia varieties are the first choice of many gardeners to grow for some good reason. They are hardy in nature and so beautiful that they can transform any space into a garden. Most gardeners grow begonias for their foliage and elegant flowers. You can grow these plants as your hobby or even enhance the overall…
Everyone is busy with the hustles and bustles, grinding themselves for a better career and life. Hence, you may need to add some low-maintenance shrubs to your garden to increase the beauty of your garden, even when you are busy. Therefore, as a gardener, you want to plant more shrubs for its benefit. Shrubs offer…
Want to add colours to your garden? Bulbs are pockets of colours available in different varieties. You just have to wait for some days or months after planting, and then you can enjoy them. Nevertheless, your patience will be rewarded. Bulbs are also sometimes mistaken for other tuberous plants. So, to avoid any confusion, this…
Imagine having a plant in your backyard that displays all-year-round stunning blossoms, peeling bark, and attractive autumn colours—that’s the elegance of crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia). Crepe myrtle, a deciduous tree or shrub, produces clusters of colourful blooms in red, white, pink, purple, and lavender hues that attract honeybees. Lagerstroemia is a sunlight-loving, easy-to-grow tree that can…
Beta vulgaris, also known as “beetroot,” is a pleasant, wholesome, and antioxidant-rich vegetable. Despite not being one of the more attractive garden veggies, beetroot has recently gained popularity and has even been dubbed a “Super Food” by medical professionals. This is a significant factor in the renewed interest in beetroot among kitchen gardeners. These have…
Potentilla pruning is one of the easiest tasks if you know how and when to prune them for maintenance. These amazing plants can be shrubs or perennial plants according to your needs and can make the landscape look better and more vibrant. There is a wide range of potentilla species and cultivars, and you will…