http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/flower-garden-blog.html This flower garden blog contains gardening tips, how-to articles and resources for avid gardeners. It is an excellent place to get and share flower garden ideas, garden designs and garden plans. en-us flower garden Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:39:37 GMT Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:39:37 GMT flower-garden-lover.com http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/from-garden-to-vase.html I love hybrid tea roses that have a gradient of colors. My favorites are those that have a base of deep purple, with an intermediate band of lighter lilac Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:39:33 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/an-amateur-grows-roses-for-pictures.html When we first moved into my new house, I was ecstatic to see roses in our backyard. My mother and I had never really had much luck growing roses, so since Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:48:47 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/dahlias.html Learn about Dahlias, the tuberous perennial plants with unique flowers that any flower lover would like to have in their flower garden. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:47:50 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/cut-flower-garden.html A cut flower garden will make it possible for you to have fresh flowers inside your home during blooming season. Get tips for creating a garden for cutting. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:42:09 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/container-gardens.html Container gardens are wonderful for indoor gardens, decorating small spaces, and growing flowers, herbs and even garden vegetables and fruit bushes. Learn how to get the best from your efforts. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:34:16 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/christmas-cactus.html Learn about the Christmas cactus, how to grow one and how enjoy the blooms over the holiday season. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:21:01 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/bletilla.html Bletilla orchids are just beautiful. Unlike most orchid plants they appear to be more of a wildflower. Find out more here. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:12:05 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/bleeding-heart.html Learn about the bleeding heart flowers, how to plant them, how to care for them, along with some important details. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:56:14 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/flower-bulbs.html Learn about planting flower bulbs, the benefits of them and tips for keeping them blooming year to year. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:44:45 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/basic-herb-garden.html A basic herb garden can be planted indoors in containers or outdoors in your flower bed or garden. Learn the basics of growing herbs. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:31:56 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/backyard-landscaping.html Get and share ideas for backyard landscaping, landscaping with landscape rocks, planting trees and bushes, and creating a backyard flower garden here. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:27:57 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/annual-flowers.html Get a clear definition of what annual flowers are and how they can be used in your flower garden or container gardens, along with cost-saving tips and favorites. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:21:28 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/amaryllis.html Learn about planting amaryllis flower bulbs in your flower garden, or in containers for blooming for the Christmas holiday. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:23:26 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/aloe-vera-plants.html Aloe Vera plants are a must-have in every kitchen. Learn how to plant them in an indoor garden, how to take care of them and how to use them. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:10:41 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/abelia.html Learn about the abelia and how to grow one as part of your flower garden or landscaping. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:03:38 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/garden-plants.html Do you wish to grow herbs from garden plants or is planting herb seeds your preference? Learn the advantages and drawbacks here to help you make the right decision based on your preferences. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:54:16 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/grape-popsicle-iris.html When I was a child, I loved helping my mother with her gardens. We didn't have much money, but we always had a beautiful yard full of colorful flowers, Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:45:56 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/my-wonderful-experience-with-bulbs.html I love gardening and started off with this hobby by researching information about various plants. I am partial to flowering plants, especially those which Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:41:56 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/daffodils-make-the-world-a-brighter-place.html Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved daffodils. These perfect yellow blooms were one of the first flowers to peek out of the ground after a long Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:37:10 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/advice-for-growing-a-successful-wildflower-garden.html Growing wildflowers can be a lot of fun. Theyre incredibly beautiful and colorful, and if planned out carefully, they can compliment any garden. Theyre Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:34:15 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/i-could-not-live-without-my-hydrangea-plants.html Planting perennial flowers can guarantee that your garden will have ongoing bursts of color and fragrance around the same time year after year. With careful Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:29:53 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/hoping-that-this-years-roses-will-be-healthy-and-beautiful.html I love roses and have several rose bushes in my garden, but despite my best efforts, Ive only been moderately successful in cultivating healthy blooms. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:27:12 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/summer-hill-seeds.html I love ordering seeds and plants from catalogs. I think that the selection that you get from catalogs is amazing, and it's a lot of fun waiting for your Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:26:48 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/bee-balm-cosmos-asters-and-more.html When I first started my own garden, I was very nervous that nothing would grow, or that I would plant the wrong things together. My ideal garden was one Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:26:05 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/i-love-growing-my-tulips-from-bulbs.html I used to be scared of growing flowers from bulbs. It just seemed like it was a lot more work then putting an already grown plant in the ground. I was Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:25:36 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/poppy-preserve.html My favorite annual flower is the California poppy. This was my parents' favorite, too, and they gave me its name! Each spring as long as I can remember Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:18 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/snapdragons-happiness.html I love all kinds of flowers - all shapes, sizes, and colors. However, I do have a favorite annual flower. That favorite would be the Snapdragon. I love Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:02 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/geraniums-easy-to-grow-and-beautiful.html My favorite annual flower is the geranium. Geraniums are extremely easy to grow and readily available at any garden center or other store that carries Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:46:42 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/readers-stories.html Readers stories - tell us yours. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:37:00 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/petunias.html Every spring around Mother's Day, I look forward to planting my annual flowers. There is nothing quite as breathtaking to me as the first colors of spring, Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:15:07 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/my-ever-increasing-wildflower-garden.html I have a large area on the backside of my shed in the very rear of my yard that looked bare. Since my yard is very large, I didnt want to plant anything Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:12:17 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/my-butterfly-garden.html Every year I plant a flower garden in my yard. Last year I decided to plant a Butterfly Garden, because butterflies fascinate my young daughter. I didnt Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:05:24 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/my-bulb-garden.html I have a yard full of lovely flowers, many which I plant as bulbs. Planting bulbs enables you to have fresh flowers throughout the growing season. I adore Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:02:35 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/our-lovely-shade-garden.html When my husband and I moved into our new home, our backyard needed some major landscaping. A large part of our yard is shaded and I wanted to plant as Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:59:04 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/lavender.html Lavender! Lavender! Lavender! Lavender! Okay I said it four times now. I just wanted to really be emphatic about how much I like the perennial blooming Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:46:55 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/delicate-blue-flower-bush-on-a-new-england-morning.html This beautiful bush of small blue flowers was photographed on the morning of our recent wedding, in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. We rented a cute Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:43:42 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/i-wish-i-still-had-a-cut-garden.html I move a lot. I am happy with the moves, but there are things about every house that I miss. One of the things that I miss that I had at one house Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:58:54 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/all-about-my-cut-flower-garden.html While I love having a nice garden with beautiful flowers in it, I like having beautiful fresh flowers in my home even more. You just can't beat going Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:47:10 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/jude-and-jaelyn-in-my-garden.html This is a picture of my kids, Jude and Jaelyn sitting in front of some of my flowers. Jude says these are his favorite flowers in the whole garden Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:43:43 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/banana-palm-cutie.html My name is Jodi and this is the cute little - well maybe not so little - banana palm tree I have here in our home in Auburn, California in the USA. It Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:48:36 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/the-family-cut-flower-garden.html One of the greatest things about growing a garden is being able to cut the flowers and make beautiful arrangements with them. That's actually the Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:20:14 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/high-mowing-organic-seeds-catalog.html My favorite garden catalog is the High-Mowing Organic Seeds Catalog, a farm-based seed company located in Vermont. I worked at a small organic Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:19:40 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/sparkles.html This plant sits just outside my Dad's back door. It's nothing special, and most everyday gets ignored. But on this morning, after a light rain, it Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:19:12 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/ornamental-grass-is-my-secret-weapon.html Everyone who comes to see my garden is just in awe of how beautiful and well landscaped it is. The flowers and the plants I have in it are Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:42:18 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/my-first-bulbs-success.html I love gardening, but I hadn't ever tried growing bulbs before. Daffodils and tulips look great and grow well here. I really love irises as well. A Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:20:33 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/purple-balloon-flowers.html Oh how I love the color purple! The Purple Balloon Flower is one of my favorite perennial flowers. Due to such a pretty color of purple, it has Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:14:47 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/blackeyed-susans.html I have 3 perennial gardens in my yard. I look for plants that have interesting features like colorful flowers, foliage, or seeds to feed birds. I Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:08:01 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/lily-of-the-nile.html My favorite perennial flower is one that's called Lily of the Nile. It is a beautiful flower that is a lovely shade in between blue and purple. I like Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:21:49 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/tulips-are-natures-palette.html The tulip has a long history throughout Europe and Asia, fraught with intrigue and mystique. At one time they even created a bubble, much like our Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:19:41 GMT http://www.flower-garden-lover.com/black-eyed-gloriosa-daisies.html These annual flowers are so beautiful! The contrast between the yellow flower petals and the dark center make the flower really stand out from the Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:17:29 GMT