Flower Gardens


Feature Writer: Christine Eirschele
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Here gardeners will find an entire flower gardens experience. Flower gardeners can access information on how to choose and grow gardens full of flowers like perennials, annuals, spring bulbs and seasonal flowers.

With ideas from theme flower gardens, create unusual places like rock gardens. Drought tolerant plants have found a new home in xeriscape flower gardens. In scented flower gardens grow flowers to attract butterflies and birds.

Flower gardeners will gain inspiration while visiting public gardens. Explore botanical gardens with wildflowers, heritage gardens rooted with a past or rose garden collections.

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Visit Kingwood Center in Mansfield Ohio

In: Heritage Flower Gardens

The Kingwood Center is worth a trip to the mid-western state of Ohio. This Mansfield estate is filled with heritage and display gardens, greenhouses and an orangery. more...

Create an Indoor Flower Garden With Geraniums

In: Flower Gardens (general)

Over-wintering annual geraniums as houseplants save plants and money for next summer's gardens. Pelargoniums make good plants for indoor flower gardens. more...

Learn About Unusual Forms and Spider Daylilies

In: Theme Flower Gardens

Hemerocallis comes in many flower forms. Learn about unusual form and spider daylilies, two types of beautiful flowers that will add movement to flower gardens. more...

Recording in a Garden Diary

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As the season changes, gardeners record observations about plants in their summer flower gardens. Phenology information is a useful addition to the garden diary. more...

Goldenrod and Aster Blooming in Autumn

In: Wildflower Gardens

Goldenrod and aster will continue to attract late season pollinators to wildflower gardens. The yellows and purples of these native plants are perfect autumn colors. more...

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Aug 15, 2008

Summertime Garden Changes

As late summertime turns to fall, the cooler temperatures change gardens. Garden journals or diaries are great ways to record what you see.


Gardening is most associated with sunshine and summertime. But gardeners are individuals and we are as varied as the plants we grow. For me, the hot hazy humid Midwest days of late summer are my least favorite times to be rummaging in my outside garden.

It is for days like these, I save time to be indoors writing in my garden journal. Up to now, during my daily morning garden strolls with my dachshund, I like making mental notes of what I see. The flowers that bloomed well, plants that should be moved and potted plants in my container garden looking tired out, growing too big, perhaps some too perfect. Is there such a thing?

I like to track the weather; too much rain early on, dry crunchy grass now and special events like the bee sting I received last week. The first time in my life, I might add. During the dead of winter these garden notes will help me plan next year’s gardens.

Seasons and gardens are always evolving but exactly what occurred and some musings about why are worth remembering. Soon fall will be upon us and autumn gardens can be refreshed with splashes of purples and oranges or make room indoors for over wintering plants and dig in some bulbs for the beginning of spring.

Meanwhile, I hope my garden musings will offer new and interesting ideas and inspiration. Soon the leaves turn as colorful as a garden full of flowers, I will be outside gardening with a comfy flannel shirt on refreshed by fall breezes, one of my favorite times of the year.

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