Great Gifts for Older Gardeners We all want our older loved ones to keep healthy, and their love of gardening is a great way for them to do so. The rigors of gardening, such as bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, gripping, lifting and the like can be good exercise, but it can also be pretty taxing on an older body.
Creating a Rock Garden that Rocks -- With Hostas! A rock garden by design is a small plot (usually on a slope or man-made hill) designed to emphasize a variety of rocks, stones, and plants. Rock gardens can be made to blend into the landscape or they can be a great focal point area. Rocks are naturally beautiful, and with the right planning, your rock garden will look good year-round.
Top Ten Hostas to Brighten up your Shade Garden Shady garden spaces don't have to be bland. There are the usual colorful shade perennials like the usual suspects like Astilbe, Foxglove and Bleeding Hearts. Those are good perennial shade garden plants to use in adding some bright colors to a shady garden spot. But have you ever considered incorporating bright-colored hostas into your shade garden layout?