Ornamental Garden

Can Geraniums Repel Pests? (6 Effective Varieties Explored)

rose geraniums

Geraniums are popular ornamental plants grown for their attractive foliage and flowers. Apart from attracting pollinators, they have another valuable attribute that is often ignored.  Geraniums are an excellent natural insect repellant against pests, keeping them from laying eggs and even fumigating them. In this article, we will explain how this attractive plant can play …

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Top 51 Flowers That Pollinators Love: Ranked by Popularity

Flowers that attract pollinators

Tired of endless flower lists that don’t live up to their pollinator-friendly claims? Look no further. Our ultimate list of 51 flowers, complete with pictures, is based on a UK study (Rollings & Goulson, 2019) that ranked the popularity of 111 ornamental plant cultivars amongst pollinators based on 9,000 pollinator visits over five years. Our …

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16 Fast-Growing Succulents for Ground Cover (with Pictures)

succulent ground cover

Are you looking for a ground cover plant that can provide shade to the ground from summer heat, or simply as a decorative green mat? Succulents are ideal ground covers due to their hardiness, speedy growth, attractive foliage, and tendency to keep their colors through all seasons.  Some even have attractive foliage and showy flowers.  …

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36 Rosette-Shaped Succulents (With Pictures)

Echeveria chihuahuaensis

Everyone loves rosette succulents because their leaves are elegantly arranged like a rose and they maintain that way their entire life. Many succulents grow in a rosette shape, including Aeonium, Agave, Aloe, Echeveria, Sempervivium, Graptopetalum and hybrids, Graptosedum, Orostachys, Pachyphytum, Pachyveria, Prometheum, Rosularia, and some Crassula and Sedum varieties. We have found 35 pretty rosette …

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Echinopsis vs Echinocereus: 4 Ways to Identify

Echinopsis vs. Echinocereus

Echinopsis and echinocereus are some of the favorites of most cactus lovers.  They both have gigantic, and intensely bright-colored flowers, and they can both be very small or grow to tree-like sizes.  But the major difference is that Echinopsis have round, globose bodies with short spikes that are often short or even turned inward giving …

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