If you are looking to have a garden rife with bees, there are certain plants to consider growing. It’s important to remember that our local bees play a very important role in pollinating plants but they also need sustenance from the plants. While many flowering plants will bring bees about for intermittent pollination, if you really want to create a bee-friendly garden, try including some of our top ten plants that attract bees. 1. Digitalis…
Everyone loves the company of butterflies, with their many colours and their stunning wing patterns. To that end, if you want to encourage the arrival of more flying friends, you need to grow nectar-rich plants that help feed butterflies. Sadly butterflies are in decline and according to a report by the butterfly conservation, 75% of UK butterflies have shown a 10-year decrease so it has never been more important to plant with butterflies in mind.…
Growing fig trees in containers is a wonderful way to grow smaller varieties of fruit trees in your home, perhaps in an apartment or outside on a patio for those of you who don’t have large gardens. It’s also a great way to control the size of varieties that might otherwise grow too large. Growing in containers requires the same general care and maintenance as growing anything else. One of the benefits of growing in…
Fig trees are wonderful additions to any home and with so many varieties available on the market today you can grow your fig trees in containers outside or inside, you can grow them directly in the ground, you can get self-pollinating versions as well those that give you fruit using a single plant. Of course, in order to get the fruits and enjoy a successful fig tree, you need to know how to grow them…
Figs are part of the Ficus genus, a group of plants that have made a name for themselves throughout history. In fact, there is mention of figs and fig trees cultivated in the most famous gardens throughout history, particularly those across the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean. Fig trees can produce fruit as long as you give them adequate light and protection against severe cold, and if grown in a greenhouse they will often…
