All About Flower Gardening Webinar Package

Gardening for the Birds:

• The best ways to feed birders using feeders
• Why native plants are better for birds than exotics
• The best trees, shrubs, and vines for natural bird food
• Ways to create habitats in your yard to promote bird nesting
• The best water sources for birds.
• Supporting bird populations with bird houses and shelters

Natives, Invasives & Weeds

• Common definitions of native and exotic plants and where I stand
• Selecting some good native flowers, shrubs and trees that can fill multiple roles in the landscape.
• When do you call a plant invasive?
• How to control annual weeds such as purslane
• How to control perennial weeds such as horsetail and gout weed
• How to control woody weeds such as buckthorn and poison ivy
• Organic and safe ways to control tough to kill weeds.

Grow A Pollinator Garden

• What is a Pollinator Garden and why are they important?
• Different types of common and uncommon pollinators
• Principles used in creating a pollinator garden such as flower, shrub, bulb and ground cover selections.
• Elements of a successful pollinator garden includes water, shelter, habitat, food and pollen.
• The best types of plants for pollinators
• Examples of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees that are good plants to integrate into a pollinator garden

Growing Flowering Vines

• Different types of woody, perennial and annual vines to grow in different places in your yard, with some unusual ones, too.
• How vines attach themselves to structures and which ones may need help
• The best locations to plant vines for growth and so they don’t harm your building’s siding or overwhelm a structure.
• Good plant partners in the garden for climbing vines.
• How to limit pest problems on your vines.
• How to overwinter tender perennial vines, such as mandevilla, in the North

Lilacs & Hydrangeas

• The best types and varieties of lilacs and hydrangeas for your landscape
• The best location to grow your lilacs and hydrangeas for light, soil and water needs.
• Ways to care for these shrubs including watering and fertilizing
• How to prune lilacs and hydrangeas.
• How to propagate these shrubs to get more plants
• Sleuthing common problems with your lilacs and hydrangeas

How to Prune Shrubs and Trees

• The best tools to use to prune
• The whys of pruning and what happens when you prune a branch
• How to prune a young tree, especially fruit tree, to create the proper branching before it grows large
• How a shrub and tree responds to pruning at different times of the year
• The different types of pruning cuts (thinning out, heading back, rejuvenation), how they differ and when to use them
• When to prune various flowering shrubs and why
• How to prune a hedge
• How to prune different trees and shrubs including flowering shrubs, evergreens and overgrown trees and shrubs

Plants for Problem Places

• Not all shade is created equal. I talk about different types of shade
• The best trees, shrubs, perennial flowers and ground covers for each of the problem areas
• Design ideas using plants and other materials to fix a problem area.
• Planting and growing techniques specific to those problem areas
• Ways to “fix” a problem area beyond just growing the right plant.

All About Houseplants

• Lists of houseplants for specific growing conditions such as low light and low water needs
• Some new varieties of houseplants that add pop and color to your indoor garden.
• Determining how much light you have in your room for growing houseplants
• How much water to give your houseplants so they thrive.
• When and how to water
• Fertilizing houseplants
• Sleuthing common problems with your houseplants.