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»» Articles -All about garden, plants, garden products and garden accessories Check back for more articles soon. Bookmark this page Article # 1 How to attract lots of butterflies in the garden. How are butterflies become appealing to the garden? Butterflies fly around the garden and love to land on the different kinds of flowers. These butterflies stay on the plants and spread their wings vertically revealing more their colorful wing designs making the garden more appealing. Do these insects destroy your plants? Absolutely yes! Butterflies lay their eggs especially on wide leaves on nectar-producing flowers in your garden. The baby butterflies which are called caterpillars stick long on the leaves of the plants in which these leaves become their foods and therefore destroying the leaves making the leaves of your garden plants ugly. Do caterpillars eat vegetable plants? Caterpillars eat also your vegetable plants. Be sure not to put your vegetable plants too close to the butterfly plants. Avoid the use of powder pesticide to protect the caterpillars, butterflies and butterfly plants. This way, the liquid pesticide will not spread to the butterfly plants. If you want several butterflies in your garden with green healthy plant leaves, plant flowers that attract the adult butterflies and plant weeds that attract the baby butterflies or caterpillars. Plants for adult butterflies are lilac, lantana, phlox, cosmos, goldenrod, black-eyed susan, bee balm and butterfly bush. The weeds for the baby butterflies are bermuda grass, thistle, milkweed, clover sorrel and nettle. Parsley, fennel, cultivated milkweed and mallow are plants that are most attracted by caterpillars. (This article can be added free in the contents of your website and newsletter provided that the website link and website description stated below must be copied intact below this article.) Visit www.allhouseandgardentips.com for more helpful and educational tips,ideas, articles, marketplace and resources about home and garden. Article # 2 Potpourri from the garden Herbs?Can they be potpourri too? Yes! Herbs are very aromatic. They could be dried and become very good naturally perfumed potpourri. Examples of herbs and plants with aromatic fragrant are scented-leaf geranium, lemon verbena, mint, bay, rose, marigold, lavender, rosemary, sage, spearmint, peppermint, heliotrope, basil, dill and flowers of chamomile. Grasses for potpourri? There are also many ornamental grasses that have appealing fragrance. These grasses should be cut into pieces or rubbed in order for the fragrant to come out. Dry the grasses thoroughly and blend them with the dried herbs and flowers. Examples of fragrant grasses are sweetgrass, citronella grass, lemongrass, sweet vernal grass and the scented grasslike plant which is called sweet flag. Is it easy to make potpourri? Making a potpourri from your garden is easy. Just harvest the fragrant colorful flowers and foliage. Dry them and put them in a container or a bowl. Be sure to dry the harvested flowers and foliage thoroughly to avoid molds in the future. If desired, you can add the fragrance of an essential oil like rose or spice cinnamon to the dried flowers and leaves of herbs and grasses. A small amount of orris root can be added to your home made potpourri as a preservative. This preservative can be bought in herb or plant nurseries. (This article can be added free in the contents of your website and newsletter provided that the website link and website description stated below must be copied intact below this article.) Visit www.allhouseandgardentips.com for more helpful and educational tips,ideas, articles, marketplace and resources about home and garden. Article # 3 Tree cracks or tree scars Frost damage? Is it possible on a tree? Yes. The trunk of a tree can freeze during winter time. If temperature drops to below freezing after it warmed, the part of the exposed, moistened trunk freezes and thaws, the exposed trunk expands, contracts and it results in the vertical splitting of the trunk of the tree. How do you protect the tree?There is not much you can do to prevent splitting of the trunk of an adult tree during winter. The trunk of a young tree may be protected by wrapping it with burlap or thick paper during freezing time. Be sure to remove the burlap or thick paper from the young tree when it is not freezing. If the cover stays in the trunk for long time, the bark of the tree gets moistened and damped, this will then weaken and rot. When freezing time, the moistened bark freezes then eventually thaws and splits, this will expose the trunk of the tree and also causes the trunk to easily crack during winter time. When the trunk cracks, it will eventually reveal the inner part of the tree. This will attract insects to invade the tree. The crack can also be easily exposing the tree from any tree diseases. These vertical splits or cracks become permanent scars in the tree. (This article can be added free in the contents of your website and newsletter provided that the website link and website description stated below must be copied intact below this article.) Visit www.allhouseandgardentips.com for more helpful and educational tips,ideas, articles, marketplace and resources about home and garden.

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