Featured Archives - Garden Experiments https://www.gardenexperiments.com/category/featured/ For the love of gardening and wildlife habitat Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:08:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Featured Archives - Garden Experiments https://www.gardenexperiments.com/category/featured/ 32 32 Purple and Lime Green Plant Color Combinations For Your Shade or Full Sun Garden https://www.gardenexperiments.com/purple-and-lime-green-plant-color-combinations-for-your-shade-or-full-sun-garden/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:41:13 +0000 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=4933 I love this plant color combination! Dark purple and lime green or chartreuse create a bold and striking contrast of color in the garden. It’s really eye-catching. You can use this plant color combination in shade gardens or full-sun. Just be sure you’re selecting the right plants for your garden. Full Sun Purple and Lime […]

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]]> How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden in Early Spring https://www.gardenexperiments.com/how-to-attract-hummingbirds-to-your-garden-in-early-spring/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:44:57 +0000 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=4923 When the early hummingbirds start to arrive, there isn’t much in bloom, so adding early-spring-blooming flowering plants to your garden and hanging up hummingbird feeders can help attract the birds. Here are five flowering shrubs, vines, and plants that hummingbirds feed on in early spring. Red Buckeye In my opinion, one of the best early […]

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]]> How to Tell a Butterfly from a Moth https://www.gardenexperiments.com/how-to-tell-a-moth-from-a-butterfly/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:31:00 +0000 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=4876 Butterflies and moths belong to the same scientific order Lepidoptera, which means “scale-winged” in Greek. Their wings are covered in thousands of tiny scales that overlap, creating colors and patterns. While they share some similarities, such as their winged appearance and life cycle, they also have many differences. Here’s a breakdown of their similarities and […]

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]]> Eastern Redbuds Provide Early Spring Food for Bees https://www.gardenexperiments.com/eastern-redbuds-provide-early-spring-food-for-bees/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:42:47 +0000 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=4547 The pink-hued blooms of native eastern redbud trees (Cercis canadensis) are one of the first signs of color that I see in March. It’s a sure sign that spring is on its way and that more color will begin to pop up in the lawns and gardens in our neighborhood. After months of cold weather […]

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]]> What are all these trees dropping on the ground in Spring? https://www.gardenexperiments.com/what-are-all-these-trees-dropping-on-the-ground-in-spring/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:14:53 +0000 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=4438 It’s springtime! The sun is shining, the flowers are starting to bloom, and pollen is coating everything, including our cars. Even the trees are getting in on the action. We have been finding all sort of tree seeds and tree reproductive parts laying on the ground around our neighborhood. From the brown stringy stuff to […]

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]]> Chinese Wisteria: Beautiful but Deadly Vine with Purple Flowers https://www.gardenexperiments.com/beautiful-purple-vine-can-deadly-tree/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:51:36 +0000 http://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=3499 Wisteria vines bloom in early March, adding a sweet floral scent to the air. The flowers appear before the leaves. In the South, this vine is everywhere—in the forest, in neighborhoods, in rights-of-way, and even along highways. That is both the joy of and the pitfall of Chinese wisteria, which has purple flowers that grow […]

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]]> When Do You Put Out Your Hummingbird Feeders in Spring https://www.gardenexperiments.com/put-hummingbird-feeders-spring/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:26:06 +0000 http://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=3489 The first hummingbirds start showing up in southern Texas, Louisiana, and northern Florida in late February and the first week of March. Hummingbirds will arrive in my garden around mid to late March – at the same time as the red buckeyes are in full bloom. This is when I’ll hang my hummingbird feeders in […]

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]]> Purple Deadnettle https://www.gardenexperiments.com/purple-deadnettle/ Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:10:12 +0000 http://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=1526 A common early spring weed, purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) is a member of the mint family and grows in large clumps in lawns and in disturbed fields. Since it starts growing as early as April, it is often the only green (well, purplish green) thing in the lawn. Its tiny flowers serve as an early […]

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