Home Depot Gardening - Your One Stop Shop For Gardening Tools

A gardening enthusiast can get all the equipment and paraphernalia that they would need for their garden at the Home Depot store in the gardening section. One can also get seeds, plants and plant products, fertilisers, pest control products and any other fancy stuff for your garden. Gardening tips and books on gardening are also available here.

Tips on planting According to the expert tips of the Home Depot, it is better to plant flowers on a day when the sky is overcast and it may rain instead of on a warm sunny day. The rain will do the plants a lot of good. So it is better to plant the new plants for the year and the perennial plants before the last frost date for he season. How to choose your new plants It will help to be careful while choosing your new plants. How to prepare a flower bed Mix at least one inch of organic matter into a flower bed that has been prepared with a spade. For plants that have to be planted annually you should loosen the soil up to a depth of 12 inches and for perennials to a depth of 18 inches. After you have planted the potted plants in the soil, add between one to three inches of organic mulch like pine needles, bark, grass clippings or wood chip mulch. The volume of textures colors, sizes, and forms, has placed annuals a favorite with gardeners and plant lovers.

When choosing this type of plant, if at all possible, make your life easier and choose a disease and insect resistant variety. Understanding the needs of different annual varieties and the typical climate where you, you'll likely be successful growing annual plants. The local gardening center or plant nursery can point you in the direction of the best annuals for your needs.

While out in the garden, look closely at your plants for the presence of insects or infestation. Watering is a necessity for annuals however, avoid overhead watering of whenever you can. That's because excessive water on the foliage encourages different types of diseases. Plant diseases thrive in moisture, therefore standing water on annuals is a surefire way to blanket your garden with present disease, or encourage a new one to develop and spread

To water your gardens use soaker hose or drip irrigation if at all possible. If you find any insects on your plant, place them in a plastic bag and drive down to a garden center for identification. Remember, you must identify the pests first, before your can effectively rid them from your garden plants.

This advice should be followed whenever treating your plants for disease or insect problems.

Bog plant, needing a 'bog depth' of 10 feet plus.

Aponogeton distachyos, the water hawthorn, from South Africa, was one of the first plants introduced to my watery world. A sweetly scented delight, whose flowers and cigar-shaped leaves float elegantly on the surface of the water. Floating leaved; water depth 5-25 inches.

Caltha palustris. the common kingcup, has cheery, glossy, golden flowers against a backcloth of mid-green rounded leaves. Bog or shallow marginal; water depth 0-6 inches.

Bog or shallow marginal; water depth 0-4 inches.

Bog or marginal; water depth 0-12 inches.

Glorious rounded parasol-like leaves and the straightest stems topped with white flowers with blush-pink tints make this majestic, revered plant the source of many legends. Floating leaved-and beyond; water depth 6-36 inches.

Nymphaea Marliacea Chromatella-pretty primrose flowers with a golden boss of stamens and attractively marked copper young leaves with purple streaks; the leaf undersides are speckled with purple. Floating leaved; water depth 18-36 inches.

A fun plant for children of all ages. Floating.

Marginal; water depth 12-36 inches.

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