Welcome to Dave's Garden, the website where friends share their triumphs and dilemmas in their home gardens and their lives. Dave's Garden is also a place for gardeners to share seeds or plants with other gardeners, and has so much to offer, you are certainly going to find something that will have you coming back daily, as well as making you proud to tell your friends and family about your new gardening home on the net. Here are some of the features you can access right away:
Traditionally, black elderberry was grown for its fruit but over the years, some interesting colour and leaf forms have arose and horticulturists have been quick to take advantage of these. The American elderberry and red elderberry have similarly been selected for their foliage colour and forms. The end result is that elderberries are now a standard ornamental shrub for the landscape with some exotic colour and leaf forms. the newest, look almost like cut-leaf Japanese maples and can be used as substitutes in colder climates. Together with newer dwarf forms, elderberries are gaining more popularity with each passing year.
On Saturdays, the Writer's Group would like to say thanks by presenting a "You Supply The Caption" photo. A gardening related photo will be presented, and you the Readers will provide humorous captions. The wit available on Dave's is some of the best around, so please join in the fun! This feature is not a "for compensation" article - just our way of saying Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoy...now let's hear some funny stuff!
Lavender thrives in hot weather and grows well in a wide range of soils, as long as they are well drained. Learn how to plant, prune, and feed lavender plants.
I'd like to know what bird is your single favorite in the whole world - the bird you would just die to see (or maybe you already have). You can include extinct birds (like ivory billed woodpeckers) if you want. View Responses (4 replies)
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With close to 300,000 members, Dave's Garden is an amazing resource for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Inside, you'll find over 200 forums dedicated to just about every type of gardening pursuit and plant issue you can think of. From annuals and bonsai trees to vegetable gardening and winter sowing; from tips on seeds and planting to advice on regional gardening - it's a gold mine for knowledge from experienced gardeners from around the world.
Enthusiasts of all types of gardening niches will find fertile soil here for growth as gardeners and as community members. Be it water gardens, vegetable gardens, hanging gardens, flower garden, container gardens, or raised bed gardens, there is a place here where you are going to fit right in!
Among our interactive forums, we have an amazing plant identification database with over 36,000 species of plants and 140,000-plus images. Another great resource is our bug identification database. It's essentially an insect encyclopedia with over 4,500 insects listed and showing over 3,000 insect images.
We invite you to sign up and stay awhile. Your participation is always encouraged and you gardening and plant knowledge is valuable.
We're glad you could stop by! Since 2000, we've strived to be a comprehensive gardening community with gardening forums for discussion on a wide variety of topics. We have members who are knowledgeable on soil, weather, watering, just about every kind of plant, and just about every kind of insect. Our special section on trading seeds and plants continues to grow in popularity as does our section on the home life and leisurely pursuits of our gardening enthusiasts (we can't always be with spade in hand, behind a rototiller, or out harvesting our ripe produce).
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