Landscape shrubs are divided into two main categories: Evergreen shrubs grown primarily for the green leaves, and shrubs that are grown for flowers. Some of the flowering shrubs that are grown for flowers are also evergreen, such as: Albelia, Azalea, Banana shrub, Bottlebrush, Bridal Wreath, Gardenia, Ligustrum, Oleander, and Tea Olive. Azaleas and Camellias are the most important of the flowering shrubs.

Flowering Evergreen Shrubs

Azaleas are perhaps the most well...

If you live in an area with a short growing season, then you will likely want to get a jump start on the gardening year by starting seeds indoors, then growing the seedlings on under lights. All plants need three items to thrive: water, nutrition, and light. Of these three, inadequate indoor light is often the one that lays waste the best laid gardener's plans for strong and sturdy seedlings. Grow lights impact plant growth depending on the amount of light they give and the quality of...

Child discipline the easy way ~Part 1

My children run the gamut of unfortunate behaviors due to their own innate personalities. In almost nine years of parenting, I have picked up some handy tricks to bring happiness and peace in the household. Today we will discuss teaching your children to take you seriously. This can be done without yelling, spanking, empty threats and tears (on your part, at least)!

I learned John Rosemond's "Ticket System" to...

Monitor your hair styling products
Many African Americans resort to applying excessive amounts of heat, such as high kilowatt blow dryers, pressing combs, and flat irons to their hair. Likewise, a significant number of African Americans apply chemicals to their already dry hair, such as texturizers, relaxers, and hair coloring. Nevertheless, these same individuals apply additional chemicals to their hair when they use most over the counter, drugstore, or beauty supply hair care...

I couldn't imagine of living in a cluttered home. However couple of years ago my life wasn't like that and my closets and storage spaces were full of things I didn't need. Eventually I decided to get rid of all the extra things that I didn't need. This article describes the four benefits I gained by decluttering my home.

Your home is easy to clean
One of the things you realize as soon as you have decluttered your home is that it's easier to clean. Although the cleaning may...

Every once in a while you encounter home organization tasks, that take more time to accomplish than usual. Whenever this happens to me, I have different ways to handle those kinds of tasks and because of that, I can acutally accomplish them as well. This article explains three different approaches you can take, whenever you encounter a big home organization task.

Batch as much as possibleI try to group many similar tasks together and handle them at once. Whenever you do something,...

To prevent the clutter entering your household, you need to create supportive habits to achieve this.
This article describes some ways for you to handle the clutter proactively.

Don't buy stuff you don't need

Prevent the clutter entering your home by not buying everything you want. Think carefully before making a buying decisions.
For example, in my trip to New York, I was tempted to buy lots of clothes, but one by one I decided that I don't really need most of...

There are several key differences from people who practice financial success and those who are constantly in a state of financial distress. Luckily starting on the road to your own financial security and freedom is not difficult.

You would be completely surprised by how many people are stressed about money because they don't pay enough attention to their money. In today's society we are not generally taught how to manage our money in schools or by our parents. While this is...

Read the right magazines, that give you the right tips, to be the right kind of person society wants you to be. Simple right?

Well I say, "No thanks." I say it's time to challenge these concepts. Starting today.

What makes you feel beautiful?

Notice the key word here isnotbeautiful. The key word is feel. Let's rearrange.

Beautiful! What makes you feel?

Hmm,...

Article marketing: An excellent in-demand night job otherwise part-time night work would be to write content articles to submit for people to purchase. To locate a few websites which are seeking people to submit articles conduct a Internet search and you'll come across a lot of sites which are trying to find not just article submissions but also authors.

Starting costs: It won't cost you a great deal but you will have to have some type of computer as well as On-line access which...