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Gardening Tips

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Add Fragrance to your Home and Garden

If you are one of those people who enjoy stepping out into your yard and smelling the sweet scent of blooming plants, this is a post just for you!

First, here’s a rundown of just how your sniffer picks up those tantalizing aromas. Odors in the air are picked-up by the small hairs that reside in the nose and then converts them into electrical impulses that the brain can process.

There are over 10,000 different odors the brain recognizes; however, no two people recognize the exact same odor.

Keep in mind when you visit Hyams Garden Center that even the weather can alter our sense of smell. The effects of fragrance has been shown to reduce anxiety, improve your physical performance, and act as aromatherapy.

There are a number of plants that produce a breathtaking aroma along with adding beautiful additions to your home and garden. These include: the Confederate Jasmine, the Tea Olive, Magnolias, Honeysuckle, Marigolds, Daphne, and the Gardenia.

For a larger listing of fragrant flowers for your yard, visit the Hyams Garden Store!

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Hummingbirds in your Garden

It is very easy to attract hummingbirds to your garden, window box or flower pots!

The most significant thing that you can do to attract hummingbirds is to plant flowering annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs and trees.

Hummingbirds are attracted to BRIGHT colors like red, yellow and orange tubular shaped flowers; other flower shapes and colors should not be overlooked. Plant your flowers in small clusters, plant vines on a trellis at the back of your garden with tall growing flowers in front of it and put shorter plants in the very front of your garden bed. A variety of flowers and blooming times of flowers will provide a well-rounded diet for hummingbirds as they reside in South Carolina.

Another major source of food for hummingbirds is small insects and spiders that are attracted to flowers as well. Hummingbirds appear in South Carolina from late March to early April and stay until September, early October and sometimes they even hang around into December.