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I Wanna Rock - Planning a Rockery
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
A rockery can make for a very interesting focal point in a garden and also an excellent platform on which to plant choice specimens where they can be raised up and appreciated. It also allows ...
How to Plan a Vegetable Garden
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
Though there will be plenty of toil involved in raising your own produce aisle, that part does not begin for at least a few months, however, the genesis of the vegetable patch occurs in the ...
Make Growing plants Exciting For Youngsters
By Karl Hock · 13 years ago
Gardening is an activity that can bring immense value to the family life together with children. Spending time outside is both fun and healthy for kids, but most kids nowadays are using their time up ...
Increase the Aesthetic Look of Home with an Outdoor Fountain
By Chris Harry · 13 years ago
When the word water fountain comes to your mind, it gives you a fresh and beautiful feeling. Usually your mind clicks with a cemented or ceramic materials fountain. Water fountain is so unique and beautiful ...
Flavoursome Fungus
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
This week I bring you the first in a two part piece concerning those fine fungal frequenters of our forests - the mushrooms. This first part concerns the edible of their kin that you should ...
Gimme Shelter
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
Trees serve many purposes in the garden. Whether it be providing excellent punctuation in your borders, housing a throng of blackbirds, or even hiding an unsightly feature on your Eden’s horizon, they are a gardening ...
Luring the Bobbing Red Robin
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
There’s much to be said for a healthy bird population in the garden - in winter most of all, when your blooms have retreated from cold weather and the space becomes a mesh of grey ...
Something Fungal This Way Comes...
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
The gardening headlines this week have been plastered with the threat of two new diseases that could potentially devastate Europe’s indigenous tree population.
In southern France, along the famous Canal du Midi, a plan has ...
The Asian Invasion
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
A recurring nuisance to gardeners across Britain has been the introduction of a fairly persistent little bugger known as Japanese Knotweed. Originally introduced by the Victorians as an ornamental garden perennial, this invasive plant broke ...
Advantages of Container Gardening
By Marianne Droste · 13 years ago
Personally, I think gardening in containers is the best thing since sliced bread! The possibilities are endless - you can create gardens of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flower! How great is that!
Household containers become ...
Hydroponics 101 - Choosing the Right Grow Light
By Miles Owen · 13 years ago
Sunlight is, simply and easily put, light from the sun. There are all sorts of scientific ways to measure sunlight, and define it. But for the average human being gardener, sunlight is the amount of ...
Hydroponics 101 - Easy Plants to Grow
By Miles Owen · 13 years ago
You are starting out your garden for the first time. You’ve prepared your garden bed, purchased the tools you will need, and you are wearing your gardening clogs around the house to break them in. ...
Hydroponics 101 - Basic Tools
By Miles Owen · 13 years ago
A hydroponics garden is unique in that it does not depend on soil to grow healthy vegetation. Plants do not need soil to grow at all- it just needs fresh air, water, and access to ...
Hydroponics 101 - Hydroponics Systems Explained
By Miles Owen · 13 years ago
Hydroponics gardening is the method of growing plants without the use of soil. You can use this method of gardening to grow almost any plant, from flowers and herbs to edible vegetables and fruits. Many ...
Which Wonderland?
By Joshua Ellison · 13 years ago
If you’re looking for something to do over the festive break, there are many heritage sites and public gardens that over the winter months pay a particular attention to Christmas and seasonal themes. The biggest ...
Indoor versus Outdoor Flytraps
By Terry Ogerly · 13 years ago
Go to almost any store and you will find an unlimited selection of flytraps. They range from sticky flypaper to large electric fly killers for your backyards. The costs range from a couple of dollars ...
Organic Farming Components for Healthier Crops
By Joseph Carr · 13 years ago
If you have not been in a grocery store lately, then you are missing a huge trend. You would have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the organic movement. Even ...
Lean-To Conservatory Provides Perfect Space For Farmhouse Kitchen
By Cheryl Stevenson · 13 years ago
A farmhouse in Oxfordshire received a stunning renovation, which included the construction of a beautifully bespoke lean-to conservatory by Apropos.
The glass and aluminum lean-to conservatory was erected to the side of the property in ...
Orangeries Bring The Old And New To Period Properties
By Cheryl Stevenson · 13 years ago
Renovations of period and listed properties should always be carefully considered, but orangeries provide a sympathetic way of bringing new life to older homes.
Orangeries are characterised by their sturdier appearances, which makes them distinctive ...
Bi-Folding Doors Will Keep You Snug And Warm This Winter
By Cheryl Stevenson · 13 years ago
For the last two winters, Britain has been bashed by torrid weather. However, one thing is for certain, bi-folding doors have kept homeowners snug and warm.
And, with uncertain weather once again predicted, those same ...