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Pondless Waterfalls: Concrete vs. Pond Liner
By Douglas Hoover · 18 years ago
The get-rich-quick factor in the pond liner industry has forced up the price of pond liner kits to equal the cost of concrete construction. If you search for the truth about concrete ponds and waterfalls ...
How Do Hydroponic Gardening Systems Work?
By Tony Buel · 18 years ago
The idea of hydroponic gardening (gardening without soil), has been around since the time of King Solomon. There are a few advantages with hydroponic gardening over traditional gardening -for example the rate of growth of ...
History Of Raspberry Plants
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
According to Luther Burbank, who studied and hybridized raspberries and blackberries more than any other horticulturalist, and wrote his classical 8 volume treatise on Small Fruits and Fruit Improvement in 1921; the red raspberry plant ...
The Necessary Points to Fern Care
By Darren Lintern · 18 years ago
One of the easiest houseplants to care for inside your home is the fern. They are able to survive on low light and require little care. They are a great addition to any home as ...
The Importance of Garden Decor
By Denny Soinski · 18 years ago
The Quest for Significance
People are looking for ways to add significance, peace of mind, a quality experience, and an escape from the “rat-race” in their lives. Stated differently, people want to add depth and ...
Necessities for Growing Orchids
By James Ellison · 18 years ago
Have a tropical paradise inside the house. When raising orchids, care must be practiced at home. However, they are no harder to grow than many other houseplants if the particular growth requirements are used. Actually, ...
Fall Is The Time To Prepare For Winter With Mulching And Pruning
By James Ellison · 18 years ago
Here it is fall and the garden is ready to snooze. Hold it, there is more work to be completed. Some mulching and some pruning. Those fallen leaves and dying annuals are not for the ...
A Garden To Draw Hummingbirds
By James Ellison · 18 years ago
Hummingbirds have an unusual capability to hover in one place by quickly flapping their small wings which may genuinely have made them the fairies that a lot of people saw hovering around brilliantly colored flowers. ...
History Of Apple Trees
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
Apple trees were the most popularly grown fruit tree in colonial America and practically every settlement farm and backyard gardener planted this easily grown fruit tree, or easier, the seed of the apple could be ...
America’s Ancient, Historical Hickory Trees
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
In 1792, William Bartram reported in his book, Travels, the discovery of a native shagbark hickory nut that he called ‘Juglans exaltata.' Today, shagbark hickory is called ‘Carya ovata.' Bartram reported that this shagbark hickory ...
Wood Ticks
By Josh Riverside · 18 years ago
A wood tick is also known as a Rocky Mountain wood tick. Its scientific name is Dermacentor andersoni, and it is found in the Rocky Mountain States and the southwestern part of Canada. In the ...
History Of Grapevines
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
The first documentation of grapevines growing in the Americas was discovered in researching the logbook of navigator Giovanni de Verazzano, who reported in 1504 that a large "white grape" was vigorously growing at Cape Fear, ...
Solar Outdoor Lighting
By Marcus Peterson · 18 years ago
Tapping the limitless solar energy is a simple, economical and a profitable way to save depleting natural resources. Solar energy, a relatively new multifaceted concept in energy harnessing, provides us with low cost alternative to ...
The Ancient Crinum Lily Inhabiting The Island Of St. Simon, And Sea Island, Ga.
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
William Bartram, a notable, early American botanist, extensively explored the Island of St. Simons in Georgia; describing vividly the landscape, animals and plants in the area, along with his personal encounters with islanders, and in ...
Green Gardening Tips
By Clifton Waldrep · 18 years ago
The winter has lived up to being a cold and windy months (for most of us). Annual rye will stay green throughout the winter months and begin to die off in the summer heat. You ...
Gardening Tools And Usage
By Jasmine Yap · 18 years ago
Basically a small garden will not require the same large equipment that would be of use in an extensive one. A ride-on mower is unnecessary if you only have a small strip of lawn. Another ...
The History Of Almond Tree, ‘Prunus Dulcis’
By Patrick Malcolm · 18 years ago
The ancient travelers and traders, who circulated back and forth over the Silk Road route between Greece and Turkey, used almonds in their commercial trading, in exchange for other expensive and desirable goods. Native almond ...
Table Top Silk Trees
By Kent Pinkerton · 18 years ago
Does your tabletop look bare and ordinary on special occasions? Often, we become so engrossed in decorating the whole house and filling every nook and corner with decorative objects that we fail to notice that ...
Pink Hibiscus
By Kent Pinkerton · 18 years ago
Pink Hibiscus, the state flower of Hawaii, is a beautiful bloom. This perennial favorite comes in different shapes and sizes. They have single and double petals and vary in size from small to ten or ...
Types Of Palm Trees
By Kevin Stith · 18 years ago
There are more than 2,500 species of palm trees in different parts of the world and most are available in the United States. Some of the most common species found in Florida and California include ...