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Laying Out Your New Landscape


When planning your new landscape, the first place to start is by driving around your neighborhood and seeing what other people have done with their landscapes. Bring a sketch pad or digital camera to record things you like.

Plant Hardiness Zones


When selecting plants for the landscape, is important to select plants that will grow in your climate. The United States has 10 of growing or climate zones.

Environmentally Safe Ways to Remove Weeds


There is a lot of concern about herbicides and what they are doing to our environment. Large amounts of chemicals leech into our groundwater polluting our water supply.

Online Garden Seed Exchanges


If you've been gardening for any length of time you have probably realized a couple of things.1: Gardening can be quite expensive2: Finding the plants you really want can be a daunting task.

High Intensity Discharge Grow Light (Generic)


HID lamps are categorized in three groups :Mercury Vapor , Metal Halide, and Pressurized Sodium. For plant cultivation, Metal Halide (MH) or Pressurized Sodium (HPS and LPS) are the ones commonly used in grow rooms.

Greenhouse Calamities - Thoughts from a Novice Gardener


Greenhouses are a great addition to anyone's garden. They come in all different sizes and you can nestle them right where you want them and with smaller versions of greenhouses you can move them quite easily.

How to Grow Cooking Herbs


Grow your own cooking herbs to add fresh zest and flavor to your menus year-round!Is It a Cooking Herb or a Spice?The first thing to know in selecting which herbs to grow is the difference between cooking (culinary) herbs and spices. The cinnamon stick you put in your hot chocolate or apple cider is a spice while the parsley on the edge of your plate is an herb.

Wild Flower Garden - Recreate the Splendor of Nature in Your Own Backyard


A few years ago I made the decision to create a wild flower garden within my existing garden. I had been working to develop a more earth friendly approach to my garden, trying different options for fertilizing and pest and weed control.

Gardening - An Expression


Give the same plants to several people, you willsee several arrangements. Each one distinct anddifferent, yet, using the same plants.

A Look at Fall Flower Bulbs


Most people would think of fall as a season when trees are changing colors and dying. For many, the autumn leaves are our last dance with color before the dark, gray winter sets in.

Want a Garden but Not Enough Room or Soil? Then Hydroponics Gardening could be for You


Hydroponics gardening is a great idea for anyone who wants a garden but doesn't have enough land or soil. Hydroponics gardening is, essentially, a way to cultivate plants using a nutrient solution instead of soil.

Three Stumbling Blocks to Growing Grapes in the Backyard


Are you one of those home gardeners that don't know the threestumbling blocks to successfully growing grapes in your backyard?Don't worry, you're not alone.I have grown grapes successfully under the worst of conditionssince 1975 and I can tell you that most of the problems gardenersencounter are because they don't understand the nature of thebeast that they are growing.

Why You Should Always Have Garden Furniture


You've put a lot of work into your garden, from planning to digging to weeding to all the little tasks that keep it looking beautiful. Sharing your garden with others is the next step, and doing that requires more than pretty rows of plants.

Ceiling Patio Heaters


It is unavoidable, Fall is coming and we like to enjoy the outdoors as long as possible.As Fall is drawing near.

How To Find Cheap Flower Delivery In Your Area


As humans, we are always on the lookout for a deal. Deals on flower delivery are no exception.

Wild Flower Garden - Yours to Design and Plan


To design a wild flower garden, you do not need to be a specialist or an artist, you just need to be observant and let your creative juices flow. Look around you, what is unique about your surroundings? Do you wish to enhance or compliment these things.

Wild Flower Garden - Plan to Plant


In the previous article I discussed design for your new wild flower garden. The next stage is planning the planting.

Wild Flower Garden - Make Amends...Your Plants Will Love It


A wild flower garden, just like any garden you wish to plant, requires good quality soil that will meet the needs of the plants you put in it. That means that your garden soil may need some amendment.

Garden Fencing


I made my very first garden when I was six in a small corner at the end of my grandmother's garden. It was a small patch, not more than six rows by 10 plants long, but it was MINE, with the flowers I picked and the dirt that I dug.

Laying Out Your Landscape Part Two


Part Two in a SeriesOnce you have your landscape design on paper, now it's time to transfer it to the actual location where you will be planting your plants. You will need a couple of tools in order to accomplish this.

Orchid Care What The Flower Tells


In Orchid Care The Flower Will Tell You About Some DiseasesTale for orchid care the flower. The orchid flower is usually a thing of beauty.

Orchid Care - What The Leaves Tell Us


Orchid Care Leaves Tell Us About Orchid HealthOver the past 20 years the orchid supply has become almost limitless. All in all orchid care leaves is becoming more important to all the orchid lovers.

Orchid Care - What The Root Tells Us


Orchid Care Part 4 Diseases of the RootsOur final part in orchid care part 4 is about the roots of the plant. This is the heart and soul of the plant.

Do You Know About A Bamboo Orchid


Bamboo Orchid PlantWhen you think of bamboo you really think of bamboo sticks, don't you?There is an orchid that grows wild in some of the warmer climates like Hawaii and Southeast Asia called the Bamboo Orchid Plant. This is a very pretty orchid plant that easily grows on the hillsides.

Tips On Caring For Your Cut Flowers


Imagine it's a special occasion and you've just received a glorious bunch of roses. You put them in your best vase and you stand back to admire them.

How To Check If Cut Flowers Are Fresh


Fresh flowers should feel crisp or firm. Before you buy, run your hand under the flower heads from stem to petal tip.

Solar Garden Lights


Solar lights are very popular for lighting yards and gardens. They are virtually maintenance free, easy to install, and cost almost nothing to run.

Pruning the Backyard Grapevine


Proper pruning of your backyard grapevines is essential to maintain vine size, shape, and yield of the grapes. If you don't prune your vines, they will become unruly, tangled messes.

Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying


The first thing to look for is the plant's grade.Nearly all bare root roses sold today are grown in the field and are approximetly two years old.

Colorado Blue Spruce And Lush Red Roses


Set in a broad expanse of lush green lawn a length of split rail fence forms a corner. Carpeted with a thick layer of soil preserving and plant protecting cedar mulch, three tall Colorado blue spruce offset the right angles of the fence.

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