With a white snow covered landscape still on my horizon for a couple of months yet , I revel in glorious pictures of beautiful flowers and gardens. I love the natural look of a wildflower type garden, colors glowing in wild profusion!
I’ve often lived in place where space was very limited but needed to have my garden sanctuary. That’s where container gardening is perfect! You can make the most of the least space.
Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look [...]
A wild-flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of long tramps in the woods, collecting material, and then of the fun in fixing up a real for sure wild garden. Whenever I garden I always try to leave an area for wildflowers to spring up in wild and rampant profusion. Aside [...]
If you’re not the type of person that wants to spend their time managing an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden, you might consider planting and maintaining an herb garden. While the product might not seem as significant, you’ll still enjoy the constant availability of fresh, delicious herbs to flavor your meals with.
For me, a garden [...]
Here in Wisconsin, we’re buried under mass quantities of snow but I came across this beautiful picture of a gorgeous flowering garden and couldn’t help but to think of spring! Of course my humble garden won’t be anything close to this but I can dream….
I don’t know what it is about a garden that has always drawn humans to them. But they’ve always been very popular, and an integral part of peoples’ lifestyles. Most religions feature gardens as the settings for some of the biggest events According to Christianity, humanity was started in a garden and the son of [...]
If you’re getting ready to go on a new garden venture, you need to prepare your soil to ideally house your plants. The best thing you can do in the soil preparation process is to reach the perfect mixture of sand, silt, and clay. Preferably there would be 40 percent sand, 40 percent silt, [...]
I have to include a bit on houseplants every now and then. Living in WI my gardening is definitely confined to the short spring, summer and short fall so while it’s cold and blustery I have to get my ‘green fix’ indoors. I have houseplants on about any and every surface where they [...]
If you’re thinking about starting a garden, the first thing you need to consider is what type of garden you will have. There are many different choices and often it can be hard to pick just one, but hopefully you can narrow it down. But by narrowing it down, you’ll make the gardening experience [...]
If you’re thinking about taking your gardening seriously and getting out there every day to increase the attractiveness of your garden, then you will want to get the right tools to help you in this. You might be tempted to go out to the store and just buy the nearest things you see, but [...]
