Your lovely garden when swarmed with weeds becomes an overgrown area. This is where gardening maintenance becomes as valuable, as you would like doing impulse makeovers to your interiors.
Garden maintenance is a tough chore, but it is always your pleasure to make things beautiful around your home. So you don’t mind going your way out [...]
Flower gardens have always added beauty and life to a property. For the plant enthusiast, having a flower garden is not just a hobby, but it is also a passion. The disappointing part of having a flower garden is when they go out of bloom. Fortunately, there are many flowers that bloom all year long [...]
Lawn mower comes in different sizings, kinds, and price ranges, so you need to do careful study just before buying any amazing kind. There’s a wide range of points to think about : like the sort and lawn size, what you might be able to find the money for, how long the mower will last, [...]
Scarifying is one of the most necessary maintenance duties that needs to be carried out on your lawn. As time goes by organic matter can develop in the lawn adding to what is known as the thatch layer. Thatch is caused by any rotting materials such as grass clipping, leaves, sticks etc. A little amount [...]
Especially for high traffic lawns, aeration is required. There is a number of ways to lawn aerate your lawn but before you do, you have to know the compaction of your soil to know which lawn aerating process you need to use. There is a number of lawn aerating methods available but before you do, [...]
If you have a bank or small hillside in you garden that you would like to make a little easier to negotiate, flagstone steps may be the solution that you are looking for. Flagstone steps can easily be cut into an existing bank, and will quickly blend in with your landscape.
The first thing that you [...]
Firstly dealing with the Amaryllis, they are well known hardy bulbous plants.
The belladonna lilies are splendid plants for a warm shrubbery border or for planting in front of warm sheltered south walls, where they may be allowed to establish themselves without fear of fatalities through frost. They must on no account be confused with the [...]
Firstly the Alyssum which are hardy annuals and perennials.
The annual species, Alyssum maritimum, is one of the most popular edging plants for summer bedding. The perennial kinds, of which Alyssum saxatile may be taken as a type, are useful in the rock garden and also as edgings in the perennial border.
When it comes to cultivation, [...]
The Andromeda is a hardy flowering evergreen shrub, and this article will deal with this first.
This used to be quite a large family until the botanists split it up under such names as Oxydendrum, Pieris, Cassiope, and Zenobia, leaving only one species of garden importance under the original name; this is Andromeda polifolia, the Bog [...]
The pimpernels are all of trailing habit, however the annuals are of the simplest culture and are bright showy plants well suited to plant?ing in the foreground of mixed borders. Modern strains offered in seedsmen’s catalogues are a big im?provement both in habit and in the size and colour of the flowers on the older [...]
