Benches, Statuary and Birdfeeders: Garden Accents with Personality
May 29, 2008
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Benches, Statuary and Birdfeeders: Garden Accents with Personality
Of course, you know that a garden requires trees, shrubs, flowers, sun, shade, water and fertilizer. But did you realize that to achieve its maximum potential as a place of enjoyment and repose, your garden also needs accents that express personality?
Regardless of whether your preference is for a formal rose garden, an English cottage garden, a raised bed vegetable garden, a woodland garden, a cactus garden, French formal garden or Japanese landscape, garden accents can help you express your landscaping preferences with style and class.
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May 27, 2008
Designing Gardens With Color And Texture
One fun way to create gardens of any size, is to create one which has as much color and texture as you can possibly think of. Now, for some people, this type of garden seems a little too random or eclectic for their tastes. And it can be overdone as well. But creating a texture garden in small garden spaces particularly, such as a small corner of your yard or in a nice sized container, can give you a wonderfully unique and interesting garden design.
Choosing plants which have a variety of color and texture to them is fairly easy, but you will need to make sure they’ll be compatible for the garden space you plan to place them in. If you’re planting the flowers and plants into a container particularly, you’ll want to make sure they can all survive with the same soil, water, and sunlight requirements.
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May 26, 2008
Container Gardens
Do you love gardens but don?t have the space or maybe the time to create one? Now you can by making one on a small scale called a Container Garden. Container Gardens aren?t really all that new, it?s just that the concept has expanded beyond the borders of apartment living and hi-rise residents to suburban living. Now people everywhere are creating container gardens to accent their landscape as well as have a little sliver of the beautiful outdoors just a few feet away. Think of it as a mobile planter even though you may never move it. Creating your own container garden has never been easier with today?s plastic, clay, metal and concrete receptacles.
First you need to decide what size container and the type of material you want it to be made from. Make sure the item has a hole or holes in the bottom for adequate drainage when watering. You may want to invest in a matching overflow dish that your container will sit in. This item will hold some of the water runoff allowing the plants to soak up the excess over a period of time. Placement of your container garden will depend upon your own desire, your choice of plants and your available space. If you cannot offer a balance of shade and sun for your container placement, take this into consideration when selecting your plants.
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May 25, 2008
Bushes and Shrubs
Many new gardeners automatically think about flowers and plants when they first start creating their gardens. They dream of blooming tulips, climbing flower vines on a trellis, or sprouting kitchen herb gardens. What they don’t often realize though, is that no garden is fully complete without some select choices of bushes and shrubs.
Now the unfortunate flip side to the above scenario is the inexperienced gardener who decides to plant bushes and shrubs everywhere - particularly right next to the house. There’s nothing specifically wrong with planting bushes in front of your home, but most new gardeners make one classic mistake time and again… they plant things too close together when the plants are small.
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May 23, 2008
The Hottest Trend in Urban Gardening: Container Planting
The growing number of urban gardeners signifies a major switch in gardening approach. No longer do people believe that growing tree, flowers, fruits or vegetables are undertakings suitable only for country dwellers. Indeed, through the magic of container planting, many urbanites are growing part of their own food!
Container planting is the absolute hottest trend in the garden marketplace today and rightly so. Even a small balcony, porch or patio can hold containers big enough to grow herbs, vegetables or flowers.
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May 21, 2008
Composting: An Organic Gardener’s Best Friend
Organic in nature, compost is one of the best substances any gardener can use to help plants grow strong and healthy without exposing them (and the people who eat the food and handle the flowers plants grow) to chemicals present in most fertilizers and pesticides.
The concept behind organic garden is simply this: For uncounted millennia before humans began to intervene in the process, the earth has known how to take care of itself. What is planted grows, matures, then dies and is returned to the earth through the natural process of decomposition. This organically decomposed matter ? compost - is rich in soil-enhancing nutrients that bolster the strength and health of future plant generations.
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May 19, 2008
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May 19, 2008
Organic Gardening: Companion Plants
When you decide to try your hand at organic gardening, one of the most frustrating parts of the entire process is trying to control pests, diseases, and other miscellaneous problems that come up with any form of gardening. Thankfully though, there are natural techniques which can be used to solve many of these common gardening problems, and one of those techniques is known as companion planting.
Companion planting is the process of planting specific flowers, herbs, and vegetables together in a way that either enhances the taste of the vegetables, and/or serves to help naturally control common pest and bug related problems in the garden.
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May 18, 2008
Top Tips for Successful Bonsai Gardening
Growing bonsai trees is a fascinating hobby, but many beginners underestimate the extreme environmental sensitivity of bonsai plants and are dismayed when their plants die within a couple of weeks of being brought home. However, adhering to a few well-established and demonstrable principles for good bonsai gardening will help you avert this fate. To ensure that your bonsai plants thrive rather than strive to survive, follow these guidelines:
Successful Bonsai gardens require the best possible soil, and we?re not talking about regular garden soil here. Garden soil usually contains bugs, pests and possibly fungi that could cause problems for bonsai gardeners and their plants. To prevent such problems, purchase soil prepared for potting or repotting plants, and if your bonsai garden plants are pines, then choose a more gritty soil.
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May 17, 2008
Butterfly Gardens
Everyone loves butterflies but knowing how to keep and attract them to your home is really quite easy. There is no minimum size to a Butterfly garden; they can be as small as a container or window planter, or as large as your can design and build. What you want to create is a complete environment that will not only attract butterflies but will also entice them to lay their eggs; so you will want plants that caterpillars would love to eat too. In essence, you will create a complete ecosystem for all stages of their life.
First you will need to do a little research on your local area as to what butterflies are common, then you can begin searching for the best nectar and host plants for your butterfly garden. Monarch butterfly caterpillars like Milkweed, the Common Snout-Nosed wants hackberries and so it is important to know what butterflies live where you live. You also should know that what caterpillars eat is not what a Butterfly gets its nourishment from. Butterflies drink their food thus they need nectar bearing flowers and plants which hold water on their leaves. Caterpillars eat leaves.
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