Creating scented garden paths and walkways

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Creating scented garden paths and walkways

Creating a garden path or walkway which is filled with wonderful scents is fairly easy to do, and you’ll love the end results too! There are actually several ways to create scented walkways and garden paths, so here we’ll look at each…

1. Plant small scented flowers and herbs between your walkway stones. If you have a walkway or path in place already, or you plan to create one soon, one of the easiest things to do is add flowers and herbs which will release their scent each time someone walks the path.

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Tips to Help With Shopping for Plants

Tips to Help With Shopping for Plants

When shopping for plants, sometimes things can become a bit confusing. It’s not uncommong to come home with too much or too little, and you might even find that you purchased things which weren’t overly compatible either. Then of course, there is the quality of the plants themselves… did you pick a dud that can’t be revived, or did you pick a very slow growing plant while it’s too small for your tastes and needs?

While none of us is perfect, there are some things you can do to help make your plant shopping trips more productive, so we’ll create a general checklist for you which may help.

1. Where do you intend to put the new plants? If you’re shopping for new plants which will be kept in pots inside your house, try to decide where you think the new plants will actually reside. This will allow you to know how much or how little sunlight that specific place in your home has available.
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Sprinklers, Soakers and Drip Systems

Sprinklers, Soakers and Drip Systems

Whether you’re landscaping a yard or you’re creating brand new flower beds, one of the basic things you should plan for and decide in advance is what type of watering system you’ll use. Many new gardeners are so happy to have new plants and garden supplies, that they simply start putting everything into the ground without much thought about how well the location and preparation will work for them in future months or years. When this happens though, watering can become a real chore over time if it hasn’t been prepared for in advance.

Some flower bed locations for instance, may not be easily accessible by your garden hose. If this is the case, you’ll need to find alternative ways to water the flowers in that bed if there isn’t enough natural rainfall to take care of the job for you. The same applies to landscaping too though: Some parts of your yard might not be easy to access with a standard water hose, and the grass in that area could shrivel up and die if you don’t carry buckets out to it regularly.

An excellent way to solve this problem though, and help save on your home water bill at the same time, is to install an automated or semi-automated watering system in your yard or garden bed areas. Here we’ll look at three popular options:
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How to Create an Outdoor Sanctuary

How to Create an Outdoor Sanctuary

By definition, a sanctuary is a private place, a location where you can get away from the cares, noise and problems of everyday life and enjoy a few moments of refreshing solitude in a calm and peaceful setting. You can create such a sanctuary in your garden, whether that garden is a small backyard or a gracefully meandering meadow.

If your garden space is large, you will certainly need to enclose some of it either structurally or visually to create a smaller space. This is because a principal feature of any sanctuary is feeling safe, and wide open spaces can make people feel nervous and overly visible to others.

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Natural Pest and Insect Control in your Garden: Organic is Effective

Natural Pest and Insect Control in your Garden: Organic is Effective

Unfortunately, our gardens abound with pests as often as they abound with flowers and vegetables. However, you don?t have to resort to chemical means to get rid of the little insect beasties that want to dine on your plants. For every pest, there?s a natural pest control solution, one that doesn?t require inundating your garden environment with poisonous pesticides. And there?s more good news: natural pest control costs less than pesticides and is much safer for your garden, your pets, children, wildlife and the environment.
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Did you know that each year, North Americans use approximately 136 million pounds of pesticides on lawns and gardens, and inside the home? North American homeowners actually use almost three times the amount of pesticides that farmers use. Most of the wildlife pest poisonings that occur?and most of the surface water contamination from pesticides?come from single family homes.

As we look to more environmentally friendly solutions to rid our lawns and gardens of pesky insects, enthusiastic gardeners should be especially careful to use control methods that are not only effective but kind to Mother Earth and the air that we breathe.
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