Window Gardens: A Beautiful Option for Small Space Gardening
August 4, 2008
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Window Gardens: A Beautiful Option for Small Space Gardening
Window gardens are a wonderful way to enjoy the beauty of a garden when you have little to no space in your home. Apartment dwellers for instance, who have no patio space, often resort to having indoor gardens only. Window gardens can help them expand their gardens into an outdoor area, while making their apartment all the more attractive in the process.
Window gardens aren’t just for apartment dwellers though. They make a wonderful accent to stand alone homes as well, and they’re quite decorative too so they can dramatically enhance the overall curb appeal of your home.
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And what exactly can you do with it?
A strawberry pot is an urn like garden container, which has multiple openings scattered around the sides of the pot. This type of gardening pot allows you to plant things into the top as you would with any garden container, but it also allows you to plant small flowers, herbs, or other plants into various places on the side too.
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July 21, 2008
Small Space Gardening
Gardening in very small spaces can be something of a challenge. Sometimes in fact, our spaces are so small that we think we can’t actually do any gardening at all because we simply don’t have the room. This isn’t the case though. Gardens can be created in almost any sized space, because gardens can be created in almost any size you can think of.
One of the easiest ways to create gardens for small spaces is to use containers. You can use multiple containers for instance, which hang from the ceiling in front of your windows inside your home. Each container can have just one small plant in it, or it can have several plants which don’t grow overly large even when they’re fully mature. One of the best types of gardens to put into a hanging pot in front of your window in fact, are those which have plants that trail downwards from the pot instead of growing upwards in height. Various types of ivy plants for instance, give you color and texture that will spill over the sides of your hanging pots and look beautiful.
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July 14, 2008
How to Choose the Best Houseplants
Walk into any home, office, or other indoor space which is filled with lush, beautiful plants and I’m sure you’ll agree: Nothing quite compares to the refreshing, uplifting feel it gives you. Indoor houseplants serve multiple purposes. They help keep the air clean in our homes, they provide beautiful decorating statements, and they provide us with a calm and refreshing feeling which does wonders for lifting our moods.
For these and many other reasons, every home should have at least one houseplant or two in it. When you’re ready to start including plants inside your own home though, there are several things you should know about before selecting the types of plants you’ll grow.
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Indoor Houseplants
One of the easiest, most enjoyable ways to add a spark of life to the inside of your home is to put in a few houseplants. If you love plants and gardening though, try putting several in each room of your home. You may be amazed at the wonderful feeling of comfort, serenity, and pleasure you feel from surrounding yourself with lush vegetation inside your home.
Most houseplants are quite easy to grow and care for, and if you take care of them well, they’ll not only provide you with a source of natural beauty in your home, but they’ll help keep the air cleaner in your house too!
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The term “house plant” covers just about anything that grows and will fit through the door of your home. From lush, exotic orchids to common ordinary philodendron to unusually shaped and prickly cacti, if it can be grown in a pot, you can call it a house plant!
To choose a house plant best suited to you, consider the light in the room you want to place it. Rooms with northern light will provide good homes for low-to-medium light demands of plants such as orchids and ivy, while those that receive stronger western and southern light make excellent hosts for cacti and succulents.
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June 23, 2008
Geraniums: The Many Varieties and Where They Work Best in your Garden
Among the post popular flowering plants, geraniums can be grown indoors in pots or outside in hanging baskets, planters, window boxes and the ground itself. Common geraniums are actually correctly called pelargonia; true geraniums include wildflowers and herbaceous perennials such as pineapple geranium or lemon geranium that can be used in cooking.
The most common varieties of geranium are:
Garden Geraniums (Pelargonium x hortorum): Compact plants used in flowerbeds, these often have fancy leaves marked by dark pigments in distinctive patterns. They can also have tri-colored leaves or leaves with silver or white markings. Blossoms are clustered into heads and may be either single or double, ranging in color from white through pale pink to darkest red.
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June 16, 2008
Creative Ways to Use Garden Trellis
Most people know inherantly that garden trellis can make your yard and garden stand out even more beautifully than it does already, and many gardeners want to incorporate trellis into their garden, but they’re not quite sure how to do this. So here we’ll look at several different ways you can use garden trellis to enhance your own yard and garden.
1. Climbing Vines - If you like plants and flowers which climb, these are ideal to use with garden trellis. You can simply attach your trellis to the wall of your home for instance, then plant Morning Glory or Clematis vines at the base of the trellis. In time - sometimes quite quickly - you’ll have flowering vines climbing up the side of your home.
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June 9, 2008
Creating a Container Water Garden
Creating a container based water garden is a wonderful way to get your very own water garden started, without needing much space at all to do it in. It’s also easy, quick, and fairly inexpensive to create as well.
Container water gardens can be made as small or large as you’d like them to be, but keep in mind that the larger your garden is, the more space you’ll need for the water garden container to be placed. On the opposite end of the equation though, if you create your water garden too small, you won’t have much room for some of the gorgeous water loving plants you’ll start finding out about.
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June 2, 2008
General Container Gardening
Creating a container garden is a wonderful way to make use of spare patio, deck or balcony space. It’s also an excellent way to have a beautiful garden even when you live in a home which has no outdoor yard or garden space too. Many people who live in an apartment in the city for instance, create container gardens on their balcony or patio area, and some even create them using window boxes which are attached to the outside of the building just under their windows.
Container gardens are fun to create for indoor areas too, using a wide variety of plants and flowers that will spruce up your home. In fact, almost any plant or flower can be grown in a container. Plants which grow quite large will need larger containers of course though, and if you start bushes, shrubs or trees in a container you’ll eventually need to transplant them outside in the ground unless they are miniature varieties.
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