Creating Border Gardens
December 16, 2008
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Creating Border Gardens
Creating a border garden is a wonderful way to improve the overall look of your yard in general, and create dividing lines between specific areas or sections. If for instance, you want to divide your front yard space from the back yard, you could put a border garden in that will look pretty and define the space, without taking up a lot of room or completely blocking the view.
Border gardens look particularly nice when placed around the outside edge of a lawn or yard area though. These small garden beds will define the border of your property, make it look much more appealing, and are usually less expensive than installing a full fledged fence. Plus the border gardens usually accent the yard instead of blocking it from view inside or out.
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November 23, 2008
Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden
Yellow is a beautiful, vibrant color that seems to be full of life and happiness. It’s an excellent color to add to your garden too, when you want to attract butterflies, hummingbirds, or other birds. Large batches of bright yellow in the garden are particularly attractive for hummingbirds.
Whether you want to create an all yellow flower garden, or you’d simply like to add splashes of yellow to your existing color mix, here are several suggestions for you…
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November 21, 2008
An Introduction to Mulching for Beginner Gardeners
Simply put, mulch is a layer of organic or synthetic material which is laid on top of your garden soil. This top layer is designed to help the soil hold moisture longer, prevent soil from eroding, prevent the soil from fluctuating in temperature too drastically, and prevent weeds from easily being able to grow around your plants.
Mulch is usually light enough to allow plenty of water and air to get through it to the roots of your plants, but it’s also dense enough to prevent weeds from being able to grow easily. Organic mulch deteriorates over time too, and this has an additional effect of adding nutrients, minerals, and vitamins to the soil around your plants too.
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November 3, 2008
Adding White to Your Flower Garden
Growing white flowers in the garden creates an enchanting, almost other-worldly feel that’s particularly noticeable at night time. Even during the daylight hours though, there’s just something particularly striking about seeing gorgeous white flower blooms against the various shades of green from your foliage.
Planting white flowers throughout your garden is an excellent way to simply mix in something different to compliment all of the other colorful flowers you have growing. White flowers make excellent stand alone gardens too, so you might think about creating one flower bed which is dedicated to growing all white flowers. Another wonderful way to grow white flowers though, is as an accent to other colors.
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October 28, 2008
Organic gardening is definitely a hot topic.
Here are some notable excerpts around the web.
Organic Gardening And It’s Benefits
More and more people are getting into natural means of growing crops because of the benefits that organic gardening care brings. Experts agree that the most basic premise that people—who are planning to do organic gardening—need to …
Commonsense Organic Gardening Tips For Everyone
You don’t have to be Martha Stewart in order to benefit from organic gardening tips, whether you are growing a flower garden or just a spider plant in a pot. Most home owners are stuck with lawns on their property and are legally …
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October 15, 2008
Adding Purple & Blue to Your Flower Garden
Many flowers bloom with a variety of colors throughout their flowering season, and some of the most beautiful are shades of purple. Now, in some cases a “purple” flower might actually look closer to a shade of red, and blue flowers don’t always look quite blue either. But getting exact matching shades is of course possible if you plant the same flowers, but getting shades of a color usually adds much more interest to the garden.
One of my favorite flowers which blooms in a pale lavendar purple color is a Morning Glory. These flowers can come in a whole host of colors, but some varieties rebloom with just certain specific colors instead. Morning glories grow on vines which will climb a trellis, fence, or bush, and they’ll even creep out across the yard in a ground cover like fashion if you let them. The flowers open early in the mornings, and close by midday.
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September 26, 2008
Organic Gardening: Natural Fertilizers/Plant Foods
Fertilizing an organic garden is easier than most people think. Just as you can improve the flavor of vegetables by planting certain plants together, and you can help repel common pests, insects and diseases by planting certain plants together, you can also fertilize your garden naturally using specific plants too.
One of the best fertilizers you can use in a garden of course, is compost. And compost is made with all natural, organic materials such as grass clippings, shredded leaves, sawdust, fireplace ash, and even shredded newspapers. You can also toss in fruit and vegetable matter from the kitchen to help your compost become even more rich and fertile for use in any area of your garden.
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September 25, 2008
Adding Pinks & Reds to Your Flower Garden
No garden ever seems quite complete if it doesn’t have some shade of red or pink flowers blooming in it. It’s quite possible that red and pink are the most popular shades of flowers actually, and with good reason. There are hundreds of plants which create flower blooms in these shades, and when you have large groups of red or pink in your garden, you can’t help but have it noticed around the neighborhood.
Roses of course are possibly one of the most favorite flowers to grow in shades of red or pink, and they can of course be grown as bushes and shrubs, or you can choose to grow climbing rose vines or wild roses and miniature roses too.
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September 22, 2008
Many Different Kinds of Garden Mulch
Using mulch for new or existing plantings is a good habit to get in to. Mulch will help protect new plants from harsh cold or heat, and this protects the roots from damage while the plants are still young and becoming established. Mulch also helps protect your garden plantings from drying out too quickly, plus it can help prevent weed growth too.
There are many different types of mulch that can be used in your gardens. Some types of mulch will naturally degrade and add vital nutrients back into the soil, while others are designed to continue protecting your plants for years without change.
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September 18, 2008
Environmental Friendly Gardening
One of the reasons gardening has started to become so popular in recent years is because people are becoming more aware of problems with our environment. And many are concerned with the overuse of harsh chemicals, pesticides, and other things which are harmful not only to the environment, but to human beings as well.
So not only is gardening becoming popular by itself, but “green” gardening - or environmentally friendly gardening - is one of the primary goals for most hobby and home gardeners.
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