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The Rewards of Gardening with Your Children
William Wordsworth once said, “Let nature be your teacher.” He was just one of the many scholars who believed that nature was therapeutic for the soul and provided an abundance of lessons – especially for children. One of the best (and most fun) ways for children to experience the outdoors is through gardening...
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The Ultimate Gardening Tool
If you enjoy America’s favorite pastime, Spring is surely your favorite time of year. The grass grows green again, the trees sprout new leaves and you’re finally able to plant that garden you’ve been dreaming about all winter...
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Add Charm and Style to Your Yard with Arbors
The latest trend in landscaping is to create 'outdoor rooms,' areas set off by various design elements that provide a place to entertain, or just a place to sit and enjoy the garden...
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How To Save Your Fruit Tree Blossoms From A Spring Freeze
A single Springtime Freeze can wipe out all hopes of a bountiful fruit harvest by killing the blossoms that are so often premature. If you have just a few trees to protect, you may find this to be an effective method to assure your tender Spring blossoms will mature to ripe fruit.
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Flowers Add Inspiration for Fall Home Decorating
Fall is a time of year when color is all around us. Leaves are turning yellow, orange, red and crimson; the grass is fading from brilliant green to varying shades of yellow, orange and brown; and bright orange pumpkins and cornucopias abound. Let nature’s palate serve as an inspiration for your fall home decorating by bringing a taste of the outdoors in.
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How to Welcome Friends and Influence Neighbors
Ever wonder what’s the secret to a warm, welcoming entry way? Wonder no more. Use these design tips from notable experts to best package your front door for a first impression that not only says welcome, but wow!
Noted home and style designer Stephen Saint-Onge says the entry door is a major first impression for the rest of the home. “The front door gives a lasting impression of the space,” says Saint-Onge. “Doors draw you in, they guide you and they frame the spaces you enter into. They should be welcoming and create an extension of who you are and what your home stands for. Simply changing out windows and doors on an existing home can truly transform the look,” says Saint-Onge, named one of the top 15 designers under 40 in America by “House Beautiful.”
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Creating Your Own Garden in Small Spaces
If you have a balcony, all you need is a little imagination and patience, and a bit of a green thumb and you too can have a pocket garden worth bragging about.
Gardening with Garden Decor
Gardening no longer is just about food. Plants, flowers, and garden decor have taken its place.
Japanese Gardens: The Practical Use of Stones and Boulders
There are many elements and features that are found in Japanese gardens. The 3 most important Japanese garden elements used are plants, water, and rocks. This article forcuses on the pratcical use of stones within the garden design, along with its aesthetic qualities.
Building Liner Ponds
Surprisingly enough, it is usually in mid-summer that many
gardeners begin to think about installing a small pond or
water garden. Ponds don't need to be weeded or watered, and
they can supply exuberant color in the form of water lilies
and bog plants.
How to Care for Your Outdoor Water Fountains
Garden lovers around the world love putting fountains among their flowers, plants, bushes and shrubs. And with the Christmas season upon us in the U.S., many garden lovers may get their very first fountain as a gift this year.
Deck Design Must Fit the Outdoor Surroundings
A good deck plan makes it easy to build a deck yourself, or hire a professional to build
the deck you want.
Teak Patio Furniture Is The Perfect Choice For Your Terrace
There is nothing like the look of natural wood in your yard or on your patio. Many prefer the look of natural wood to aluminum or plastic, and there is nothing more beautiful than the natural look of teak patio furniture. Teak furniture will blend in to a natural surrounding beautifully and will look elegant and relaxing as well as being comfortable.
Gardening Tools - An Overview
A garden does not have to be a lot of work if you have the proper garden tools. Here is a short list of handy garden tools. In addition, the link at the bottom of this article provides more resources about garden tools.
How to Choose Your Garden Furniture and Make It Last
A helpful guide to selecting the right garden furniture for patios and how to make sure they last.
Bamboo And Its Many Uses
If anyone were to tell you that the shirt they were wearing was made out of bamboo would you believe them? It is not likely. But, it could very well be true. Not only is this plant being used in making clothing that is beautiful and long lasting, it is also being used to make high quality furniture and flooring, and it is also becoming a popular gardening and cuisine item.
Solar Lights for Walkways - Cut Costs
Over the last fifteen years, solar energy has become a highly flexible power source. One of the best ways to use it and cut costs is go with solar lighting for your walkways.
Selection Of Garden Tractors
This article traces history of garden tractors, gives tips in selection of garden tractors and gives information in safe operation of garden tractors. It also gives tips on saving fuel. The article is meant primarily for an amateur gardener, who is interested in maintaining his garden.
Backpack Blowers
Backpack blowers are more commonly used by professionals and are mostly powered by 2-stroke gasoline engines. The harness, which has a blower fit into it, is worn on the operator's back. The engine and fan are also placed on the backpack frame with a hand-held hose and spout to direct the airflow. Backpack blowers are powerful, convenient and have larger, more efficient fuel tanks and air filters and therefore, longer duty cycles.
Blowers
There are many types of Blowers -- leaf blowers, industrial blowers, snow blowers, etc, Each type has different subtypes such as backpack, handheld, corded and cordless, wheeled, electric-powered and gas-powered, and so on. Each type and subtype differs in function and purposes. For example, while some of them may be specifically manufactured for home maintenance, other more powerful units are aimed at commercial users.
Blower Fans
Fans utilize power from a motor to generate a volumetric flow of air at a given pressure, and are considered low-pressure air pumps more often than not. A propeller converts torque (turning force) from the motor (typically permanent split capacitor AC induction motors or brushless DC) to increase static pressure across the fan rotor and to increase the kinetic energy of the air particles.
Leaf Blowers
Leaf blowers were first manufactured in Japan during the 1970s, and made their debut in the Untied States towards the end of the decade. The annual sales by 1990, reached an estimated 800,000 in the country. It has become very popular due to its efficiency and effectiveness in ground maintenance. Today, leaf blowers are used by almost every family for cleaning patios, lawn trash, leaves, etc.
Cordless Blowers
Cordless Blowers are portable units normally intended for homeowners in indoor or light duty outdoor maintenance. Even though they are less powerful in comparison to gas-powered or electric-powered blowers, they are perfect for sawdust or grass clippings.
February Plants are Going to Pot
Now is the time to put your plants to pot - a bigger pot that is. One that is one size larger in fact. Here's the details.
Garden Color
With only a snow storm or two separating winter from spring,
it's time to start planning the garden.
The Benefits of a Cantilever Parasol in Your Garden
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your dinner party in the garden without a large pole obstructing the view? Do you need shade over you garden furniture but your table doesn’t have a parasol hole? Or do you want to get a little shelter from the sun and showers when you’re relaxing in your hot tub without having to ruin you masonry with an unsightly awning?
Japanese Garden Lights Bring Tranquillity to your Garden and Peace to your Body and Mind
For centuries the Japanese have believed that lighting both in the garden and home has a direct effect on ones levels of stress.
Garden Heating the Traditional Way
With the increased new trend in outdoor living, which has undoubtedly been by TV Gardening DIY programs, we are all spending more money on our garden and patio areas.
Relaxation in the Garden Starts With a Swing Bed
This summer’s new product for relaxing in the garden or by the pool will be the swing beds. Looking something in between a camp bed and a hammock they have been penned by many designers as the “garden chaise lounge”.
Choosing The Right Garden Parasol To Protect You And Your Family
Whether you love dining al fresco with family and friends or just lounging on a garden steamer with a glass of iced tea enjoying your gardens beauty, make sure you shade yourself from the unpredictable British summer weather with a garden parasol.
The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens
This 2004 Award winning plant from the Perennial Plant Association might be the perfect plant for shady gardens. Japanese Painted Fern has wonderful, season-long foliage and comes in a variety of colors to make a hit in any garden.
Wind Chime Trivia
How much do you know about wind chimes? Test your chime savvy by taking the this test.
Flag Day: Will You Be Ready?
Flag Day is on June 14th. Will you be ready to fly Old Glory? Some hints on flying your flag. Types of flagpoles. How to destroy a flag.
Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
This article by Mary Hanna is meant to give you some great ideas on how to use Container Gardening to enhance you House and Garden. Container Gardening can be fun and rewarding to all gardeners even in winter.
Creating Wildflower Meadows
Noted for their low maintenance and wide diversity of plants, wildflower meadows are full of vibrant colors and interesting textures. The meadow approach to the landscape...
Why Organic Gardening?
Gardening has always taken a great part in human life, either as the need for body sustenance, or for spiritual uplifting. Growing plants makes the connection with nature stronger and is considered a mild therapy by many psychologists. Organic gardening in its specificity reinforces the strongest binds with Mother Nature, as it is a true to life way to grow vegetables and fruits, using only the materials provided by nature.
Are You Feeling Bamboo Lucky?
Are you a "plant serial killer?" Dean confesses he has been and he longed for the day a plant would come along and challenge his lack of "green thumb" ability. Enter the Lucky Bamboo plant.
Lawn Furniture
If you love being outdoors, you should pick lawn furniture that you love! It should be more than practical and functional. It should add to the very experience of being outside.
Growing Tomatoes – A Hobby for Everyone
It is really a wonderful activity to grow tomatoes around your house. You can retain the tomato on the plant itself till it turns fully ripe.
Do Garden Statues Have a Place in a Modern Garden?
The great country gardens of old usually featured impressive stone statues which were integral to the layout and design of the garden. With today's smaller gardens, it is still possible to incorporate statues in the design, so here are a few ideas that may help.
Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening and Tips for Its Maintenance
Hydroponics gardening is well known among people with small opportunities to have a room enough for a real garden. If you lack natural soil or a place for a garden, hydroponics gardening can be the perfect solution to this problem. It will allow you to grow nearly all kinds of plants- flowers as well as vegetables, using a certain amount of nutrient solution. In hydroponics gardening the nutrient solution is used instead of soil, and plants seem to admire it. The thing that strikes most is that hydroponics gardens can be maintained in almost every place you may come to think of, and plants can be grown everywhere.
Special Series: Ponds
Browse this series of articles on building and maintaining beautiful garden ponds.
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5 Simple Steps To Dividing Your Hardy Water Lilies
If you missed the springtime window of opportunity to divide your hardy
water lilies, don't worry, it's not too late. Although springtime is
the best time, you've actually got the entire normal growing season to
get it done.
The reason for dividing your water lilies is that they eventually run
out of room in their existing pots and need more room for the roots to
spread out so the plant can flourish. Not only is this relatively easy
to do, but you end up with more plants as a bonus!
More articles on garden ponds
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Special Series: 'How to Grow...'
Browse this series of articles on growing a number of different fruits and vegetables.
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How to Grow a Pineapple
The first thing you need to grow a pineapple is a pineapple. The pineapple (ananas comosus) is a bromeliad; in fact, one of the few in its family that is edible. However, the fruit of an unripe pineapple is poisonous and will irritate both your mouth and throat. Even the ripe fruit of the houseplant pineapple is not nearly as luscious and sweet as that grown in the sands of the tropics; still, the pineapple is a striking, interesting, and unusual plant to add to your collection.
The pineapple is a biennial. The first year it produces leaves and the second year it produces the flowering stalk that becomes the fruit...
More articles on growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables
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