Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Window box gardening offers apartment dwellers the enjoyment of gardening without a yard. Even if you have an actual yard to plant whatever you wish, you can still have a window box garden to enliven your windows and balconies.
For the best results in a window box garden, the box should be at least three to four feet long but not more than six feet. If larger, it will be way too heavy to suspend and secure properly and it cannot be lifted easily. Boxes resting on broad window ledges and on firm porch railings might be eight feet long, but hardly more since moving them becomes too hazardous. Keep to a minimum depth of eight to nine inches, with a width of ten to twelve inches across the top. Of course, lengths must vary according to the window or series of windows or railing.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Create a unique design to your graceful garden using these timeless beauty garden decors. Garden decors enhances your garden and adds life to your home. There are a lot of garden decors to choose from to give an excellent look to your landscaped garden. Here are some of the garden decor that could give you inspiration in creating your dream landscaped garden.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Garderners always wanted to have power garden tools because it could make their jobs easier. Power garden tools can make your long hours of jobs in the garden into minutes. That is why power garden tools have a very strong lure for many gardeners. But because most of the gardeners cannot spare extra money to buy power garden tools, so they still stick to their old tools in the garden. So giving power garden tool to a gardener is a very perfect gift. Here are some of the power garden tools that you can give as a gift to a gardener like leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, chain saws, tiller, leaf vacuums, chipper-shredders, string trimmers and many more.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
GARDEN ANEMONE
Although anemones form small tubers, they are grown nowadays as annuals for providing cut flowers. The species originated in Turkey. For a long time, small bouquets mostly came from southern Europe, where they were cultivated out-of- doors. Among the single-flowered types, Anemone coronaria De Caen Series was particularly well known and, among the double-flowered varieties, Anemone coronaria St Brigid Series was equally famous. Nowadays, species such as Anemone coronaria ‘Mona Lisa Deep Red’ are grown from seed in glass houses and you will find them at florists between September and May.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
As we all know that most flowering perennials are very dependable and easy care performers. That is why maintenance is a requirement for all perennial gardens. So the question is, how can I maintain my perennial flower garden? What are the important things to do so that my perennial garden is healthy? Well of course there are tips and tricks on how to maintain your perennial garden. So here are the 8 important things to do in order your perennial garden is healthy and floriferous.
Fertilizing
Most perennial flower plants are really heavy feeders and they will be happy with one spring application of a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorus fertilizer (5-10-5). For established perennial garden, just apply a handful of fertilizer around each plant.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
BABY’S BREATH
You do not need not look far to find something beautiful. This gypsophila, which obviously grows on walls, is a wild annual from central and eastern Europe, among other places. It is therefore fully hardy. Its gossamer-thin stems are reasonably tensile, but are bent down by the weight of the tiny flowers which, however, are borne in such quantities that the plant is covered with them. Strangely enough, it is almost impossible to buy seeds of this rewarding little plant. It forms a neat, loose tuft of delicate greenery and looks just right for hanging baskets. Plants are available from firms specializing in plants for patios and balconies, but why are there not more of them? It can’t be the growers’ fault. They market several cultivars, including Gypsophila muralis ‘Gypsy.’ Some flowers are double. Gypsophila muralis ‘Garden Bride’ is an old favorite with single flowers. Gypsophila muralis ‘Tweeny’ closely resembles the above cultivar, but is even more compact.
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Fuchsias are well known as container plants, and the small woody shrubs are overwintered indoors. Enthusiasts, as well as commercial growers, strike cuttings in early spring. They take root easily and come into flower soon afterwards. The mass-produced plants find their way to the containers and hanging baskets of consumers who normally allow the plants to freeze to death in autumn.
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
In making a home garden landscaping is like a painter that is painting his masterpiece. The painter puts all his attention, time and effort to his work with all his heart so that he can produce a beautiful painting. This is also like gardening, you will put all your attention, your time and your effort to make a beautiful and attractive home garden landscaping.
Making a home garden landscaping is difficult but if you put your heart on it, you can do it. In a gardeners point of view, a landscaped garden has a life on its own. But the design and the outcome of the home garden is up to the owner. Growing a beautiful garden is more than planting trees all over and then calling it a garden. But there are some factors that directly affects the design of your home garden landscaping. Here are some of the factors that affects your home garden landscaping design.
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
COMMON MALLOW
The common mallow is a native perennial in The Netherlands, but its widest distribution is in countries farther south. Here, it is marginally hardy and the vulnerable cultivars are therefore grown mainly as annuals. Because it takes about four months for the seedlings to come into flower, commercial growers sow very early in the year and can therefore supply flowering plants by the end of May. The flowers are about 1V2 in wide. If you sow the seeds yourself, the plants usually come into flower in late summer, but they will go on flowering for much longer. The plant continues to grow while it is in flower, and, depending on its position, ultimately reaches a height of 3-5 ft. It does best in loose, warm, and nutritive soil.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
VENUS’S LOOKING-GLASS
The name Venus’s-looking-glass is fully justified. The small violet-blue flowers are no more than V4 in wide but have an unearthly beauty and look up to the skies like miniature radio telescopes. They are carried on spreading, bushy plants about 8 in high. Venus’s looking-glass is a native plant in many parts of Europe, including Britain and The Netherlands, where it is now rare. It grows mainly on arable land in loose, moisture-retentive, and nutritive soil. All we need do is scatter its seed in ordinary garden soil from April onwards and enjoy the small flowers from June. They do not flower for very long, so it is advisable to sow repeatedly.
As a result of an error by one of the largest seed merchants, the plant is marketed on a large scale under the name of a different botanical genus, Downingia.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
In order to make your home and garden attractive, appealing and beautiful, you must install home and garden decor. Home and garden decor makes your home and garden so relaxing and pleasant inviting atmosphere. For all of us who are stress out in our work, sometimes we want ot spend time in our garden to relax and unwind. So if our home and garden don’t look so inviting and relaxing then we don’t have a place in our home to sit down with a pleasant atmosphere.
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