GROUNDCOVERS - Garden Guide
10 Ways To Make Your Garden More Interesting
Here are 10 ways to transform a boring garden into a place of interest:Attract Wildlife
Who doesn't love to see birds and butterflies visit their garden? Try to mimic the natural landscape within your garden and you will have...
Designing an Edible Garden
When considering an edible garden the first thing most people will think of is the vegetable garden. Vegetable gardens are by far the most popular type of edible garden for the home gardener. There are, however, many garden...
10 Ways To Make Your Garden More Interesting
Here are 10 ways to transform a boring garden into a place of interest:* Attract WildlifeWho doesn't love to see birds and butterflies visit their garden? Try to mimic the natural landscape within your garden and you will have...
Shedding Light On Shade Gardening
A shade garden can be a rare botanical experience that almost seems naturally occurring when properly executed. It is subtle and restful. Bright colors are used sparingly as accents, while textures and architecture are the...
Shade Gardening Tips From Hawaii
If youre a first time gardener, or youve inherited your garden along with your house, then youll probably not have noticed that your garden has a shaded area. Believe me it will have a shaded space somewhere, even if it...
Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens
There are principles behind successful execution in every art form and combining plants into beautiful arrangements is every bit as much an art as is music or painting. Entire books are dedicated to the subject of combining...
How To Edge Your Lawn
You have seen those perfectly edged lawns, and now you want one. The only question is how to get that ideal edge that you have seen all over the place, and what equipment you need to achieve that edge.There are a number of...
What's a Perennial and How Do I Use It?
Do you know what a "perennial" is? If you do, go to the head of the class because many people dont know the answer.Until now
A perennial is simply any hardy plant that lives three or more years (if you dont kill it)....
Gardening With Groundcovers
There are always those spots in your garden where grass just doesn't seem to grow or that are either too rocky or rooty for shrubs. Groundcovers can solve all kinds of gardening problems and are frequently well suited to these...
To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot
When you start planning your pots, remember to think big, think garden:
use a variety of herbs, flowers, perennials, bulbs and groundcovers. While you are combining plants, choose plants that are compatible. Shade lovers or...
How To Grow Healthy Organic Herbs
Herbs are such a wonderful gift from mother nature in so many ways. There uses are many, including culinary; medicinal; household; cosmetic and craft. Not to mention their uses in the garden as companion plants and many can be...
Creating Low Maintenance Gardens
While no garden is maintenance free, it is possible to make a garden with relatively few demands. Careful planning, proper plant selection and thoughtful design are essential to creating a low maintenance landscape which...
To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot
When you start planning your pots, remember to think big, think garden:
use a variety of herbs, flowers, perennials, bulbs and groundcovers. While you are combining plants, choose plants that are compatible. Shade lovers or...