HERB - Garden Guide
History Of The Jujube Tree
Chinese poets spoke about the wonderful jujube in 600 BC. The fruit of the jujube has been used in ancient Chinese medicine for many nutritional remedies for 2500 years. Jujubes were used by Gerard in Europe as a medicinal herb...
Selection Of Delicious Edible Flowers
Want to make a start towards an organic lifestyle - How about adding edible flowers to your cooking
They are simple to grow or even better free, you may already have some of the varieties growing in your garden.Cooking with...
Low Maintenance Gardening Does Not Mean Boring Gardening
Low maintenance gardens need not look like the bare type, not many plants, lots of rocks, paving, gravel etc. You can have a beautiful garden following a few principles. Choice of plants, type of plants, garden layout,...
My Garden Buddha
I decided to get free of my gnomes and trolls and replace them with a garden Buddha. My gnomes are delightful and bring me great joy, but they are there to deter animals from snacking on my beautiful vegetables and plants. The...
Sago Palm Care, Plant Shade Trees for Beauty and Comfort
There are many types of shade trees which are best for planting around your home, or on your sidewalk. Every variety has its own unique gifts, but to make certain you find the one that suits you and your home perfectly, choose...
Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f
Mandalas - A Restful Retreat, a Healing Symbol
Have you ever wanted to see inside yourself? Im not talking about an X-ray of your internal organs but an up close and personal view of who you are in spiritual terms. Mandala art can bring forth information from within you...
Botanical Prints for Scientific Research and Collecting
Botanical prints have a wonderful dual purpose: they are lovely aesthetic pieces, akin to fine art, but also have the meticulous detail necessary for science.Botanical prints frequently reflect the preoccupations of society...
Four Herbal Remedies For Asthma
In the 21st century we smugly dismiss herbal remedies for asthma as "old wives tales" but this is a foolish attitude. For 5,000 years of recorded history, and undoubtedly many centuries before, humans have been using plants and...
Growing Vegetables using No-Energy Hydroponics
If you are worried about the safety of the food you eat, then you just might be interested in growing your own vegetables using no-energy hydroponics. Hydroponics is a dirt free method of growing plants usually using an inert...
An Herb Container Garden In Your Home
There are ways that you can spice up your cooking and thats by growing an Herb Container Garden. Nothing will enhance the flavor of your food like fresh herbs. Fresh herbs have intense flavor that makes even the plainest...
The 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year
The Perennial Plant Association has picked Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Firewitch' as its 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year. The cultivar name is English for 'Feuerhexe' - the original German cultivar name. The common name for...
Growing Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Gardeners, small farmers and boutique backyard nurseries can attract customers with unusual tree, vine and bush fruit crops that offer customers a taste of the exotic, of history, or of their native bioregion that they can find...
How To Control Poison Ivy
Poison ivy is found throughout southern Canada and most ofthe United States except Alaska and Hawaii. It is readilyfound along road sides, fences, railroads, and streams.But it can also be found in your own back yard. It...
Gardening for Seniors and the Physically Challenged
Are you in a wheelchair, and long to dig in the dirt and make flowering beauty and grow far more zucchini than you can give away? Or are your knees just starting to age and even though you've loved gardening all your life,...
The One Essential Kitchen Herb
Basil, (Ocimum basilicum), has been around for a long time and was originally named by Theophrastus (you know, the guy who co-founded and then replaced Aristotle as head of the Peripatetic school of philosophy back in 323 B.C.)...
Gardening is for the Birds
A couple of years ago someone asked me how I viewed my back yard. I told him that I thought it was the best room in the house. Actually, when we found this house the best selling point was the back yard. Yes, we are outdoors...
Fishponds And Fountains In English Pleasure Gardens
As the cultivated ground of estates grew in size, it gradually came to be divided into compartments. These subdivisions were usually formed of latticework with square or diamond-shaped apertures, more or less ornamental as...
Lavender Oil
The use of lavender oil as a healer for many illnesses was discovered in 1937 by the French chemist Rene Maurice Gattefosse. Although skeptical about treatments by natural herbs, he was fascinated by the properties that...
Insects and Animals and Your Lawn
This is perhaps the part about lawn care that causes people to become ill or at least very upset. But lets face it, the lawn is the great outdoors after all and there will be many creatures that occupy it. The number of...