OBLONG - Garden Guide
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
Fall Blooming Bulbs where to look for? and what to look for?
Fall Blooming BulbsThe only problem when planting spring-flowering bulbs is that one has to wait until next spring to see them come up. But if you plant fall-blooming ones, there's no delayed gratification. In fact, they'll...
Orchids Will Bloom Again
How long does it take for an orchid plant to rebloom? The answer is: it depends. I'm not trying to avoid your question, just being truthful. The truth of the matter of when an orchid will bloom again depends upon what kind of...
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 certain you shade yourself from the unpredictable British summer weather...
Choosing a Garden Pond Design
If you are using a soft liner your water garden or fish pond can take any shape you like, square, round, oblong or just about anything else that your imagination can think of. If you are using a rigid or preformed pond then you...
6 Important Tips for Beginner Bonsai Tree Caretakers
Bonsai trees are a wonderful hobby to enjoy for a lifetime. However, when most people start out, most of their bonsai trees fall sick and die within a few weeks. Bonsai trees are extremely sensitive to their conditions and the...
Gardening: Blue Lobelia and Its Gorgeous Twin Sister
Lobelia group of plants was named by Linnaeus for Matthias de l'Obel who was a Flemish botanist. He was a physician to England's James I.Cardinal flower is also known as the Red Lobelia. The wild flower is a member of the...
How To Build A Greenhouse
The most successful modern greenhouses are built upon well-drained land near a good water supply. Some of the smaller structures are 12 to 15 feet wide, with a framework of wood. For commercial purposes, greenhouses about 40...
Home Garden
It is difficult to determine a criterion, according to which a cultivated plant can be called fashionable. A new discovery of stock-breeders? A bright hybrid? An exotic, which settled in our latitudes recently? And may be this...
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 certain you shade yourself from the unpredictable British summer weather...
Wonderful Wild Blue Flowers For The Garden
A garden becomes complete only with variety of flowers. This brings more beauty and loveliness to the garden. In the same manner, planting wild flowers along with other flowers would make it even more beautiful. Shopping for...