ORANGES - Garden Guide
A Pot of Pastel Colours for Summer
Buck the trend for hot sizzling summer colours and opt for cool pastels instead.Osteospermum
There are lots of little osteospermums in garden centres and nurseries in the summer months of May June and heaps of colour choice....
Admiring Trees
Near at hand, we all can see beautiful trees. Every time I walk the city parks, or visit the country side, I gaze the trees that I cross bringing back memories of happy tree climbing, tent camping in the woods, long walks with...
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
Making the Cut
If youre like me, you enjoy wonderful cut flowers from local farmers markets. Unlike florists and grocery stores, however, most cut flower growers dont offer packets of preservative with every sale. Why are preservatives...
What Is The Hosta Finder
The Hosta Finder is a reference for over thousands of cultivars. It supplies hosta prices, size, color, and nurseries that sell a particular hosta. The basic function of the Hosta Finder is two-fold. First it helps you find or...
Plant Pansies for Autumn and Winter Color
Despite the derogatory connotation associated with the name "pansy", the little plants are some of the hardiest to be found in the garden. At any given time of the year pansies are found blooming in some region of North...
History Of Plum Trees And Their Hybrids
The documentation of ancient plums growing in antiquity is sparse. The best evidence of that oldest existence is best documented through Americas most famous pomologist, Luther Burbank, who reported in his twelve volume...
Admiring Trees
Near at hand, we all can see beautiful trees. Every time I walk the city parks, or visit the country side, I gaze the trees that I cross bringing back memories of happy tree climbing, tent camping in the woods, long walks with...
Silk Orange Trees
A silk orange tree is a kind of artificial topiary tree adorned with real looking leaves, trunks and oranges. A silk orange tree placed at entryways and corners, or near windows gives a stylish look to your home. Silk orange...
Drought Resistant Gardens and Planting from Cuttings
Drought Resistant GardensAmaryllis can tell you from experience, that she has seen lush drought-resistant gardens that give color year round.She learned about it by accident, in California, when she stumbled upon a property a...
5 Vegetable Garden Ideas
Everyone knows there are many benefits from having your own garden. Feeling a sense of pride as you watch the fruits (or vegetables, as the case may be) of your labor start to flourish is just one of them. And your garden...
How To Grow Organic Citrus Fruits - One Of The Top 10 Super-Foods
Citrus Fruits are rich in vitamin C, high in fibre and potassium and contain folic acid. Both oranges and grapefruit have been found to be high in potent antioxidants. The pain of a bee sting can be relieve with lemon...
Fall Colors for Southwestern Planting
Fall Colors for Southern New Mexico, East Texas and most of the southwest. I have already seen Raywood ash trees start to change slightly, getting ready to bring on it's vivid purple/burgandy show. Certain crape myrtles are...
5 Vegetable Garden Ideas
Everyone knows there are many benefits from having your own garden. Feeling a sense of pride as you watch the fruits (or vegetables, as the case may be) of your labor start to flourish is just one of them. And your garden...
Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips
Roses can do more than grace our landscapes and floral designs. Like its cousins the apple, pear, peach and cherry, roses produce a fruit. Rose Hips are a valuable source of vitamin C, containing as much as 20 times more...
Best-Loved Garden Themes
Garden themes are not uncommon among sprawling areas where homeowners can use as much space as they want. But lately, even down-town apartment tenants have made use rooftops, and other reclaimable small pieces of spaces to make...
Gardening Can Be Suitable For Anyone
There are gardening methods to fit the style and needs of every gardener; and every gardener has preferred and unique ways of growing a beautiful garden. Beginning gardeners can join a local garden club and benefit from the...
Gardening: Plants and Gardens
Attempts to classify different types of plants is known to have occurred as far back as since pre-historic periods as shown in the evidence found in the caves of Lascaux in Dordogne, France. These date back to 18,000 B.C. We...
Put Some Spring In The Air
March may have come in like a lion but springtime is fast approaching; a time of year when the stark winter landscape gives way to an explosion of color and fragrance blooms in abundance. The fresh green aromas of grasses and...
7 Tips for Narrow Gardens - from a South African Perspective
1. Avoid lawn if there is no space for it, or if the area is too shady. Paving, gravel or some other hard surface will look infinitely neater than a trodden lawn - a narrow strip of lawn will inevitably get worn out.2. Bright,...