WISHING - Garden Guide
Garden Fountains - How To Create A Haven Of Tranquility In Your Own Backyard
Garden fountains come in a huge variety of decorative styles, from ornately carved wall fountains to floating pond fountains. If you're looking for a way to bring a soothing ambiance to the sanctuary of your backyard or patio,...
Saving Seeds From Your Garden
For many gardeners, the garden actually starts in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which...
Advice To Homeowners Before Landscaping
How many times have you gotten excited about a project and rushed into it only to find you forgot something? Landscaping takes considerable time, effort, and money
so you want to do it right the first time. There are a few,...
Vermiculture: Indoor Composting and Organic Soil Improvement
Maybe youve never heard the term vermiculture, if so dont feel bad, many experienced gardeners are unfamiliar with this organic practice. I think vermiculture is fascinating; simply put its the process of composting...
Preserving Herbs
Harvesting Herbs:
Harvest in the morning of a hot and dry day--wait until the dew
is off
the plants.
Snip off the top growth--about 6 inches of stem below the flower
buds.
Drying Herbs:
Low Maintenance Landscaping
A lot of people like the look of flower beds and vegetable gardens in their landscaping, but don't like to put in the effort necessary to maintain it. The solution is low maintenance landscaping.Low Maintenance LandscapingThe...
Covered Garden Bridges Cross Over to 21st Century
TFCSOTSPBWL OCTOBER XVIII MDCCC. This curious inscription was carved by a stonemason, John Lewis, into a block of granite that he had lain as a support for a bridge that was being built by Timothy Palmer. Because of space...
Vermiculture: Indoor Composting and Organic Soil Improvement
Maybe youve never heard the term vermiculture, if so dont feel bad, many experienced gardeners are unfamiliar with this organic practice. I think vermiculture is fascinating; simply put its the process of composting...
Fall Blooming Wildflower - Small White Aster
Aster vimineus
Family - Asteraceae - AsterThis wild, fall blooming wildflower is so covered with small, pure white blossoms that it seems to explode with color. It usually is found in fairly large colonies in fields and...
An Autumn Garden for Halloween
Theres no better time to enjoy the spectacular beauty that nature has to offer than during the autumn season. This is an best occasion for entertaining friends and family, especially around Halloween. Why not take advantage...
Palm Trees
The mention of palm trees immediately brings to mind images of long afternoons by the beach with the gentle swishing of fan-shaped leaves as they sway in the sea breeze. Palm trees are indeed found in coastal regions and in...
Cordless Electric Lawn Mower Review
IntroductionThis is a review of the Black and Decker (B&D) CMM1000 5 HP cordless electric lawn mower with a 19-inch cutting path. The mower has a mulching feature and came with a rear-mounted grass catcher. The author has used...
My Hobby Farm
When the wind is blowing up a dust storm and it never looks like a decent rain will ever come, I cant help but wonder why I bought this hobby farm. The mood does quickly turn however- on waking to a nice clear day full of...
Saving Seeds from Your Garden
For many gardeners, the garden actually starts in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which...
5 Considerations For That Backyard Project
You have a brand new home and everyone wants a backyard that is inviting somewhere to go hangout. But there a few mistakes and pit falls you want to be certain to avoid. What can start out as a beautiful retreat can...
Flower- the Story of Evolution
Flowers are the Natural beauties sent as a Gift by Nature to the World. They add fragrance, briiliance and beauty to the surroundings. The History of the Flowers in this Earth must go to the day when the Plants emerged in the...