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Ahh - gardening. Is there anything more fun, more rewarding - and more work?
- Trees
I realized that trees make up part of what I consider "home". No matter how many states or countries we live in, most of us describe our locale by the weather, the topography, the view
- Shade Trees
- Birch Tree
The birch tree is one of the most popular species of tree for landscaping work in urban settings. The unique bark goes along with the beautiful leaves to fill out a tree that will surely increase the beauty of your yard.
- Cedar Tree
The cedar tree is ideal for tree houses because they are very reliable, durable, and sturdy, and they offer great, thick branches on which you can build.
- Cypress Tree
The cypress tree is one of the most easily identified trees in the world. The cypress is flame shaped, and comes to a point at the top of the tree.
- Maple Tree
The maple tree exudes a natural beauty that is enhanced with the changes each season brings. Not only does the maple tree change colors, but it also leaks a tasty sap, which can be distilled into maple syrup.
- Willow Tree
The pollard willow tree is one of the most popular species of this tree, not to mention one of the most beautiful.
- Flowering Trees
Information about flowering trees in your garden
- Flowering Cherry Tree
The flowering cherry tree is not the easiest tree to grow. To date, only a few territories are known to be suitable environments for this far eastern pride.
- Flowering Crabapple Tree
A flowering crabapple tree is one of the most common trees in the United States. Yards all over the country feature different varieties.
- Flowering Dogwood Trees
The flowering dogwood tree is a clear favorite for home landscapes. The beauty of this tree in the Spring is unsurpassed.
- Flowering Magnolia Tree
Your climate and planting zone will dictate the type of flowering magnolia tree you should purchase. If you live in a warm climate, you may want to purchase a “southern magnolia,” but if you live in a colder climate, you may want to purchase a Magnolia that will shed its leaves in the fall.
- Flowering Pear Tree
Homeowners and landscapers use the flowering pear tree extensively to provide an attractive specimen tree for smaller lawns and gardens.
- Specimen Trees
- Bonsai Tree
But a bonsai true is more... ohhhh... so much more than that. To call it an art would be an understatement.
- Mesquite Tree
Though nowadays, the mesquite tree (or shrub, if you will) comprises 80% of a desert coyote's diet, such belies the helpful history of the plant.
- Fruit Tree
Fruit-bearing trees are rapidly growing in popularity among gardeners these days. Whereas before, trees were used as supplementary components of the garden, as support for vines, for example, or shades for annuals
- Pecan Tree
The Pecan tree has become the adopted as the official, tree of the state of Texas. The reason? Well, the obvious one would have to be the delicious, edible nuts that the Pecan tree does provide.
- Shrubs
- Lilac Shrub
The lilac comes in either bush or tree form and each of its branches and shoots are hollow like a pipe which gives the lilac shrub a distinction among its contemporaries.
- Hedge Shrub
Everyone has seen the pictures of the wondrous hedge shrub mazes found on the grounds of palaces throughout Europe.
- Evergreen Shrub
The evergreen shrub family of plants is gaining recognition as a popular variety of flora to add to your front yard or back yard.
- Azalea Shrub
The azalea shrub does not grow its flowers in clumps, allowing a person to view the whole bush as being flowery instead of just certain clusters.
- Shade Shrubs
There is a huge variety of shade shrubs available for your landscaping needs.
- Perennials
- Perennial Garden
As with other types of plants, perennials do require maintenance. One task that every gardener is familiar with is weeding.
- Perennial Seed
Perennial seed is very hearty, like the adult plants themselves. Unlike the full-grown version, seeds of this type require a considerable amount of water in the beginning.
- Perennial Flowers
Perennial flowers are simply quite wonderful. This is as, by coming back year after year, they are less maintenance.
- Perennial Bulbs
Perennial bulbs come in numerous types: corms, tubers, tuberous roots, enlarged hypocotyls, rhizomes, and true bulbs.
- Ferns
- Fern Plant Care
The majority of ferns belong to the Polypodiaceae or the Polypody family. A typical plant consists of triangular fronds that are further divided into leaflets and smaller leaflets known as pinnae and pinnules. The fern is found throughout the world,...
- Fiddlehead Fern
The type of ferns that is edible is known as the fiddlehead fern. However, only three types of these ferns are edible.
- Birds Nest Fern
Bird Nest Fern or Asplenium nidus derives its peculiar name from the nest like structure that is formed by the fronds of the fern.
- Sword Fern
The sword fern remains one of the more popular ferns on the plants for home market. And there is good reason for this popularity. These ferns are quite something to look at.
- Japanese Painted Fern
The Japanese painted fern is a very unique looking fern that seems to enjoy the shade more than some of its cousins in the fern family.
- Tropical Ferns
If you decide to place your Tropical fern inside the house, then place it where it receives medium light
- Maidenhair Fern
The maidenhair fern belongs to the genus Adiantum and is placed in the family Pteridaceae. Some researchers may place it in a family, similar in name to the fern's genus,
- Vines
Plant trumpet vine, hummingbird vine and blackeyed susan vine alone your garden walls
- Trumpet Vine
A trumpet vine is so named because of the beautiful, bright orange colored, trumpet shaped flowers it is capable of bearing.
- Hummingbird Vine
The most amazing feature about the hummingbird vine (campsis radicans) is undoubtedly its trumpet-shaped flowers.
- Black Eyed Susan Vine
The Black Eyed Susan Vine is a good plant for beginners in gardening.
- Kudzu Vine
The kudzu vine grows fast - furiously fast - and covers a large expanse within a year's time. One kudzu vine can grow as much as 70 feet per annum!
- Perennial Grasses
- Perennial Ornamental Grasses
Perennial grasses are often called ornamental grasses though not all perennial grasses fit into this billing.
- Pampas Grass
There are many kinds of grass that are suited for a variety of gardens. One of the most popular types is the pampas grass.
- Lemon Grass
One of the world's most beloved spices is lemon grass, a tall variety of grass that grows in the tropics, and famous for its lemony odor, lemony texture, and lemony taste, hence its name.
- Ornamental Grass
Ornamental grass is being utilized to enhance the majesty of any garden. And often, ornamental grass becomes a solid aspect of any landscape.
- Annuals
- Easy Annuals
- Night Blooming Moon Garden
The fragrance of night blooming flowers is especially refreshing and enjoyable and the white flowers and foliage that reflect the moonlight add a shimmering quality to the moon garden.
- Annuals vs Perennials
Annuals only last for a year. You plant them in the spring, enjoy them in the summer, and by fall they’re becoming next year’s fertilizer. In some cases, they will reseed themselves so you’ll see a similar plant the following year, but it will not be the same plant.
- Herbal Gardening
Herbs are not flashy things to grow. Most of them do not flower at all. They are just green and brown shrubs sitting in soil.
- Garden Design
If you are just in the process of planning to plant a garden, picture it in your mind. Many people think of garden colors in terms of reds, blues, yellow and the like.
- Edging
Use paver ediging or medtal edging to define your garden
- Paver Edging
Paver edging is almost identical to landscape edging. The only difference between the two is that paver edging is usually used in conjunction with brick, concrete, or stone.
- Flower Bed Edging
A flower bed edgeing can be a handsome addition to your garden. An exquisite group of flowers arranged in a bed can be a magnificent sight to see.
- Metal Garden Edging
The addition of metal landscape edging to your garden is an excellent method for visually dividing the plantings to form a design.
- Retaining Walls
About retaining walls, wood, stone,, concrete block and retaining wall problems and construction.
- Wood Retaining Walls
Can wood be considered as a good material for retaining walls? In short, are wood retaining walls actually possible
- Retaining Wall Problems
Building retainer walls, however, is not as easy as it seems. There is a science behind the process, one that has been perfected by years of experience and countless hours of study.
- Concrete Block Retaining Wall
Building your own concrete block retaining walls is not as easy as it sounds. Specific steps should be observed, and with much care and caution at that.
- Stone Retaining Walls
Stone retaining walls are among the first choices of homeowners who wish to expand the space of their gardens by adding elevated platforms for their flowerbeds.
- Ponds
A pond waterfall as part of your garden
- Pond Water Garden
The area around the small pond water garden will be subjected to moisture constantly.
- Backyard Waterfalls
Water falls are majestic and being in the presence of one can literally take your breath away.
- Pond Algae
With all of the different varieties of algae which could grow in your pond or pool, you may think that there is a different way of killing each and every type.
- Fencing - Gates
- Does Your Garden Need a Fence
The primary use of fences is to keep animals out of gardens. The worst garden raiders include deer, rabbits, skunks, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, dogs, cats, woodchucks, and opossums.
- Shadowbox Fence
With a shadowbox fence, the board placement alternates on the two sides of the fence’s structure. This means that the look is essentially the same from both sides of the fence.
- Privacy Fence
When you think of a privacy fence, you probably think of the tall, wooden, planked fences that decorate the property lines through most of suburbia
- Wrought Iron Fence
You can expect your wrought iron fence to last you around a decade, though it can last you longer with proper care
- Stepping Stones
Moaic and patio stepping stones for a garden walkway make a neat path. Solar stepping stones light the way.
- Mosaic Stepping Stone
A mosaic stepping stone is a good way of turning a plain, boring stepping stone into a work of art. Almost every design and motif can be reproduced using mosaic tiles
- Solar Stepping Stones
Solar stepping stones consist of solar-powered, lighted stepping stones that provide a soft, soothing light along a path or garden while also adding a spectacular decorative touch.
- Patio Stepping Stones
A patio stepping stone is a good way of marking paths and the area surrounding a patio for safety and also for decorative additions.
- Stepping Stone Kit
A stepping stone kit allows creation of original and customized stepping stones for the exterior. It allows the stones to match any design, and is a good way for allowing creativity to shine.
- Craft Stepping Stones
- Planting Your Garden
- Soil
Your planting soil and acid or alkaline soil will determine the success of your garden.
- Soil Acidity
Why plants won't tolerate highly acid conditions is not completely understood. Slowdown of beneficial microorganism action is part of the reason;
- Composting
Compost is an organic matter, usually garden debris, that has been allowed or encouraged to decay. To be a successful organic gardener, you will want to take advantage of the benefit of using a compost.
- Soil Earthworms
Earthworms benefit garden soil and plants in several aspects: They convert organic material into nutrients that plants can absorb;
- Cure for Alkaline Soil in Your Garden
A slight garden soil alkalinity can be cured sometimes with a little borax and manganese, but be guided at all times by soil tests when using these trace mineral elements.
- Soil Nitrogen
Soils rich in organic matter are seldom deficient in nitrogen, since nitrogen is produced during decomposition of organic matter.
- Mulch
Use plastic mulch and recycled rubber mulch to plant your garden
- Plastic Mulch
The advantages to using plastic mulch when growing plants in your garden are great. Early plants can rise up to two weeks early because the mulch keeps the temperature higher in the soil than without it.
- Recycled Rubber Mulch
Recycled rubber mulch is created from non-toxic rubber tires. It does not decompose and it has been proven to reduce falling injuries because it is shock absorbent.
- Gardening Problems
Apparently, a family of rabbits had taken it upon themselves to make a feast out of my garden.
- Weeds
- Garden Weeds
Garden weeds multiply very quickly and can take over a garden in a matter of weeks. It is important to constantly weed the garden in order to maintain a nice appearance. Some weeds are easier to get rid of than others.
- Weed Control
Weed control is one of the most difficult tasks for someone trying to maintain their yard and garde
- Control Weeds
To control weeds, gardeners employ few methods that usually work depending on the weeds and how many there are throughout the garden.
- Garden Pests
Pests such as squirrels and rabbits are cute, but ithe garden pests will eat your plants.
- Insect Traps
Sometimes we can turn the insects' desire for food into a trap. Your garden can become a deadly trap for certain insects and yet not be a hazard to you, your family, or beneficial insects.
- Pest Barriers - One
Using barriers to prevent pests from reaching plants is one of the simplest, oldest, and most effective ways to prevent damage.
- Pest Barriers - Two
Barriers around tree trunks can be used to prevent pests from crawling up the trunk, so they're an effective control for insects that can't fly.
- Squirrel Power
But when it comes to squirrels eating where they don’t belong, there’s one secret weapon that seems to be successful: the dreaded red pepper bomb.
- Rabbit Season
My neighbor disapproved of my hunting rabbits with paintballs. He said there were products out there that would humanely and safely take care of the rabbits.
- Garden Decor
It seems to be a silly question: is there green in the garden? Most people think that green automatically appears in the garden.
- Fountains
- Water Gardens
Use water gardens in your garden design.
- Container Water Garden
A container water garden is at least six inches deep, and works in the same was a water garden that you would put directly into the ground.
- Water Garden Fish
Water garden fish can be a great way to turn your ordinary water garden into something extraordinary.
- Water Garden Fountain
If you have a water garden, but are beginning to become bored with the same old look, you may want to buy a water garden fountain.
- Water Garden Plans
Water garden plans can be the key to that retreat. If you have the space and the inclination you can create a water garden in your back yard that will become a focal point.
- Water Garden Filters
Finding water garden filter supplies can be as simple as perusing your local yellow pages. Maintaining the filter by purchasing and replacing any worn out parts will prolong its life and keep your fountain or pond working great and looking wonderful for a long time to come.
- For the Birds
Bird feeders and bird baths as part of your garden decor
- Suet Bird Feeder
A suet bird feeder would be neither expensive to purchase nor difficult to have installed. Many of these bird feeders can be attached to a number of structures as seen with suction cup based feeders that can attach directly to any window in the house.
- Platform Bird Feeder
The platform bird feeder is among the more popular bird feeders that one will see in pet shops in local shopping malls.
- Glass Hummingbird Feeder
Get the hummingbird glass feeder that has bee guards and ant moats. Hummingbirds eat nectar and similarly sweet liquids.
- Build a Bird Feeder
To build a bird feeder of better decorum would revolve around making a more unique and handcrafted bird feeder that displays an amateur signature in terms of the skill that was required to create it.
- Garden Care
Every gardener knows that keeping the garden clean is an important disease-fighting technique. Gardeners who practice good garden sanitation not only have fewer problems with diseases, they'll also cut down on pest and weed problems as well.
- Pruning
- 7 Steps to Professional Pruning
The whole point of pruning is to get more from the plant. The goal may be to make the plant bloom better, and possibly to set more and better fruit; or it may be to improve the shape of the plant or to make it more dense.
- Best Ways to Prune
Prune your shrubbery throughout the year and you never will be faced with a massive overhaul job.
- Garden Sprinklers
- Garden Sprinkler
the garden sprinkler itself can be an attractive feature of your landscape plan. Long gone are the days when your main option was a system that spewed out streams of water
- Tripod Sprinkler
One of the advantages of a tripod sprinkler is the fact that it towers over your small plants, flowers, vegetables and shrubs.
- Sprinkler Timer
The first thing to remember is that your remote sprinkler timer is set up to allow you to activate the system at will, without having to go around to the individual heads and activate them.
- Copper Sprinkler
Perhaps one of the most common copper sprinkler heads would be a model that rotates and covers a wide area of your lawn.
- Low Maintenance Gardens
Low Maintenace Gardening Tips of the Trade
- Introduction to Low Maintenance Gardening
Low Maintenance does not simply mean cutting down on the number of plants that you grow. The choice of specimens and how you use them is more important as many plants require hardly any attention from year to the next.
- Basic Groundwork for Low Maintenance
With a little planning and groundwork you can create the perfect low-maintenance garden. Here are my essential tips:
- Garden Maintenance Tools
Using the right garden tools can save time and effort, and will make the difference between a job being a pleasure or a chore.
- Hot Low Maintenance Garden
If you would like to create a garden that is inspired by the Mediterranean countryside simply pack it with tough, self-sufficient plants that are colourful, attractive to bees and butterflies
- Herbaceous Borders
Whole borders devoted to herbaceous perennials look stunning during the summer months and well into the autumn.
- Mowing Edge
Edging the lawn with brick or paving, so that the mower can run over it saving time and energy, means that the only trimming you will need to do will be occasionally cutting back any long stems of grass that grow over the paving.
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