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Xeriscape Gardening Saves Time And Water
While having a fully fledged garden is rewarding and enjoyable, lots of people simply don’t have the time that is required to maintain it. Whether you have too much going on at work, or too many kids to take care of, you should never try to operate...
Shaping Trees for Different Situations
Through the use of pruning techniques, it is possible to shape your trees to a certain style. This is known as Topiary. There are seven main tree shapes, that all have their own benefits for certain situations. During the growth of a tree, simply cu...
Backyard Activities For The Home Owner
When we think of backyard activities, sports often come to mind. While sports are a great way to spend your time outdoors, they are not all that backyard activities include. In fact, while you may not necessarily think so, backyard activities also ...
How To Install A Drip Irrigation System In Your Garden
If you’re looking for ways to keep your garden watered, without wasting too much time and money, you’ve probably gone through a lot of options, in your mind. Maybe you’ve considered a sprinkler, a hose, or a good old-fashioned watering can. All...
Tips For Landscaping Your Garden
Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save both time and money. 1. Spend some time thinking about exactly how you want the final design to be. Y...
Plan Your Garden For The Whole Family
You can have the most elaborate backyard in the entire neighborhood, but if it isn’t functional, you have built it in vain. We all want to have beautiful and flourishing gardens, but when we have a family, we must also take into consideration the n...
Balinese Garden – A Tropical Paradise
Following up on the articles on Japanese Gardens and Zen Gardens, here is another. A Balinese garden is a garden of exuberant tropical foliage, amongst streams and waterfalls. It is a replica of the natural, green, tropical paradise, as found in Bali...
Zen Garden - A Perfect Spot For Relaxation And Reflection
I posted an article last week, on Japanese gardens and I had so many comments on the subject that I decided to follow up with something similar. Today we look at Zen gardens. A Zen garden is an ancient Japanese garden, that monks use to use, to medit...
An Ornamental Grass With Many Uses
Decorative grasses, sometimes called ornamental grasses make for attractive garden displays and are perfect for hiding an otherwise ugly feature, such as a manhole, sump, old tree stump or pile of rubble, especially if this is in the neighbor’s yar...
How To Plan Your Garden Layout
An old Chinese Proverb says “If you want to be happy for ever, make a garden.” Everyone has their own likes, or dislikes in planning a garden. Formal and victorian style gardens have gone out of fashion long ago. A rose garden can still also look...
How To Grow Trees And Shrubs In Your Garden
Living in South Africa, where we have a lot of sun, our shrubs and trees grow rather quickly. For example, an Almond tree will take around 9 years to grow to a height of 4m in England, but will reach the same height in just 4 years, in South Africa. ...
How To Use Climbing Plants In Your Garden
These climbers, or creepers are usually used to hide a large blank exterior wall, fence, or gate. These can be leafy climbers, with, or without flowers and these can add texture and colour to a dull surface. They are easy to grow and maintain. To co...
Home & Garden Decorating
Home and garden decorating is a hot topic nowadays. This is evident in television programming. Every second television show is related to decorating your home and garden. Programs such as The Decorating Challenge, Curb Appeal and The House Doctor are...
How To Create A Water Garden
There are many new trends surfacing in gardening these days and water gardening is one of the main new interests. Water gardening can be in the form of waterfalls, ponds and fountains, all of which can be enhanced by rockwork combinations and lightin...
Small Gardens Are Not Difficult
Starting a new garden can be quite daunting, even more so if it is a small townhouse garden in a complex that insists on indigenous plants only. A lot of people see a tree that they like at the nursery, but it turns out unsuitable, because of it’s ...
Make Your Backyard Garden Project Fun
Once summer rolls around, many individuals enjoy spending time in their backyards. When it comes to summer, many people associate backyards with picnics, barbeques, swimming, and outdoor sports. While all of these activities are nice, they are not th...
How To Get Rid Of Standing Water Pools
Do you have one, or more areas in your yard, that hold water after a rainfall? This is a common problem and sometimes difficult to solve. Over the years, I’ve talked with dozens of people, trying to battle this problem and on several occasions, I h...
Have You Heard Of Topiary Gardening
Topiary can be a lot of fun, if you have an imagination and some patience. Topiary is the art of shaping trees and shrubs into shapes of all types and sizes. It is a bit like Bonsai, but with full sized tress and bushes and usually done outdoors, in ...
Use Paving And Walkways In Your Garden
Laying good paving and walkways around your garden can add considerably to the number of months during the year, when you will be able to enjoy your garden and whether, or not you will be able to work in it. During the wet season, unless you have sui...
How To Move Plants The Right Way
As with anything, there is a right way and a wrong way. While winter is the ideal time to move plants, they can be successfully moved at any time, throughout the year, provided care is taken. Smaller plants, under three feet high, are the easiest to ...
How To Make The Most Of Your Garden Soil
It’s not what you start with, when it comes to the quality of the soil in your garden, but the results you have, when the preparation has finished that really matters. With the correct information and procedures, you can make any soil fertile, ...
Express Yourself In Your Garden
Gardens offer you one of the best opportunities to express yourself. You can often get a good idea of a person’s personality just by looking at their garden. It can show you whether they are free spirited with color and plants splashed everywhe...
Try A Potager Garden
Have you ever considered a potager garden? Do you know what it is? You can have the best of both worlds, with a potager. Potagers are particularly good, for people who live on smaller plots of land, or who only have room for a small garden. They are ...
Give Your Garden A Makeover
There are many ways that you can add interest to a garden. Anything that becomes a focal point, will add interest and that can range from garden sculptures, to the types of plants you choose. Adding block plantings, of a particular specimen, can also...
Planning A Desert Landscape
If you live in a dry and arid climate, then your desert landscaping is going to take a little more planning, than some other parts of the country. Desert landscaping will have to work with a plan that includes only plants and trees, that can survive ...
My First Garden Experience
Ah, to this day, I still remember my first gardening experience. It was such a disaster, that I didn’t think I would ever want to garden again. I almost decided to turn my casual hobby, into the most rage-inducing topic, you could possibly imagine ...
The Chestnut Tree Has Other Uses
The Castanea Sativa is known as the Spanish Chestnut, or the Sweet Chestnut. In Europe, this chestnut is a favourite roadside attraction. This tree thrives in the cold and snow and is very hardy. In the African sunny conditions, this tree does well i...
Money Saving Tips For Landscaping Your Garden part 2
Yesterday, we started taking a look at how to reduce costs associated with landscaping and particularly with giving your yard a makeover. If you missed that article, take a look first, before reading this part. We went over the basics and then got up...
Money Saving Tips For Landscaping Your Garden part 1
A quick look at the landscaping service rates, nowadays, would clue you in, on the irrefutable fact, that hiring professionals, would most definitely bore a large hole in your budget. There’s little left to wonder, why most residential owners, thes...
