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The Ideal Garden

The Ideal Garden

http://theidealgarden.blogspot.com/

Everything you need to know to create, populate and then maintain a beautiful garden in the UK. Shrubs, flowers, trees, garden design, it's all covered in The Ideal Garden.

Recent Posts

  • Herbs In Containers

    Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 14:00 in containers

    Of all the possible container plants, herbs must be amongst the best to grow for several reasons.First, they are not hard to grow, an important requirement, and second, they are useful in more than one way. Herbs can be decorative with their differe...

  • Hanging Baskets 2

    Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 01:22 in containers

    We looked in the last post at the mechanics of hanging baskets but his week we can look at the plants that go inside.It's important to note that I am discussing hanging baskets used in Europe. If you live elsewhere in the world then you will need to...

  • Hanging Baskets 1

    Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 07:05 in containers

    Hanging baskets are amongst the easiest and prettiest containers that you can create in your garden (or on your wall).Today we will more at the mechanics of planting and using hanging baskets while in the next post we will look at the plants that you...

  • Shrubs In Containers 2

    Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 02:12 in containers

    In the last post we looked at ways of creating containers of shrubs that would go some way towards hiding an unsightly fence or wall.This post will look at some of the plants that you could use, but will look at them in a slightly different way to mo...

  • Shrubs In Containers

    Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 02:50 in containers

    A friend recently showed me something that I had never fully realised - that containers can be used to soften and partially remove the line of a fence.This is so obvious yet it is something that I had never fully grasped so I thought it was worth exp...

  • Water Container Plants

    Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 01:33 in water garden, containers

    In the post before this one we looked at the possibility of producing what is, in effect, a miniature water garden in a container.Once you have decided on the type of container you want then you need to decide what sort of plants you want to plant. ...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

susyranner

5 stars Susan

A very useful and informative gardening blog.
I'm looking forward to learning more from you, Mike.
Thanks.

Posted: March 31st, 2009 | More Reviews From susyranner | Report This Comment

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