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Mailboxes make your Front Garden more Beauty

July 31st, 2010

Make a beautiful front garden is not only plant a variety of plants and colorful flowers. Your can make your front garden more beauty with the furniture which installed in the front yard of your home.

One of the furniture that we often found on the front yard of a home is a mailbox. Although we have used the Internet to send mail through internet now, mailboxes remain to be furniture which can not be separated from the completeness of a house. Mailboxes make your Front Garden more Beauty read more >>>

Evaluate your Garden in Autumn

July 15th, 2010

When the weather started getting colder and the leaves began to fall, some of us are probably going to get rid of gardening tools and wait until next spring to work in their gardens again. Actually, autumn is a good time to evaluate your garden.

In autumn, you can evaluate a design of your garden, check the plants grow well in last season, and which plants can’t grow well. Autumn is the time to determine the plants will remain in your garden next year, and which ones should go. Evaluate your Garden in Autumn read more >>>

Window Flower Boxes give a Green Impression

July 7th, 2010

Many ways to make beautiful house with plants and flowers. A beautiful garden with flowers and plants will certainly give a green impression in your yard. Sometimes you as a flower lover have been satisfied with a beautiful garden. You may want to give a green impression directly attached at your house. Window Flower Boxes give a Green Impression read more >>>

Home Garden Landscaping

July 5th, 2010

Home garden landscaping is not just a hobby now. Home garden landscaping has become a most popular activity for a lot of people to fill their recreational time. In other side, you can get benefits of garden for your kids.

Usually they start their home garden hand with plant flowers. In their first experience, gardeners have a thought of roses as their flowers, but roses need more time and work. Many choices of flowers available to start a home garden landscaping like as bulbs, perennials, and annuals. Home Garden Landscaping read more >>>

Rain Water as a Source of Life in your Garden

June 27th, 2010

Water is an inseparable part of a garden. In addition of sunlight, plants that live in the garden require adequate water for its growth. Availability of water for the garden is something you absolutely must keep. On the other hand, you also have a saving water supply. Insufficient water supply can make additional cost for your garden. Rain Water as a Source of Life in your Garden read more >>>

Japanese Garden

March 27th, 2010

Japanese garden

Japanese gardens (nihon teien), that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and old castles.

Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. Japanese Garden read more >>>

Minimalist Garden

March 23rd, 2010

Minimalist Garden

Minimalist house design currently affects the garden design. Take your time choosing the style of this minimalist garden. Minimalist impressed because although we also have a neat design that will make a unity of design between the buildings and gardens.

Basically, minimalist gardens also have the same concept with the minimalist design of the building. Horizontal and vertical lines on the garden design will influence the building style. From here you might ask, what makes this garden called minimalist garden? Minimalist Garden read more >>>

Gardening Gloves for your Healthy Hands

March 19th, 2010

The major reasons why you should consider getting a pair of trusty gardening gloves is:
Gardening gloves protect your hands from blisters, thorns and cuts while doing rough work like digging or pruning in the garden. Investing in one or more pairs of quality gardening gloves is a good decision.

Here are some tips how to choose your gardening gloves :
1. Look for quality leather gloves with a cloth back; this will let the gardening gloves breathe and keep your hands dry, cool and comfortable. Gardening Gloves for your Healthy Hands read more >>>

Hydroponics Gardening

March 16th, 2010

Hydroponics was derived from the Greek word hydro, which means “water” and ponos, which means “labor or water-working”. Hydroponics gardening involves growing plants with their roots in other nutrient solutions and without soil.

Hydroponics gardening is as simple as ordinary gardening. Both of them necessitate sufficient light, water, temperature, light, and humidity. But with hydroponics, no soil is used. Instead a soil substitute holds the roots while nutrients are carried by the water. Indoor hydroponic gardening is not that hard and plants respond well to this method of growing. Hydroponics Gardening read more >>>

How to care your flower garden?

March 13th, 2010

Knowing how to care your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health.

1. The essentials must always be given major consideration.

Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic necessities will greatly affect the health of plants. Water the flower garden more frequently during dry spells. How to care your flower garden? read more >>>

Benefits of Garden for your Kids

March 8th, 2010

Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It’s as simple as starting with the children. It is good to see the children’s involvement with environment-friendly activities. One such nature-loving activity that children could easily get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for your children?

Here are the benefits that gardening could easily provide the children with: Benefits of Garden for your Kids read more >>>

Gardening Tools

March 5th, 2010

Different kinds of gardens require different kinds of garden tools. Hardware stores mostly cater for a wide range of tools, but there are shops that specialize in the more expensive kind of garden tool that shouts quality. Wherever you decide to shop, here are a few pointers to advise you.

Do you have small garden or a large one? A small garden will not require the same large equipment that would be of use in an extensive one. A ride-on mower is unnecessary if you only have a small strip of lawn. Another point to consider is who does most of the gardening? Some tools are too heavy for use by women. Gardening Tools read more >>>

Best Plants for your Garden

March 3rd, 2010

Many times we buy plants on impulse then find there is nowhere in the garden that really suits them. Before buying plants carefully examine your garden to see how much sun and shade it gets, whether the soil is well drained or waterlogged and whether your aspect is sheltered or windswept. You’ll then be equipped to go and buy the best plants for your situation; shade-loving plants for the sheltered areas, sun-lovers for the warm spots, drought-resistant plants for the parched areas which may be either sunny or shaded, and swamp plants for the poorly-drained parts.

But wait! Test your soil first, to determine the pH level of your soil and what kind of nutrients you need to add, if any. Is the soil acid or alkaline? Most plants prefer soil that is slightly acidic, but there are some that must have alkaline soil to grow. You can alter the soil’s pH level, but it’s much easier to simply plant for the soil you have. Best Plants for your Garden read more >>>

Butterfly Gardening

March 1st, 2010

What is butterfly gardening? Simply put butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If you own cats rethink your plans, because it would be a shame to attract these lovely insects to their death.

The design your butterfly garden is a matter of personal preference. Typical points to consider are the size of your garden and the types of flowers and plants you want to grow. Pick a style of garden that appeals to you, but ensure it also contains the plants and flowers that appeal to the butterflies you wish to attract. Butterfly Gardening read more >>>

History of Moore Square

February 27th, 2010

Moore Square

The Raleigh Historic Districts Commission (RHDC) is funding a report on Moore Square’s physical and cultural landscape. The report will provide a historical context for participants in the Moore Square Design Public Process Open Call for Ideas and Juried Conceptual Design Competition. To document the history of Moore Square, the report will use the palimpsest method, which identifies periods of a landscape’s life by creating maps that can be viewed either stand-alone by period, or overlaid to show all periods. History of Moore Square read more >>>