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I like lenses that make me feel like I'm listening to people who're talking about what they're really growing in their homes and gardens. I love DIY, backyard, organic, homemade, dirt-under-your-fingernails, compost-your-kitchen-scraps, veggie-cultivating, flower-smelling, container-using, bird and butterfly-attracting, fairy-friendly gardening!

Gardenias, Dahlias, A Year In Your Garden, How To Prune Roses, Houseplants For Healthy Living

Flowers and Houseplants

beautiful blossoms and container gardening

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

featured lens Growing Aloe Vera

I was never all that good with house plants and hastened quite a few along to an early demise until I moved to this one apartment building and my upstairs neighbor gave me a piece of their aloe vera.  Their aloe plant was enormous, and looked li...

featured lens Easy Award Winning Roses

The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time of the day. You can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take away the stress of your day with its beauty. The rose garden that you love and admire so much can...

featured lens Orchids

Orchids are considered by many to be the most beautiful flowers of all.  Orchids are easier to care for than many people realize and are used to going days and days without being watered of fussed over, and often endure incredible hardships...

featured lens Indoor Flower Bulb Forcing techniques

Thank you for visiting my Lens on Flower Bulbs. My name is Chris and I immigrated from The Netherlands to Canada. I live in an isolated remote part of Canada, with lots of Moose, Bears and trees... But...... no flowers the way I like. I used to spent...

featured lens Indoor Flower bulb garden

When I immigrated from The Netherlands to Canada I realized I would probably not be able to enjoy fresh flowers as I was used to. The first time I bought a decent bunch of flowers online for my wife, I was shocked. In Holland I would pay for the same...

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Eatables and Edibles

vegetable and other food gardening

featured lens Grow Salads, Herbs and Flowers for Your Health

Growing your own vegetables and flowers can be great fun. It's not difficult and it's not expensive to start. In fact you can use recycled goods to get you going. You can also add the odd companion plant such as sunflowers which attract benefici...

featured lens Growing Fruit Trees In Containers

Growing fruit trees indoors is very rewarding and easy to do.  You don't need to be living in a warm climate (or have a green thumb) to grow your own lemons, limes or oranges.  Dwarf fruit trees can be grown in containers indoors durin...

featured lens How To Grow an Herb Garden

Firstly a very warm welcome to How To Grow an Herb Garden which along with How To Grow an Herb Garden aims to provide you with information about Starting an Herb Garden. For centuries people have been growing and using all kinds of herbs. They have be...

featured lens How to Grow Mushrooms.

So you want to grow mushrooms? Well then I will show you how to get started in this great hobby.I will show you the easiest way to grow mushrooms. I will even provide simple methods of obtaining some of the stuff required for this method. Finally g...

featured lens The Herb Garden

Herbs grown in raised beds and containers in the Mediaeval Organic Garden  adds diversity to the garden.  Featuring flowers and weeds not normally associated with herbs e.g. pot marigold, dandelion and nettle,...

What's Your Favorite Veggie To Grow?

recommendations and favorites

Have you got seeds for spring and summer veggies yet? Add your faves and vote for what you like to grow, or click the links to get some seeds for your own garden!

The Green Thumb's Groundskeepers

Squidoo's Gardening Lensmasters

Creepy Crawly

Bugs, Critters and Insects

featured lens How You Can Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

Japanese Beetles bug me! If you're like me, I like my rose bushes, grape vines, and fruit trees(plum and apple) in one piece not munched on by Japanese Beetles. I love to garden. It's a great way to relax without Japanese Beetles. But,...

featured lens Ladybugs Are Good For Your Garden

Learn everything you need to know about ladybugs and why they are good for your garden! Buy live ladybugs and find cute ladybug gifts including Ladybug Land, a natural ladybug habitat for your children! Attracting ladybugs to your garden can provide y...

featured lens The Apiary: Bees & Beekeeping

An "apiary" is a place where bees and hives are kept, especially when it is for the production of honey. I don't keep bees presently, but it is an ambition of mine.  I started this lens so I would have a place for me to put all the info...

featured lens Monarch Butterflies Are Easy To Raise

My family lives in the country. And we love raising Monarch Butterflies. It's really quite easy to raise them at home. We've got milkweed growing in our butterfly garden in our backyard. I just took some old milkweed pods in the fall and th...

Digging In The Dirt

comments, feedback, questions

Do you have a gardening question? Got a great story to share?

Euryale

ClassyGals, try setting a few "beer traps" in your garden. (try looking that up on Google for more info) They work like a charm and are safe for pets.

Posted May 16, 2008
ClassyGals

I enjoy growing houseplants, and am especially fond of boston ferns and spider plants. Outdoors, I enjoy my rose garden. This year, I'm having a problem with slugs (uck!). Anyone know how to treat the problem safely? I have an outdoor cat.

Posted May 16, 2008
magmorta

Check out my dahlia lens at www.squidoo.com/dahlia

Posted May 11, 2008
jeffwend

I had to comment here cause I could not choose the right discription for me in your poll. I am an indoor/outdoor gardener, but I'm not too hardcore.

Posted March 23, 2008
Roving_Band

Congratulation on hitting the 100 lens mark for this awesome group! I'm so glad to be a part of it!

Posted February 29, 2008
 
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