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Mediaeval Gardening - Organically for the benefit of Wildlife

With tadpoles and newts in the pond, Spring gets off to a good start for this organic mediaeval style vegetable plot and informal, almost co...

High Desert Gardening-Collecting Seeds

Collecting your own perennial plant seeds is a great way to expand your garden and save money. You might even make some money by selling you...

How To Plant and Start A Garden

If you live in an apartment, it may be impossible for you to have a large vegetable garden, no matter how much you may desire one. If you wo...

Growing Strawberries In Containers - Strawberry Planters

Growing Strawberries In Containers. A strawberry is an edible fruit of the low perennial herbs of the family Rosaceae. Strawberries have bec...

Butterfly Gardening

Simply put butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will draw in these colorful and nice animals to your garden. Pl...

The Louisiana Iris in Your Backyard Pond

Louisiana Iris is the Louisiana state wildflower. It covers bayous and swamps in the Louisiana spring. I use them in most ponds, in the wate...

How to Become a Gardener

If you've never had a garden before, if you still think dirt is just "dirt," if you can't tell a marigold from a monarda---this ...

Daffodils For Cold Climates

Choosing daffodils for cold climates is really not difficult because most varieties will thrive in northern gardens. The freezing winters wi...

Garden Greenhouses

If you want to start gardening earlier in the season, and keep going later in the fall, then one great way to do so is with a greenhouse. Mo...

Lakescaping - Restoring Natural Shorelines

Believe it or not, everyone has waterfront property. Yes, it's true! Even if you live in the middle of a city!

In this lens, I'll attem...

How to Grow Beautiful Roses

Growing beautiful roses is not a hobby, it's an art! While anyone can grow a rose bush and make it bloom, it takes real talent to grow a be...

Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. ~Willa Cather~One of the most diverse ecosystems in...

Hydrangea Care

This lens will inform you on everything you need to know about hydrangea care... Noted for their long lasting, late blooming flowers an...

HOWTO: Self watering plant pot experiment

A year or so ago, I realised that I could not always be around to water my own plants. Even if I was, judging when or when not to water them...

How to make a bonsai

Making an amazing bonsai does look like easy and simple, but did you know? Actually, making bonsai is relatively hard for people who doesn&r...

Garden Drip Watering Spikes

Global warming has brought long hot summers to many areas of the planet where regular rain showers were the norm during the summer months an...

Deer, Gophers, Squirrels, Crows, Rabbits Or Other Wildlife In The Garden?

It happens. Creatures and critters of all shapes and sizes are guaranteed to get into something that you don't want them to and your garden...

Laying Lawns

Preparing your garden and topsoil ready to lay the turf, and making sure that your lawn stays bright, fresh and free from pests and diseases...

Simple Garden,Landscape and Design Ideas for a Beautiful Outdoor Living Area

Get our year round insider tips and information on how to improve your landscape and garden that will instantly improve your homes beauty an...

Rose Care Guidance

Everybody knows and likes rose flower (Rosaceous). It's very fair if rose flower is called as "queen of flower" because it a...

Air-Cleaners: The Coolest Houseplants Ever

Did you know that if you keep certain houseplants, those plants will clean pollutants, chemicals and carcinogens out of the air inside your ...

Grow a Chocolate Garden

Can't you just imagine it? Chocolate fruits and vegetables growing from semi sweet vines, and milk chocolate coated bushes growing in your ...

The Rhubarb Patch

We inherited this rhubarb patch when we bought our home ten years ago. It's right next to our vegetable garden.

Right now there are five...

Backyard Farm

I'm trying to grow as much  of our food as I can for a couple of reasons.  First locally produced food is better than food that h...

How To Grow and Use Lavender

Lavender is a fairly easy plant to grow. It's many uses make it one of the most popular herbs to grow in backyard gardens, and containers....

Pocket Vegetable Garden (Gardening in a Small Space)

Because my yard isn't very large, my entire garden is only 5 feet wide by about 45 feet long. Even with these limitations of space, I usual...

How To Freeze Rhubarb

Rhubarb is a large leafed plant with edible stalks that grows like a bad weed any where that it gets the opportunity to be planted.

Rhuba...

How To Grow and Use Herbs

Herbs are one of my favorite things to grow. Variety, scents, flavor, and usefulness are some of the reasons I enjoy them so much. This lens...

Growing tomatoes (and other stuff)

There is little as satisfying as eating food you have grown yourself. I will admit, my wife usually cooks with it, but I have all the pleasu...

Growing Tomato Plants | Grow Tomato | Garden Tomatoes

Growing tomatoes is especially rewarding, since they are among the top 20 healthy foods. You can grow cherry tomatoes, which make a great he...

Propagate Creeping Jenny - Easy Propagation to Make Many Plants!

I love propagating plants and I especially love to propagate creeping Jenny because it is so easy!

After years of playing with plants I s...

Vegetable Gardening

You don't have to be a rocket scientist in order to learn vegetable gardening. By reading this article, you will know some important do's ...

Garden Bulbs Layer Up For Cool Spring Gardens

Bulbs that will turn in to beautiful spring and summer flowers need to be planted 6 weeks before the ground freezes in the fall. While most ...

Color Themes for Your Garden

Selecting color themes for your garden means choosing flowers of one color or a group of colors. Which color or colors you choose depends on...

Growing Orchids for Beginners

In this lens, I would like to provide a plethora of useful information about orchid care that will help you to grow this beautiful flower su...

Learning About The Benefits Of Home Gardening

Some may not be so much attracted with the process of cultivating a home garden of their own simply because of the fear that they may have t...

The 7 R's of Water Conservation in Residentials

"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water." Benjamin Franklin, 1790

Would it surprise you if we told you that on average each i...

Home Herb Garden | Herb Garden Information

Image your own mini herb garden, filled with fresh herb plants, at your finger tips year round. Perhaps you'd like to have an herb garden, ...

Vegetable Gardens - Guide to Vegetable Gardening and Organic Vegetable Garden Tips

People find many various reasons for pursuing vegetable gardening as a hobby. Some people enjoy growing their own food, while others find ve...

Tulips Bulbs -- Plant Them Right And Watch Them Flourish...

 By Sharon Stajda,In history, the Dutch will be remembered for their passion, and production of tulips. After 400-plus years, the Dutch...

Arctic Beauty Kiwis

The Arctic Beauty Kiwi is a native of Russia. The most hardy of all kiwi vines, it is able to withstand temperatures of -40 degrees, and thr...

Good Bugs for Your Garden - Live Ladybugs, Praying Mantids +

Buy Real Live Ladybugs, Praying Mantid Egg Cases, Live Beneficial Nematodes and more here! Have a Healthy Organic Garden!

You will find...

Chinese Bonsai Secrets Finally Revealed!

Hi, my name Susan. I am bonsai enthusiast. My favorite bonsai type is Chinese bonsai. I decided to start this lens to share tips, photos and...

Natural Garden Tips and Tricks

Do you get spring fever as soon as the seed catalogs arrive in early January? I do. Gardening is a very therapeutic and relaxing hobby. What...

White Alpine Strawberries

In the spring of 2008, I planted white alpine strawberries in my garden. This lens will tell you more about this special varietal and share ...

Gardening

Ever wanted to create a garden like a landscaper and didn't know where to start? Come and join me as I show you some tips that you can use ...

AFRICAN VIOLETS: Proper care, supplies, auctions, stores, clubs, links and more!

African Violets make great houseplants.
With a good environment and regular care they will reward you with blooms all year.
On this site y...

Old Garden Roses

Old Garden Roses are the classes of roses which were known prior to 1867 which is the date the first hybrid tea, La France, was introduced. ...

Plant now for next Spring

In the last few weeks, the shops have begun to stock bulbs to plant now which will flower in the spring. I have plenty in my garden that com...

Raising plants from seeds

I've spent the last couple of years getting my garden into shape. This involved a lot of digging, building walls, creating raised beds, lay...

Organic Food Plant Pest and Parasite control

Pest control can be interesting in a totally organic, primarily edible and indoor garden. While as a last resort I may turn to non-organic m...

Gardening in the Southwest

It's tough to grow a garden here because of the soil, heat and lack of moisture!  However, I've managed it, and find it's quite easy...

Chocolate Gardening

Find out everything you ever wanted to about chocolate and more! Learn how to germinate Theobroma seeds, how to grow your own chocolate tree...

5 Important Tips for Taking Care of Your Bonsai Plant

If you have a bonsai plant, it's important to remember that caring for them is akin to caring for a baby. Loving and caring is required but...

Growing Aloe Vera

I wasn't all that good with house plants and hastened a few along to an early demise until I moved to this one apartment building and my up...

Container Gardening

If you love gardening, but are a bit short on space, don't worry, you can still enjoy a beautiful plants and flowers in your small spa...

Organic Vegetable Gardening

With food and gas prices steadily increasing, incomes uncertain, climate change and peak oil just around the corner... many of us are rampin...

Top 8 tips on choosing an architect to design your residential

In the current economic climate, most people prefer to buy a stock house plan. But to many of us finding an architect who can build us the h...

Make a 'no-dig' vegetable garden in less than two hours

Spring is springing down here in Australia. Time to get the vegie patch going again. This year is my first spring in a new garden. A vegetab...

Marigolds

I love gardening and Marigolds are one of my favorite flowers. The ones in the picture are from my garden. Here is some great information ab...

Lawn Care

Many people think that the only way to have a beautiful lawn is to hire a professional lawn care company to handle all of their lawn care. W...

Learn About Sweet Pea: The Flower -- Not the Veggie

Sweet Pea is an annual climber that bears clusters of fragrant flowers in a variety of colors. When we think of Sweet Pea, we usually pictur...

Hobby Greenhouses

This lens is about Hobby Greenhouses; why, how to and what to....I will post some usefull information on this lens (hopefully) for the begin...

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&nb...

The Guide to Gardening

The Guide to Gardening has been created to help those just starting out in gardening, looking for extra tips and even those with Black Thumb...

The Organic Garden

Ever since I was a little girl I can remember being in my mom's garden helping her with the garden. It was lots of work, but I enjoyed it s...

The Green Thumb Headquarters

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Do You HATE Cutting Grass?

Alhough I love the smell of freshly cut grass, noisy lawnmowers are just awful! And to have to keep repeating this chore at regular interval...

Hummingbirds and Gardening for Them

Who wouldn't want to attract hummingbirds, nature's flying jewels, to their yard? Hummingbird feeders will help bring them into view, but ...

August Gardening Tasks

Gardening in the Summer is a little less active for garden and gardener because of the heat. However, there are still a few things to do to ...

Gardening Outdoors Spring = Sanity!

Every year I wait anxiously to get a glimpse of the first spring bulb popping through the dirt.  It hails the arrival of spring an...

How to evaluate whether an architect knows about green residential home design

Some architects choose to specialize in a certain type of construction, as well. With the advent of more readily-available sustainable build...

THE HERB GARDEN--Lo Cost Seeds and Plants

Herbs have been used for thousands of years and are still used everyday in everyone's life whether it's realized or not. Herbs are used in...

How to Make a Moss Basket for Your Flowers

You've admired it from afar, but now it's made easy for you! An easy home gardening project that will add character to your home and garde...

Gardening with the Moon

It is the beginning of the new year that starts the gardening season for me. It is time to start with the new growth, time to put the knowle...

Victory Gardens Make A Comeback

According to the Wikipedia, a Victory Garden is:

"Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, ...

Monarch Butterflies Are Easy To Raise

Photo credit- Paul B. SutherlandMy family lives in the country. And we love raising Monarch Butterflies. It's really quite easy to rai...

Grow herbs indoors

I owe a big debt of gratitude to Elizabeth Jean Allen who suggested writing this lens.Why not click on this link Squidoo Learning Curve to r...

Gardening Tips

Gardening Tips - How to make your garden grow Whether you are a novice, expert or even a landscape gardener you are sure to find some v...

Making ponds for fish, waterlillies and frogs.

There is something serene and relaxing about a pond or water garden.A well thought out and constructed pond filled with aquatic plants and f...

Grow more vegetables

If you ever tried gardening, for sure you ran into the 3 problems that everybody runs into:
1) not enough time to tend the garden
2) lack ...

Raising plants from seeds part 2

This lens follows on from Raising plants from seed
As the seeds grow, they will start to overcrowd each other and will need to be potted on...

Florida Palm Trees

Hi, my name is Susan. I live in Florida and I am Palm Tree enthusiast. Having a tropical garden was always my dream that came true, when we ...

Spring Season Crocus

Hope Springs Eternal, and crocuses are a big  part of the reason!  In spite of repeated snows and frost, crocuses survive brightly...

There is Nothing Greener than Organic Gardening!

If you've never tasted a fresh, ripe tomato straight from the garden, you are missing out! Gardening can be a lot of work, but it is worth ...

Green Roofs - Sustaining Urban Life

Contrary to common belief, green roofs are nothing new.  One of the original Seven Wonders of the World was a green roof: the Hanging G...

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 ...

Growing Plants in a Victorian Terrace Garden in Yorkshire

Plants that grow successfully in a terrace garden in West Yorkshire

bonsai with grandma

There is a countless wealth of books and websites with all kinds of information about bonsai. I'm not here to tell you how.&...

container gardening

Simon Newman's blog where he teaches you everything that you need to know about container gardening and small gardens. He also talks in det...

September Gardening Tasks

Summer finally begins to wind down in the hot regions of the country and nippy weather has begun in the colder regions. Believe it or not, i...

gardening amateur

I'm just an amateur gardener with enough else on my hands, but occasionally I get something right, or almost right, and want to share it wi...

Herbs - Finding Information

This lens is to help you find out as much as you can about herbs.  Magazines, websites, email lists, blogs, where to buy herbs and herb...

Vegetable gardening for all

Nearly every spring there are people that have the notion of planting a vegetable garden to have fresh produce through the summer and fall. ...

On Guerrilla Gardening

Once in a while a book so exciting and inspiring comes along that far from being unable to put it down, the reader can't wait to put it bac...

Lawn Care

Mr Kittens has recently decided to landscape our garden, laying his own lawn and keeping it green and healthy all year round. He had to read...

Rabbits In Your Garden

Everyone's read Beatrix Potter, either as a child or to their own children. You'll be familiar with Peter Rabbit - the naughty, mischeivou...

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 th...

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 remo...

Gardening - Learning Easy, but Consistent Methods

Here in Houston it's always a little warm, even in the winter, except for a few days...  Although it has been fairly mild so far, I'm...

How-to Build a Free Form Flowerbed

Here are the steps on how to build your own free form flowerbed. This is how I have done this, and hope you will try one for yourself.

Windowsill Herb Garden

If what's keeping you from having your own herb garden at home is the lack of space in your backyard, then maybe it's time to look...

How To Plant Indoors: Top 7 Factors You Need To Consider

Not all plants are created equal and the proper way of taking care of them varies for each plant. In this regard, it's important to kn...

The Naked Gardener

Lest you think the title of this lens is a cheap attempt to attact hits, it refers to The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, and is not about gardeni...

Container Herb Gardening

Herb gardening doesn't require a great deal of space. Even if you haven't got a square foot of soil to call your own, even if you don't t...

How To Create A Decorative Vegetable Garden

Growing your own vegetables is a great way to supplement your food budget and have control over the quality of the food you eat. However, if...

Getting The Most Out Of Compost

You've been adding materials to your compost pile for several months now, keeping the pile damp, turning it over, making sure there are no ...

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 rec...

Gardening Tips

Get started and you're half finished, or so the old saying goes. This is especially true when you approach the task of landscapin...

Plant a Sago Palm and Make Your Landscape Shine!

I love my Sago Palm! Year after year it grows and gives my yard something no other plant can: Individuality.

The Sago palm is one of the ...

How to make Organic Potting Mix

Let's face it, gardening can be expensive. If you're a container gardener or raised bed gardener, it's even more expensive. I found one o...

Our Vegetable Garden Diary 2008

On February 4, 2008 my husband started a huge vegetable garden. It took a few days to build and takes a little bit of time every day to wate...

Herb Gardening

Hi everyone,
My name is Kevin, and I am a professional chef and new gardener. My main focus is on growing herbs at home, although when the ...

A Year In Your Garden

The way you care for your garden depends upon the seasons. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter all have their own characteristics and if you k...

How to Plant a Daylily in 6 easy Steps

Working in the garden is a great way to relax and enjoy the outdoors. Planting daylilies or any other plant shouldn't be stressful or a con...

The Art Of Growing Vegetables

When I was a child, one of the most important parts of my summer was rooting through my grandmother's vegetable garden to find fresh veggie...

How to Start Your Lawn

Is your dream lawn just that... a dream? ... Have you reached the "I can't stand it anymore" point? ... Are you considering lawn alternat...

Propagating Prickley Pear Cactus by Chunking Them

I live in the central valley of California, basically a desert. We get very little rain and are running short on water, which prompted me to...

Beautiful Easy Flowers

Flowers. Color. Beauty.This is my experimental lens devoted to helping you bring more color and beauty into your life with flowers. Flo...

Confederate Rose or Cotton Rose (Hibiscus Mutabilis)

The Confederate Rose or Cotton Rose (Hibiscus Mutabilis) is a shrub or small tree from China that thrives in the southern gulf coast of the ...