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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!

How to Grow Beautiful Roses, The Guide to Gardening, High Desert Gardening, Aaarrgghh!.... APHIDS!, White Alpine Strawberries

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 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. Flowers are easy to grow and beautiful to behold. To a more colorful world!  

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 4ever

In the kingdom of flowering plants, orchid rule the emerald Earth.Of over 25,000 species found worldwide, Malaysia is home to some 850 species in the peninsula and another 2,500 in Sabah and Sarawak. To obtain such abundance, orchids are opportunist t...

featured lens 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, poking delicate heads over their icy blanket.  Everyone seeks out the crocus as the first sign of sprin...

How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Eatables and Edibles

fruits, vegetables and other food gardening

featured lens 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 and don'ts to enable you to reap the fruits of your labor. Before you get to work, you have to buy the seeds an...

featured lens White Alpine Strawberries

I'm growing white alpine strawberries for the first time in my garden this summer and this lens will tell you more about this special varietal and share my experiences with this delicious fruit!

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 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 veggies to eat. I loved the carrots best of all, and my grandmother would often tease me by saying I was going to tur...

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...

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 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...

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...

Digging In The Dirt

comments, feedback, questions

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

coachjoci

Hi, Ive been a serious gardener for 12 years but as kid I poured over Beter Homes and Gardens Magazine and dreamed of someday having garden that looked like the ones in the magazine. Now I have!

Posted June 12, 2008
Euryale

Thanks, triathlontraining! Of course, it's gets "pruned and replanted" pretty regularly.

Posted June 02, 2008
triathlontraining

This is a very nicely designed layout! Great job! :)

Posted June 02, 2008
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
 
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