Solar Garden Lights For Your Home

  Versatility Most people think that lights powered by the sun have to be short, black lights with little solar panels on the top. But the latest lights come in all shapes and sizes. Suppliers are now offering everything from floating pond lights to external panel shed lights that are often used in bus shelter [...]

Organic Gardening – a Quick Introduction

There are many types of organic gardening, from organic vegetable gardening to organic flower gardening. Many people have no intent what organic gardening really is. Organic Gardening refers to growing plants, vegetables, etc. without using pesticides or other harmful chemicals. Many people believe that organic gardening offers many health benefits and that organically grown food [...]

You Can do Container Vegetable Gardening

As the chesty owner of a little vegetable plot one of the easiest ways to increase my plot is to grow vegetables in containers. Container vegetable gardening has become very favourite to the point the seed companies now have special varieties for growing vegetables in containers. You can’t always use just any plants because some [...]

Gardens: Magnificent magnolias

Wake up and smell the perfume: how one of the oldest flowering trees in existence brings new joy apiece spring You don’t anticipate your nostrils to be assailed by scent at this time of?year, but for the past few weeks as I?have walked out of the kitchen door, the air has been pervaded by the most glorious perfume. On hot days, the scent has been even headier. It comes from my Magnolia stellata , still, after 30 years, only a small tree but the most spectacular sight in the garden at this time of year

Gardens: Adapt and survive

A harsh winter shouldn’t mean the end to tender exotics in your garden, if you sow and plant wisely When it comes to growing tender exotics, I’ve got it pretty good: I?garden at home on a sun-soaked slope in Devon, where spring starts primeval and frosts are few. The well-drained walls of marl and local limestone create built-up terraces that, like so?many urban gardens around the UK, wage the perfect conditions to grow tender and borderline hardy plants.

Home Decorating with Textured Paint

Textured paint and faux finishes have become more favourite in current years than at any other point in history. One reason for this is because so many home improvement stores are offering classes for those who are willing to pay the price for the paint so that the average Joe or Jane can recreate these [...]

Stumped? Cracked pots and wildflowers for a wedding

Where can I get replacements for my frost-damaged terracotta pans? Plus grow-your-own flowers for that special day I grow alpine plants and other small treasures in terracotta pans, about 35cm x 22cm x 10cm, but some of them broke in the freezing weather. Where can I?buy replacements

Gardens: The trillium-dollar show

Select from petals the colour of dried blood or a flurry of pure white blooms: this is a family of shade lovers not to miss At the edge of the track that runs through my garden are several clumps of? Trillium chloropetalum .

Picking the Ideal Location for your Garden

Once you have picked what garden you want, there are many other factors you need to decide before you actually get to work with your gardening tools. Mainly you need to choose its location. This is usually decided by several factors: How you will water it, how much shade it needs, etc. Some of these [...]

Where in the UK can I buy 3 rail O Gauge track to put in the garden, so that I can run Lionel trains?

Question by Scott C: Where in the UK can I buy 3 rail O Gauge track to place in the garden, so that I can run Lionel trains? I would like to build a small garden layout to run my 30 year old Lionel Train Set (sorry – Model Railroad…) that I got when I [...]

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