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Tips on Creating a Perennial Border and Choosing Perennial Border Plants One of the finest ways that you can use perennials is for adding well defined and beautiful perennial borders to your flower beds. Try to visualize what the blooming plants will look like in relation to the colours of the other plants around them…

Guides and Tips for Organically Growing Plants Organic gardening has become more widely practised due to concerns over the environment, our health, the health of our family and pets, and the recognition that we can’t keep on abusing the earth indefinitely without seeing some detrimental and long lasting effects on our global environment. The following…

A Beginners Guide to Organic Gardening Organic gardening has become increasingly more popular in recent years, along with widespread recognition that we can’t keep on abusing the earth indefinitely without seeing some detrimental and long lasting effects on our global environment. Lots of people have already experienced growing plants and vegetables in their gardens organically….

Greenhouse Siting, Ground, Alignment, Maintenance, and Utilities When siting greenhouses the advice is to choose a site where it will catch most sunlight, particularly during late winter and early spring when seedlings will be starting to grow and will need as much daylight as possible. Ground Avoid any low-lying ground that is prone to becoming…

Dividing perennials is generally easy and perennials attract lots of gardeners and flower lovers not only by their spectacular blooms, but also by their ability to be easily divided. Dividing plants is a convenient way to create new growth and use the divisions or cuttings to increase your plant stock. Perennials can provide so many…

A shelf or two full of general gardening books for reference are great to have. Scroll down to view recommended books for gardening and garden landscaping. It is unlikely that you will only tend to a particular type of plants, flowers, shrubs, trees, and they all need different care and maintenance, soil, nutrients, sun, water, deadheading,…