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The Environmental Benefits Of Water Gardens

The beauty and tranquility that a water garden adds to any outdoor area is more than enough incentive to create one of these stunning landscaping features in your backyard. However, there are benefits to a water garden that go beyond the pleasant hedonism of enjoying the unique aesthetic pleasures of a water garden. A water [...]

Understand Your Lawn

The word lawn comes from the Celtic word Launde or Lande, denoting an uncultivated or untilled and infertile area covered with ferns, broom or heath, certainly not the modern idea of what a lawn is or should be. Because this name conveyed the idea of an expanse of open space, the word gradually came to [...]

Growing Bamboo Plants In Five Easy steps!

Growing bamboo plants is not that difficult even for the worst green thumb in the world and should be a straightforward exercise. However, there are some delicate stages bamboo will go through during it’s early phase and we’ll present a simple 5 step process to getting your plant into the ground, ready to face the [...]

Choosing and Planting Country or Native Hedging

If you want to plant a country (or native) hedge, the time is nigh! The hedge planting season is nearly on us as it runs from November to March which is when most hedging plants are either fully or partially dormant and can be moved with the least upset. If you have not already done [...]

Even Texas Has Gardens: Gardening 101 For Arid Climates

Now, now. Before I hear the seasonal sighs and woeful mumblings of secret New England jealousy, let me offer a word of encouragement. You can do it. This is not an unattainable goal. There are no insurmountable obstacles here. Apply the power of creativity and a little resourcefulness, like any good student, and it will [...]