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Garden - Do You Have Time Tp Garden?

2006-05-01T09:05:00.000-07:00

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Growing flowers and other plants can be richly rewarding, but there are some whose busy packed schedules and lifestyle make it difficult to find any time to create and maintain their own gardens.

If this is your situation, there is no reason to miss out on the beauty of your own garden. You do not have to plant an extensive garden in your backyard to be considered a gardener! Look into container gardening! Buy a few plants and plant them in pots, and/or some seed and sow them in the pots.

Even those with the busiest schedules can find five minutes during the day to tend to these plants. And you can benefit from the relaxing and rewarding activity that comes with gardening.

Your choices are any type of pot, box or tub. The advantages to you are: you avoid the problems of weed and you can spot and take care of any insect pest quickly! Just be sure to maintain a regular watering schedule and check that the pots are getting enough sun for the particular plant so as to make sure your plants are receiving the nutrition that they need.

Garden - Container Garden

2006-04-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

TheGardenReview.com - Your online resource for gardening information: "Gardeners: Contain Yourselves!
By: Debbie Rodgers
Whether you live in a tiny city apartment or on a large country estate, gardening in containers is a way to add colour and the beauty of nature to your surroundings. The three main elements of creating successful containers gardens are:

* Choosing the pots
* Getting the right planting medium
* Selecting the plants

In all of these elements, the key is to create a healthy growing environment for the plant roots. For a healthy root system, water must be able to pass quickly through the soil. As the water drains out, air replaces it in the soil and an exchange of carbon dioxide is made with the plant roots. This movement of water and air is essential to a healthy plant.........."

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Gardens - TheGardenReview.com - Your online resource for gardening information

2006-04-18T11:58:00.000-07:00

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TheGardenReview.com - Your online resource for gardening information: "Gardeners: Contain Yourselves!
By: Debbie Rodgers
Whether you live in a tiny city apartment or on a large country estate, gardening in containers is a way to add colour and the beauty of nature to your surroundings. The three main elements of creating successful containers gardens are:

* Choosing the pots
* Getting the right planting medium
* Selecting the plants

In all of these elements, the key is to create a healthy growing environment for the plant roots......."

Garden - Gifts

2006-04-12T10:39:00.000-07:00

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Gardening Gifts for Green Thumbs
Cat Tobin

In need of a good gift for a friend or relative? A great solution is visiting the local hardware store. For that someone with a big green thumb, the hardware store is an endless source of options. So what are the best gardening gifts?

The best gardening gifts are directly parallel to the needs of the gardener. The best gift for one gardener may not be the best for another, so a little knowledge about your friend or relative's garden needs will be a definite help. Also be sure to know your budget. The most expensive garden gifts may not be the best ones, so if you are on a tight budget there are always garden accessories and clothing wear.

Gardening gloves, footwear and kneepads, may be bought in a variety of colors, texture, and material. Once again, consult the needs of the gardener in mind. Simply do your homework. The Internet is the perfect source for learning more about gardening or what tools do what. With that knowledge, finding the perfect gardening gift will be easy.....Visit Amazon.com for a huge selection of essential garden gifts at a discounted price! Visit here: Garden Products & Gifts"

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2006-04-08T09:51:00.000-07:00

Gardening at Gardening-How-To.com: "How to Create A Square Foot Garden
Creating your own square foot garden is as easy as building (or buying) a box in which to garden. My own first square foot garden was a two square foot garden on the cement apron outside my back door in a city apartment. I used four square wicker plastic lined wicker wastebaskets bought for a dollar apiece at the All-for-a-Buck store. Any container that can hold 6-8� of dirt, and has drainage holes in the bottom will work. The biggest requirement for location is sun � choose a nice, sunny spot to place your garden.

Did I say dirt? Amend that. Bartholomew recommends what he calls �Mel�s mix� instead of soil. Mix 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss and 1/3 compost to fill the squares of your box or container. A 10 pound bag of each was plenty to fill my little 2 square foot garden........"

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2006-04-07T10:59:00.000-07:00

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Benefits Of Gardening For Kids
George Hapgood

Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It's as simple as starting with the children. It is good to see the children's involvement with environment-friendly activities. One such nature-loving activity that children could easily get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for your children?

Here are the benefits that gardening could easily provide the children with:

1. Science

In planting, children are indirectly taught the wonders of science like the plant's life cycle and how human's intervention can break or make the environment. They can have a first hand experience on the miracle of life through a seed.........."

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TheGardenReview - Rose Gardening Tasks Early Spring

2006-04-04T09:19:00.000-07:00

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Rose Gardening Tasks Early Spring
By Theresa Sontag

When shoud you start preparing your rose garden for the onset of spring and summer? Well, if you live in an area where you can start seeing the promise of spring in late March or early April, then you're an 'early spring' rose gardener. However, if you live where March and April still brings icy rain and snow, then just
keep waiting out old man winter until your turn at spring arrives and then follow the tips in this article.

Early spring is a time of great activity in the rose garden as you prepare for the beautiful buds that will be sprouting almost any day. Here's a summary of what needs to be done in order to prepare your roses for the tough growing season that lies ahead.....got to http://www.thegardenreview.com/RoseGardeningTasksEarlySpring.html to read more!"

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Garden - Rose Garden Article

2006-03-31T12:15:00.000-08:00

Rose Gardening Article
Using Popular Rose Varieties In Your GardenSteven Hall
When many people think of gardening, their thoughts turn first to roses, and there is no wonder. Roses are among the most popular, and certainly most beautiful, types of flowers there are. In addition, roses are a huge part of both the gardening hobby and the professional flower business. There are even rose and flowers shows were master gardeners proudly show off their lovely creations to an awestruck crowd.
Whether your ultimate goal is to take the big prize at the next rose show or just enjoy a few roses in your garden, it is important to get a feel for the many varieties of roses on the market. Roses are among the most varied flowers on the market; they come in virtually every color of the rainbow and in blooms ranging in size from a fraction of an inch to almost a foot in width. This article focuses on a few of the most commonly seen rose varieties.
impinellifolia Roses Pimpinellifolia roses are renowned for their hardiness, and their attractive foliage and lovely blooms make them a great choice for the beginning rose enthusiast or the experienced gardener. These roses come in pink, red, yellow and white blossoms, and they grow on attractive and very compact bushes.

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Garden - TheGardenReview.com - Your online resource for gardening information

2006-03-27T12:33:00.000-08:00

TheGardenReview.com - Your online resource for gardening information: "5 Perennials For Shade Gardens
By: Lee Dobbins
We all know that flowers love sunshine, but did you realize that there are perennials that love the shade?

You can create a beautiful garden in the shade that can act as a cooling retreat on those hot summer days. By using perennials, your flowers will come up year after year for a lifetime of enjoyment.

Shade gardens offer much more than gardens that sit in the blazing sun all day. You can actually sit in them and enjoy them. Pull up a nice lounge chair or have a beautiful granite bench installed. Sit and read on a hot day, or just sip a drink and enjoy the birds and butterflies." Visit The Garden Review to read more!

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Garden - Your Cottage Garden Article

2006-03-24T11:24:00.000-08:00

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Your Cottage Garden
By Theresa Sontag

Cottage gardens exude charm and character, with an informal style, very
unlike formal gardens with their immaculate lawns and regimented borders.
The cottage garden style typically consists of lots of plants, heavy on the
flowers, with paths meandering between. The plants are chosen to suit
personal tastes with the emphases on the pleasure of growing plants and enjoying
their color, fragrance and form. A medley of colors and textures that is
all crammed into the beds and borders.

Cottage gardens were originally
constructed to utilize every bit of growing space for family needs. This meant,
flowers, fruit, herbs and vegetables were packed together into even the smallest
plots. One tip is to incorporate wildflowers and herbs as well as the more
traditional cottage garden plants. Plant in clumps with large blocks of
color to introduce rich patters of color and movement. Also, don't
restrict yourself to planting tall plants in the back, with smaller ones in
front. Mix some of the taller plants in amongst the middle planting area
as well.

You should grow hollyhock beside walls and fences, plant climbers, such as
clematis and roses, in amongst the hedges and trees, or up wall and
fences. Annuals can fill in between gaps in the planting.

You will find many of the flowers that are featured in traditional cottagegardens are self-sowing, so leave old flower spikes intact for self-seeding.

All gardens require care and attention and cottage gardens are no
exception. You will need to do frequent deadheading in order to encourage
a long season of blooming flowers. Divide and replant where appropriate
depending on the plant, and, of course, the weeding necessary in any garden.

The first step in creating your cottage garden is to plan your layout.A classic
cottage garden has a straight path to the front door, a simple fenceand perhaps an arc over the gate, the path or doorway. A more moderndesign has a curving path. You will need to decide which path option worksbest for you.

A climbing rose or a wisteria would be a good choice to adorn the wall by and
above the front door. The path should be edged with plants that will spill
over and soften the edges. You should have a few evergreen shrubs, this
will provide green all year and will provide a background to show off your
flowers, as well as contrast with autumn foliage and your spring bulbs.
Also in winter, your evergreen shrubs will provide color and inject interest
while the rest of your garden is dormant.

Adding a tree will give scale to your garden, and lift the eye over theflowers. Deciduous trees have more than one season of interest since theyprovide autumn color, also many of them have beautiful flowers and fruits.Also, the frameworks of the branches provide height in winter and will not blockthe winter sunlight in small plots. Deciduous flowering shrubs willprovide spring and summer pleasure, and some will give you autumn foliage andberries in the winter.

I believe one cannot have a cottage garden without roses. There are so many types
available now, whether heritage roses or the modern roses bred for ease of
maintenance and disease resistance, you have your colors and degree of work you
wish to commit. There are wonderful climbers to adorn arches, doorways,
fences and pergolas. Work roses into your overall scheme, and let them
play their part, and they will contribute beauty, scent and structure to your
garden.

Add different climbers, such as roses, clematis and others to the samesupport, whether it is a tree, arbor or fence. It is a good space-savingtechnique that creates colorful features for months on end and adds height tothe garden.

Your landscaping should include more than plants. Add seating areas and
containers to help you enjoy your garden. They contrast well with the flow
and look of your plants. Containers are also a convenient way to add lots
of extra color around buildings, seats and benches. Containers can be
anything, use your imagination, for example, objects such as old chimney pots,
old watering cans, and bottomless metal buckets can be recycled to make
authentic, aged features that will add color and character to your cottage
garden.

Your cottage garden should be a color palate of your imagination, blendingplants, objects and colors into a whole that is uniquely you. Add andchange it through the years and watch it evolve.

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Garden - Spring Flower Gardening

2006-03-23T10:22:00.000-08:00

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Spring Flower Gardening
Jenkinson

Spring is the time when nature and your garden awakes and comes alive after the long winter. That first spring flower or that first green leave is the sign that winter in coming to an end and that a new growing season has arrived.

Spring and Flower gardening is almost synonymous. Spring is the time to interplant perennials, shrubs, roses and plant or transplant your annuals.

It�s time to shape up your soil, loosen the mulch around your plants and prune your early blooming shrubs. Rake and remove leaves and debris from your garden. Without a good planting medium your flower garden will never be at its best.

Perennials will save you a lot of work in your flower garden. So keep perennials high on your list. These hardworking beauties eliminate yearly replanting and will still give you that spring and summer color that you are longing for. It�s best to choose varieties that don�t need a lot of staking or frequent division. Notorious sun lovers are daylilies, sedium, and speedwell. Plants like hosta, fern, sweet woodruff and columbine feel more at easy in the shadow.... read more at Rose Garden How-To

Gardening - The Great History of Roses!

2006-03-23T10:17:00.000-08:00

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2006-03-22T18:57:00.000-08:00

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Gardening the organic way
Tony Robinson

More and more people are discovering the joys that come with planting an organic garden. There are many reasons for gardening the organic way, from decreased use of pesticides to lower cost to concerns about the environment. Many gardeners are worried about the overuse of pesticides, and the possible effects it could have on their family members, their pets and their families. Other gardeners are concerned about the possibility of pesticide runoff, and concerned that such runoff could get into the groundwater and cause damage.

Another reason for organic gardening is the recent trend to incorporate fish ponds into the garden landscape. Fish are among the most sensitive creatures when it comes to chemical sensitivity, and even a small amount of chemicals in a closed environment like a pond can be toxic to many ornamental fish. Any homeowner who wishes to incorporate a fish pond into his or her landscape must be very careful about the use of pesticides, insecticides and other chemicals.

While information about organic gardening was once hard to come by, today there is lots of information available, as more and more people take up this special form of gardening. Both food plants and ornamental flowering plants can be grown organically, and many people particularly like the idea of growing and eating ..."
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Garden - Gardening For Birds

2006-03-21T16:21:00.000-08:00

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Gardening For Birds
Gene
Creating the perfect garden for birds begins by understanding the needs of birds.Birds, as with other wildlife, require certain elements in the garden to survive.These elements include:Food, Water, Shelter, Planting - for birds can add beauty as well as function to your backyard.

Food:Begin by surveying your yard. You may already have some of the ingredientsneeded for a bird friendly backyard.Many flowers you already enjoy provide food for the birds. Coneflowers area favorite summer and fall food source for Goldfinches. Sunflowers offerthe seed that attracts the greatest variety of birds.Consider tubular flowers for attracting Hummingbirds. Favorites includeTrumpet vine, Cardinal flower, and Scarlet runner.Annuals can also attract these tiny hummers, try including mass plantings ofsalvia, impatient, and containers of geraniums.Adding some of the ornamental grasses will also provide late summer feedingfor birds, while providing beauty in the landscape. Those tall plumes provideseed Goldfinches, Black-capped Chickadees, and Purple Finches love.

Shelter:Trees and shrubs in the landscape not only provide beauty but offer the birdsa place to hide and raise their young.Flowering Dogwoods, and the small fruited crabapples, not only provide a valuablefood source, but will attract Robins and others to nest in spring. Select varietiesthat hold their fruit well into winter.Favorite shrubs include, Service Berry, Honeysuckle, and American Holly. Plantthese and you are sure to be visited by Robins, Thrashers, Mockingbirds, and more.Shrubs are also a favorite nesting site of the Northern Cardinal.Evergreens are an essential part of the bird garden. Providing important shelterand berries during winters cold. In spring, you'll be rewarded by nesting birdsby planting a few varieties of tall evergreens.

Water:How you provide water isn't important. Whether you add a full backyard pond ora simple bird bath, just be sure to add water. Birds need water not only todrink, but also to keep their feathers in tip-top shape.Even in winter, a water supply is needed. Consider purchasing a bird bath heater.A heated bird bath will not only keep an open water source available for the birds,but will offer you a greater variety of birds to watch. Without a winter source ofwater, birds will have to use energy used to keep warm and survive to find water.Allow your plants to remain in the garden through the winter. This allows the birdsto feed on seed heads and insects much longer.Consider placing feeders and birdhouses in your yard. ...go to Gardening-How-To for more!

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