Drought prone regions often call for smarter garden watering practices as water is an extremely precious commodity. In fact, authorities in some places will even impose water restrictions thereby limiting water usage of households. If you live in a drought prone region, you have probably already mastered the art of gardening with water restrictions in [...]
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Conserving Water in Garden Watering Restrictions
May 12th, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: conserve water · drought · Drought Resistant Plants · garden watering · saving water · water restriction
How to Search Daily Gardening Updates
November 30th, 2008 No Comments
Active gardening requires constant update on all new happenings around. An active and intelligent gardener very well understands the importance of being update with news, methods and new techniques, researches, and shared experiences of fellow gardeners around the world. This is an age of internet and communication. It is simply a click that will carry [...]
Tags: Daily Email Alerts · Gardening Updates · Google Alerts · Google Search Engine
How Large is Hope Gardens in Jamaica?
November 10th, 2008 2 Comments
The straight answer to this question is “200 acres of land”. “Hope Gardens” of Jamaica is the largest botanical garden in entire Caribbean. You will find a cactus garden, orchid house, greenhouse, a forest garden, an ornamental pond, a plant nursery, lily pond, poet’s corner, bandstand, fountains, zoo, bougainvillea walkway, shrub maze, sunken gardens, coconut [...]
Tags: Hope Gardens · Hope Gardens in Jamaica · Largest Garden in Caribbean
Nude Gardening -Natural Gardening: A Critical Point
November 4th, 2008 3 Comments
An incidental search on Google leads me to a strange world of gardening. I have been reading and writing about several types and techniques of gardening and very obviously the natural concept has always been one of the core themes in my mind. Natural gardening is not just gardening with mother nature but there is [...]
Tags: Eva Mendes · Gardening in Naked · Naked Gardening · Nude Gardening · World Naked Gardening Day
Landscaping Featuring Non-Invasive Ornamental Grasses
November 2nd, 2008 2 Comments
Landscaping with ornamental grasses is something like painting a canvas with lovely colors. Home gardens and landscapes featuring ornamental grasses are natural nesting sites, food, and cover for birds and animals. Different types of ornamental grasses weave out a different pleasant texture for home gardens. Such new textures add up new dimensions to the beauty [...]
Tags: Landscape Featuring Ornamental Grasses · Non-invasive Ornamental Grasses · Ornamental Grasses Types · Types of Ornamental Grasses
Online Gardening Community: Discussion on Key Issues
September 14th, 2008 4 Comments
A garden in real life is a little different from the garden on internet. On internet, it is kind of a virtual existence though the participants are real. In a sense, it is an altogether different experience. Garden on internet can be visualized in many forms. There may be websites, community forums, and bulletin boards.
K.Paul [...]
Tags: Forums · gardening · Online Gardening Community Websites
Shangri La Botanical Gardens
April 23rd, 2008 No Comments
If you ever happen to be visiting the lovely town of Orange, Texas you should stop by the beautiful Shangri La Gardens and Nature Center. If you’re a fan of botanical gardens, this one would be a real treat. The garden has more than 300 different plant species and received platinum certification for LEED(R)-NC. [...]
Tags: botanical gardens · gardening · shangri la botanical gardens · texas gardens
My name is Bill Stanley and I have been a home gardener for over 20 years. I enjoy sharing my gardening tips with friends and family, as well as the rest of the world!