Choosing Grasses For Your Garden – It is important to choose the right grasses for a particular effect. Clump-forming upright growers, such as varieties of Calamagrostis, will preside over lower-growing plants but lose all impact if crowded by plants of equal height. Continue Reading
Conifers In The Garden – The garden is not complete without at least a few conifers to provide evergreen background planting and structure to the garden. Continue Reading
Herb Garden Styles – A formal herb garden is often designed in the form of a parterre with closely clipped low hedges of box, which give a defined frame to the herbs. There are other suitable plants for hedging, however. Santolina chamaecyparis gives a beautiful silver frame to the design, wall germander (Teucrium x lucidrys) has neat triangular dark green leaves, and the dark green foliage of rosemary and the dwarf lavender ‘Munstead Dwarf ’ can be effective. Continue Reading
The living room is the area where the family gathers. It is here that the adults relax, the children play and everyone seeks comfort. It is also the spot in the average home where most of the indoor plants can be found. Continue Reading
Across the country, there are more than two million farms in operation growing all kinds of crops to produce the food supply. While they all are extremely different, most will deal with the same problem at least once; pests. Continue Reading
Garden walls aren’t just the structures that go around your outside area, separating the little bit of the outside world that you own from everything else. Though most walls in gardens have a similar function, that is they’re designed to demarcate, letting the user know that one part of the garden has finished and another is beginning. Continue Reading
