How to Create a Stylish Small-Space Garden Anywhere. Description: Whether you have a roof terrace, a tiny balcony or just a window sill, there’s no excuse not to do some gardening. In Modern Container Gardening, Isabelle Palmer shows just how easy it is to get started in the garden – and how to make the most...
If you are a beginner gardener, how you design a garden may not be top of your agenda. But there are some basic things that can be really helpful to think about when you are first starting out in gardening.
I love to make these little treats for my family and friends, they are the perfect afternoon snack with a freshly brewed cup of tea and to snuggle up with a book...
When you visit a garden centre you will often see rows of seed packets with pretty pictures of flowers, vegetables and herbs on them. To be honest until I started getting into gardening I would feel intimidated, walk past them and head to the main plant area to purchase a plant that I could pop...
There is a great opportunity, whatever your skill level, to start experiencing the joy of gardening. Like many things you may be reluctant to start if you have never grown anything before but a love of gardening can start with the simplest of things, as I mention in my first post, I started with very little...
The Tillandsia Aeranthos produces stunning flowers every year with pretty pink and purple flowers, the green leaves grow upwards and are stiff. FAMILY: BromeliaceaeHUMIDITY: High (At least 60-70%)LIGHT: Indirect light / filtered sunTEMPERATURE: 15-25C / 60-75FCARE: EasyWATER: Soak once a weekSIZE: 10 x 45cm / 4x18in PLANTING:The clue is in the name – these plants...
for an increasing number of people, particularly those living in urban areas, access to a garden may be limited to a balcony, or small courtyard garden. Inside their properties, however, they may have more space, and this is where there is plenty of opportunity to experiment with house plants.
In the light of the coronavirus lockdown, we are all spending more time at home and in our gardens. With the parks having been closed during this time and parents aware of how quickly the germs can spread, children are now using the garden as their play area and older children are trying to find a place to escape their bedrooms for a while from online learning.
You may have been given a special packet of seeds, found some at a garden store or shop or even have gathered seeds from your own plants and flowers, but how do you look after them to make sure that you can use them over and over again. Growing from seed is a wonderful and...
It wasn’t until I started planting my own seeds that I truly discovered how wonderful it can be to watch something grow from something so tiny. Every day I would check on my small seedlings to see if they had grown and my goodness they had!