Exclusive Secret Garden: 6 Practical Gardening Steps
These days, everyone laments the loss of privacy in our lives. But we seem to have forgotten an old but still powerful tool for rebuilding it: secret gardens.
5 Delicious Edible Flowers for Your Kitchen
People have foraged and cultivated flowers for food, drink, and medicine for centuries. You will find squash blossoms in Italian food, rose petals in Indian food, and chamomile or jasmine tea.
Companion Planting for Beginners
The core principle behind companion planting is to grow two or more kinds of plants together with the hope of yielding mutual benefits.
Window Box Garden Ideas for Your Home
Overflowing with color and sweet scent, window boxes are a legacy from a time when people built their homes on the edge of the street.
Sage… great for your garden and wonderful for your health!
Ancient Egyptian women drank sage tea as an aid to fertility. In ancient Greece it was used for healing and as an anti-bacterial agent. Those anti-bacterial properties have made it a personal deodorant in some cultures. And, of course, it’s widely used in cooking! So easy to grow and so beneficial! You can grow sage […]
Luscious Lavender
by David Wilks – an ambitious, amateur gardener from a long line of ambitious, amateur gardeners! I have always found it very difficult to walk past a lavender bush without running my hands through the foliage. The oils are so pungent that I can smell them on my hands for the rest of the day. […]