Saturday, May 3, 2008

More Blooming Flowers With Perennial Gardening

Perennial gardening is ideal for borders along a fence or property line, or against a background such as a wall, shrubs or evergreens.

Choose the right plants. Evaluate your garden site, noting sun exposure and soil type, and choose plants based on these assessments. Choose a planting of Heavenly Bamboo for a fiery accent to the fall garden. Try Forsythia for a luminous yellow bush that lights up the late winter landscape. Choose a really calm day for this, and do it when the grass is between 4 and 8 inches tall.

Once you decide on the plants that will give you the landscape, with a variety of blooming colour all year round, then you can look at purchasing those flowers from your favourite nursery. You can confirm with the nursery staff, which flowers bloom best in your area, and the flowers that work well in proximity to each other.

By discussing with the nursery staff and looking for gardening ideas from local gardeners, you can ensure successful growth by learning what plants grow best in your area. Perennial gardening is more like creating a forest or meadow.

You garden is destined not to succeed in case a few plants prefer regular watering unlike their close neighbors that prefer arid soil and occasional watering. So you need to ensure you have plants that compliment each other and grow well in similar conditions.

If you are careful with your garden you can ensure success with perennial gardening.

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Greenhouse Gardening To Extend The Growing Season

Greenhouse gardening is not that different from your average outside gardening. The main consideration that you need to think about is controlling the temperature of your greenhouse. Greenhouse gardening offers the dedicated gardener several gardening alternatives to extend the growing season to three seasons and even four seasons a year!

Miniature greenhouses are available for the families who like to extend their vegetable growing season without having a lot of cost. They are now available at different homes stores in a variety of sizes.

Mini greenhouse are a great little invention! The mini greenhouse offers a very low cost means of plant protection and propagation. The best choice for home gardeners without a bright greenhouse. These can be grown on a windowsill with a southern exposure.

Plants use sunlight as their energy source, using photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process by which the light is processed and used to create nutrients for the plants to sustain themselves. Plants in a greenhouse can use up to five times more CO2(Carbon Dioxide) than naturally occurs in the air.

CO2, essential to photosynthesis, is often the most overlooked element limiting plant growth. Plants need the sun to grow, so you have to be careful in choosing the material for your greenhouse panels. Ask an expert at your local nursery or research to find out what materials are best to create the roof and windows of your greenhouse.

Frames can use laminated glass for safety or rigid plastic with an aluminum frame. Ensure that frames are stable and will not move in high winds.

Careful and thoughtful construction of your greenhouse, will lead to your success with greenhouse gardening.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Garden Design For A Better Garden

Garden design is a discipline that requires attention to detail, plant knowledge, technical competence and artistic flair. You can complete a garden design course, to increase your knowledge and skills and then look at completing a design of your garden during the winter months.

You can visit websites on the internet, to look at the more popular garden designs. The Japanese gardens are rather popular. The Japanese perfected garden design long ago. Water features are included in nearly every garden in Japan. Japanese water gardens are, in fact, famous throughout the world for their natural beauty and exceptional craftsmanship.

Garden design is a living art form and very few of us are lucky enough to have a natural talent for it. The rest of us need to learn the basic principals and practices of good garden design.

Garden design is a discipline that requires attention to detail, plant knowledge, technical competence and artistic flair. There are garden design courses to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to design, build, research and manage gardens.

Once you finalise your garden design on a computer, then you will have the blueprint for your spring garden.

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Improve Your Backyard With Better Flower Garden Ideas

Flower garden ideas may include flower beds and a vegetable garden with low maintenance requirements. The secret to your success is preparation and where you place your flower and garden plants.

Look for a sunny area, away from trees. The soil should be well draining, close to a source of water. If the soil has heavy clay, seek to replace your soil, with a garden friendly soil.

Another essential element of your flower garden ideas, is a compost bin to create compost to feed nutrients to your flower and garden plants. Allocate an area of your yard where you will place your compost bin, to collect all your yard and kitchen waste, to convert to compost.

You may decide, you need a fish pond as your centrepiece in your backyard. You can arrange for a professional installer, to install it for you. Rather than you doing all the hard work, the hard work is done for you.

You may also consider including a water fountain near the fish pond, so there is a continual supply of fresh water to the fish pond. The combination of a fish pond and a water fountain, may be the wow factor in your yard. Visitors to your home, may be fascinated with your choice of centrepiece.

Every year, you can look at improving your flower garden ideas.

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