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Guerrilla Gardening, Land Grabbing, Reclaim, Neglected, Greenaid, Guinness, Pure Genius.

Guerrilla Gardening.

The term guerrilla gardening is a relatively new phrase in the gardening world only having been in common usage for the last forty years.

It can be applied to people who overspill their own particular garden boundaries yet keep on gardening on the property of a neighbor. It can also refer to people who are involved in a form of protest against allegedly legal land grabbing, or to reclaim and use productively areas of land which are being totaly neglected by their owners.

Tags: Gardening, Genius, Grabbing, Greenaid, Guerrilla, Guinness, Land, Neglected, Pure, Reclaim

Fruit Trees for Home Gardens, Peach, Cherry, Dwarf Fruit Trees.

Fruit Trees for Home Gardens.

If you have been advised that to successfully grow fruit trees in your home garden they have to be allocated a specific place in your home garden and isolated from the rest of the plant and flower growth, then you have been misled.

Fruit trees can be grown in any part of the garden provided that the soil conditions are right, and indeed many of the various types of fruit tree add an attractive complement to any landscaped home garden. Listed below are a couple of the most popular fruit trees grown at home.

Tags: Cherry, Dwarf, Fruit, Gardens, Home, Peach, Trees

Hanging Gardens, Babylon, Baskets, Poinsettia, Creeping Fig, King Nebuchadnezzar

Hanging Gardens.

If the words ‘hanging gardens’ are spoken it is often the Hanging Gardens of Babylon which spring to mind and we will talk briefly about that shortly.

But it is possible to create a hanging garden of your own quite simple. If you have either a covered pergola or garden patio arrange for a series of baskets to be suspended from the ceiling.

Line the baskets with plastic (make sure there are drainage holes at the bottom!) and fill with good organic compost. Then plant colorful plants in the baskets such as Poinsettia, Primula, Erica and Cyclamen for color, accompanied by Creeping and Trailing Fig which make ideal trailing plants. Then you have your own simple hanging garden.

Tags: Babylon, Baskets, Creeping, Fig, Gardens, Hanging, King, Nebuchadnezzar, Poinsettia

Wooden Garden Gates.

For the smaller and more suburban type of garden of the kind usually encountered in the UK, then wooden garden gates are usually chosen. These provide an entrance at the front of the house, and perhaps a taller type of wooden gate as an entrance to the backyard from the front, usually installed between the neighbor’s outer fence and your house.

While it can be a relatively simple task to build your own wooden gate from the huge variety of materials available, for the busy working man, it can often be cheaper, less time consuming and certainly more convenient to order a wooden gate online.

Tags: Accessories, Coating, Company, Entrance, Exterior, Garden, Gate, Gates, Online, Redwood, Scandinavian, Wooden

Shade Plants for Your garden, Bulbs, Annuals, Crocus, Snowdrops, Impatiens, Bleeding Heart.

Shade Plants for Your Garden.

Perhaps your garden is surrounded by tall trees or high walls, with most of the garden being continually in the shade and having very little direct sunlight to encourage the growth and flowering of the more common type of garden plants and flowers.

There are ways by which you can still have plenty of color in the garden by knowing which kinds of plants to grow, some plants actually enjoy and flourish in such shaded areas.

Another thing to consider in a shaded garden is of course the amount of water the plants receive. If the tall trees are obscuring sunlight, then it is likely that they will obscure the amount of rain the shaded plants receive also.

Tags: Annuals, Bleeding, Bulbs, Crocus, Garden, Heart, Impatiens, Plants, Shade, Snowdrops

Rooting Your Garden Cuttings, Root, Transplant, Pot Method, Rooting Bag, Annual, Seed.

Rooting Your Garden Cuttings.

It is a relatively easy task to add to your collection of outdoor and indoor plants by taking cuttings of existing plants, encouraging the cuttings to take root and transplanting the cuttings.

All fresh cuttings will require a humid atmosphere to encourage root growth. To take the new cutting it is best to cut the stem at an angle rather than directly perpendicular to the stem. Prepare a 5 inch clay pot and fill with good compost, leave a little space at the top fir watering.

Tags: Annual, Bag, Cuttings, Garden, Method, Pot, Root, Rooting, Seed, Transplant

Garden Lighting, Transformer, Wattage, Switches, Cabling. Light Fittings, Light Bulbs.

Garden Lighting

You may well be thinking about installing lighting in you garden. Certainly it will show off your garden landscape and any structures such as pergolas and arbors to their best advantage. And a few lanterns suspended from tree branches will add to the mystery of the garden in the evening time.

As with everything else in the home garden, extra lighting will come at a cost. Let’s just examine a few of the items you will have to consider for a typical garden.

Tags: Bulbs, Cabling, Fittings, Garden, Light, Lighting, Switches, Transformer, Wattage

Making a Fairy Garden, Window Boxes, Herbs, Miniature, Houses, Pathways, Gnomes, Furniture, Internet.

Making a Fairy Garden.

You can make a fairy garden in almost any place you choose. You can allocate a portion of the garden to make the fairy garden, or you can use a disused barrel or any other kind of container will do.

If you want fairies at the bottom of your garden then the location is selected for you anyway, although window boxes make an ideal place for such a garden then you and the kids can keep a watch for the fairies when they visit.

Tags: Boxes, Fairy, Furniture, Garden, Gnomes, Herbs, Houses, Internet, Miniature, Pathways, Window

Japanese Rock Gardens, Gravel, Symbolic, Buddha Stone, Goddess, Child’s, Rectangular, Ryoanji, Toranako Watashi Temple.

Japanese Rock Gardens.

The designs and traditions associated with Japanese rock gardens stretches back about two thousand years and are closely connected to the rules and rituals relating to the Zen religion.

The true rock gardens comprise only rock of varying sizes and gravel and are largely symbolic with the varying elements of the garden representing all aspects of nature as seen in the surrounding world. Although other designs may be centered on the Buddha stone representing the male, the Goddess stone which is linked to the female and the Child’s stone.

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Herbicides and Your Garden, Control Weeds, Liquid, Granular, Pre-Emergent, Selective, Non Selective.

Herbicides and Your Garden.

You may have decided to use herbicides to control weeds and other unwanted vegetation in your garden.

Care should be taken over the type applied since while the liquid form can readily be diluted and can be sprayed directly onto the affected area, the granular forms tend to be cast over a wide area which can affect areas which do not need any application.

The safety of herbicides is still the subject of an ongoing debate. Apart from the active ingredient in the herbicide there often are other chemical in their content which may be harmful to health.

Tags: Control, Garden, Granular, Herbicides, Liquid, PreEmergent, Selective, Weeds