Nothing says spring more than the jubilant sight of flowering bulbs in the garden, except a mixed bunch in sherbert tones indoors! Bulb-grown blooms do better in tepid water and if you’re picking your own daffs, pull the base of the stem rather than cut it, as less sometimes-irritating sap will run. If you can be bothered to change the water daily, they’ll last longer.
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Learn how gardening helped me find inner peace and live a more mindful life. Slow down, appreciate the small things, and find satisfaction in the simple act of tending to my garden.
If you're making a meditation garden for the Virgin Mary, what flowers you will plant to decorate it? Here are 10 flower varieties that symbolize Mary..
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Learn how to make sweet potato slips with the faster soil methods or the traditional water method in this blog post.
Creating a sensory garden means that each sense is accounted for. Here's our complete guide to creating your very own.
With their elongated cone shapes and deeply hued petals, lupins are highly scented unique head-turners that look striking indoors as much as out. Extend their vase life by only cutting (at an angle) spires with buds at the tip that have yet to flower and then by immediately flipping upside down, filling the (hollow) stems with tepid water and plugging them with a whisper of cotton wool. This will trap water inside, keeping the stem straight and strong. Display 5-7 spires with a few sprigs of bay
The constant pressure to do more, faster, often comes at the expense of our well-being. However, a growing movement offers a refreshing alternative: slow living. Inspired by the Slow Food movement's rejection of fast-paced consumption,
When it comes to gardening, not everyone has access to a large backyard or a dedicated patch of land. However, this doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the pleasures of growing your own vegetables. Container
From her Ivanhoe home Petrina Burrill has created sustainable micro flower farm.
Hostas care, transplanting hostas, hosta varieties. This popular shade-loving perennial is so easy to grow. Tips on how to keep deer from eating your hosta.
7 best vegetable garden layout ideas on soil, sun orientations, spacing, varieties, plans & design secrets to create productive & beautiful kitchen gardens.
When your garden needs a touch of charm, consider transforming it into a whimsical escape. Add fairy lights along fences and hanging lanterns from tree
Pruning lilacs should be on your spring gardening to-do list. Learn when to prune, how to properly prune a lilac bush, and what to do about the suckers!
45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & design ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, cold frames, backyard garden tunnels & hoops!
If you're growing potatoes you'll want to prepare garden potatoes for long term storage. You'll need to know how to cure them properly and how to store them
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There are many great vegetables for overwintering for early spring harvests! See the full list of vegetables such as kale for overwintering in zone 5
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I love everything about this new book from Annabel Langbein, NZ's biggest selling cookery writer by a country mile, ( Annabel Langbein The...
What to do with sage when you don't want your bountiful harvest to go to waste! There are so many ways that you an use it, as food and medicine!
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