Roundup of free botany materials for homeschools and classrooms; free plant printables for a variety of ages
With soaring temperatures and hosepipe bans, it's useful to know which drought tolerant garden plants will benefit greatly from the summer heatwave.
Explore the intersection of nature and structure with our latest feature on architectural garden design. Discover how gardens and architecture blend to create spaces that are sustainable, beautiful, and harmonious. From whispering pines and water features to living walls and sculptural green roofs, see how designers are pioneering spaces where the built environment and nature coexist seamlessly.
As a gardening enthusiast, I'm always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to spruce up my outdoor space. That's why I've compiled a list of 50 outdoor
My clients are often in love with gravel, or at least with the idea of gravel. But as a landscape designer, I have a love-hate relationship with the paving
This new family home is softened by its textured, Peachy Green-designed landscaping – reminiscent of a ‘woody meadow’!
Australian garden design ideas from Native Plant Project
Peace Lily Care and Growing is easy, it grows in low light and purifies the air--All these facts make it a perfect houseplant for homes and offices!
Most herbs are better fresh from the garden, but we sprinkle them dried from spice jars for convenience. You’ll rarely see dried chives in the store, and it’s always tiny mince of…
Erythrina crista-galli (Cockspur Coral Tree) growing south of the greenhouses at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 7May14 BushPhoto Fabaceae Faboideae
Lewisia cotyledon (Siskiyou Lewisia) is an evergreen perennial that grows from a thick taproot and caudex unit. It produces a basal...
These hardy flowers can take the heat.
Since our last plant update, our sweet potato sprouts have really taken off... Many of the sprouts, called slips, have grown tall enough (about 5 inches) to remove from the top of the sweet potato and begin developing into their own starter vines which will eventually be the vines we grow new sweet potatoes from. To remove the slips, we gently twisted the longest and strongest sprouts where they met the base of the potato until they twisted out. By twisting off the slips, a hole is left in the potato flesh and a good base is left on the bottom of the slip. Next up, we placed our newly detached slips in a shallow bowl of warm water, stem side down and leaves hanging off the rim. Once again, we placed this bowl in our sunny window next to our main potato sprout plant and if all goes well, in a few days we should see the beginnings of roots growing from the base of these slips. After this stage, we should be able to plant the rooted slips in soil so they can start growing bags full of sweet potatoes for the remainder of the season. We left the shorter sprouts on the main sweet potato to keep growing to the right height until we eventually twist them off as well. From what we understand, new sprouts will continue to grow on this starter potato for quite a while, generating new slips. We'll be sure to keep you posted! P.S. Find our full tutorial and keep up with our progress for planting sweet potatoes here.
Manualidades originales: ¡jardinería con los niños! Divertidas manualidades originales para niños: cómo sembrar semillas, maceteros con fotos, plantar en una esponja...
Is it better to plant one kind?
Handsome tall evergreen with chartreuse flowers in spring
Welcome to Rooted in Abundance Farm! Your Download Link for Free Gardening Curriculum Should Pop Up in a Moment! 🌿 Welcome to the Child-Led Homeschooling and Wild Mothering Resources Landing Page! …
Catmint has it all - drought tolerant, deer resistant, long blooming and easy care.
Learning sight words is a breeze with these fun word searches that turn spelling practice into a game.
We had fun with this experiment. It was very cool to watch the colours change! I used food coloring and cabbage leaves to show the kids how plants …
Growing Nigella in the garden, also known as love in a mist plant, offers an interesting, peek-a-boo flower to be glimpsed through showy bracts. Care of love in a mist flower is easy and this article
First Grade WOW, Windows on Wonder
Constructed in 1998, the Auerworld Palace in Auerstedt, Germany was their first “willow palace’ project, taking the efforts of 300 volunteers to build. The palace is now 10 years old - their techniques, however, are ancient. The way in which it was “panted” illustrated the energy potentia
It's too strong to be ignored...
How to grow Sarcococca confusa Position: Partial, moderate or dense shade. Foliage: Evergreen shrub, leaves stay on the shrub all year. Soil and site: Any well drained soil, dry shade, damp shade. Flowering time: Late Winter – Early Spring Growth rate: slow Ultimate height and spread 200cm high x 100cm wide. Hardiness: Fully hardy. Aftercare: Water regularly after planting and for the first season. Trim or prune if required after flowering, mulch in Spring
These pictures and their accompanying text are taken from a beautiful old book on tree identification written by R. ST. Barbe Baker, the self-styled founder of the wonderfully-named The Men of the Trees, an organisation I know nothing about, but wish I had belonged to. The book came out in the 1940s, so all of it is now copyright free. I post this material for those of you who are of a Crafty persuasion (you know who you are;) and anyone else who is interested and would find the information or illustrations useful. All these images are free for you to do whatever you wish and are given with the brightest of blessings :)
English cottage gardens have a whimsical charm that has captured the heart of many a gardener over the centuries. Create the romantic cottage garden of your dreams with these easy tips!
Bring planting to life by paying close attention to the defining features of your garden
Tips for planting a container garden - what type of garden to set up, and plants you might want to try when working with kids.
Here are some great ideas for fast growing seeds - perfect for kids! First: Get Your Supplies! Next: Get to Work! Whether you are introducing your kids to gardening, or making crafts or science projects that involve growing seeds - it can often be beneficial to use seeds that sprout quickly! I did some research and tried out various options. One of our favorite ways to plant seeds is in plastic cups. Cheap, transportable (great for classrooms!) but also you can actually see the roots forming! Vegetables and Herbs: Radishes, lettuce, basil and salad cress (more common in the UK than
This WS provides additional practice for Oxford Primary Skills Reading and Writing 1 - Unit 4. It helps to review and extend vocabulary for things in the garden and to write a description of a picture. - ESL worksheets
Do you have an empty jar?
One might recall that over the dreary winter months the Gardening Department here at Chintz of Darkness painstakingly decorated the shrubs and bushes with a dazzling array of chandelier crystals for no logical reason whatsoever. This foolhardy endeavor has inspired the resident squirrels to attempt to grow a MAGICAL GLASS SHRUB by planting the crystals amid the bluebell bulbs in a blatant act of RODENT RELATED VANDALISM. Now we are not afraid to admit that the thieving squirrels in question are nicknamed Bucky and Spaghetti-o…do not even ask for an explanation…you would only think that we are weird (HA!) and stop hanging around with us … Looking back there seems to be a rich history of garden related mishaps that date all the way back to our childhood misadventures. Splendor grew up with a backyard that appeared (to the untrained eye) to have been landscaped by a SADISTIC MADMAN OR A DRUNKEN BOTANIST. A yard that was full of cruel and murderous shrubbery that was constantly on the prowl for its next young victim. Splendor’s earliest memory of those dreaded bushes was pulling up in the driveway for the first time, only to spot a lone sullen camellia bush with baby pink blossoms lurking amid the waist high grass. Whatever it was doing there in the middle of nowhere no one will ever know, but it was quite apparent that the evil shrub was out for Splendor’s blood. There was also the ornamental cherry tree that was pruned (tortured?) into a lovely umbrella style plume. Every spring the tree’s blossoms would send an intoxicating fragrance wafting though the yard. This would entice one to climb up and sit among the heavenly scented flowers only to have the entire tree snap shut like a bear trap or a FLUFFY PINK VENUS FLY TRAP. Splendor clearly remembers being ensnared there for days on end surviving on nothing but rotten cherry pits and rainwater. She also remembers being told that she had an OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION at times. Regardless of that let’s not forget the group of wicked lilac trees that could be found sulking in an inaccessible corner of the yard, mugging the smaller shrubbery and exposing themselves to passing joggers…and you think your childhood was weird…As for Seraph, his outdoor activities could not technically be referred to as “gardening” as most of the incidents involved fire…enough said. Upon reflection on the sinister nature of shrubbery the idea of trudging off to the nursery to procure yet another lovely crop of brambles, sticker bushes and fire spitting nettles has lost its appeal this year. Instead we will be focusing our efforts on our indoor garden. A garden which is flourishing quite nicely in spite of an absence of light, a predominance of dust and a never ending serenade of calming Black Metal. Remember that guy from the 70’s that claimed plants preferred classical music? Well let’s just say that guy was an idiot. Our lovely pothos vine certainly proves that theory wrong by prolifically growing in the opposite direction of the window under a gothic chair and is at this very moment attempting to strangle a antique ceramic cat. BLOODTHIRSTY INDEED, DEAR READERS…so tell us, how does your garden grow? The curse of salvation The odious essence of His holy revelation It floats from the garden of eden In malevolent grace The Devil's blood Through the pentagram's maze (“Devil’s Blood by Watain)
