This sunken garden is designed in a formal style with stucco perimeter walls in quadrants. Because the garden’s grade drops three steps, proper drainage is a must. Add a runnel down the stairs leading to a one-of-a-kind water feature created from a big copper syrup kettle. In every space, add something to make people […]
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Gardening
Embrace Your Home’s Style
For front yard, matched the hardscape to your home’s architectural style for a cozy cottage garden. To keep the yard low maintenance, lay a large patio using arizona flagstones, then filled the rest of the space with lush #Flowerbeds. A reclaimed concrete bowl is transformed into a water feature that brings the sound of […]
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Cut spent blooms periodically
Many plants will re-bloom, but only if the old blooms are cut. Also, support and prune your plants as necessary.
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Water thoroughly
Like a good waiter, a good gardener will check whether water is required before watering. How much you water will depend upon the needs of your plants, the Climate and Exposure, and how much rain your yard gets.
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Its Time to Start your Own Garden
Start small. Enthusiasm for gardening is great, but can rapidly dry up when the work mounts. Start with a #Small flower bed, say 25 square feet, which is room for around 20 to 30 plants with perhaps three types of Annuals and one or two Perennials. You can always increase you plantings as your […]
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Creating the best Color combinations in your flower garden
-design can be tricky. A good place to start is the color wheel. For example, gardens planted in shades of the same hue — pink, to name one — are pleasing to the eye. Colors next to each other on the color wheel — purple and red — look good together, as do colors […]
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Vegetable Soup gardening tip
Gardening Tip After you boil or steam vegetables (using purified water), don’t pour that water down the drain. Let it cool then use it to water your garden you’ll be amazed at how the plants respond to the vegetable soup.
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Potted kitties
When planting your cats make sure to space them 6 inches apart so they have room to grow.
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Plant cucumbers with sunflowers
Gardening tips cucumbers are sweeter when 1. planted near sunflowers 2. given lots of water Both require similar soil and the cucumbers can use the sunflower stalk as a natural trellis.
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Beneficial Garden Companions
Grow companion plants as a border around other plants, or mixed within rows or throughout a bed. Basil: enhances growth, repels flying insects; plant with lettuce, peppers, tomatoes. Beans: deters potato beetles, fixes nitrogen; plant with cabbage family, corn, eggplant, lettuce, marigolds, petunias, potatoes. Carrots: keep away from dill; plant with lettuce, marigolds, onions, […]
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