Grass Lamp

By Angel | March 4, 2010 8:17 am |
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Growing tips

Something completely cool and very green from Marko Vuckovic. What do you, what is it? You are completely right – it’s a lamp cum indoor planting system that will easily make your interior bright and green.

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Soiled Suitcases Grow Food

By Angel | November 25, 2009 8:37 am |
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Growing tips

An Italian designer proposed a great idea hot to use old suitcases and to get food. A perfect alternative to a garden. Gionata Gatto has soiled and seeded suitcases and he managed to create something like gardening on the go. BTW, all the suitcases are on the wheels.

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How to Care for Potted Plants

By Angel | August 31, 2009 6:23 am |
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Growing tips

Despite numerous rumors and ideas that potted plants are very healthy and completely easy to care for, that’s not true – these plants are even more vulnerable that any outdoor one. These tips will help you keep potted plants healthy.

  • Choose the right pots

A pot should be not only beautiful but highly functional – make sure there are holes in the bottom of your container and it is big enough your plant to grow freely in it.

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Michelle Obama White House Garden

By Angel | July 16, 2009 5:23 am |
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Growing tips

Michelle Obama has created an amazing garden that looks really fantastic and turns a usually sad and grey White House into something really incredible. I like Michelle Obama very much, I mean her style, the way she behaves and shows herself, She is natural, true and sympathetic.

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Advantages of Raised Bed Gardening

By Angel | April 30, 2009 6:40 am |
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Garden style, Growing tips

There are numerous online guides and suggestions as to how to build raised beds. Some of them are useful and free but most of them can be named only a complete waste of time. They do actually nothing to make your garden look better, they simply take your money and time. I hate situations like this, that is why I would like to provide you with a list of tips as to a raised bed creation:

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Grow Medicine in Your Garden

By Angel | March 23, 2009 6:26 am |
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Growing tips

It is not a secret that nowadays we treat gardens as places where we can spend some time and to grow some plants just for fun and relaxation. It seems to me that nobody remembers how useful some plants can be. For example, James Wong, a 27-year-old ethnobotanist from Malaysia tells that in his country people use plants and herbs solely as remedy and he still passionately believes that usual plants can heal you.

James Wong

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Why Use Garden Mulch?

By Angel | February 9, 2009 5:15 am |
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Fertilizers, Growing tips

I guess this question has been puzzling a lot of minds … Why and when use garden mulch? What for do we need it? Let me explain everything to you my dears. Garden mulch is a special protective layer that most gardeners put on top of the soil. Everything is clear here, mulch acts like a barrier, since it protects your soil from direct sun beams as well sharp frost. However, everything is not that easy, mulch using can be both good news and bad.

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3 Top Ornamental Grasses

By Angel | January 15, 2009 6:19 am |
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Growing tips

Most gardens are really dull and boring during winter season. They look grey and sometimes white (depends on a season), they are lack of usual bright colours, birds and green plants. I guess most of you have faced this problem and there is one easy way to escape it – plant low-maintenance grasses. The following 3 varieties will definitely satisfy you:

  • feather reedgrass

It can be named most popular ornamental grass since it looks fantastic all winter long. For growing it needs full sun and well-drained soil. The grass can be up to 6 feet tall.

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How to Create Rich Soil for Your Garden

By Angel | December 18, 2008 9:18 am |
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Garden tips, Growing tips

Soil is the most important part of your garden, any garden is impossible without it. Only soil helps plants and flowers stay big and healthy, only soil allows them grow and maintain life. Soil is the main aspect in plant health. You have to understand that soil is responsible not only for the way plants grow in your garden, but  how much time you will spend working there.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydroponics

By Angel | November 26, 2008 5:48 am |
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Growing tips

Hydroponics has already taken plant growing to the next level. Frankly speaking, those who have never been interested in gardening, can’t resist it now, since it is rather tempting and easy to grow plants without soil.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydroponics

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