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.

grass lamp

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Soiled Suitcases Grow Food

By Angel | November 25, 2009 8:37 am |
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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.

urbanbuds

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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.

Why Use Garden Mulch

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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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Growing Without Soil – The Hydroponic Garden

By Angel | November 24, 2008 5:53 am |
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Growing tips

Hydroponics used to be a very exciting and useful hobby that in the course of time has become extremely popular. More and more people seem to enjoy it. Thanks to hydroponics it is possible to to grow plants, vegetables and fruits in limited spaces and without any soil. It is a great alternative to traditional gardening, that offers tons of advantages and possibilities.

Growing Without Soil - The Hydroponic Garden

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Tips to Water Violets

By Angel | October 21, 2008 3:40 am |
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Growing tips

Violets … Frankly speaking they can’t be named the beloved flowers of Americans. They don’t love them here. I even don’t know why. But my mom loves them and sometimes it seems to me that she has the whole violet garden, because it is impossible to count our pots with them.

Many people claim that violets are hard to grow and that they are very demanding plants. I can’t agree with the following statement. That is why I am ready to share with you my mom’s violets’ watering and growing tips:

Cool violet

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What to Do With Plants in Fall and Winter

By Angel | September 17, 2008 5:39 am |
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Growing tips, Weather

It’s fall time and we already have to think about numerous plants that used to please our eyes in summer and spring garden and now we have to take care of them. In what way?

Autumn Plants

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Calendula Growing Tips

By Angel | September 15, 2008 6:49 am |
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Growing tips

Since it is September, you can enjoy calendula planting in your garden. They are extremely easy in maintenance and self-seed. But they will never make a chaos out of your garden.

Calendula

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