Artificial plants anyone?

Is your indoor decor important to you? If yes, than you would probably have realized that many a couch and wall will dull with age, and turn frayed and old, but how do you replace them? A fresh look is…
Some ideas in looking for gardening magazines

Gardening magazines are plentiful, but how do you find out which ones are the best choices for your particular garden? Gardening in itself is as vast as the world outside, and there are many branches of gardening with their own…
The indoor herb garden

Herbs are really the best plants that you can grow indoors. For indoor gardening, nothing beats herbs, and for that matter, they don’t cost a lot to get growing and producing, even on weekly time frames. The indoor herb garden…
Starting a compost heap

Everyday life in the modern age is marked by a large amount of rubbish which we throw away. Increasing rubbish has meant more landfills, and greater stress on the environment in general. Gardens are not exempt from this. In the…
Simple frost protection measures

Plants are location specific when it comes to climate tolerance. Although there are plants that will thrive in many weather or climate conditions (up to a certain degree), most plants cannot survive outside of their native climate zones. And then…
Living Christmas trees vs artificial Christmas trees

Christmas celebrations have taken on added new meaning in recent years. Climate change, depleting resources, and pollution being some of the more important reasons why we all need to adopt more environmentally conscious Christmases. At the heart of it, stands…
Lawn care tools: Mowers

Maintaining a nice looking lawn is easier with the availability of lawn mowers and shears which are battery operated. If you’re looking for lawn mowers, there are basically two kinds: the reel mowers and the rotary mowers. Reel mowers differ…
Clump bamboo in gardening

If you are looking for a good type of bamboo to grow, try going for the clump bamboos. Bamboo growth forms are generally divided into running and clumping types. The clumping bamboos are good for any garden that desires an…
A primer on aloes

A little background on aloes The aloes are a genus of flowering succulents in the Liliaceae group, numbering about 400 species in all. They are native to the African continent, and also the outliers such as Madacascar. They have leaves…