November 2011
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Your Garden In November
With November already here, tulip bulbs can be planted in any sunny sheltered locations in your garden or into containers. Also around now you can already be planting spring flowering plants for filling any spaces you may have between shrubs and where you want to fill with colour.
As we’re now in the season of rather colder whether don’t forget to protect any tender shrubs you may have in outdoor...
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Indoor Gardening For Well-Being
Just because you may not have garden it doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on the world of gardening completely, as there are so many gorgeous and exotic houseplants that can be grown indoors.
A house filled with lovely lush plants will immediately give your house a welcoming atmosphere and a homely feel. I think that indoor plants really are the finishing touch to any décor as they beautify...
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Indoor Horticultural Styling
My love and passion for gardening and garden designing led me to study flower arranging and floristry for the horticultural styling part of my business.
So now I not only enjoy the flowers outside in my garden but I can enjoy their splendid beauty and wonderful scent indoors at close quarters.
More and more people are taking up the popular hobby of flower arranging. While it is easy to go along...
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Off With Their Heads!
“Should I cut off the seed heads or not?” is a question asked by many gardeners. Usually there are two answers to this question.
If you want to stop the seeds from self-sowing themselves, then the answer is “yes”, go ahead and cut them off.
Also if you are one of those gardeners who like to keep the garden immaculate and tidy, then “yes” again. The reasons for keeping the seed heads and spent...
When The Leaves Are Falling…
Now that plants are shedding off their leaves, fences and boundaries will get revealed showing whether they’re in need of repairing or replacing.
When you’re designing or planning your garden, then the fencing should be one of the first things you consider, not just what style you would like but also durability and cost.
Also, the type of fencing you have can actually effect the microclimate of...
Garden Lighting
The summer is coming to a close and autumn is starting to set in and the days are now becoming notably shorter all too soon. Still, with a garden carefully designed, these dark evenings are the prefect opportunity for using garden lighting.
During the summer months the use of candles can be very attractive and are wonderful for atmosphere on a lovely warm evening. Those late dinner parties in the...
An Orchestra Of Autumn Colours!
As I’ve said before, my favourite time in the garden is in the spring but for my husband it is the autumn. He loves to see all the wonderful rustic colours that the leaves turn into before they fall from the trees.
Around this time of the year there are some super trees to provide orange, gold, bronze and crimson colours for autumn interest and on the top of my list is the Acer palmatum...
A Bright future
This is the time of year when many of us start to spend more time indoors and forget about the garden, however, you could save yourself time and money by using the time now to plan your garden for next year.
This is the best time of the year when we should be thinking and planning how we would like our gardens to be and want sort of plants we would like to be growing next season.
Autumn is...
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Gardening Can Be Spooky
This year seems to have gone by so quickly and it’s already just gone Halloween, rich with tradition, mystery and symbolism.
Not surprisingly, much of the symbolism surrounding Halloween has connections to the natural world, including plants, fruits and vegetables.
Also it might interest you to know that Halloween is celebrated in some form in many parts of the world, including, Japan, Mexico,...