Every garden deserves a special stylish garden gate. Some will choose a romantic gate, others a fashionable one, and still others a basic yet traditional version. The key is that once you select that garden door, that you keep it well maintained, and even replace it when needed. That is unless you are going for [...]

I just saw one of the most impressive garden benches I have ever come across. The homeowner had built up a stone bench bottom and then grown shrubs one each side and behind it. This created a living armchair, and it looks fantastic.
To make your own hedge bench, surround your seat with something green like [...]

If you are interested in teaching your child about gardening, you are not going to believe how easy it can be. There is an educational website, www.edhelper.com that provides all kinds of fact sheets, reading materials, and games about plants, and the materials span many different age groups and reading levels. There is even a [...]

Back in the day, my parents used to bring me to a local nursery where the young employee would constantly refer to his trusty plant encyclopedia. That battered book was like a great sorcerers manual with secrets I wanted to know. I had not thought of that in many years, until I noticed an online [...]

It used to be that planning a garden was either left up to a professional, a pencil drawing, or a configuration was laid out in ones head. Today, there are online sites that allow you to map out every inch of your garden layout. In fact, you can create anything, in detail, ranging from a [...]

Simple, yet sensational, is what I think about lavender. It is agreeable enough that it can be grown in either a full-fledged garden, or a basic container. In addition, it happens to be extremely resistant to drought, or those of us who sometimes forget to water regularly. Plus, they are able to endure encounters with [...]