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Living Green: Growing Your Own Vegetables
We all know how tasty fresh vegetables are in meals and salads. However, no matter how well you seem to time your visits to the grocery store, finding the freshest of produce is mostly by sheer luck. Growing your own vegetables gives you a break from grocery store...
Why is Sustainable Gardening so Important These Days?
In essence, sustainable gardening is not a new term, but the practice has started gaining traction recently. What gardening sustainably means, what does the process involve, and what makes it so important today? What is Sustainable Gardening? It is vital to make one...
Flowers You Should Avoid Planting Near One Another
There’s certainly an art to orchestrating your garden. Learning about which flowering plants work well together or which are incompatible due to their unique growth conditions is the key to creating gorgeous and harmonious combinations in your yard. Below are several...
10 Best Plants for Curb Appeal
Its easy to add curb appeal to your home with a carefully chosen plants to decorate your front door and fill your gaden with colour.
A Taste For The Tropics: Creating A Jungle Garden!
If summer holidays to far-off places feel out of reach right now, maybe it’s time to plan for a holiday at home? Creating a tropical feel on your suburban patio isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound.
Light up your garden with yellow: the colour of the year
Celebrate yellow – the colour of the year from Pantone! Best used as an accent colour, it’s easy to incorporate a sunny pop of yellow into your garden.
Vibrant veg growing blogs
If growing veg is your thing, you’ll love our selection of some of the best vibrant veg growing blogs around. From ingenious folk who garden the smallest of plots, to budding self-sufficiency enthusiasts and smallholders, here we present some of the very best online...
The 12 Days of Christmas: A Horticultural Conundrum
As I continue to expand my knowledge of the world and what grows in it, some observations have caught me unawares. I, perhaps foolishly, have started to question basic concepts and precepts that have always been a part of my lived experience through this lens. Take...