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Your Garden Pond – the Basics

January 13, 2009 By: John Gibb Category: Buildings 4 Gardens

Having a Garden Pond in your Home Garden is both attractive and refreshing adding value to your Garden and to your House. With little effort, money and time you can build a beautiful and functional Garden pond for you. You will need the following while constructing the Pond and giving it a good and beautiful design.

The Fist step towards your dream Garden pond is to design and plan for your Pond. You have to consider various factors seriously and take a firm and final decision before you start your work and changing your decisions after starting the construction will cost you money and time. So, think seriously and decide once for all. The things you have to decide are the best place to put your Pond, the size of the Pond, the shape of the Pond, depth of the Pond, and whether you want to have fish in it or not and other like details. (more…)

Word of the Day: leaf

January 13, 2009 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A usually green, flattened structure attached to the stem that functions as the principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.

Leaf arrangement. (<i>a</i>) Helical (top view). (<i>b</i>) Helical with elongated internodes (alternate). (<i>c</i>) Opposite (decussate). (<i>d</i>) Whorled (verticillate).
Leaf arrangement. (a) Helical (top view). (b) Helical with elongated internodes (alternate). (c) Opposite (decussate). (d) Whorled (verticillate).

Leaf types. (<i>a</i>) Simple. (<i>b</i>) Trifoliate. (<i>c</i>) Palmately compound. (<i>d</i>) Odd-pinnately compound. (<i>e</i>) Even-pinnately compound. (<i>f</i>) Decompound.
Leaf types. (a) Simple. (b) Trifoliate. (c) Palmately compound. (d) Odd-pinnately compound. (e) Even-pinnately compound. (f) Decompound.

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