Plant Gardens 101

Home gardening can be fun, no matter what kind of garden it is. For instance, you can decorate the perimeter of your house with beautiful tulips, lilies, or other flowers. In addition you can sustain your household with a healthy supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Gardening is quite a task, no matter what kind of garden it is. Those who have never planted a garden may need some help with the steps for creating a garden that will produce. In order to have a blooming garden you need to keep in mind the following tips:

o Make sure you plant your seeds or flowers in the right types of soil. Some plants grow better in loose and sandier soil, while others grow better in rich, dark, and moist soil. You can even find plants that grow better in rocky soil, or soil that contains large amounts of clay or metallic minerals. Therefore, when you choose flowers or vegetables for your garden you need to make sure that the soil you want to plant them in is appropriate for those plants. If the soil is not the right kind of soil for the plants you have in mind to grow, then you may need to cultivate the soil. (more…)

Bedding plants have become an indispensable item for landscape use, presenting an array of flowers and foliage that add colour and texture to the landscapes of homes, apartment complexes, shopping malls, public buildings, city streets and parks.

They are ideal for planting on their own or with most other plants in a whole range of arrangements such as hanging baskets, tubs and pots, window boxes, troughs and of course in borders in the garden. Bedding plants are temporary so your displays can be different each year.

Bedding plants are really all plants that, irrespective of their growing habits, are used to make a temporary show. For example: (more…)

Gabriel Ash planthouses and glasshouses can be used as greenhouses, but they can be so much more! A glasshouse is essentially like a larger version of a standard planthouse, but with many more possible variations in design and uses. You can use your glasshouse to house and display exquisite exotic plants the same way you can in a planthouse, but glasshouses can be designed much larger so that they can accommodate seating or even hot tubs or swimming pools. Imagine relaxing in your hot tub on a cold winter’s day or swimming amid a tropical paradise! You could use your glasshouse as an outdoor dining area where you could entertain guests while basking in the splendour of a brilliant sunset. A glasshouse from Gabriel Ash is the perfect setting for an artist’s studio, or simply a place to sit and reflect amongst your beautiful plants. It will allow you to get the most out of your garden by enabling you to spend more time outside during spring and fall when the weather is not always pleasant. Glasshouses can serve the same purposes as greenhouses or planthouses, but they can be built with ample space so that you can use them for so much more! (more…)

Many people stick a fake tree in a corner, dust the leaves off every week, and call it indoor container gardening, but indoor container gardening has grown into much more than that lately. There are people who only plant indoors, and guess what – they make it work. Yet there are many great reasons to start an indoor garden. One I can immediately think of is the weather. It might always be cold where you live. Another is that plants don’t only remove carbon dioxide from the air; they also remove many poisonous toxins and pollutants as well. So you get the benefit of indoor beauty and cleaner air.

When picking out plants for indoor container gardening, make sure the plants are adaptable and will be able to thrive in the conditions and setting in your house. Consider how much time you will be able to spend caring for the plants, how much light your house offers, and how much money you want to spend on your indoor garden. If you are short on money, then start small and use seeds or cuttings from a neighbor. If you have, some extra cash in your budget buy a plant that is grown. Also, consider whether or not you want your plant to be on display all year or for specific seasons. Herb gardens are a good thing for indoor container gardening; they are both attractive and edible. They will grow pretty quick and you won’t have to wait a long time to see results. Clearly, some very popular herbs, especially for cooking up recipes, are dill, chives, thyme, sage, and gold old oregano. (more…)

A food-storage organ in seeds. Monocot seeds have one cotyledon; dicot seeds have two. Also called seed leaf.