Container gardening works best with people who are really interested in having the pleasure of gardens around their house but at the same time not having enough space because of a small balcony or a patio for instance. Simple, easy and totally fun is basically what container gardens are all about. You decide on what [...]

Many people are unaware of how good it can be growing medicinal herbs by your own self, there are so many advantages waiting for you. Growing medicinal herbs is no different then growing any other type of plants. An all-organic garden can be said as the best route to take when planning on growing medicinal [...]

Who does not want to increase the beauty and attraction of his or her home? Of course everyone does and flowers can make this happen very effectively if arranged and placed in the right manner. After gathering some visuals and traveling through some really gorgeous looking outdoor gardens I gathered a few ideas for arranging [...]

Shrubs are something that really helps in brightening up your garden. A touch of color gets added up with relatively easier maintenance as well. Having the right types of shrubs really matters to experience the distinguished positive differences in your garden and since having a big variety of shrubs available; I do not think it [...]

No cottage garden can be considered com­plete without its complement of roses. Not the roses of the modern day with their iridescent colours and feeble scents, but the bold old fashioned shrub roses that were all the rage just before the turn of the century. Although many suffered a decline in popu­larity after the First [...]

If you select good-sized bulbs of first-class quality during the autumn you can almost guarantee a good show the following spring. After that it is up to you to maintain this quality in the planted bulbs in order to secure succeeding displays of flowers. For top quality blossoms it is essential to have the bulbs [...]

While the subject of this article is the decora­tive cottage garden, it is important not to overlook utility plants. Many utility plants can fulfil all our decorative requirements, and yield a useful harvest as well. For exam­ple, take some of the odd nuts and fruits which make an unexpected, but welcome addition to the garden. [...]

The marigolds of the cottage garden are not the marigolds of the bedding plant trade. The bold characters of even stature with strange smelling leaves and garish blossoms that appear in every nursery, garden centre and greengrocers shop in the land at the beginning of summer are all members of the tagetes family. The marigold [...]

It might be considered a fallacy to refer to all biennials as spring bedding, but in a cottage garden they usually are. Some are strictly perennials used as biennials, being sown during one summer, grown on until autumn, over-wintered and then encour­aged into flower. Most of the plants coming under this heading are raised in [...]

Good soil preparation is essential with her­baceous borders, and for areas to be devoted in mixed borders to hardy perennial plants, as it is likely to be several years before the plants are lifted and divided. Therefore the opportunity should be taken to incorporate as much organic matter into the soil as possible during the [...]