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Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful pots of annuals, or fill your window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials. One of the best ways to use window boxes or to use them in creative ways, specifically adding window boxes indoors, will be to use them with herbs. Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you’ll be delighted with this simple way to create a garden. Learn More

Even in a small gardens space you can create a butterfly garden to be proud of. It does not require a lot of space to make a garden that will attract birds and butterflies. In fact, most of them will haunt your small garden just as frequently as they do a large garden, so long as you have elements and plants that butterflies use as food. Learn More

Medieval gardens were a source of pleasure and also were utilitarian being the main source of fresh fruits and vegetables for the castle or homes occupants.
Walking gardens in the castle or manor grounds were common in ancient times, and using a bit of imagination, we can emulate what they did there, and make our own medieval sights and scents in a small corner in our gardens. Read the rest of this entry »

You can save vast sums of money on dried flowers and vines if you choose to dry your own.  Nearly anywhere that you purchase them, due to how many flowers it takes to make an arrangement as well as how long they take to dry, they will be quite costly,and can be dried yourself for about a fifth of what it will cost you to purchase a nice arrangement or a bouquet of dried florals. Read the rest of this entry »