Childhood is so fleeting, and no one knows that better than parents. Your child is young and impressionable for such a short period of time. Finding ways to spend time, not just doing what needs to be done, but enjoyable Continue Reading »
Helping Your Child Start Their Own Small Garden

Choosing which plants, trees and shrubs to use in your garden can be a rather difficult decision. There are is a massive range of plants, trees and shrubs to choose from and many look rather alike. Unfortunately some require very specific conditions to grow well while many trees and some shrubs prove highly Continue Reading »
Popular Trees for the Garden

Mixed native hedges are a common sight seen across much of the United Kingdom’s countryside for a great many centuries. At one time the British countryside appeared much like a patchwork quilt with small fields separated by mixed hedging and small areas of woodland. Continue Reading »
Mixed Hedging

Roses have been used in gardens for hundreds of years, from the rose gardens of southern Rome during the days of the Roman Empire through to the seventeenth century bloom in popularity in France, when Napoleon’s wife established an extensive rose garden at Chateau de Malmaison near Continue Reading »
Garden Roses

If you are one of the many who live in an apartment or condo and you do not have a garden (or if you have a very small garden) you can experience the wonderful world of gardening by indulging in some container gardening. Continue Reading »
Container Gardening