Fish Pests and Diseases

Fish Pests and Diseases There are many pests that can afflict fish, but the majority are readily controlled. Most outbreaks are caused by stress in the fish and rarely do any infestations simply break out in the well

Fish Care – Problem Solving

Fish Care – Problem Solving "If I have a very sick fish, which is the most humane way to kill it?" Many pond owners are squeamish about killing a fish, even when obviously it is

Choosing Fish for the Garden Pond

Choosing Fish While plants make the major contribution to the appearance of the water garden, fish bring it to life. They also play an important part in the ecology of the pool, feeding on aquatic insect life and depo

Water Garden Care Seasonal Care

Water Garden Care Having created a water garden, you can begin to enjoy the fruits of your labours — the splashing of the waterfall or fountain, brightly coloured goldfish gliding serenely beneath soft green waterlily

Water Garden Care – Essential Tasks

ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR SPRING • Tidy up bog garden and apply a mulch • Tidy up pool margins, dividing plants as necessary • Clean out pool if necessary • Remove pool heater, overhaul and store • Inspect pump and accessor

Small Gardens and Town Gardens

The Town Garden Because of pressure of space the smallest area of garden in a town is worth making the most of. It is not many years ago since winter smogs so blackened leaves and depressed plants and people alike tha

Benefits of Small Gardens

Easy to Care For The great virtue of a small town garden is that it can be looked after easily without much exertion. With effort, on the other hand, every individual plant can be cared for and really remarkable resul

The Country Garden

The Country Garden There is an archetypal image of the ideal country garden; from a sleepy lane, a gate in a low wall shows a broad flagged path leading to the venerable door of a black and white thatched cottage. The

How to Manage a Sloping Garden

Sloping Garden When one considers the enormous, but entirely worthwhile effort which has to be put into giving a flat garden the invaluable interest of contours, anyone with a sloping site should bless his lucky stars

Gardens for a Young Family

Gardens Suitable for a Young Family Gardens are for people, and this is apt to mean for young people as well. Children are not, as so many adults seem to think, completely incompatible with a good garden. To choose no

Managing Exposed and Windy Gardens

Exposed Sites It has already been suggested that in many cases a garden exposed to wind is so because the house of which it is a part has been expressly sited to make the most of a desirable view. Thoughts about a gar

Shade Tolerant Shrubs for the Shady Garden

The Shady Garden A shady garden is not the ultimate disaster that many people think it to be. Indeed the phrase may describe anything between a small town patch which literally gets only a gleam of sun in the height o

Gardening and Gardens for Retired Gardeners

Retirement Gardening Much is made nowadays of redundancy, early retirement and even with normal retirement at the age of 65, there is, we are told, the problem of increased leisure. This may well be a concern of great

Gardens for Non-Gardeners

The Non-Gardener’s Garden There is, as has already been stated, no particular moral goodness in gardening. Good gardeners may be nicer (so other gardeners are given to think) than other people, but they are not necess

Growing Herbs in the Herb Garden

Herbs in the Garden There is no doubt that herbs have become of much greater interest in recent years. This is both fortunate and logical. Fortunate because their neglect makes a large number of very attractive plants

Garden Paths for Garden Design and Impact

Garden Paths In the context of this website paths are for people living in 20th-century, westernised society. They are not, as it might often be thought for animals who tidily put one foot in front of the other, or in

Garden Steps for Interest and Functionality

Garden Steps There comes a point with sloping sites where paths can no longer be allowed to drift with the contours. This is particularly the case with hard paths in formal or semi-formal situations. Sloping paving, t

Garden Features for Improved Garden Design

Garden Features ‘What Do You Want?’ It has been suggested in the previous posts, that to make a successful garden you should take a long, hard look at what you have, look first at the whole site (however small) from a

The Plantsman's Garden

The Plantsman’s Garden ‘Plantsman’ is usually a term given to an enthusiast for a definite range of plants, sometimes not worrying too much how his garden looks as a whole. It is the plants that matter, he will say. A

Screening: Fences,Gates and Walls

Screening for Garden Privacy The conventional idea of the Englishman’s house being his castle, however outdated, dies hard despite the rights of entry given to Income Tax inspectors and policemen. We like to feel we h