Pond Liners: Buyer Beware

Do you waste your money on lottery tickets? Feed your hard earned money to the one-armed bandits in the casinos? Drive without a seat belt? Then a pond liner is for you. You obviously like taking chances and are not to

Koi Pond: Digital Masterpieces - Virtual Water Features Part I

One of the most challenging aspects of designing ponds and waterfalls is trying to convey my ideas to my client. Coming up with award-winning pond designs or implementing them using adequate skills and experience is not

Pond Design: Digital Masterpieces- Virtual Water Features Part II

TRICKS IVE LEARNED In creating a pond design digitally, you first need a digital photo of the area (5 Mega pixels min.) Next load it into your digital imaging program. Now you are ready. Many graphic or photo software

How is Hydroponic Gardening Different from Regular Gardening?

When growing hydroponics, there are a vast variety of growing mediums that may be used. The mediums include materials, including perlite, vermiculite, coconut fiber, gravel, sand, or any number of other materials. Even

Outdoor Lighting Techniques

Outdoor lighting, also known as landscape lighting, has known an unexpected boost in the last ten years. This is no longer solely the burden if the local administrations and city halls. Domestic users do approach outdo

Historical Controversies Of Nectarine Nomenclature, Prunus Persica Nectarina

The question of when history on nectarines began cannot be answered properly and with any certainty. Efforts to do this by some websites that suggest that nectarine Prunus persica nectarina history should begin in China

The History and Growth of Hydroponics Systems

Hydroponics means working water and comes from the Greek words hydro and ponos, meaning water and labor. Many different civilizations have utilized hydroponic growing techniques throughout history so they are not a new m

Hints and Requirements to Make The Optimum Compost

Compost is the center of gardening. In order to have anything grow properly you need to feed the soil not the plant. Most of the food that a plant takes in is from the roots. The leaves take in food but not on the scale

A Garden To Draw Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds have an unusual capability to hover in one place by quickly flapping their small wings which may genuinely have made them the fairies that a lot of people saw hovering around brilliantly colored flowers.Its

Fall Is The Time To Prepare For Winter With Mulching And Pruning

Here it is fall and the garden is ready to snooze. Hold it, there is more work to be completed. Some mulching and some pruning. Those fallen leaves and dying annuals are not for the trash but that organic material is bla

Necessities for Growing Orchids

Have a tropical paradise inside the house. When raising orchids, care must be practiced at home. However, they are no harder to grow than many other houseplants if the particular growth requirements are used. Actually, m

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse

A person may have the pleasure of building his own greenhouse. He may choose from various designs and sizes he would like to build. A greenhouse gives a person comfort whenever he attends to his plants, vegetables, flowe

Hydroponic Gardening -The Pros and the Cons

When it comes to some of the problems we are facing in the world with regards to food production, hydroponic gardening offers some promising solutions. In the poorer countries where the terrain or climate is inhospitabl

Mow Your Lawn Like a Landscaping Professional

A beautifully mowed lawn is the cornerstone of a beautiful property. During the growing season, if you look around at the yards in your neighborhood, it is usually pretty easy to tell the lawns that look as though they

The Importance of Garden Decor

The Quest for SignificancePeople are looking for ways to add significance, peace of mind, a quality experience, and an escape from the rat-race in their lives. Stated differently, people want to add depth and meaning to

History Of Raspberry Plants

According to Luther Burbank, who studied and hybridized raspberries and blackberries more than any other horticulturalist, and wrote his classical 8 volume treatise on Small Fruits and Fruit Improvement in 1921; the red

How Do Hydroponic Gardening Systems Work?

The idea of hydroponic gardening (gardening without soil), has been around since the time of King Solomon. There are a few advantages with hydroponic gardening over traditional gardening -for example the rate of growth o

Patio Furniture for Classy Homes

The stress on outdoor furniture in modern times is not out of place. After all, the outdoors gives out the first impression of the home. And as they say, First impression is the last impression! Patio furniture forms an

Choosing And Caring For Outdoor Wood Furniture

Why should you use wood furniture outdoors? To some people this is not even a question! The right question would be, Why wouldnt you use wood furniture outdoors? There is a wide variety of materials that are made to be

Getting Hooked on Gardening

Gardening and the Hibiscus plant SicknessThis plant surely causes some sort of sickness to develop within the mind of the person that puts it into the ground. I was lucky enough to inherit a very hardy species from my fa