October is a wonderful month to watch the leaves change on your favorite trees, but the days and nights can have variances of more than 40 degrees in most parts of the country. Your day can be in the 70s or 60s, but when the sun goes down, you could be looking at a sudden frost. Blooming flowers are … [Read more...]
Gardening Project: Native Plant Garden
September 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Many people live in concrete jungles where the only native plants that still exist grow wild in ditches and many gardeners consider them weeds. If any native grasses or flowers were to crop up in our gardens, many of us would pull them out. Lets face it, the nature of most gardens is to eliminate … [Read more...]
Xeriscaping: Green Your Garden
May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you are like most Americans, Your lawn and garden is the source of most of your water usage. If you want to reduce your usage, then you need to take a look at what you are putting in your garden. Plants that use less water can be every bit as pretty (often even prettier if you ask me - there is … [Read more...]
Get Started Gardening
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In the words of Voltaire, let us cultivate our garden. Spring is here, and its getting to the right time to plant your garden veggies for summer noshing. No matter where you live in the northern hemisphere, there is something you should be doing right now. Some plants, like melons, do very well … [Read more...]
Spring Design Tips: Flower and Vase Combinations
April 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So it's spring. Birds are in the air, the first green leaves are popping out, pollen is giving you lots of allergies, but your house/apartment/dorm is decidedly... boring. Make your house feel like spring with a rustically romantic makeover. Flowers are an easy and timeless way to freshen up a … [Read more...]
Organic Plant Care
September 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
I will never boast to have a green thumb, but I recently became the proud recipient of a basil plant, which brings me much joy and delicious omelet-making ingredients every morning. As the produce prices start to rise as the crops die out and farmers have to dip into previous commodity preserves to keep … [Read more...]
Eco-Friendly Designs: Cyber-Plants?
August 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Remember back in the day when you could customize your desktop to have a cyber friend? Sometimes it was a dog, sometimes a cat, sometimes a paperclip, but either way you had a little friend that told you about updates, software, and gave advice and assistance for the programs you were working on. The … [Read more...]
Still Not Too Late for Planting?
August 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Logic tells us that fall is harvest time, mostly because if you don't harvest before the ground freezes then everything you've put into the garden, flowers, backyard, etc has been lost to the elements. Maybe the beginning of this summer, you were a little overwhelmed by other responsibilities (bank accounts, … [Read more...]
A British Cup of Tea in the Garden?
June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
While our ancestors threw off the influence of Great Britain in favor of a more democratic and anti-imperialist government, they were thinking in terms of money and politics. This is important to keep in mind for all those Yanks who still hold the revolutionary American spirit close to heart: taking … [Read more...]
Hello, This is Your Plants Calling…I’m Thirsty!
October 30, 2007 By 2 Comments
It's long been suggested that you should talk to your plants, kiss em', hug em', whisper sweet nothings into their leaves! Doing so apparently makes them healthier, but now the plants are talking back. A company called Botanicalls have merged plant care with telecommunications, devising and constructing … [Read more...]
