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Growing Roses Cultivation Guide by Month

By on June 7, 2008 in Articles, Flowers and Plants, Tips Hints and Ideas

Roses a Month by Month Cultivation Guide Growing good roses is not difficult and plants are reasonable and long lasting. Plant them in good soil feed and care for them and they will reward you with magnificent blooms, scent, cut flowers and a great summer show. As a guide to growing roses there is a [...]

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Dangerous and Harmful Garden Plants

By on June 1, 2008 in Articles, Pests, Problems and Health, Tips Hints and Ideas

Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend by Amy Stewart Hazardous and Dangerous Plants Not everything in the garden is lovely when it can poison or injure the unsuspecting. The extremely hazardous Poison Ivy and Poison oak related to the Rhus family (Diversiloba, radicans, vernix, succedanea, toxicarium and veniciflua) [...]

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Carl Linnaeus Father of Plant Classification

By on May 20, 2008 in Articles

It is over 300 years since the birth of a Swede Carl Linnaeus(1707-1778).  His father’s garden ‘inflamed his mind from infancy with an unquenchable love of plants’ that led to a nickname ‘Little Botanicus’. In 1735 he published his first edition of ‘Systema Naturae’ a classification system for all living things followed by ‘Species Plantarum’ [...]

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Money Saving Tips in the Garden

By on April 22, 2008 in Articles, Tips Hints and Ideas

Gardening is an area where there are many ways of saving money or reducing costs. A thrifty approach to gardening is not only possible it is highly desirable particularly in the early stages of gardening. It would be easy to buy the most expensive and decorative plants in the garden centre only to find that [...]

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