6 Stylish Ways To Add Greenery To Your Home

There are six ways you can bring the benefits of plants and flowers to your home.

6 Stylish Ways To Add Greenery To Your Home

Gardening - 19th Century Gardening

Ferns: Popular Victorian Plants

Ferns were hugely popular in Victorian times. This is how their care and propagation were described.

Acorn Trees: Victorian Parlour Ornaments

Very pretty ornaments for the Victorian parlour were produced by setting acorns to germinate in hyacinth glasses

Victorian Plants for Summer Grouping

Organic Gardening

Does Companion Planting Work?

Companion planting is a method of preventing pest damage to vulnerable crops by growing plants nearby which block, distract or repel those pests.

Gardening - Growing your own tomatoes

Tips on Growing Tomatoes

Here are some tips on how to grow your own bountiful crop of tomatoes.

Grow the BEST Tasting Tomatoes


Tomatoes are the most popular home garden vegetable grown for good reason.

Gardening - Seeds from Thompson & Morgan

Time to start sowing seeds, either in a greenhouse or propagator, or, in some cases, directly in the ground when conditions are warm enough. One of the greatest pleasures in gardening is growing your own plants from seed. Thompson & Morgan have one of the best selections of seeds available.

Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes

What are bulbs and how do you distinguish them from corms, tubers and rhizomes?

Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes

Smart Bulbs

How deep should bulbs be planted? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science it may not matter because bulbs can move themselves deeper into the ground, seemingly in search of better, moister growing conditions.

Smart Bulbs

Ferns - Popular Victorian Plants

Ferns are ancient plants. Their ancestors and related species dominated the earth when the great coal deposits of the carboniferous age were laid down around 300 million years ago. You might say that today's coal is largely made from the compressed remains of ancient ferns.

Today, according to The Fern Grower's Manual there are some 12,000 named species around the world with new types being regularly discovered. They range in size from the tiny to tree-like structures. Ferns propagate from spores rather than seeds, although this was not understood until 1794 when John Lindsay, a British surgeon in Jamaica, grew ferns from 'dust' collected from adult plants.

Ferns: Popular Victorian Plants

Selecting The Proper Pond Pump

Whether you own a preformed, or liner pond, a pond pump plays a vital role in maintaining balance in any garden pond or water feature. It's no surprise that stagnant bodies of water, are inviting to mosquito infestations, which are a major concern with West Nile Virus. Not only do these stagnant ponds have a wretched smell, they look un-appealing, and will be very un-inviting to guests or wildlife. This is why pond pumps are of the utmost importance, to regularly circulate water and maintain the health of your pond.

More at: Selecting The Proper Pond Pump

Slugs and Snails

This page on our gardening site has been updated to include some tips about slugs in compost bins.


Dealing with Slugs ands Snails

Shamrock Seeds

Our gardening site (GardenGuide.biz) had an enquiry about Shamrock seeds. The first problem is deciding on what one means by 'shamrock'. It could be one of at least 5 different species. See the article on the following BBC page and another interesting article about Shamrock. Having decided which you want, you can do a search using the botanical name. You could also try http://www.wildflowers.ie/ for seeds.

Gardening - Articles about growing from seed

Saving Seeds

With proper storage, gardeners can save seeds for next year

Reading Seed Packets

Reading fine print on seed packages is good gardening advice

Damping Off

Damping off is the single term used to describe underground, soil line, or crown rots of seedlings due to unknown causes.

Edwardian Gardens

Two gardens with different fates. The first has gone. The second is a major film location.



The lost garden at Campsea Ashe

The garden featured long stretches of water, avenues of elms, limes and horse chestnuts, cedar trees, an elliptical bowling green and the Great Hedge. This yew hedge was over 600 metres long, 3 metres thick and 2-8 metres high.



Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

By the early 1900s the gardens were hoplessly overgrown and a massive clearance was required. Yew trees and herbaceous borders were planted and the ivy stripped from the balustrades to be replaced by climbing roses.