Houses Gardens

Become A Home Gardener

Summer has arrived, and what better way to enjoy it than to find time puttering in your Home Garden. You don't need a lot of space in order to start gardening. Even people living in apartments or condos can garden, either with container gardening or by renting a plot in a community garden. Some people even begin hydroponic gardening.If you don't know How To Garden, you can learn easily by seeking out gardening tips, taking classes, by getting advice from Master Gardeners and just by getting y...

Landscape Design For Greater Prosperity And Vitality

Feng Shui garden landscape design unites mountain (Shan) and water (Shui) energy. This philosophy originated from the ancient Chinese gardens which incorporated the art form called Shan Shui, meaning mountain water. Mountain energy is symbolic of good health, harmony and stability. It is also associated with yang, meaning strong, hard, tall and vertical. One can identify this energy in mountains, higher terrain and mounds. Virtual mountain energy can be duplicated by adding boulders, rais...

Design a Garden That Can Live through a Cold Winter

The Attempts to Design a Garden That Can Live through a Cold WinterPeople love living down south for one good reason - the weather keeps their gardens in bloom, and the grass green all year round. Does that mean that anyone who doesn't have the good fortune to set up house in one of the warmer states is forever condemned to a bare garden that doesn't make it through the winter? There is a way out though. And that would be to design a garden with hardy winter-resistant grass. A wide variety of gr...

Garden Bird Baths

If you love wild birds then you should invest in a garden birdbath as this is one of the best ways to draw birds to your yard. Just try to make sure that you place it on a quiet part of your garden as most birds like to bathe and drink on a nice and quiet place.You can make sure that your birdbath remains at a correct temperature all year round by installing a heater on your unheated birdbath or you can opt to buy a solar birdbath which has a built-in heater in the base.Birdbaths that have he...