Great Garden Gear for Kids

Mother And Daughter Harvesting Radish On Allotment

While you’re waiting to get back in the garden, how about sharing and fostering your love of gardening with the children in your life? Giving them their very own tools and supplies can make them feel not only grown up, but also at home in the garden and excited to dig in, so to speak.  Here are a few options.
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The Top Three Standout Indoor Foliage Plants to Grow

The Top Three Standout Indoor Foliage Plants to Grow

The Top Three Standout Indoor Foliage Plants to Grow Foliage is defined as the leafy parts of a tree or plant. It refers to either individual leaves or the collective leafy canopy of many trees or plants. To grow indoor foliage plants is a great way to bring the outdoors inside and add beauty to your interior space.

Want to add some foliage plants to your home or office? Here are three that are readily available and relatively easy to grow.  Read more

Want a garden that saves water and space? Check out these seven water-wise plants perfect for container gardening!

The Top 7 Water-Wise Plants for Container Gardening

Want a garden that saves water and space? Check out these seven water-wise plants perfect for container gardening!Container gardening can be an excellent way to enjoy the colors and textures of plants without consuming a lot of water. If you thought drought tolerant plants look boring, these beauties will change your mind. Their bright colors and unusual shapes will win you over.

Some of these plants can grow quite large. Consider constructing a container garden that plays with the scale of plants. Use three or five pots (odd numbers of items please the eye more than even numbers) that look like they belong together. Have several small plants in one, and larger plants in the other two.
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The Basics of Rubber Mulch for Your Garden and More

The Basics of Rubber Mulch for Your Garden and More

The Basics of Rubber Mulch for Your Garden and More Rubber mulch for use in landscaping has been growing in popularity over the last decade or so. It offers a great deal of versatility and helps to relieve landfills of an overabundance of used tires. A win for gardeners and a win for the planet. There are many potential uses for rubber mulch and a list of pros and cons to keep in mind as well, including those listed below. Read more

How to Use Pine Mulch in Your Garden

ID-100314931Pine mulch can be an excellent addition to every garden to improve its look, increase water retention, and reduce weeds. It is a natural mulch created from pine trees that comes in two forms: pine straw and pine bark. Pine straw is when pine needles are used as mulch, whereas pine bark is when the bark is cut into nuggets to be used as mulch. Read more

How to Attract More Butterflies to Your Garden

How to Attract More Butterflies to Your Garden

How to Attract More Butterflies to Your Garden Butterflies are more than just brightly colored adornments for gardens – they pollinate flowers, too. With that in mind, it makes sense to attract more of them to your garden.

Attracting butterflies means offering plants that provide for all of their life stages: a place for the insect to lay eggs, food for their larvae (caterpillars), places to form chrysalides and nourishment for adults.
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