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Gardening and Landscaping with Plants

Gardeners everywhere are spoilt for choice when it comes to the huge array of plants readily available for planting our gardens. Whether you fill indoor pots with beautiful, leafy house plants or plant your entire outdoor landscape in a field of colourful blooms, working with plants is one of the most popular activities for young and old alike.

Regardless of the size, shape or location of your garden, from a small patio space to a sprawling country garden, if you follow your instincts and trust your own sense of style you can create an attractive, functional and above all enjoyable space for all to enjoy.

"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." - Claude Monet

Featured Articles

How to Grow Daylilies - Daylilies are a clumping perennial with attractive arching sword shaped leaves and tuberous roots. They can be deciduous, semi-evergreen or evergreen. Plants come in a range of sizes from small to tall, and flower sizes range from miniature to singles or doubles up to 15cm across. Hardy, permanent, and easy to grow, Daylilies are one of the finest investments you can make in long-lasting garden beauty for minimal effort. Read

How to Grow Passionfruit

Flower Photo Scented Cards

Pressed Flower and Foliage Picture Art

Growing Kitchen Herbs in Containers

How to Grow Cannas - Cannas are a rhizomatous tender perennial with attractive green, bronze, bronzy orange, rich scarlet, purple or striped foliage that come as dwarf, medium and tall plants. Cannas come in a wide range flower colours from pale cream, lemon, apricot-pink, white, gold to vivid yellow, orange, red, scarlet and deep crimson. The flowers may be fringed, striped or self-coloured. In subtropical or warm temperate areas cannas will flower for most of the year. The tall forms make good subjects for the larger tropical garden or by the pool and are often grown for their leaf colour. Read

Growing Plants from Seed

Gardening with Children

How to Grow Lavender

How to Grow Rhubarb

Give your Home Curb Appeal - If improving your home’s curb appeal tops your list of projects to do around the home then creating curb appeal doesn’t have to be extensive or expensive as you might imagine. A few simple improvements like paint, landscaping, and lighting can spruce up your house with a look that says 'pride of ownership'. A good place to start is by taking a long, hard look at the outside of your home. To gauge your homes curb appeal cross the street and view it with a critical eye. Look for the positive elements that can be highlighted and negative areas to be concealed. Take a black and white photo of your home. A colour photo can often affect our perception of problem areas. Read

How to Make Organic Compost

Decorative Painted Terracotta Pots

Drying and Preserving Roses

How to Grow Parsley

How to Grow Lemon Balm - Lemon Balm (Melissa Officinalis) is a hardy bushy perennial which grows in sprawling clumps and comes in plain green, variegated and golden varieties. The leaves are wrinkled with scalloped edges that have a pleasant lemon fragrance when bruised. Read

Garden Planning and Design

Lavender Gifts to Make

Create a Cottage Garden - If you have plenty of time to garden, a romantic at heart, an artist or photographer or just someone who enjoys a densely planted informal mixed garden that looks natural and unstructured then a cottage garden may be just the type of garden for you. Read

Earth friendly activities for kids

Create a Garden Retreat

Photographing Flowers