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The garden is a favourite subject for artists and photographers. Take a tour of the gardens gallery to get ideas. These paintings are also available for purchase.

Garden Gallery

Annuals are flowers that you must plant every year. Seems like a lot of work? Not when you see the payoff. Annuals can magically transform a bare patch of soil into a glorious garden. And they constantly colour your landscape all summer long.

The Gardener's Palette

Gardener's Color Wheel Helps Gardeners Create Exciting Color Combinations

For people who love gardens propagation is gardening itself. The practice of growing whatever you want, whenever you want for free

Plant Propagation (RHS Encyclopedia of Practical Gardening)

Have fun with outdoor entertaining. Pick fragrant flowers for the centrepiece or use palm leaves as placemats. Add a river stone to each place setting with the name of the guest painted on one side.

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The joy of a garden isn't only to be found in the huge array of plants that you can propagate, pamper and prune but in the many different levels at which you can do it. I have found that regardless of the size, shape or location of a garden, from rooftop to country estate, if you follow your instincts and trust your own sense of style you will create an attractive, functional and above all enjoyable garden that is uniquely your own.

Creating a garden is an exciting challenge with the potential to reward you with a lifetime of enjoyment. A garden is never static, it is always changing and evolving with an enormous range of plants available and new plants (hybrids and cultivars) coming onto the market all the time. Above all a garden isn't just a wise investment in your home, it's a gift to your neighbourhood and the environment.

How to Grow Lavender - Lavenders are a sun loving perennial ideal for planting in a rock garden, in front of a shrub garden, in a perennial garden, or used as a hedge. Gorgeously fragrant, invigorating, and rich with healing properties, lavender has been cultivated from the beginning of recorded civilization. The flowers grow in fragrant spikes and come in colours ranging from deep purple and lilac to white, cream, pink, sky blue, red-violet and even green. Read

How to Grow Plants from Seed - Growing plants from seed allows the home gardener to produce a large number of plants at a relatively small cost. Packets of seeds are produced by commercial seed growers and can be readily purchased from your local garden centre or supplier, seed catalogues or ordered online. The most common seeds raised for the home garden include... Read

Growing Kitchen Herbs in Containers

Dried Flower and Foliage Picture Art

Garden Railroading

Give your Home Curb Appeal

How to Grow Lemon Balm

Garden Planning and Design

How to Grow Lavender

Gardening with Children

How to Make Organic Compost

Decorative Painted Terracotta Pots

The English Cottage Garden

How to Grow Rhubarb