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How to Add Gazebos and Pergolas in Your Garden

All these structures provide the opportunity to use climbing plants and often somewhere to sit. The two main materials used are timber and metal, although stone or brick pillars may…

Arthur Kunkle February 20, 2010

How to Plant in Containers

If you have only very limited garden space, or you want fresh herbs through the winter, you will want to grow some plants in pots. They are never quite as…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

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How to Design a Garden for Children and Pets

If you have children you may feel that you want a garden or a lawn, however small, for them to play on. This is fine as long as you are…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

How to Design a Formal Herb Garden

The design of the formal garden is very important. The overall shape should be regular, divided into a number of equal sections to form a repetitive pattern. There should be…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

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How to Decorate a Conservatory

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a garden. Even for those who do, many days pass without being able to go outside and enjoy being surrounded by plants and…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

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How to Create an Outdoor Living in your Garden

The trend now is to integrate the garden and the living area so that the transition from one to the other is less noticeable. One good way of achieving this…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

How to Choose the Plants for Hanging Baskets

Hanging baskets are only really suitable for summer displays in most regions. Holding only a small volume of growing compost, they're too small for most perennial plants, and they freeze…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

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How to Choose Containers for Window Garden

The first step towards creating handsome window garden displays is, naturally, to choose your containers; and there is a vast range available, from highly ornate troughs to the simplest of…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

How to Build a Sink Garden

Sinks make excellent containers for alpines or rock plants, and they form attractive features on both formal and informal patios. One can, in fact, create miniature rock gardens in these…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

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How to Add Water Features in a Small Garden

Most people find water fascinating and even a small inground fiberglass pool makes an attractive feature. In a backyard there may not be enough room for anything extravagant and a small…

Arthur Kunkle January 17, 2010

How to Use a Butterfly Garden to Entertain your Kids

In this article you'll be learning: How to create an environment that butterflies will want to come and visit. How to distinguish wild or native plants from garden varieties or…

Arthur Kunkle January 15, 2010

How to Feed Fish in your Garden

Providing clean water and supplying the correct, balanced food, are the two most important considerations we can give our fish. Feeding is a crucial, life-giving (or life-taking if it is…

Arthur Kunkle January 15, 2010

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How to Install a Prefabricated Pond

With this type of pond installation, the excavation of the hole into which the prefabricated unit will sit is crucial. If your chosen pond is a regular or symmetrically shaped…

Arthur Kunkle January 15, 2010

How to Create Stepping Stones in Water Gardens

As most (human) visitors to a pond will stand on the edge and look towards the other side, across the surface of the water, one can miss beauty and activity…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

How to Construct Garden Walls

Many water features make use of walls. Raised ponds need low walls to support the weight and volume of water, and wall-mounted fountains (like the ubiquitous lion's head) speak for…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

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How to Build Japanese Themed Water Features in your Garden

Another option is a water garden with a wider theme - something in the style of a country, such as Japan, is the most popular. A Japanese influence can bring…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

How to Build Cascade in your Garden

The archetypal definition of a cascade is a small stream, purposefully tumbling over rocks, boulders and pebbles on its downward journey to a pool at the bottom of a slope.…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

How to Build a Good Waterfall in your Garden

Water that is moving, whether spurting, trickling, cascading or plummeting, is one of the great joys of pond-keeping. There are small contrivances such as spurting frogs, millstones, lions' heads and…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

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How to Build a Fountain in your Garden

Until fairly recently, most garden fountains were simple patterned sprays of water emerging from a pool. Now there are many options, ranging from sophisticated, grand affairs to small-scale child-safe features.…

Arthur Kunkle January 13, 2010

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How to Aerate Your Lawn

For your garden grass to grow in a healthy way, it is very essential to aerate the lawn once a year and to have proper lawn care. If the garden is not…

Arthur Kunkle November 21, 2009