Even if the recipient is not a gardener, they will love the handmade gifts from your garden.If you are a seed saver, then gifting some of your seeds is a wonderful way to share your harvest.
Polyscias species have been known to cause abut it seems rare. In southernmost Florida and other tropical zones, this plant is grown outside, and leaflets grow to 12 inches.As mentioned above, these three aralias would be prized specimens for an intermediate...
Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...
If your cords are long enough, you can step on them with a toe to hold them too, but as the work progresses, you'll need to find a way to keep the carrier cords straight.As you tie your knots, you will notice that the outside cords will get shorter as...
This botanical bearer of good fortune is a tabletop plant having jointed green bamboo-like stems with a few slender leaves at the top. One website I came across specified that it will not ship in chilly months of year.
The rain and cold of winter does little harm to the tough grapevine construction.Grape vines are easy to find because they grow wild throughout the countryside. What a treasure it has become!
Christmas came and went, as did the arrival of 2010, and I greeted the new year with an extra long shiver from my nose to my toes. One of the sites I read, the one referring to the pillow, mentioned that the fabric used for the cozies should be of natural...
How could I refuse? I would never have hesitated on this new device if I had known it would not lure me away from the garden, but keep me happier in it. I used my phone to take a pictorial note of wildflowers as I walked the dog.
Marro; Rutland Herald 06/02/07)~ Austin, TX: Sunshine Community Gardens Board Member, Ila Falvey Read on for more information about these terrific sales and how you can join the "Shopping Frenzy"!
So next season I will buy one with the suction cups below the section with the feeding ports. But they liked the Opus bottle feeder, too. Then you simply unscrew the top, wash the top and bottom, refill and reassemble.
I would immediately take them home, strip off two or three outer layers of leaves and begin to propagate them. No two pots looked alike. Miniatures' leaves are just as easy if not easier to propagate than standard AVs.Luckily I started this process about...
Hard working hands need hand or "body"with truly effective ingredients like cocoa butter, shea butter, lanolin or glycerin. Target is offering Smith and Hawken brand kits, which include a ceramic pot, for a mere ten dollars.
All rights reserved., the free Encyclopedia; Biscotti. Accessed August 25, 2008.Save your money: Delicious cups of wonder from the world of COFFEE Anise seed is also used as flavoring in baked goods, root beer, gum, candies and alcoholic beverages.
We get the same thing every year, usually prefaced by the excited non-gardening giver saying, “I knew you'd love this because you're a gardener.” The gift is usually something beautiful, but with limited purpose.Somehow the presumption exists that...
By being creative, and using your imagination, you can use discharge prints in many different situations. A Discharge Print is one where, in this case, plant material is placed on a garment, and a bleaching agent is sprayed or brushed on it, leaving the...
From a craft store. I strain mine through the large bags made to strain paint. (These extra sheets merely make it easy to get the wet, fragile sheets out of the frame.) Once I get the hang of the paper thickness I want, I put down another screen over...
Gently press your ladybug into position near one edge of the leaf.Find a pot like the one you want to decorate with your critter. Once you see how cute your ladybug looks, you'll want to make a whole troop of clay critters for your pots!A special thank...
Set the bulbs with the flat side down in a single layer on the stones. A glass or vase of three inch diameter will hold one bulb. The roots should have begun to grow, and leaves and buds will develop quickly for the recipient.You can't mail a container...
Read on for some inspiration on how to plan you plant quests ahead of time.Plan and decide which plants you will need next spring and summer."Need" might be in quotations or you could actually have an open spot in your garden that is really in need of...
Use your imagination to create your own unique harvest aprons, using what you have on hand. Kids can embellish an apron for the special gardeners in their lives with the myriad of craft resources available, like finger paints, permanent markers, tie-dye,...
However, you'll invariably have more control over the finished product when you bale your own. Nearly all of the hay produced in North America is baled, but this wasn't always the case.
The bender will let me make the small bits of hardware often needed for handyman projects. That way she has a number of possible gifts across a wide range of prices. Called an Orbiter, it will allow me drill holes at a right angle to my drill's chuck.
Spend more time looking rather than working. What will kill one insect or disease will not affect another one. Subscribe to a couple of good gardening magazines, and make use of the horticulture books in your library.
Like most daylilies does well in full or partial sun.A sure sign that spring is here; the bloom of the Forsythia signals the start of many springtime garden tasks such as pruning roses or butterfly bushes.
Plants are readily available at local garden centers too.peppers are among the most popular in home gardens andeppers are easy-to-grow and bugs tend to keep away from them, so pOnce you've exhausted the usual recipes for sweet and hot peppers in salads,...
Finding Rare Tractor Tires Two great resources for rare tires is Miller Tire , in Ohio, and Nebraska Tire , in Nebraska. If there are three numbers—such as 23×8.5-12—the first number is the width (23 inches), the second is the height (8.5 inches),...
Not only do we think about what we've accomplished (or not accomplished, as the case may be) over the last 12 months, but we also begin to set our sights on new targets for the coming year.