Gardening Articles

The simplest and the most used design in an herb garden is the form of a cartwheel. You can build your own herb wheel very easy. You will need the following materials to build the herb wheel: string, canes, sand, dry concrete mix, bricks, mortar and topsoil to fill the wheel for planting your herbs and of course the herbs. Remember that this type of design looks more impressive when is viewed from above, so make sure you find a place for it so it may be overlooked from an upper window or a slope. Also try to use plants that have the same growing rhythm or else some will grow faster and spoil the design.

Many herbs make ideal container plants because they like the well-drained conditions that a container offers. They will look good in pots on the patio, close to your kitchen door. Just make sure when you plant a container with mixed herbs to choose plants with similar requirements of soil, light and water because this way the maintenance will be easier.

After you have found out in our building projects are how to make your own troughs now is time to find out how to plant them with alpine and rock garden plants to make them look nice and to attract the eyes.

Because the final planted trough will be maybe too heavy to move it around it is better to place it in its final position before it is filled. Find a warm and sunny spot for it. Troughs look best when they are raised on bricks or concrete blocks but make sure they are stable and will not tip over.

If you do not have enough space in your garden to make a pond you can still have a small water feature, like a pebble fountain. There is always space for a small water feature like this in any garden and is a project that can be done in weekend afternoon.

Chose the place where you want the pebble fountain to be and mark out the diameter of the reservoir. Dig a hole slightly wider and deeper than the reservoir dimensions and place a shallow layer of sand at the bottom of the hole, making sure that the reservoir rim is slightly below the level of the surrounding soil so that the water drains naturally into it.