Gardening Articles

A bog garden contains permanently moist soil and allows you to grow plants that are well-adapted to such conditions. Bog gardens associate well with water features, helping to integrate them into the wider garden. They can also make an attractively lush feature in their own right. Mid spring is an ideal time to make a new bog garden.

Using flexible liner when you create your garden pond is easier to extend the excavation to create a depression of 45 cm deep for an adjacent bog garden. Buy a piece of liner that is large enough to cover both areas and lay it on a bad of sand. The piece of liner that is covering the bog garden needs to be perforated with few holes and lined with a layer of gravel of 5 cm deep to provide a good drainage.

Mandarin (Citrus reticulata) is a small citrus tree or shrub, rounded, usually thorny, evergreen that produces fruits resembling to oranges. The fruit is oblate rather than spherical. Reddish-orange mandarin cultivar is a variety of the mandarin and is known as tangerine (Citrus × tangerina). Tangerines are smaller than most oranges and the skin of some varieties will peel off more easily. Their taste is often less sour or tart than that of an orange. A popular alternative to tangerines are clementines, which are also a variety of the mandarins. They are also very easy to peel but are almost always seedless. Clementines are also known as seedless tangerines.

They are half hardy, cormous perennials from sandy, lowland soils to rocky upland slopes in South Africa, growing from a corm of 1-2.5 cm diameter, which sends up a tuft of narrow leaves of 10-30 cm long and a sparsely branched stem of 10-40 cm tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of funnel-shaped, usually scented, brightly colored flowers that appear in late winter to early spring. There are both double and single flower forms. Their color may vary from white to pink, orange, red, yellow, blue or lavender.

Many of us want at least a piece of lawn in their garden, but where a perfect lawn sets off the whole garden, a suffering lawn can make even the best-kept garden look neglected. You have to keep your lawn in a good shape in order to make it look its best and this means that you have to treat your lawn problems correctly and as soon as they are spotted because most of the problems will be quickly and easily cured this way.