Gardening Articles

For maintaining a healthy and attractive lawn you will need a number of other tools beside the lawnmowers. There are manual tools, adequate for most lawns and powered tools that are suitable for large areas because they are faster and less tiring to use.

There is always confusion about the difference between oregano and marjoram. Marjoram is the common English name for the Origanum species, but Origanum vulgare or wild marjoram is widely known as oregano and Origanum onites, also known as pot marjoram is sometimes called Greek oregano. There is also Origanum majorana, known as sweet marjoram.

To keep your ornamental borders in peak condition you have to make sure you are carrying out the right maintenance at the right time of the year. Doing so, your plants will remain healthy and vigorous and the more you work in your garden, the more you will understand how plants grow and how to help them to grow well.

If you have lawn in your garden then you should probably need a lawnmower. When you buy a lawnmower you should take into account the size of your lawn and what kind of cut it requires. If you have a small area of lawn then a manual lawnmower will be enough but if you have a larger area of lawn you should buy a powered one.

Powered mowers can be cylinder, rotary or hover. Cylinder mowers are good for the finest cut, rotary ones are good for long and over-grown grass and hover mowers are best for irregular lawns. As grass need to be cut more closely in summer than in winter you should check that the height of cut is easily adjustable.