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Twist & Spout Instant Watering Cans

Twist & Spout Instant Watering Cans

You may know by now that I’m a big SIGG fan on a daily basis, but I have to confess that I am not without sin. The hard truth is, in the real world, every so often you just end up having to buy some beverage that comes in a plastic bottle. (Big family-sized pop [...]

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Herb Spiral – Solution for Small Gardens

Herb Spiral - Solution for Small Gardens

photo by amberdc. Want to grow a variety of herbs, but only have a small space for a garden? Stuart Robinson, one of our favourite Aussie gardeners, offers the Herb Spiral as a unique solution! Basically, an herb spiral garden is an attractive and useful “permaculture” gardening method, a construction that winds its way up [...]

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5 Ways To Fake A Show-Off Garden

5 Ways To Fake A Show-Off Garden

Friends are very forgiving about small garden imperfections (that’s why they’re friends!) but this year, we’ve got A Big Wedding Anniversary coming up in the extended family and everyone’s keen on making the party an outdoor event. We’ll want the place to look its very best for the occasion — but re-designing the landscape completely [...]

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A Garden for a Queen

A Garden for a Queen

“The Queen Mother lovingly created the garden at the Castle of Mey on Scotland’s northern coast and it became her summer retreat for more than half a century,” says Tamsin Hope Thomson in The English Garden magazine, September 2005 issue: Her Majesty, the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother noticed the Castle of Mey on [...]

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Hydrangea Paniculata

Hydrangea Paniculata

The panicled Hydrangea may be slow to leaf out in the spring, compared to other popular shrubs for the northern garden. Once it gets started, however, Hydrangea paniculata puts on an everchanging show until the snow falls… and beyond. From a mass of lush dark green foliage, the shrub blooms with loose cone-shaped clusters of [...]

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