Grahamii sage, a perfect score
Everything in it is subtle: small delicate flowers, light fragrance, rounded leaves,…
Gardening
Advice on plants, flowers & vegetables for both garden and home.
Natural pest control and care to grow a beautiful garden & produce healthy food.
Garden flowers for outside
Cosmos, colors and light
Cosmos is a very cute little annual plant, very trendy nowadays. Essential…
Graham’s sage, a superb shrub sage
Graham's sage is a cute shrub plant that bears flowers from spring…
English Lavender, the queenly lavender of old
English lavender is the quintessential lavender variety. Grown and cultivated for its…
Shrubs and trees for a beautiful landscape
Mimosa tree, a superb flower tree!
Mimosa is one of the most beautiful winter-flowering shrubs, renowned for its…
Buddleia, the butterfly bush
Buddleia is a shrub that exhibits beautiful bunches of flowers that butterflies…
Buddleja, planting, pruning, and care
Buddleja offers magnificent bunches of flowers that attract butterflies. Basic Buddleja facts…
Wintersweet, sweet winter blooming
Wintersweet is a wonderful winter-blooming shrub tree. Wise Wintersweet facts Name –…
The Veggie Patch by N&G
Cherry tomato, savoring the summer!
Cherry tomato is easy to grow and the harvest is often abundant.…
Enjoying tomatoes in the garden
Biting into the juicy fragrant flesh of a home-grown tomato is within…
Swede, the other name of rutabaga
Swede, also called rutabaga when its flesh is yellow, is an ancient…
Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch
Spring is a busy season for planting and sowing, busy as in…
Herbs fresh from the garden
Mint, refreshments for the summer
Growing mint yourself is easy, and it's recommended for every person who…
Pineapple mint, beautifully variagated
Growing and producing pineapple mint is perfectly possible and even recommended for…
Medicinal sage, tips on how to grow it
Medicinal sage or Salvia officinalis is a fabulous herb with a very…
Medicinal verbena for delicious herbal tea
Medicinal verbena is a very interesting wild plant, both for its health…
Plants that make a house a home
Stephanotis, a deliciously fragrant vine
Stephanotis, also called Madagascar jasmine, is a magnificent indoor plant that blooms…
Why does my dracaena have yellow leaves?
Plants of the Dracaena family are very easy houseplants to care for,…
Ficus microcarpa, a bonsai for starters
Ficus microcarpa is a small, easy bonsai often found in DIY or…
Succulents, delicious eye-candy!
These fleshy plants with surprising geometric shapes have everything you could wish…
Wonderful blooms with "The Rose Garden"
Rose tree diseases and how to treat them
Rose trees are most certainly among the most beautiful flower-bearing shrubs, but…
Dog rose, a rose tree with a rather wild touch
Plant a dog rose bush in a corner of your garden: it…
Rose tree – when and how to plant roses
The planting of the rose tree is one of the most important…
Pruning climbing rose trees
Climbing rose trees are special and you can't prune them like you…
Bulb flowers for every season
Yellow iris, yellow and water-bound
Yellow iris is part of the extensive Iridaceae family. It has the…
Camas, cute spring flowers
Camas are beautiful bulb flowers that bloom in spring and their nice…
Grape hyacinth, cute little blooms
Grape hyacinth, also called muscari, is a very ornamental bulb flower. Key…
Snowdrop, a cute little flower
Snowdrop is one of the first flowers to bloom at the end…
Climbing vines, fragrant and beautiful
Climbing nasturtium, easy flowers
Nasturtium is a climbing vine famous both for its blooms and for…
Nasturtium, a cute climbing flower
Nasturtium is a cute annual climbing vine that will gleefully decorate your…
Plumbago ‘Monott’, for a drought-tolerant blooming hedge
Overlapping petals of the 'Monott' Plumbago variety shine brightly. List of Plumbago…
Allamanda, the Golden Trumpet
Even though it doesn't hold very well to the cold, allamanda is…
Fruit trees and berry shrubs
All about Strawberry from sowing to harvest
A strawberry plant produces fruits with a tender and fragrant flesh, which…
Apple tree, the joy of biting your own sweet, crunchy apples
The apple tree is among the most common fruit trees found in…
Beurré Hardy pear tree, early and abundant
The 'Beurre Hardy' pear tree is one of the earliest fruits for…
Plum tree, how to have great plums
Plum tree is magnificent from spring to fall, and offers abundant harvests…
Citrus, tangy tartilicious
Australian finger lime, a VIP fruit
Australian finger lime is a thorny variety related to the citrus family,…
Lemon tree, magnificent fruit trees
Lemon tree is a rather easy citrus to grow. It looks magnificent,…
Citrus, oranges, lemon trees… all there is to know
Citrus are magnificent fruit trees native to Asia and introduced to Europe…
Pomelo or Grapefruit tree – advice on caring for it
The Grapefruit tree, sometimes called pomelo, is a citrus plant with fleshy…
Lawns, lush and luminous
Mowing, the key to a pristine, tidy lawn – get the timing and technique right!
Mowing the lawn is an easy art to master as long as…
Topdress your lawn for a lush, thick, neat result!
Lawns typically give more than they take. Give your lawn a boost…
Remove moss from the lawn
When moss appears on a lawn or in the grass, it often…
Kikuyu grass, lawns made easy
Kikuyu grass gives you a solution against dry spells, foot traffic and…
Plant & tree diseases - organic treatments
Scale insects – techniques and organic treatments to avoid them
Scale insects like mealybugs are among the most common parasites on indoor…
Boxwood tree moth, techniques and treatments to avoid and treat these parasites
The Boxwood tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis, is an insect of the Crambidae…
Tomatoes without diseases
Tomatoes are often infected with fungal diseases (related to mushrooms). A typical…
Nasturtium vs. Aphids
Whether in the vegetable patch, around fruit trees or near rose trees,…
Special Garden reports
For a sustainable garden
To transform your growing beds into spots of high ecological value, here…
Attracting butterflies with plants and flowers
Attract butterflies to your garden! Threatened because their natural habitat is dwindling,…
Watering – we’re all involved
Watering is an essential part of gardening – but how should we…
Miniature man-made aquifer
Ever dreamed of having a garden that stays green throughout droughts? Do…
