Drought resistant pot arrangements
Are you starting to feel that watering in summer is a chore?…
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
Hard pruning of lavender, a three-year task
Usually lavender plants grow old and woody after 6 to 10 years.…
Peony, the dazzling star of Spring
Peony is a beautiful flower, but it tends to be choosy, and…
Grape hyacinth, cute little blooms
Grape hyacinth, also called muscari, is a very ornamental bulb flower. Key…
Shrubs and trees for a beautiful landscape
Dwarf Barberry varieties, berberis for low-lying hedges and wonderful shrub beds
Several types of barberry naturally grow small. These dwarf varieties won't grow…
Spotted laurel – a nice evergreen shrub
Spotted laurel is a very beautiful shrub, as nice in summer as…
Very ornamental berry shrubs
Winter isn’t the season where our gardens bear the most flowers, but…
Choisya ternata ‘White Dazzler’, a shrub bursting with fragrant white stars
Choisya ternata White Dazzler does exactly what it sounds like - bedazzling…
The Veggie Patch by N&G
Physalis, a delicious edible berry
Physalis or Peruvian coqueret is a plant that offers cute, perfectly edible fruits.…
Growing butternut gourd
Butternut gourd, also called simply butternut, is one of the most popular…
Growing mushrooms on coffee grounds
Mushroom lovers, great news! For one, they are a good source of…
Fennel, from seed to harvest
Fennel is a plant for which the roots are the part we…
Herbs fresh from the garden
Aniseed, a delicious seed to crunch on after meals
Anise, from which aniseed is harvested, is an herb that is simple…
Sichuan pepper, a unique fragrance
The Sichuan pepper tree is a shrub that bears the delicious Sichuan…
Coriander, so fragrant!
Coriander is an annual perfectly suited to our climates. It is a…
Basil, very tasty leaves
Growing basil yourself is easy, and it is even a great idea…
Plants that make a house a home
Zamioculcas, the ideal office plant
As surprising as it may seem, Zamioculcas zamiifolia is the perfect plant…
Kitchen plants to grow from scratch – no need to go buy seeds!
Grow plants straight from the kitchen. No need to leave the house…
Gloxinia – flowers indoors all summer long
Gloxinia embellishes our homes thanks to its magnificent blooming. Information and key…
Calliandra, a delicate plant
Calliandra is a shrubby plant that bears extremely ornamental foliage and flowers.…
Wonderful blooms with "The Rose Garden"
Romantic English roses
Merging the qualities of both ancient and modern roses, David Austin creations,…
Pierre de Ronsard ® rose tree, a true marvel!
The Pierre de Ronsard ® rose tree is a rose tree bred…
Dog rose, a rose tree with a rather wild touch
Plant a dog rose bush in a corner of your garden: it…
Rose tree diseases and how to treat them
Rose trees are most certainly among the most beautiful flower-bearing shrubs, but…
Bulb flowers for every season
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…
Narcissus, daffodil, spring is nigh!
Narcissus is a very beautiful bulb flower characterized by its nice yellow…
Climbing vines, fragrant and beautiful
Ivy, an easy climbing plant with traces of eternity
Ivy, whether outdoors or indoors, is a climbing or covering vine that…
Clematis montana, the mountain clematis
Clematis montana, or Mountain Clematis, is a vine that is simply beautiful.…
Dipladenia, marvelous blooming vine for hanging suspensions
Dipladenia is a richly-blooming hanging vine. Main Dipladenia facts Common Name –…
Fragrant climbing vines…
Climbing vines have the advantage of being very ornamental. When on top…
Fruit trees and berry shrubs
Plant your own currants!
Tasty and vitamin-rich, currant is the chance to cook up delicious jelly.…
How to keep apples – from the harvest until many months later
One fruit has what it takes to keep for many a long…
Best practices to enhance fruit harvest
Why does a fruit tree's blooming already share much about the quality…
Medlar, a fruit tree to rediscover
The medlar is a fruit tree that has long been forgotten but…
Citrus, tangy tartilicious
Australian finger lime, a VIP fruit
Australian finger lime is a thorny variety related to the citrus family,…
Orange tree, producing beautiful oranges
The orange tree has been enchanting our gardens for centuries and are…
Calamondin, a nice indoor orange tree
Calamondin or calamondino is an apartment orange tree very well suited to…
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
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…
Rototiller, scores of advantages
A rototiller is a very useful when starting a vegetable patch or…
Plant & tree diseases - organic treatments
How to increase humidity in air for houseplants
Many houseplants come from tropical areas where air moisture levels are very…
Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease
Septoria has often caused many a gardener to wail in desperation. What…
Thrips – miniature heralds of life and death for plants
Thrips are a class of extremely tiny insects – almost microscopic –…
Transplant shock, what it is and how to help your plant survive
Transplant shock is a combination of three factors. Upon moving a tree…
Special Garden reports
How to save bees
Now that governments are starting to ban insecticides that are the most…
Coronavirus gardening – What can you do in the garden during a lockdown?
The Coronavirus Covid-19 crisis shouldn't keep you away from your garden. Quite…
Mind-soothing rock garden – set up your very own Zen Rock Garden!
If a certain corner of the garden is rebellious and resists all…
Sichuan pepper regulations – common sense prevails!
Regulations regarding the Sichuan pepper plant used to be dramatically strict. In…
