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It’s different from a fish pond, because a natural pond will tend to attract more insects, dragonflies and birds… Three square yards or meters are all you need to create a little oasis of biodiversity. Both useful and ornamental, the natural pond will bring you many advantages.

Fall is usually the season when the purchasing of a chipper shredder comes to mind, with all the pruned shrubs and trees leading to mountains of branches. Since it is now often illegal to simply burn the branches in a huge bonfire as was done before, and we usually lack of space to let it […]

Tiny marvels of balance and elegance, Japanese gardens are a source of unlimited inspiration.

Here is a typical Mediterranean garden for show, presented at the 2010 Chelsea Flower Show. English natives adore French Provence and this garden drew quite a crowd.

Know your type of soil and you’ll succeed in growing your plants. This will point out how to make it better and which species will fare best.

Adapt your garden to summer climate conditions with eco-friendly solutions and practices to have the upper hand on drought. Has your garden ever suffered from drought in the past? Get ready for it starting early in spring with the planting of hardy, heirloom local varieties. In regions where summers tend to be very dry, forget […]

Root-dipping means to bathe and coat the roots of a rose tree, tree or shrub with a special mix that will speed root growth up during the planting.

Clay pebbles form a substrate that can be used in organic farming. This has the advantage of extreme stability and durability.

Layering is a way to multiply plants quite easily, where a plant branch is buried to produce a new specimen.

Not only is it very ornamental, mineral mulch is 100% natural. This ultra trendy product is also an amazing answer to the problems of

Early fall, protect your soil and your plants from winter frost spells.

Peat is fossil organic matter, formed from plant debris. It is the major constituent of soils saturated in water like peat bogs.

Even though these two products are often confused, they do have very distinct uses and very different results.