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The world of gardening is as vast as the imagination of each of us gardeners can make it. These reports highlight some of nature’s surprises.

Flower-filled garden boxes for the springtime

 Best spring flowers for a garden box

6 tips to make soil richer – completely naturally

 enrich soil naturally

Slate mulch for a ravishing garden

 Slate mulch, perfect for acid-loving plants and shrubs

Peach and nectarine facts: the Origin Story

 Peach nectarine facts

Keeping mahonia berries

Shale, an ornamental mulch

 Shale garden

Use dowsing to set your garden up!

 dowsing garden

Plants for a fabulous oceanfront garden

 Garden plants for seaside oceanfront landscaping

Ace your eco-friendly gardening practices

 Eco-friendly garden

Community gardening during lockdown – not an option

 Empty shared community garden

Lockdown gardening – What to do in the garden?

 Coronavirus won't stop gardeners like these active seedling-planting toys!

Professional gardeners & coronavirus – can you still work in client’s gardens?

 Professional gardener cutting a tree during lockdown

Feeding birds in winter, basic rules

 Feeding birds in winter

9 outdoor plants that resist cold winter weather

 Plants that resist freezing

Designing a sensory garden

 Sensory garden design

Gardening tools, basic gardening equipment

 Gardening tools

Predator wasp, a voracious feeder… of pests!

 Hunting predator wasp with caterpillar prey

French garden, landscape your own Jardin à la Française!

 French garden designs include patterns, hedges, and much more

Indoor and outdoor succulents

 Jade plant succulent growing indoors and outdoors

Stinging nettle, a feisty damsel with many uses

 Bowl of nettle soup with a pretzel

Layering or marcotting, a propagation technique

 Layering means putting a portion of a stem in the ground for it to root. In this case, lavender

Sichuan pepper regulations – common sense prevails!

 Husks and hulls of Sichuan pepper with slight infection.

When is topdressing applicable? Circumstances that call for topdressing

 Soil and small hand hoe used for some topdressing applications

Chalky, lime soil: best plants for alkaline soil and how to amend it

 Testing for soil pH and selecting the best shrubs and plants for it

How to build your own scarecrow

 Lady scarecrow as the result of following this how to make a scarecrow guide

Attract butterflies with plants, flowers, and other tips

 Attract butterflies to the garden with plants and flowers

Beneficial insects that lend us gardeners a hand

 Insects that are beneficial for the garden

Gardening the easy way

 A raised planter is a great solution for an easy garden.

Clay soil, moist and soggy, tips and guidance to plant well nonetheless

 Trench dug in clay soil

Ornamental mulch, cocoa hulls

 Cocoa hulls used for mulching (also known as cacao husks)

The poetic charm of a dressed pergola

 Wooden pergola with blooming wisteria

How to avoid cross pollination

 Avoid and block cross-pollination

Hoverfly: looks like a wasp, flies like a hummingbird, works like a bee!

 Hoverfly on a lawn daisy

How to make children like gardening

 How to make a child like gardening and nature

Affordable garden ideas that are cheap and look great

 A lawn chair with comfortable pillows in an affordable garden setting.

Resin garden furniture, a trendy and reliable option

 White resin furniture set in a garden setting

Swing set, perfect for the garden

 Wooden swingset with 5 activities.

Garden shed, the perfect solution for tools

 Garden shed in bright light

Create an exotic garden… bring the tropics to your back yard

 Flowers, palms and ferns create an exotic garden even when not in the tropics

Gardening trends and new fads

 Herb gardens, new equipment, new garden ideas

How does Russian olive impact the environment?

 Russian olive tree with many fruits

Mind-soothing rock garden – set up your very own Zen Rock Garden!

 Zen rock garden in Japan, private house

Landscaping long and narrow gardens, 5 key tips to reach perfection

New Bosch Rotak lawn mowers

 Bosch rotak mower

Mahonia benefits for house, health & more

 A robin bird in a mahonia tree, an example of the many mahonia benefits

Home-made mulch, the DIY-solution is better than stores!

 Rice hulls turned into mulch at home

Grow your own pineapples from scraps of the ones you find sweetest

 Pineapple cutting with roots

Root dip – how to prepare your own root dip

 Barrel of root dip with protect shrub roots.

An eco-friendly hive in the garden

 Straw wicker hive on stones

Inspiration for colorful winter planters and garden boxes

 Inspirational ideas for garden boxes in winter

Repotting, how to repot a plant and when

 Three pots on a workbench with soil, peat and filler materials.