If you think people are born with a green thumb, THINK AGAIN!
The American Gardener provides over pages and pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they did on me!
Even if you’re a professional gardener, you’ll find many tips to help better your growing success!
Here’s What You’ll Find In The American Gardener:
Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants. You’ll find i
Complete Herb Garden How-To Guide – Fresh Herbs from Garden to Table
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Anatomical relief pads even the surface of the hand to naturally promote a lighter, more secure grip.
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Form-fitting neoprene wrist closure supports the wrist and helps keep dirt and debris from entering the glove.
Supple cabretta leather protects the hand, yet allows gardeners to feel the dirt, roots and plants. Quality construction designed to last season after season.
The tan Gardening Glove is designed for a second skin feel with lasting durability.
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Our Classic Gardening Gift Baskets are the perfect gift for your gardener. Each of these gardening gifts includes an attractive, reusable, nylon gardening tote bag that contains hand-picked gourmet snacks like Feridies Peanuts, East Shore Dipping Pretzels, Robert Rothschild Farms Raspberry Honey Mustard Dip, Peanut Butter Crunch, Fuji Apple Chips, and our own Metropolitan Trail Mix. We also included a shovel, sheers, a hand fork, a weeder and a pair of Go Green Coated Bamboo Gloves to protec
Square Foot Gardening (SFG) is a great way to convert that boring suburbia grass lawn into a sustainable produce isle. Don’t have a lawn? That’s cool- SFG can be done practically anywhere. Mel was kind enough to send me this DVD which gives a quick intro into SFG. This method is great for the absolute beginner who might be a little overwhelmed by starting that first organic garden. For more information, including including Mel’s popular book & instructional DVDs, check out: www.squarefootgardening.com
The Rumford Gardener 16-piece gardening set helps you maintain a beautiful garden any time of year
Includes all the essential tools needed to maintain and cultivate your garden
Includes tough plastic carrying case, grass shears and pruner with rubber grips, wood-handled trowel, and weeder/cultivator
Comes with plant ties, 3/4-inch foam kneeling pad, spray nozzle, 3 hose fittings, hose splitter, 2 quick-disconnect hose fittings, and transplanter
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The Rumford Gardener tool set with molded case is perfect for any gardener. This convenient kit contains essential tools that will help you maintain a beautiful garden any time of year. Whether you’re planting or pruning and watering, this kit keeps everything all together–in a molded plastic carrying case that’s tough enough to brave the elements. This set includes grass shears and a pruner with rubber grips, a wood-handled trowel, a transplanter, weeder and cultivator, plant ties, a 3/4-inch
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We’re getting ready for the 2008 Annual General Meeting of The Mediterranean Garden Society, which is being hosted by our own Northern California Branch (this is an international society) in Monterey, October 9-12, 2008. Our committee has the delightful task of visiting various gardens in order to choose which will be showcased for this event. We’re looking for great design, including climate appropriateness and resource frugality. Fortunate for us, we have a team of wonderful designers from the Monterey area who know just where to look for such gardens.
This is a 4-day member-only event (you are welcome to join!) but there is also a 1-day symposium (Oct 11, 2008) that is open to the public (more information).
Vertical Garden
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another interesting "Vertical Garden" at the SF Flower and Garden Show – this one in the Smith & Hawken booth. Although they are very appealing and a good use of space in a small garden, I’m quite sure I could kill off every living thing in record time!
This is a trend that I had totally missed out on – apparently it’s quite popular in Europe. And the kits are "sold out" at Smith & Hawken so I don’t even know how much they cost… www.smithandhawken.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=prod…
Water Lily in the Garden of Eden
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While driving the famous "road to Hana" in Maui, we stopped to visit the "Garden of Eden" – also called the Maui Botanical Flower Gardens. I shot this photo on slide film and later digitized it.
Perfect for pruning or weeding jobs, the Fiskars Kangaroo 30-gallon gardening container holds itself open, freeing your hands for work. The Kangaroo’s unique spring design springs up to a 22-inch diameter, 30-gallon capacity, just waiting to be filled with weeds, pruned branches, or raked leaves. When you’re done, the container can be collapsed and stored easily in a compact, ready-to-hang 3-inch stack. The heavy-gauge vinyl construction is tear and mildew resistant, and the Kangaroo fits standa
An Eggcellent View of Topiary at Great Comp Garden!
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Set in the heart of the Garden of England and surrounding a 17th century house, Great Comp Garden is the delightful creation of Roderick and Joy Cameron since moving to Great Comp in 1957. The gardens are now run by the Curator William Dyson, assisted by one full time gardener, 2 part time gardeners and a small team of volunteers.
Surrounding an early 17th Century Manor The garden extends to 7 acres, with many beautiful and rare shrubs, perennials and other hardy and half hardy plants. This remarkable Kent Garden is a veritable plantsman’s paradise. The year begins with Snowflakes & Helleborus, followed by Magnolias, Azaleas and Rhododendrons.
Summer brings a wealth of colourful, rare & exotic shrubs & perennials, especially Salvias; These unusual and long flowering plants are particularly well represented at Great Comp with their display extending between May & October.
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Majorelle Garden, founded by the French painter Jacques Majorelle in 1923. His studio built in 1931 houses a small Museum of Islamic Arts.
The garden is a green (blue and yellow) oasis in the new town of Marrakech and has groves of palms, bamboo, agave, a cactus garden and a couple of ponds.
Before his death (2008) Majorelle Garden was owned by Yves Saint Laurent.
Yuyuan Garden, located in the center of the Old City next to the Chenghuangmiao in Shanghai, China, is considered one of the most lavish and finest Chinese gardens in the region.
The garden was reportedly first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father’s old age. Over the years, the gardens fell into disrepair until about 1760 when bought by merchants, then suffered extensive damage in the 19th century. In 1842, during the Opium Wars, the British army occupied the Town God Temple for five days. During the Taiping Rebellion the gardens were occupied by imperial troops, and damaged again by the Japanese in 1942. They were repaired by the Shanghai government from 1956-1961, opened to the public in 1961, and declared a national monument in 1982.
A week ago we visited this well known Southern resort. Saturday was perfect – 70 degrees, a slight breeze, with the air full of birdsong. Sunday was wet and cloudy with bands of showers, This shot was taken Saturday afternoon in a corner of the demonstration vegetable garden that served as the site of the Victory Garden South on the long running American Public Television Series.
Today I am putting up the rest of the shots. If you click on the set at the right and run the slideshow in full screen mode, you can get a "tour", although the shots that I took on Sunday are in pretty damp, gloomy conditions. Here is a link to the official site for the gardens:
