- All Aboard! (A Ticket to Garden Railroading)
Railroading isn’t just an indoor hobby anymore. Combine your love of trains with your love of gardening, and you’ll be on the right track for outdoor family fun. Want to learn more about this growing hobby? We’ve got your ticket right here!
- Creating Terrific Topiaries and Superior Standards
Topiaries and standards are a unique way to add height and interest to a garden, balcony or entrance, as well as make wonderful year-around accents to outdoor and indoor living spaces. (Just be patient – they can take some time to grow.) Learn the tips to help get you started.
- A French Lesson in Intensive Planting
French intensive gardening isn’t for the faint of heart (or weak of back). But if you’re ready to do your homework and strain some muscles to lay the groundwork, you’ll be amazed at your bountiful – and beautiful – results!
- Garden: Swamped (for Plants That Like it Wet)
Making a home for plants that like it wet isn’t hard to do. Just grab a shovel, a pond tarp and a weekend, and start digging to create a lovely raised-bed swamp that’ll keep even your thirstiest plants happy.
- Green From the Top Down
Green roofs can be stunningly beautiful or just a great way to help protect our environment, lower heating and cooling costs, and make fresh air. Learn about the different types of green roofs – as well as which one may be best for you.
- Growing Vertical
Looking to add some vertical interest to your gardening spaces? Whether you cover an obelisk, trellis or teepee with flowering plants, it may be just the thing to raise your level of enjoyment in the garden.
- Hydroponics – Build a Floating Garden
“Hydroponics” may sound intimidating, but growing plants in water is actually fairly easy. With the right nutrient solution and materials, you can create your own floating garden that and grow all kinds of plants using just a nutrient solution! Even better, a hydroponics garden means you get to bypass common problems like soil pests, weeds and the need to water.
- Make Mediterranean Magic
Learn how to bring the classic look of Tuscan and Provincial gardens to your back yard with selections native to the Mediterranean – or cold-hardy alternatives. In addition to their natural beauty, these wonderful plants are exceptionally drought- and heat-tolerant while offering aromatic foliage and culinary seasoning.
- Millennium Park: A Revolutionary Rooftop Garden
Filled with lush gardens and amazing sculptures, Millennium Park is as much a “must do” when visiting the Windy City as eating stuffed pizza. (And you’d never suspect that this large “playground” in the heart of downtown is actually one big rooftop garden!)
- Paving the Way for a New Garden
Think you’ve run out of places to plant? Hit the pavement! Pavement gardens are beautiful as they are unusual. Follow the story of one Northern gardener inspired to plant one of these blacktop beauties – and learn some tips on how to grow your own.
- Wrangle Runoff With Rain Gardens
Rain gardens are becoming popular – and for good reason: They help reduce pollution in our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans, and they’re beautiful features in your yard that nourish themselves with channeled storm water runoff!
- Small Yuccas Can Enhance Any Garden Style
Whether mixed with shrubs and wildflowers, used as a dramatic accent or interplanted with cacti, small yuccas make a stunning contribution to the garden.
- It’s Hip to be Square Foot Gardening
Who says that vegetable gardening has to be backbreaking work over long rows? With Square Foot Gardening, you can grow small, efficiently planned gardens and produce lots of vegetables (and flowers) in just a small bit of space.
- Trying Hydroponics at Home
The science of hydroponics is nothing new, but being able to grow herbs and vegetables hydroponically in your own home sure is! Learn what this technology is all about, and how our author used the new AeroGarden® to give her the indoor garden of her dreams!
- Xeriscaping – Not Zero-Scaping
Be water-wise and beautiful. Use the “Seven Principles of Xeriscaping” to create a yard that is aesthetically pleasing, saves water and is easy on the wallet.