Gardening Info & Tips

GARDEN BASICS:

• Healthy Garden Soil:  composting, mulching, layered gardens
• Grow Plants from Seeds: everything you need to know to get started with your spring garden
• Raised Garden Beds - increase crop productivity, reduce weeding, comfort for senior or disabled gardeners
• Garden Mulch - preserve moisture, prevent weeds & disease
• Companion Planting - plants which naturally enhance the growth and flavour of their neighbours.

BUILDINGS:

• Cold Frames & Greenhouses:  How to easily build cold frames and set up a greenhouse in your garden.

INSECT & PEST CONTROL:

• Natural Bug Sprays
• Companion Planting - plants which repel insects, and enhance the growth and flavour of neighbouring plants

HOW TO GROW FRUITS & VEGETABLES:

Asparagus:  one of the first harvests from an early spring garden

Tomatoes:

• All about tomatoes:  from starting plants from seeds to planting out, insect pests, harvesting & more
• How to harvest tomato seeds
• When should I pick all my tomatoes

SPECIAL GARDENS:

• Magical Fairy Gardens:  a world of enchantment awaits.  Learn how to create your own fairy garden for either indoors or out.

FOUNTAINS: INDOORS & OUT:

• Custom Water Fountains - Unique, stunning, world-class fountains. From tabletop to large outdoor masterpieces.
  
  
• World-Famous artist: Nayer Kazemi fountains - some of the most gorgeous, hand-crafted, table top fountains in ceramic, copper, slate, & bamboo that you will ever see!
  
  
• Water Wonders! Spectacular, unique Water Wonders fountains are hand crafted utilizing copper, natural slate, pebbles, glass and gorgeous river stones. Available in tabletop, floor-standing and wall-mounted styles, each one is perfectly designed for the utmost in elegance and beauty as well as having magnificent water sounds.
  
  
• Art Matters Using natural materials like copper, stone, ceramic, and river rocks, these magnificent, uniquely artistic, hand crafted tabletop water fountains will beautify any environment in your home or office, and mesmerize you with their stunning grace and soothing water sounds. Any of these fountains in your home or office will bring you years of soothing joy.
  
  
• Wall Fountains and Indoor/Outdoor Waterfalls - indoor wall fountains and outdoor wall waterfalls are magnificent in every way. They look stunning, they make a unique dramatic statement wherever they are placed. Plus, they are all hand crafted, using such materials as copper, slate, pebbles, stainless steel, glass, fiberglass, and stones. Practically maintenance free!
  
  
• Outdoor Fountains & Garden Water Features enrich your environments with soothing, mesmerizing water sounds that range from gushing waterfalls to babbling brooks. Many can also be used indoors.
  
  
• Floor Fountains and Standing Waterfalls
  

JAPANESE GARDENS:

• Japanese Gardens for North Americans:   techniques, plants & designs suitable for North American gardens.
  
  
• Japanese garden designs - The artistry of Japanese garden designs.  What to consider when planning your Japanese garden design.  Beautiful photo examples.
  
  
• Japanese Stroll Garden overview - Embark on the secret journey of a Japanese stroll garden.  Wonders and mysteries hide behind the visible.
  
  
• Japanese Strolling Pond Garden - an example of how to best use ponds, pools and water gardens.
  
  
• Landscaping with rocks in Japanese gardens:  The meanings, myths and uses of rocks in Japanese stone gardens.
  
  
• Japanese Flat Sea garden - Just one example of the beauty of simple stone arrangements in your garden.
  
  
• Japanese Garden Bridges - Fine examples of special garden bridges for your Japanese garden. Covered bridge, moon bridge, drum bridge, stone and log bridges, and 8 fold path bridge