tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31380308985464697522012-02-10T01:45:12.741+01:00organic garden,urban farming,garden designer,growing garden,gardening tips,flower gardens,garden photos,garden images,planting garden,stone garden,beautiful garden,gardening ideas,vegetable gardenEwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460827662984311538noreply@blogger.comBlogger4521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138030898546469752.post-26328811524391475942012-02-08T22:59:00.000+01:002012-02-08T22:59:50.407+01:00

For those seeking illusive no maintenance garden, low maintenance is the solution. While seeking ideas for current project I am working on, which is designing green in the office, I found those adorable photos. Idea of vertical garden is great, but doing it yourself needs additional skills for installing all those watering and fertilizing pipes etc. Non thorn succulents are beautiful and safe,

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Living green design solutions are fresh and inspiring. More and more architects and designers show their extraordinary imagination in designing green interiors. I love especially the below one, designed by Makoto Azuma, Japan-based flower artist, who has created a moss carpet system that can flow through your home in any design you wish, creating a living, breathing textile The carpet is

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Forcing hyacints at home is easier than I thought. If you want to do it, start it 2-3 months before you'd like to get the flowers. You can start them from mid-September to December. Bulbs need the cold treatment 10 to 13 weeks before planting. So, it sums up to approx. 3-4 months you should start the procedure before expected blooms. For flowering in late December, you should start planting

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I look and admire the creativity of its creators. Parts that usually go to trash can get new life and not quite look trashy! New life as lamps, tables, stools, pillows... Few years ago somebody got a great idea and decided to organize one day trade exhibition, where you can see and shop recycled green products which are the result of human creative minds. Going to such exhibition is

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This unknown apple tree variety somebody have planted before World War II and since then it bears beautiful fruits. This means it's at least 70 years old - or even might be older. Nobody remembers people who possibly have got this great idea to plant it.  You see... People are gone, but apple tree is still feeding us...   No pesticides ever! were applied on this apple tree. Apples can be

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These recycled Christmas decorations are easy to make, original, eco-friendly and beautiful... Spotted last week on the exhibition of Christmas decorations in Wilanow Palace Orangery.  So simple, so easy to make... .. Wish you fun while making it!

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Being as much self-sufficient as possible is best for all of us. Roger Doiron from Kitchen Garden International  gave an excellent speach at TED recently, where he brings closer why do we need to have kitchen gardens... Watch this video:

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No sign of winter... little rain... temperatures ascillating still around freezing point. Farecast says it will get warmer next week... Good, last two winters are enough for 5 years at least....

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Poinsettia saved after last Xmas. A friend wanted to toss it to trash. I wanted to save it. It survived and gives nice color brackets already.... Save your poinsettia after Xmas - how to do it I wrote here. My previous second year poinsettia looked different - more pinkish. It didn't survive for the third year. Possibly because I pruned it before it went completely dormant...

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Sometimes people wonder how commercial growers make xmas cactus to bloom right for Christmas. Don’t let fool yourself!! Schlumbergera’s biological clock makes it bloom from November. This is really annoying to hear all these stupid stories aimed at keeping us ignorant!   I admit – I was also a victim of listening all these weird arguments i.e. I have stopped watering in the summer, which should

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I always liked jute for its natural and somewhat rough look. Recently on one of the coffee grain sacks I am recycling I've read "Save Amazon, use jute", so I got curious and searched why is it so. Beside aestetical and pracitcal values, jute plants is very efficent in carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilation and it clean the air by consuming large quantities of CO2.  One hectare of jute plants

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Since already some time my hands were itching... my world was in need of better decoration... and I have had an overwhelming feeling of artistic expression of something hidden in me... I hope you will also like things I will design and produce... I was planing to start making some home decoration items like designed by me burlap hand printed throw pillows or that tablecloth, maybe also some

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This beautiful soup was prepared by Aska, friend of mine when I visited on Wednesday… I wanted to share with you the recipe, because this leek and potato soup is very easy to make, tastes delicious and you can serve it to elegant occasions as well.   Beside I loved the way it was served. See this wonderful folk patterned, flax doily?  Chop1 leek and fry it until the moment before it

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury - a great tenor, who chose singing rock. Until today I didn’t know that Freddie fans gathered £2,000 for the creation and registration of a new variety named in 1993, two years after his death. Radio bless you for remembering! I regret that I failed to find further information on what type is Freddie Mercury rose - maybe you know

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There is a beautiful give away on Shabby Chic - blog from Norway. Clothes are made of cotton and bamboo, other products wool and bamboo. If you don't speak Norwegian, use google translator - I find it often helpful, even if its - let's say - not perfect translations. From what I understood, you need to: 1. Choose the product you want (excluding bed cover) and write in comment section what you

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Yesterday I have visited such beautiful place.. I didn't want to leave it.... just have a look - how beautiful it looks in off white and other matching colors. Isn't it top class interior decoration? Lovely, cosy, elegant and little rustic. I feel that all November little worries go away... feeling warmer... beautiful place to live... OK, it is restaurant in a little, artistic village 140 km

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Today added to seed network P. crispum var. neapolitanum ‘Gigante Italian’, may be same as ‘Giant From Italy’ and ‘Gigante di Napoli’. This is truly wonderful Parsley from Northern Italy. Taller than average parsley, Italian Gigante plants have very big, deep green shiny leaves with an exceptionally mellow and sweet fuller flavour than standard plain Parsley. I love it. I was searching for

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I love these metal roosters as garden or home decorations and I'd love to buy one, but I can't decide which one. Maybe you can help? The first one is bigger (about 24 in/60 cm) and more expensive ($130), but it has space inside where you can light the candle/tealight. The second one is little less tall (about 18 in/50 cm), less wide, no possibility to light the candles inside, but

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Porches, verandas, terraces... I look for inspiration, because my own wooden porch is coming closer and closer to me (my house misses one - what a shame!). I have already made half of the design and now there is a crucial moment of deciding the second half. Making something most simple, might be not necessary something making me happy... and at the end there might be not big difference in price

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These 7 beautiful vintage glass plates was my lucky find last week for only few bucks. They are in perfect condition and perfect size to use under the clay pots. I was not happy with clay plates under clay pots standing on my windowsill - it looks too rough. Don't you think it looks much better? Rustic meets glamour....

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I was given this plant with the information that people call it "melissa mint". I have researched and tried to identify it, but with no real result. I think it's nor mint, either lemon balm. But what is it? Do you know it? I will appreciate your help... Leaves are thick, plant is very vigorous, does not survive outdoor in the zone 6... any idea?

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... my cherry tree, beside flowering beautifully and fruiting has one more lovely habit - its leaves are turning in reach yellow color in the autumn... you see here view from one of the windows... let's go outside and see how does it look...   ...looks beautiful, right?  ... I don't see many so yellow leaves on cherries in other gardens... not every variety  of sweet cherry has this

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What I find most challenging in growing vegetables in pots?  ** First - watering and fertilizing ** Soil in pots dries up so quickly, much faster than in other places in the garden. If I think seriously about growing vegetables in pots, I would invest in self- watering containers or self-watering kit. Unless you have time to water it in the summer even 2 x a day here in my zone 6B. A

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Flowers today... just before freezing temps will come. Tomorrow. Prophecy says... ...beloved white pelargonium came home already.... ... pansies went out, bought at the local bazaar today... ... fuchsia, lobelia and plectrantus came also home... fuchsia will survive... what about the rest? Do you see plectrantus flowering? ... barrel seems to be good location... ...

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Just have a look at this great infografics Janey made me aware of. Health benefits, mental benefits and financial benefits. Go gardening! Stop watching TV so much!Its weekend! Source by Loch Ness Water Gardens

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Let's go for a walk... just give me your hand and let me take you to a garden tour.   This garden was  designed first, then constructed and planted. Every plant grows in the proper place and at the same time you feel like its fully natural.     We have just passed the entrance door on the left and now we go to the porch on the back of the garden. Look around before we reach the porch

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After buying these few japanese quinces I fell in love again with its wonderful fragrance. The fascination is so strong, that somehow I found space in the garden for 6 new shrubs. Japanese quince is flowering in the spring with its red flowers. I think I will train it against the wall. Not sure yet. Idea is still cooking... While waiting for new arrivals, I am preparing the soil and indulge

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Viburnum opulus (Guelder Rose, Water Elder, European Cranberrybush, Cramp Bark, Snowball Tree) flowering late September is nice surprise. After closer inspection she said "Those stems were broken"....

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My second rose cuttings taken from Mary Rose plant seem to be doing fine – look at the photo, do you think they will survive? I think there is a big chance. In one of my last posts I was writing about my problematic Mary Rose producing lots of suckers, which sometimes pop up 2 meters away from the original plant! Then I have to rip off 2 meters of already established soil, which is

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Scarf knotting is always problematic for me, so when I saw this video, I say big thank you thank you to the creators! It's beautiful, funny and I could learn many new ways. Maybe you will learn too? We need to look stylish and beautiful in the garden too, right? * Perfect short video for such beautiful day, which is the first day of the rest of your life... 

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White containers - great new buy from yesterday. Just have a look at simple and fine lines. Designer  had really great eye. Green and red basil will look really tidy, so will my windowsills… ha… I was looking for something to my white windowsills, that can be humble and simple enough to host basil in the winter. First frost days are coming fast – I have to hurry up, because there is only

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Basil growing in the windowsill outgrew my expectations. She gave me huge bunch and solid portion of leaves to make an Italian pesto.  I trimmed my basil ruthlessly, leaving only 10 cm of wooden stems. It cried for 48 hours – I got scared, I felt sorry…On the other hand I made everythink to make it feel better - at the same time I changed the soil for fresh one adding lots of natural

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I didn't expect too much hazelnuts this year. There is only one hazel (Corylus avellana) shrub in my garden that grows freely - to shadow the pond. The other 4 shrubs were cut back a lot in spring and summer - as they will move to new location soon. Yesterday I collected one full bowl of nuts and second one is still waiting on the shrub. It grows free of pesticides and free of artificial

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While leaving Oxford Botanic Garden by surprise I’ve spotted hidden rose garden arranged with box beds. This type of space arrangement is very close to my heart now and I think I am the only one who has spotted that garden. The only one from group of 40 people who traveled with me. This is the proof that you see what you want or desire or just are interested with. If you are pregnant, you see

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If you see the wonderful example of house in the roses - like this one on the photos below - you think – why not? Maybe in my garden they can also grow in abundance? And no arbors and not the largest roses in the world... But there is one problem. What to do when roses stop blooming? They don’t bloom all year round, right? Photos were taken end of May in UK, I wonder how this garden looks today.

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This weekend if you are in Warsaw, you may see one of the most important horticultural trade shows in Poland. I have walked around today and I have not spotted any signs of crisis. Trade show got bigger and more serious than few years ago. This year tere was more foreign companies present as well. Mainly from Holland, Germany, Italy, France and Spain. If you are interested in entering Polish

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If you are in Brussels, and wish to spend nice time in the nature, walk through Brussels botanic garden in Meise can be very relaxing.  I am little hesitating to what extend recommend you visiting this garden. It seems to me rather a scientific center. For sophisticated garden connoisseurs visiting the glass houses will wipe out the “so, so” impression of the rest of the garden. There are some

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Franch way to prune lavender is maybe not really French by tradition. I call it French because for the first time I've heard about pruning garden with scissors. Normally I would be very suspicious, but the result is stunning. The owner of the method is Nicole de Vésian, the retired fashion stylist at House of Hermes, spent the last ten years of her life dressing rather her garden. She created an

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August 2009 and 2008 offered bit different flowers than this year. Garden is changing with time, climate is changing as well. Roses usually flowering also in August, this year decided to take holiday. Buds are in plenty, but no flowers... I hope enjoy this set of 14 photos and this sameday delivery flowers from my garden to your PC, from Poland to wherever you are living and reading this. GBBD

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This giant hosta grows in sloping garden you already know, if not jump here, here and here. The lady smiling at you is my friend Krystyna. See gloves? After one day spending with her, I had to go to garden and work, work, work....to make it more beautiful. I sometimes wonder where she takes the power from? It's good to have inspiring friends. Do you have? Xo xo! 

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I have received an e-mail from Judith asking what camera do I use to take the photos published on Ewa in the Garden. Judith is heading to Normandy and Paris in September and asking for recommendations for gardens worth visiting while there. I decided to answer these questions here, because you might be also curious. Answering first question, I am using mainly compact small camera Canon

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Hello everyone! It's Mari here. I write as a guest blogger for Design Shuffle, a fabulous social networking site for interior designers, architects, design professionals and enthusiasts. I love my work because I get to explore the beautiful world of interior design every day. Then, it's my job to write about the great decorating ideas I discover. Sometimes those ideas are found in amazing outdoor

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Quuen Mary's Rose Garden offers a delight to rose maniacs. Below photograps were taken end of May - looks like this is the best timing to visit this rose garden in London. Located in Regents Park. Queen Mary's Rose Garden is one of the greatest formal rose gardens, with about 400 different varieties and more than 60,000 plants. It was founded in 1828 and was originally called the gardens of

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My grandmother Sophia was making beautiful fermented cucumbers, my mother Mira used to do is as well. So, since I moved to a house with nice cellar, I also started making fermented cucumbers for winter. They are not only perfect for eating straight, as part of salad or a delicious sour soup, they are also very valuable for digestion system. Few years ago I met prof. Marek Naruszewicz who is

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Edible landscape ideas today is about beautiful, full of life kitchen gardens. Many authors of this beautiful  pictures, different approaches and different vegetable garden ideas. From very formal Villandry in France kitchen garden to very picturesque and almost graphic kitchen garden at Bohlen Residence and very informal of Hard Working Hippie. Under each photo there is a link to more photograps

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Cactus flowers in our climate when is given enough light and sun, which means it shoud take proudly most sunny and hot spot in the garden.   I think this is Echinopsis oxygona - what do you THINK? Flat big pot makes it looking more natural. 

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This view at night is breathtaking. Hostas look like they were born there. This is the place they belong ant fit perfectly. Re-designed and planted 12 months ago.  This cascading waterfall located in my Krystyna garden in Serock (near Warsaw in Poland) is loved by fish and frogs. We watch birds coming in the morning to take bath or shower, then drying wet feathers in the sun. If you haven't

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Do you remember this beautiful garden on the slope I've shown you 3 years ago here? Today you may see more pictures from that garden. Yellowish shade comes from weird yellow light we've got over Serock on the day before stormy weather at night. Blish light comes from lit cascade. Here the light was even pinkish-blue! What an evening is was!

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Today flowers make my garden little more brighter and livelier. Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle liked my last year very light pruning. I made it in August, when there was time for deadheading. No pruning in the Spring - only emergency removal of frost damages. This is only 1 plant - look how large it grew! Planted 6 years ago. Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra. Lavandula, phlox,

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I am always looking for new edible landscape design ideas. Look at this one spotted in Sericourt Gardens - wild strawberries as ground covers and as understory of a bamboo patch. No bamboo, but lots of other shrubs in my garden, so this Autumn I plan to divide my heavenly alpine strawberries and plant them in different spots in the garden. This edible landscape design idea is great if your

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Charming boats and houses on the canals in Amsterdam wouldn't be the same without plants in the pots. Or is it only me and my very subjective perception? Lavender seems to feel well in this humid environment.

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Today let me invite you to groovy Sericourt Gardens in France I had the chance to visit last month. However Sericourt Gardens is known for its topiary, I have to point that I haven't found anywhere in the web any information about symbolism each part of the garden is revealing. When I decided to visit this garden I was not sure what to expect. Sometimes no expectation is better.  There is

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Do you know that an average garden could hold over 2,000 different species of insect?This makes clear now, that home gardens are not only ours.Majority of the insects living next to us are beneficial - many of them help us control the pests.   So, she was thinking, that providing the right habitats called insect hotels we can greatly increase the number of beneficial insects in our garden. She

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Recently I am a little too busy to spend enough time in the garden, which in this season is not really something I’d love to say. For mysterious reasons grass and weeds grow faster than anything else. On the top of that I’ve been away from my garden for more than a week - travelling recently. The difference I saw in my garden ‘before and after’ in only a week, is tremendous. In our climate

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This floating garden adds special interest to the water garden. I would make different plantings. Note that the platform/boxes ar attached to the edges with transparent cord, so they don't float freely and they stay in the places you want them to stay, not places they want to stay... 

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Last year I've planted strawberries in this barrel, but really they were not happy! This spot turned out to be too sunny and too hot for alpine strawberries. One month ago strawberries were replanted to more shady location. Barrel got new guest, which is Sedum spectabile Autumn joy - beautiful for most of the year and drought tolerant. I will not have to water it very often. Having alpine

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Flowers today in my garden. Amount of flowers in my garden is decreasing year after year, because I reduce amount of perennials. Less perennials = less work. Let's say that less work is more "ecological" or let's face it - I am getting more lazy. No matter how more lazy I am, flowers today in my garden still make me happy :) YOU? This post is part of Garden Bloggers' Bloom

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Stylish shed with eco friendly roofs - maybe thats something to look for if you plan to renovate your shed. I love this gray-lavender shade coating! Pay also attention to color combination of sedums and other drought-loving plants.    Designed by Sally Wilding-Webb. If you plan to renovate your shed, do you think making similar roof is a good option?

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Are you looking for ideas for hanging pot? You love recycle? You will also love this idea. I was thinking, do I need to make holes on the bottom?

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Have you ever worried about planting amaryllis bulb (naked lady or belladonna)? I mean, that you don't know how to do it properly? I think in this office, I have visited yesterday, they didn't worry too much. Look at this beautiful flower.... ... would you ever guess, that it's only sticked to a tee mug and given some water? ... It was the office of an gardening shop "oh, you know, it started

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.~ Pope John Paul II HAPPY EASTER to YOU! Photo courtesy of Jeanette's OzPix

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Do you think this is enough to declare that spring came? When spring come?

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Sanguinaria canadensis or bloodroot grows from 20 to 50 cm tall. The flowers are produced from March to May. Over many years of growth, the branching rhizome grows into a large colony. What makes the plant unique, it blooms before the foliage unfolds in early spring and after blooming the leaves expand to their full size and go summer dormant in mid to late summer. It requires moist to dry woods

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Need a small greenhouse, friendly on your budget? Think of recycling plastic bottles and few pieces of wood to build the frame.  You want blue one? Collect blue bottles. I think I would go for transparent non-color. YOU?

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We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. This photo was taken last Thursday in a terrace garden I've visited already few times and showed you nice bunch of photos.

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This is my current view to the garden. Unbelievable! I woke up this morning and see what I see? I hope you don't see such bad surprised in YOUR garden....

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 Photo by eclectic echoes I just love my garden. Everyone has a different reason for loving their garden. Some say it's because they love being able to grow their own food, while others just love the beauty that all the green and the flowers bring. Still others just love having a little patch of green in the midst of a metal, stone and glass city. As a child, I always noticed that my mother

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GREENFINGERS This is first garden movie that is my fvourite. Charming Clive Owen as greenfingered prisoner will save your day. Sorry not mentioning in the first line the rest of the cast: Helen Mirren, Fergus Wilks and Adam Fogerty. Its a story about a prison inmate with a green thumb that goes on to compete in a national gardening competition. Based on a true story. SAVING GRACE This is my

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Maybe you also have an old wheelbarrow? Do you mind recycling? You don't have enough space to grow vegetables in your garden? Free your creativity - an old wheelbarrow could become wheelbarrow garden full of vitamins. What do you think?

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Today little glimpse into Ewa’s life outside of the garden – lovely evening at beautiful art gallery restaurant. Discovered, visited, happy to recommend.  This is an example how art gallery is blend with restaurant. This place has 2 floors. On the first ground – restaurant with paintings on every wall from floor to ceiling. Next floor is open space filled with paintings as well. Space is

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Larkspur has this awful habit  to slip away from control and lay down when you only put your hands somewhere else in the spring and forget to support them properly. It is not easy to forget it in the time, when we gardeners run around frantic to manage to do as much as possible. March and April here is the time when I forget that garden is my oasis, heaven and eden. Twice I have forgotten to

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Flowery dresses? Flowers in the winter? Great idea - what do we miss most at this very season? Flowers! I found today these lovely flower dresses for you. I hope you like them as much as I do. These flower dresses were designed and made by Kasia Skalska - young, Polish student, obviously very talented. As she wrote in an e-mail, she made them just to get some air between different exams.  She

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Touring other gardens inspires me doing new things in our own garden. As the spring is just around the corner, I’ve decided to share with you some pictures taken in UK last spring. Those were taken at Hampton Court. Pay attention to space planning, combination of fruit trees and vegetable raised beds, creative and inexpensive labeling and pea support. There is one amazing thing, that I’d like you

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Zaluzianskya ovata - named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian, a 16th-century Bohemian botanist.This sweet, compact growing and FRAGRANT plant is a frost tender perennial, great for stone gardens. Click here to find more tips how to grow it. I'd like to clear that Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian was NOT Polish, as I may read in some websites. He was born in Hradiszcze Mnichowo (Czech), living in

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Pretty bird food is home-made. I made it last week and tomorrow it goes out. I recycled 4 plastic bottles - cut the bottoms. Then I filled it with seeds and poured melted lard.       If you live in zones 4-6 and in the winter you start feeding birds in your garden, don't stop it. Do it as regular as you can. Birds get used to the food you provide - it becomes an important place in their winter

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Actually it's a visual reminder to make my vegetable garden plan 2011 considering crop rotation (here is 2010 plan). What is yours?

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For every writer, for every creative person - a must see video:

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This happened recently in Poland at Baltic Sea. Firefighters rescue sweet baby deer stranded on drifting ice. Good job!

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HGTV Dream Home 2011 Contest Announced information has been released with this year's home located in Stowe, Vermont. The fabulous home has an estimated worth of $1.5 million and is the latest in the HGTV dream home giveaways. The newest HGTV dream home 2011 contest announcement information has been released with this year's home located in Stowe, Vermont.  The fabulous home has an estimated

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As usually end of the year brings plans for next year and also looking back at what happened in the passing year, whether was there anything worth to be proud of. 2010 was remarkable year for me personally and for Ewa in Garden. In May I've met fellow bloggers, in December I've completed garden design course, and blog got its momentum with stable readership. It was great year! This is why

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SnowSNOWsnowSNOW in my garden... Wish you happy and peaceful Christmas..... Xoxo Ewa

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This December is full of snow since 3 weeks and only "flower joy" I have is China rose. Started to bloom end of November. Outside is white - no need to show it - you can well imagine that I guess... . GBBD is hosted by Carol @ May Dreams Gardens - if you want to see flowers from all over the world jump over to Carol's blog and enjoy!

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October welcomed us with freeze slap, so not many flowers survived. Asters - the most reliable autumn flowers in our zone 6 is one of 4 flowers I could find in my garden.   Calluna vulgaris planted last year is still in bloom. Pelargonium taken indoor explodes with flowers.  And last rose The Fairy. Inevitably we are coming closer to winter, garden bones are more exposed, so it's the

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It looks like pieces and seeds you know from your garden? Exactly... ... look what also you can do using plants for hand made plant jewellery... ..earrings made of chamaecyparissus, seeds of Ligustrum vulgare (Wild Privet, also known as Common Privet or European Privet) and leaves... ...beautiful bracelet made on ribbon... ...decorative apple fruits and leaves of Aristolochia known as

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 I haven't done anything special to make magnolia seeding this year or maybe I did. Some extra fertiliser? Some extra love and protection?With surprise I noticed these beauties few days ago... To germinate they need stratification (2-3 months in the fridge or outside). Soaking in water. Removing red coating.

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If you have a look at this little garden book, it doesn’t seem to be big, just 228 pages. But if you decide to read it, your impression is changing – the book grows much, much bigger. “Blessed wisdom from the garden” becomes heartwarming book of treasure. Romantic cover design fits perfectly the nature of the 52 short stories embracing the garden and life, written in unique style and wit. When I

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Next to the sea in the autumn,your laughter must raiseits foamy cascade,and in the spring, love,I want your laughter likethe flower I was waiting for,the blue flower, the roseof my echoing country.by Pablo Neruda In my garden, which is in 6b zone, weather is not really nice to us and plants as well. Temperature has dropped already below 0C/30F at night, and today rainy days starts. Clearly,

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This lovely old style cottage garden is arranged in Cracow botanic garden. I haven’t seen too many gardens looking like this, while travelling nowadays around Poland, but it doesn’t mean they didn’t look like this in the past. I like it and I hope you will also like it. List of plants you can find on the bottom of the post. List of plants / typical cottage garden in Cracow region

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Photo by Rosa Pomar Open pollinated seeds are produced naturally using the ingenious mechanisms in nature for pollination: wind, water, insects and birds. Open pollination occurs with other compatible plants in the immediate area. The seeds tend to closely resemble their parents and are fairly close to the original plants in colour, size and height. We love open pollination because this is how

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Seed swaps made easier – do you think you will use it? I can’t tell you how happy I was seeing that e-mail in my inbox. It’s not so easy to spot new, great ideas, so if you have one let the world know about it and send e-mails, blog or make video. SeedLiving new website for buying, selling and swapping open pollinated seeds and live plants.   Anna-Monique wrote in the e-mail:  “Users may choose

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"FRESH educates viewers about the burgeoning food movement emerging as an alternative to today's industrial food system. The film also is intended to be viewed in a manner that brings people together for discussion and collective action -- and that's where you come in. You can spur your own community to action by hosting a FRESH movie screening. Click here for more details. In homes,

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Photo courtesy of suziesparkle As any gardener knows spring and summer are an important time for producing crops. Most at home crop growers plant their crop in early to mid spring and expect bountiful vegetables in the summer. Among those most will admit that they plant their vegetables in the spring and once they arrive for harvesting forget about the garden entirely. The problem is many people

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Picture courtesy of theseanster93 Keeping Geese on GrassWhen initially caring for geese, after a couple of weeks the goslings can be provided access to an outside area but please be careful that they do not get overly cold. As foxes maybe around the use of a fox proof fence should be implemented but, if you do not have access to this equipment, ensure that the geese are kept inside at night as to

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My grass carps loved water hyacints - after I brought new plants, they were tearing them apart in less than 5 minutes. I've tried twice and then I got rid of grass carps in the pond - which from the beginning was wrong idea. If you are a beginner gardener, as I used to be, maybe nobody will warn you 'don't let grass carp to your sweet garden pond'. Feel warned now. And don't let them in. Water

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Windows function is to let the light inside, but look what happens when it's turned to garden...  

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At over 20,000 species worldwide, bees are the world's most effective pollinators. Without them, we would no longer be able to enjoy many of the foods we do today such as strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, chocolate and squash. Since 2006, researchers have been investigating the sharp decline in European honey bees, the main hive bee used to pollinate commercial crops. Abandoned, queenless hives

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 It's really hot here again, and while some of us are just resting, others seem to be very busy...  I was very happy to see this tiny arugula flowers - this means seeds are coming! Wax begonia.  Cucumber (cucumis sativus) flowers.  Hydrangea paniculata Limelight. Not impressed with flowers this year. Why? Lavandula - some are still in bloom, while others are neatly pruned for more flowers

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It is now becoming more apparent that food grown organically is better for you. Organic gardening is becoming more than just a fad and is developing into something that could change how we do our gardening forever. Until that time, there is much work to be done in order to spread the movement. This work includes encouraging organic gardening at the grassroots level, and that starts with education

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.... the art dealer that owns living tapestry garden La Louve designed by Nicole de Vésian, the retired fashion stylist at House of Hermes. Don't miss this wonderful post published today by Gerard Pampalone @ Your Garden Matters with amazing photographs by Clive Nichols 

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Isn't it great way to bring the old Chopin closer to new generation? Or is it the way to show love? You decide. I was surprised, but adore the poster... All over Cracow's streets there are 1:1 replicas of Chopin's piano - it can't get closer to the people...

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