The Basics of Japanese Gardening

The Basics of Japanese Gardening

Things to keep in mind for a beautiful garden

Main principles on the garden's design

Bring the Japanese feeling into your garden with these basic steps. Because one of Japanese gardening design main purposes is to recreate large landscapes even in the smallest place. As a miniaturized landscape, the rocks in the garden would represent mountains and the ponds would represent lakes. A space filled with sand would represent an ocean. The elements of time and space

Secret Gardens to Take Refuge In

Secret Gardens to Take Refuge In

Secretgarden landscaping is simply creating a small garden within a larger garden which is enclosed from the main view of the garden. Size and Space
Secret gardens do not have to be big - indeed they work better if kept relatively small as they are a 'room' built within the main garden.
No space is too small for a garden with personality - one that works for you. Creating a secret garden especially for your children has great benefits.

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

The Rewards of Vegetable Gardening

If you love to have fresh produces in the spring and summer, you should consider creating a home vegetable garden. Growing a vegetable garden is a fun and healthy hobby that anyone can excel at.

Home vegetable gardening relieves stress and allows you to be out in the sun. Vegetable gardening is proven to lower blood pressure and clear the mind. The Pros of Organic Gardening

One great aspect of home vegetable gardening is that it does not require a bunch of chemicals. Therefore, home vegetable gardening allows you to have more natural, juicy, and healthier vegetables that are also better for the environment. Growing your own vegetable garden and using less chemicals yields natural food.

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968.

Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.--Julie Moir Messervy, The Inward Garden, 1995, p.19.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. Gardening is an exercise in optimism. The best place to seek God is in a garden. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. Weather means more when you have a garden. ~Unknown.

Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,

They are thy colours.~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made 

By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. ~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden".