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• TREE #3 OF 2009 – ROUND-LEAVED TEAK (PTEROCARPUS ROTUNDIFOLIUS)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  The round-leaved teak is the second rare tree that was appointed by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. The round-leaved teak is another gorgeous indigenous tree.  It can grow up to 10 meters in height and is deciduous, which means it looses it leaves during winter.  During spring and summer, the ...
  2 days ago

• TREE #2 OF 2009 – TREE FUCHSIA (HALLERIA LUCIDA)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  The tree fuchsia (halleria lucida) has been appointed as one of the two rare trees of the year for 2009, by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. This beautiful tree, with its lush, wide-spreading canopy has shiny, bright green leaves and is an indigenous evergreen tree.  Birds love to gather in this ...
  3 days ago

• TREE #1 OF 2009 – MONKEY THORN (ACACIA GALPINII)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  The monkey thorn (acacia galpinii) has been appointed as one of the trees of the year for 2009, by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. This fast growing tree – with its lush, light green foliage – can grow up to 36 meters in height and has a wide, spreading crown.  It is a deciduous tree, which ...
  4 days ago

• VEGGIE GARDENS

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  Having your own veggie garden is extremely rewarding.  Not only do you have fresh veggies on hand, but you will also find the entire process relaxing and rewarding.  The first step to take when toying with the idea of starting your own veggie garden is to plan your garden.  Where will you lay it out?  How big do ...
  4 days ago

• HERB GARDENS

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  Imagine popping out into your garden to pick a fresh sprig of rosemary, parsley or coriander, while preparing your family dinner…If you start growing a herb garden, this is possible. By growing your own herb garden, you will ultimately save on your grocery bill and have a wide selection of your favourite fresh ...
  4 days ago

• Ouch

  
  The Constant Gardener — Authority: 119
  Theres one thing they dont tell you about gardening before you start: you only find out once youre well and truly hooked and its too late. It can be, and almost always is, excruciatingly painful.Most of the time its true that we all spend our time wafting about in floaty Laura Ashley dresses and floppy hats (except, ...
  4 days ago

• TREES WITH AGGRESSIVE ROOT SYSTEMS

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  You should be very wary about the types of trees you plant in your garden, especially when you plan on planting trees near walls or paved areas.  Some trees have very aggressive root systems, which will push over walls and lift paving.  These root systems can also damage water and sewage pipes. Well-known trees ...
  1 week ago

• Going Gardening? Why Not Go For Roses And Learn How To Prune Roses?

  
  Lively Gardening Blog — Authority: 135
    For most people, it’s enough to learn how to hold a garden implement and dig a hole and plants some flowers like roses. But for those who are very particular about their plants and flowers like these beautiful roses, they will really spend some time and money learning in planting roses and learning how to prune ...
  1 week ago

• INVASIVE ALIEN GARDEN PLANTS

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  You should carefully consider the selection of plants for your garden, in order to ensure that you do not plant invasive alien plants. These are plants that are not indigenous to South Africa. They tend to grow faster than our indigenous plants and can easily take over. They also take up precious water, nutrients and ...
  1 week ago

• Theres Got To Be An Easier Way: Guy Uses Crane-Lifted Lawnmower To Trim His Hedge

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 743
  In a feat of extreme-mowing , two men in Cambridge, England used a crane to lift a lawnmower high enough to trim ones overgrown hedges. Nice, guys, I like the way you think -- EXXXTREME!! The operator, who did not want to be named, is now nursing a broken hand, but said it wasnt a fall from the mower that ...
  1 week ago

• pining for the fjords

  
  [ Lost in the Landscape ] — Authority: 113
  Dead plants? Or are these just resting, pining for the fjords ? I suffer from that mix of laziness, lack of time and unrealistic expectations that will let me leave a dead plant in the ground longer than it probably should stay in a home garden that is trying to look presentable to the neighbors. Sometimes I’ll ...
  1 week ago

• USING PLANTS AS A SECURITY MEASURE

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  The use of hedges in your garden has numerous advantages.  They can be used to create privacy in your garden; as dividers to create different areas in your garden; to muffle noise and act as a windbreak; to create mazes; to attract birds and butterflies to your garden; to hide ugly walls; to improve your security ...
  1 week ago

• Rose Bush Care

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 180
  Learn how to How Grow Stunning Roses in 7 Days. The steps are simple and they do not need very complicated processes to make their flowers bloom beautifully.
  1 week ago

• when a tree needs pruning

  
  Prime Lawn Care — Authority: 126
  A tree may need tree pruning for a spread of reasons : to get rid of ill or storm-damaged branches to thin the crown to permit new expansion and better air circulation to reduce the height of a tree to get rid of obstructing lower branches to shape a tree for design purposes Once the decision has been made to prune, ...
  2 weeks ago

• After the Frost: Time to Start Digging up the Dahlia Tubers

  
  heirloom gardener — Authority: 123
  This past weekend, we had our first frost, so I started to dig up the dahlia tubers for winter storage. I finished the tubers on Goldberry Hill and the Front Border (pictured), but still need to get the ones in the Cutting and Rose Gardens. For a full how-to, read my prior post, " How to Store Dahlia Tubers for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rescuing My Old Apple Trees

  
  HappyFarming.com — Authority: 104
  I’m still struggling with my five old apple trees in my garden. If they are left alone they grow like crazy, sending up a massive number of shoots : They’ll quickly grow too big for my garden . Maybe if I only had one tree it would fit in the garden, but since they have always been pruned the limited area ...
  2 weeks ago

• A tale of gardening failure

  
  The Constant Gardener — Authority: 119
  My poor apple trees.I was raking up the leaves theyve so generously been scattering all over my chicken run, and to relieve the monotony (and the ache in my shoulders) decided to have a closer look at them - something I dont do nearly often enough.I found them etched with a sorry tale of years of callous neglect from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gardening Supplies

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 118
  Garden supplies are essential to the development of a good garden. They make gardening easy, and there are certain things that gardeners find indispensable. Here are some examples: Gloves: gloves help protect the hands from chapping or getting bruised while working in the garden. Typically, they are made of ...
  2 weeks ago

• General Pruning

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 118
  Pruning your trees, shrubs and plants can be beneficial for almost all landscapes. Pruning is done primarily for the following reasons: 1. Promote flowering 2. Promote higher fruit yield 3. Improve the health of trees, shrubs and plants 4. Improve aesthetics / appearance 5. Control growth 6. Maintain a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sacrificing Content for Relevance using SEO

  
  SEO Design Solutions — Authority: 124
  Sometimes you have to “make sacrifices” to keep your website lean, relevant and mean. Every time you add content to your website, the global term weights shift within that site which could either (a) steer the site off topic by diffusing the underlying structure of the sites semantic relevance or (b) improve or ...
  3 weeks ago

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