A spray of pressed flowers
If you love flowers and gardens, flower pressing makes the most perfect hobby.
It’s both stimulating and therapeutic and it will give you all the scope you’ll ever need to express your creativity.
And you’ll be using the loveliest materials that nature has to offer.
Pressed flowers can easily be sourced from your own garden.
And you don’t need to plant anything special either.
Your garden will provide you with all the material you need.
You can learn how to press flowers quickly. And once you know how, there’s no end to the variety of ways in which you can use your pressed flowers.
Artistic collages of pressed flowers and greenery make the loveliest greeting cards and wedding invitations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Orchids had never captured my interest before. I always thought that orchids were hot house plants – fussy about their environment and difficult to grow.
It just shows what prejudice can do to your decision-making faculties. Because nothing could be further from the truth.
I have been growing orchids for about a year now and I can quite understand how people become obsessed with them.
With every new addition to my orchid collection, my interest in orchid growing expands. It’s a great new hobby and I’m just loving it!
I read somewhere that a good hobby is defined by its ability to provide visible results in a short amount of time. Well, orchid growing fits the definition to perfection. Because with very little effort, you can get stunning results quite quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is a quick and easy recipe for creamed spinach. It’s one of the best ways to use your own home grown spinach.
I can promise you that when you pick the spinach fresh from your own garden it will taste far better than any bought spinach!
I don’t have to tell you about the many health benefits of spinach which are long reputed to be unbeatable.
Suffice it to say that spinach is packed with the best vitamins and protects us against many of the dread diseases.
All that in a bunch of spinach?
Yes! And here’s a delicious way to take advantage of those health benefits. Read the rest of this entry »
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Most people buy their Amaryllis plants from nurseries when they are in full flower because they are so spectacular.
But this is unnecessarily expensive particularly if you would like to have a collection of amaryllis flowers in different colours. In this case, you should think about purchasing a few bulbs.
Amaryllis Bulbs
Make sure that you buy the largest bulbs as mature bulbs will give you the biggest flowers. Smaller bulbs may skip a season before they flower and disappoint you.
As soon as you have planted your amaryllis bulbs – remember not to plant them too deep – water them thoroughly and allow the soil surface to dry a bit before watering them again. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amaryllis flowers have become increasingly popular as gift plants, undoubtedly because the bulbs bloom so freely on garden patios as well as indoors.
The large, showy flowers make a bold statement and are available in a large variety of colors, shapes, and sizes.
Amaryllis are not difficult to grow. You can bring them into bloom every year if you treat the plants correctly.
You can keep your amaryllis indefinitely, and if you can provide the right conditions for growth and dormancy, your bulb will get larger and multiply itself over the years.
Large bulbs may produce as many as three flower stalks and some bulbs may bloom during the summer as well as during the winter, depending on the temperature and other growing conditions.
But in the main, they are very easy to grow. And this is one of the best features of the amaryllis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Quite a few gardeners believe in planting by the moon.
Planting by the moon means that you take into consideration the phases of the moon before you do your planting.
Gardeners who plant by the moon also tend to harvest, cultivate or deal with pests according to the phases of the moon.
Here in the southern hemisphere, the 22nd September is Spring Equinox day when knowledgeable organic and moon gardeners arrange to do their planting.
It’s supposed to be a very favourable time for planting because moon gardeners believe that plants thrive hugely when they are planted this way.
Well, I don’t know if planting by the moon works or not but I was willing to try. So I prepared the soil carefully with compost the week before. All my garden beds were ready and waiting for the important day. Read the rest of this entry »
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