A bit of summer for your window.
Despite their delicate looks the hardy geraniums are pretty robust and easy to grow.
Freesias originate from South Africa. And this week they're our "Flowers of the Week"!
National Geographic have been to the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas in Califor-nia, roughly 2000m above sea level to photograph a tree. Big deal. Except that this giant se-quoia is over 75m tall, 8m around and sprouted at the very beginning of the Iron Age, some 3200 years ago.
If you are amongst 8 million people who watched the first season of the BBC’s Sherlock TV Series, you would have remembered the black lotus flower. Now you can make your own black lotus, although we went for a blue version.
In this chilly weather it's great to get wrapped up warm, but winter clothes can often look a little drab. Not with this little tutorial...
Succulents are great plants to grow. They don't need much watering, so they're perfect if you're the type of person who forgets to tend to their house plants, and they're good looking too.
Are you forever in and out of the garden watering plants? At this time of year it can seem like a constant job trying to stop the plants from wilting.
Use the cardboard inner tube from your toilet-rolls as seed-trays!
A vertical window garden using old plastic bottles and a pump system to allow water to flow to all the containers. What a nice idea by Britta Riley.
Wait! Before you throw away your next pair of rubber gloves think of this little tutorial. It might turn into something fun and creative (and save the live of those poor gloves).
Check out this green tutorial and create your own personal Hanging Garden of Babylon...
Make your own little underwater world with stones and pine branches.
