by Shelley Levis
Moving Plants to a New Home You spent years building a garden and now you’re moving to a new home. Taking some of your precious green belongings is easy to do and you can ensure a transplanting success with a few of these tips. I am very happy to...
by Shelley Levis
The Best Organic Garden Products Gorgeous Gardens start from the ground up and using the right ingredients will ensure your success. I’ve tried a lot of products over the years and have learned what works and what gives me results. I’ve put together...
by Shelley Levis
5 Water Wise Gardening Tips How to maintain a beautiful garden and conserve our most precious resource at the same time. How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke People, plants, animals…. we all need water and...
by Shelley Levis
Are Your Flowers Killing Bees? So, you went out and got a bee house, planted bee loving pollen and nectar plants and have gone completely organic in the garden. But is all your efforts to create a safe haven for our beloved pollinators being sabotaged by the...
by Shelley Levis
Three Small Space Garden Ideas Gardening is easy, gardening is fun… and it doesn’t take a lot of space or know-how to get started! If you’re ogling over garden pictures on the web but your eyes are bigger than your garden, here are three small...
by Shelley Levis
I recently did a post on how to have Hanging Baskets that last all summer long by swapping out spring baskets with ones you planted up in mid-late May. It’s a great technique that will keep you in flowers right up to the first hard frost. But there...
by Shelley Levis
The DIY Spiral Herb Garden is a small space garden method that is not new but there are plenty of twists on it (twists…snicker). I’ve seen them made with all manners of materials such as garden stones, bricks, bamboo stakes etc. I decided that I...
by Shelley Levis
Keyhole Garden Tutorial Here’s another small space garden method to try. Dr. Deb Tolman is the original creator of this concept of rolling a garden bed and compost into one. It’s based on the lasagna garden method where layers of recyclable...
by Shelley Levis
Square Foot Gardening Method Small space gardens can be a challenge! My focus this year is to re-create several niche gardens that we see hovering around the internet through live demonstrations at the garden centre I manage. One of those projects includes the...
by Shelley Levis
Understanding the Difference Between Geraniums and Pelargoniums What a topic! There are hardy geraniums also known as cranesbills or storksbill, ivy or trailing geraniums, pelargoniums, seed geraniums, zonal, scented, regal and variegated geraniums. Is your...
