Basic Knowledge of Gardening III - Method of Plants Selection

In order to enjoy the fun of flower gardening fully, you must try to understand the special nature and characters of selected plants.

At this time, you can choose suitable plants based on the environment of flower location, or different sizes and shapes; However, if you want to put two and more species if plants into one flower container, aside from considering color match and shapes, you must pay much attention to the different natures of every species and arrange them correctly.

In addition, when you choose two or more species plants to grow them together, as for the height of different plants will have a great variation, so you should pay full attention to the plant height and grow conditions of them, otherwise if there is a variation in the plant heights, which will destroy the balance of the whole flower, and even caused stunted growth.

Moreover, special attention should been paid to the blooming periods and flowering periods of flowers grow in one flower container, if the flowering periods of flowers cultivated together are different, I am afraid it is difficult to show their respective beauty and charms fully.
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Basic Knowledge of Gardening II - Fun of Flower Gardening

As long as there is space in your home for placing a variety of flower pots, you can design and create a charm garden with rich changes according to the material, shapes, sizes, and plants you choose to grow.



Aside from plastic, concrete and stainless steel and other artificial substances, the material of flower pots could be ceramic pots, pottery or rosewood and other natural materials.

Considering the ventilation or drainage, etc. cultivation level, can based on the coordination between material and the surrounding, or coordination between materials and plants, materials and surrounding landscape or highlight sense, thus to emphasis the effect of display.

In general, the balcony and corridors are often targets to be designed into a flower garden. In addition, the United States and Europe countries, people often use roofs, gazebos, wood flooring or window sidebar as locations of engaged in flower gardening.

In addition, the vestibule or lobby, are also the most suitable places for flower potted gardening. In addition, the common bay windows, if you have some ingenuity, it can be formed into a beautiful landscape too.

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Basic Knowledge of Gardening I - What is Garden Container?

-->In Asia areas, a large size pot or basin is called flower container generally, but in western countries, flower pots or basins, regardless of the size of container, they called all containers used to plant and grow plants as garden container or flower container. However, frames of flower pots and basins are not used for plants cultivation directly, they are different from garden containers.
The cultivation way of utilizing garden containers is known as "garden container cultivation", while the way of using garden contianers, with which to plant and grow a variety of flowers, grass, garden trees or foliage plants, to beautify residence and the surrounding environment is known as the "container gardening".

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Most Usual Garden Tools for Housewives

Grow several plants in the house and decorate the environment in everyday life, which could make the whole family live together become more vivid in mentally and physically, while to be a good housewife who is skilled at gardening, you need several essential garden tools.

Flower Shovel
Flower shovel is small, lightweight, and simple to use, which can be used to do jobs such as transplanting, earthing up, cultivation, weeding and so on. For example, when to use planters or flower pots to grow plants, the flower shovel can replace hoe, rake and shovel, and other large tools.

This is a garden tool with wide range of uses, you must to purchase one. But when using you should pay more attention, because the size of a flower shovel is small, the joint part connecting the handle and the body of the shovel should be broken most easily, so you taken more care when using it.

There are different patterns shovels available in the market for you to choose, among which a shovel with a whole handle and body, which was been casted in a whole is a more durable shovel.


Lopping Shears
Lopping shears can be used to prune branches, as well as suitable for harvesting crops of melons and legumes. The thing you should consider is the spring lies in the middle of the shears is very easy to lose.

Lopping shears available in the market with many styles and patterns, the same time the price variation is also very large, in general, the more expensive the price is the more sharp the shears, but for general gardening, an pair of ordinary shears can be competent. If you have children at home, a pair of round-ended shears is more suitable.

Watering Can
Watering can can be used to watering and Shi liquid fertilizer, metal texture and more durable than the plastic texture. It is need to be reminded that the most vulnerable also the most been lost part of a plastic flower pot is the spout, so each time when you finished the fertilization, you should clean the spout carefully and store it in time.






Handle Trigger Sprayer
Handle trigger sprayers are mainly used for spraying water and natural pesticides, which can emit water out with mist, and sprinkled on plants more evenly, judge the quality of a sprayer is to see whether the water mist sprayed out from the sprayer is enough tiny and equal or not.

Remember to clean the sprayer carefully after using, so to avoid the water hole of the trigger sprayer be plugged by contaminations.

Handle trigger sprayer is also can be replaced by water sprayer, although a water sprayer is not competent enough to finish the watering job as a trigger sprayer, it is still a good choice with inexpensive price.** Original post: The Garden of Eden for Gardeners (Garden Tools World)

A Small Garden at the Balcony

a Small Garden at the Balcony

Flowers have been planted into the various kinds of flower pots, and gathered in a corner of the balcony, bringing you fresh airs of spring.

Plants: Anemone, amaryllis, roses, chrysanthemum, violet, geranium, Margaret, pearl flower, lily

Pots: a variety of ceramic wares

** Original post: The Garden of Eden for Gardeners (Garden Tools World)

Usual Sharpening Tools for Garden Tools

Keeping your garden tools such as lawn mowers, pruning shears and loppers is often suggested to be a very important function in every gardening book. However, keeping garden tools sharp is very difficult for most gardeners. Beware of using a powered grinding wheel. If you are not skilled with such a device, you can take too much metal off your garden tool in a few seconds of not paying attention.

Here are a few sharpening tools that usual and useful we have found, and if you interested with them, you may search more info about them on the Internet.

Lansky Sharpener for Garden Tool and Lawn Mower

This Lawn and Garden Tool sharpener offers flat and curved surfaces to make it easy to restore like new performance to lawn mower blades, shovels and spades, hoes, sickles and scythes, machetes and other cutting and digging tools. The special design of this sharpener minimizes fatigue and enhances user comfort. Quickly removes dents and nicks that result from hitting rocks, stones and concrete.

Lansky “The Puck” Dual-Grit Multi-Functional Sharpener



This pocket-size Lansky Dual-Grit Multi-Functional Sharpener is ideal for sharpening lawn mower blades, machetes, hatchets, axe blades, shovels and spades plus a variety of other cutting and chopping tools. The Puck's easy-to-grip contoured shape provides safe and simple tool sharpening. Dual-Grit design provides a coarse side for quick cutting and shaping, and a medium side for final sharpening and finishing of your edge.

DMT Two-in-One Diafold Diamond Sharpener


If you’ve invested in good quality pruners and loppers, it is important to maintain it with a sharp cutting edge. Sharp pruning and cutting tools produce cleaner cuts that are easier to perform and are better for the health of the plant. DMT sharpener (9½”/24 cm open, 5”/12.5 cm closed. Made in USA.) is made with monocrystalline diamonds, a strong single crystal structure that doesn’t break apart with use, bonded in nickel to steel with recessed dots for chip clearance.

Diamond is the hardest material and is the most efficient sharpening abrasive requiring just a light pressure to produce a sharp edge with just a few strokes. The two-in-one Diafold has two grits, fine and coarse, on reverse sides for added versatility and convenience. By using the coarser side first, and then moving to the finer surface, a razor sharp edge can be achieved. Use the coarse side to restore a dull edge and then fine surface to maintain an edge. The folding plastic handle will protect the diamond Sharpener when not in use.

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