Growing up, especially in primary school, I was taught that mulching is the best way to preserve water content of the soil. I did do my tad-bit of it – I planted two trees next to our school’s administration block and faithfully watered them every morning. As my days were busy through-out, I spread a…
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Part 1: Basics of Ornamental Gardening
ORNAMENTAL GARDENING Ornamental gardening can be simply defined as planting various plants on a piece of ground from and for an artistic point of view. This entails designing such a garden to follow given patterns for a general pleasurable look. An ornamental garden therefore is one that is planted purely for aesthetic value. History is…
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Part 2: Basics of Ornamental Gardening
If you found our last blog interesting, well, here is a guide to just but a few of the types of ornamental gardens. They have been there for centuries and well – old is gold! 1. Baroque Gardens. These mainly apply the use of geometric shapes such as circles, rectangles and triangles. They also…
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Mosquitos: Plants That Repel Them
Ten Plants that Repel Mosquitos….. In This Edition we Present to you 5….. We have just come out of a very hot season and are now entering the cooler and wetter season. This comes with some unwelcome guests; mosquitos. To help manage them, we bring to you both indoors and outdoors plants that can help…
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