http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/Images/smalllog.gif http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/index.html Gardening articles from Gardenzine Gardening articles from Gardenzine. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/index.html Incorporating water into your garden design is a brave step. Get it right and you have an additional element that can really add interest but get it wrong and you end up with something resembling a green puddle. All too often water features in gardens appear artificial and out of place so you need to think carefully about how you will use water in the garden and why you want it there in the first place. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/water-garden-design.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/water-garden-design.html First you must decide where to site your pond. Have it close to the house if you want to it to be visible for most of the year. Choose a level site if possible and avoid placing your pond at the foot of a hill where water might run underneath the pond liner and lift it. Ponds at the foot of slopes may also be subject to fertiliser run-off which will cause algal blooms. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/build-a-pond.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/build-a-pond.html Small man-made garden ponds are often let down by the fact that the pond liner shows around the edges and it is quite difficult to get a natural looking edge. If you have managed to get the banks of the pond level all the way around, you are half-way there. Then, it's just a question of personal taste which method you use. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/edging-ponds.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/edging-ponds.html The garden, designed by Kenzon Ogata, is in the tsuki-yama-chisen (mountain, pond, stream) style. The main visual elements are the waterfall, the stream and the pond. 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Get up close to it and you can see why eucalyptus is such a good all-rounder. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/eucalyptus.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/eucalyptus.html He claims to have cured his own cancer, to have removed his own warts and to be the most robust 82-year-old on the planet ever since he discovered the miracle solution known as hydrogen peroxide...In 13 years of applying hydrogen peroxide to his gardens, Munro said he has experienced better yields, faster seed germination and far fewer insect infestations. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/peroxide.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/peroxide.html What do keen gardeners do when the weather's bad?..we can move our gardening indoors and start our seeds off under artificial lights. Since the set up isn't exactly pretty, you probably won't want it sitting right in the middle of your living room and will most likely have it hidden away somewhere...Alternatively, you could make do with two simple fluorescent tubes or a collection of adjustable desk lamps with the light trained onto your seed tray or plants. http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/plants-under-lights.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/plants-under-lights.html There is something about the timeless permanence and natural look of a brick patio that can not be matched by any timber deck...A brick patio can be built almost anywhere and the circular part can even be incorporated as a design feature if additional bricks are used to square up to any adjacent straight areas... http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/brick-patio.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/brick-patio.html One of the advantages of pruning during the winter is that you can see much better what needs to be cut out and what should stay. 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Even more confusing is the fact that you are faced with endless TV makeover programmes which seem to be able to transform gardens for next to nothing....As a general rule, a well-planned and built garden will add between five and ten percent to the value of your property and even more than that to the value of a new-build property which has no garden at all....One thing you need to know is that the budget they give you on TV makeovers is normally extremely unrealistic.... http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/garden-costs.html http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/garden-costs.html