Image via Wikipedia Moving Plants While winter is the ideal time to move plants they can be successfully moved at any time throughout the year provided care is taken. Smaller plants, under three feet tall , are the easiest to move. The first step is to trim the plant by about one third. The next step is to dig the plant out ensuring that the root ball is approximately the same diameter as [...]

Image via Wikipedia Gardening Can Improve Your Health While we are attending to the health of our plants, we too are improving our health both physically and mentally. Even the relatively light work of weeding the garden is good exercise and particularly with elderly folks it is an opportunity to get exterior , breath the fresh air and improve their well-being. As we bend down to drag [...]

Image via Wikipedia Big pots can make an impressive statement in any garden, particularly if they have large healthy plants in them. Many trees will increase well in large pots provided they have sufficient room for their roots. To ensure their good health you ought to always buy the best quality outdoor potting mix. The bigger the pot you buy the better, within reason for the size of the [...]

Image via Wikipedia Choosing Plants that are Healthy When you're buying or receiving plants from someone there are a several things that you need to look at before deciding to plant them in your garden. You will generally get a better quality plant from a garden middle and it will be less likely to have sickness or other problems that could spread to other plants in your garden. There [...]