Vertical Gardening

PRESENTS Vertical Gardening Vertical gardening is the practice of growing plants in or on walls or in vertical layers within a structure, rather than in horizontal spaces on-or-in the ground. This method of landscape or agriculture culture can be used to provide a purely decorative garden effect for foliage plants or flowers and/or to grow an edible crop of vegetables and herbs in a relevantly small or confined area. These gardens can be as minimal

A Day In The Garden

    VISIT A GARDEN TODAY! Garden Tours Provide an Escape from the Hectic World by N. Paul Paulus In this hectic, stressed and over committed society we are a part of these days, why would you ever want to commit a few precious hours to walk leisurely through beautiful and tranquil surroundings with garden tours? And why would you ever want to subject yourself or your loved ones to a breath of fresh air

Designing an Uber-Green, Leed Certified Garden

PRESENTS Designing an Uber-Green LEED Certified Garden With "Environmentally Responsible Landscaping" and "Water Efficient Landscaping"   First, consider that every designer’s endeavor should have a specific purpose in mind. Then that designer must set a firm goal to fulfill the design project’s purpose and move to establish the means and activities to activate the purpose as envisioned. In this article, we are setting a goal to create a garden that will meet most of

A Journey To Eden

A Journey To Eden A short story by: Daniel J Ford I’m not certain why I chose to drive out of the city that bright sunny morning instead of heading directly to work, just as I do day after day.  I just followed an instinct that I didn’t know I had. It wasn’t exactly that I had no control over this impulse.  It just seemed that I was somehow given a suggestion and then decided