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Watching your baby grow or a seedling grow gives you the same satisfaction as you enjoy the pleasure of nurturing something that is totally dependent on you. If you have a greenthumb but are hard pressed for time and space, you would love the concept of growing a single plant in this beautiful miniature greenhouse called Gro.

Gro, designed by Caroline Wetterling comes in the shape of a tiny cocoon and is made of 1.5 mm thick glass. A tiny opening allows proper air circulation. All you have to do is add a few drops of water every day and watch the seedling sprout into a beautiful plant. Have a couple of these miniature pods and you could transform your abode into beautiful mobile landscape. I call it mobile because you could just move them around as and when you feel the need for a change.

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Butterflies are symbolized as the personification of a person’s soul. In spring butterflies are seen fluttering all around in the garden. Their presence gives me a feeling of happiness and joy. If you did not see any butterfly fluttering in your garden then take a look at these pictures below of Glasswing Butterflies, which are themselves rarely for everywhere.

These butterflies are also known as Greta Oto and have brush feet and transparent wings.

Image credit to Hemmy.net and Mfrost.typepad

What are you planning to gift your Valentine this year? Red roses are always at hot sale on that Valentines Day.

Everyone buys a bunch of red roses for their valentine but you be different and buy her World’s Tallest Roses. These are not artificial but natural roses sold exclusively by Organic Bouquet. These kinds of roses measures around five feet in height.

Filling up a room with roses will be a pricey deal but these tall roses will do all the work for you to impress your beloved.

The roses are imported from Ecuador, where the combination of sun and volcanic soil let them to attain such impressive heights. The bouquet of a dozen flowers is for $250.

Do your neighbor’s pets that come into your garden and use it like their personal toilet trouble you. Now, do not worry of their arrival as Motion-Activated Garden Sentry, an infrared detection technology will keep all unwanted creatures out of your garden.

This gadget detects movement by its infrared sensors and sprinkles water spray that’s capable of covering 1,575 square foot. This device keeps all small and big animals away from your garden. It requires one 9-volt battery, which works day and night and lasts for six months. Price: $79.95

As this is a motion detector, you have to be sure about its installation as if it is near to your garden’s path then I’ll have to pitifully say that you will be drenched whenever you move out.

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In winters, our gardens look colorless with no blossoms around. Imagine if you are garden is filled with flower throughout the year!

I know that it’s against ‘Nature’ but we can always have some alternative and I am here with a beautiful alternative of ‘Flower Sculptures’ from Owen Pooley.

You can decorate your garden with any type and number of flowers. So, tease your neighbours with your perennial blossoming garden.

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Grow Blueberries in your garden with me.

Like the other ericaceous plants, blueberries flourish in acid soils and do best in soils with a pH between 4 and 5. It is very easy to grow blueberries in your garden.

Grow blueberry plant in acid soil. If your soil is not acidic then use ericaceous compost to make it suitable for growing blueberry plant. Make sure to plant two varieties as that will help in cross-pollination and better quality of the plant. Then, plant while dormant, 1.5m apart. After that mulch with acidic peat, wood chippings or pine needles. Water well the plant. Protect it with net in order to make it more safe during fruiting season.

The fruit is sweet and u can make innumerable dishes out of it by simply plucking them from your garden. You can make Blueberry, pecan and chocolate ‘cheesecake’; Blueberry Chutney; Blueberry pudding; Sweet blueberry omelette, Pecan and blueberry tiramisu, Caramelised blueberries with lemon syllabub, Pistachio blueberry banana bread and what not! Without moving out to market for shopping blueberries.

About Bulberry

The blueberry of the genus Vaccinium, is a native American species. In fact the blueberry is one of the few fruits native to North America. For centuries blueberries were collected from forest and now it has maintained it’s popularity with a thriving commercial business.

Blueberries before growing into a fruit take a shape of a flower, which can be white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish in bell-shape.

Not only it will tickle your taste buds but it’s some species will also be instrumental in combating cancer.

Know more about Blueberries here

Buying a good birdfeeder will not lead to it’s success rather its placement and the kinds of seeds offered in it will lead to attract birds. When you are tired, watching birds can be a good source of relaxation and it also increases your patience and concentration.

After an appropriate placement of the birdfeeder, you need to have a good birdfeeder and Topflight Triple Tube Birdfeeder will be a good choice all through your life. You can keep ten-pound seed at birds’ disposal in this birdfeeder and also features 12 flip-port feeding stations and 3 separate feeder tubes. Made of acrylic and stainless steel, it also contains a free steel mounting pole. Price: $40

Ground covers are plants that cover the ground. These plants are very beautiful. These help to prevent soil erosion, weed growth and gives your backyard a fuller look.

There are a variety of ground covers like Japanese Spurge ($ 12.95), which is shown above and others are as follows at Naturehills.com.

Bigleaf Periwinkle ($ 19.95)

Lamium- Beacon Silver ($ 19.95)

Chameleon Plant ($ 12.95)

Phlox- Emrald Blue ($ 12.95)

Hammock has always been a special feature of ones garden. You can relax calmly under shade or even bask in sun with small swings on your hammock.

Cocoon hammock drapes down to provide you translucent walls in your garden itself. It also features Taukkyan wood frame reinforced at the joints with stainless steel, casing made of batyline that will save you from UV. There will be very little noticeable sag to this hammock. You will really have to search the depth of your pocket to own this excellent piece. Price: $20,000 (approx.)

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Good news for gentian lovers! Scientists in New Zealand have cultivated a hot pink gentian, and in sometime you will see red and purple gentians too. Pink gentian is thrilling florists in Europe, the United States and Japan, where it is prized for flower arrangements.

Flower exporters are facing a problem in meeting the demand because the supply of new gentian is comparative lesser than it’s demand.

Flowerzone, an Auckland based flower exporter’s trading manager Louise Sheehan said that about 90 per cent of gentians are blue with a modicum of whites and pale pinks, but new hot pink flower is proving a winner.

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