Tag: Gardening
How to take cuttings from a Saintpaulia leaf?
Indoor plant flowering all year round, the saintpaulia is a great classic for flowering all the rooms of the house. Its rosettes of green, fluffy leaves contrast with its clusters…
When and how to cut boxwood?
Boxwood is an evergreen shrub, widely grown in gardens to create borders, hedges and topiary. Despite attacks by box tree moths, it remains highly coveted. Cutting boxwood to propagate it…
Peas, when and how to sow them?
Crunchy, sweet and harbingers of spring, peas are very popular vegetables on our plates. Simple to grow, start sowing in February to harvest the first peas from June. You will…
What is sowing under a warm layer?
From January, the gardener begins his first sowing despite the winter cold. To anticipate plantings and harvests, there is the technique of sowing under a warm layer in order to…
How to successfully plant bare root trees or shrubs?
When it comes to planting shrubs, perennials, trees or fruit trees, you can buy them in containers or in pots or bare rooted. Why choose bare rooted plants and how…
How to cut the currant in winter?
Harvesting red berries in your garden remains a real pleasure. With simple cuttings, you can multiply the stems to renew your small fruit trees, to offer some or to make…
How to make a natural Christmas wreath?
The traditional Advent wreath will adorn home doors or decorate holiday tables to contribute to the magic of Christmas. Why not make your own wreath with natural elements salvaged from…
The dahlia, a fashionable flower
Michel Caron presents lovers of beautiful gardens the dahlia, a very particular plant that the Aztecs called chichipatli Where acocopatli and of which they consumed daily tubers. During the time…
When and how to plant the gray shallot?
Shallots are, along with onions, the most widely grown condiment in vegetable gardens. Enjoy the intense, more marked flavor of the small-sized gray shallot, unlike the softer and larger pink…
Well-being and health by nature
The trees, flowers, the sun: they surround us on a daily basis, yet we cannot imagine how they play an important role in our life. Moods, behaviors and emotions depend…