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Environmental Factors 2
The sun's height in the sky is crucial in determining climates and microclimates. Latitude, longitude and the earth's tilt govern amounts of sun reaching locations.
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Microclimates
Many world-renowned gardens utilize both natural and manipulated microclimates to achieve drama and beauty. Designers of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens in Kent, England and Butterstream Gardens, in County Meath, The Irish Republic exploited existing structures like old brick walls and buildings along with natural influences such as compass direction, water, and large trees. The Isle of Wight surrounded by waters of the Solent is a "working example" of bodies of water influencing a regional or neighborhood microclimate.
environmental factors • environmental features • microclimate • microclimates • altitude

Sun and Shade
Knowing the daily and annual sun positions helps to make landscape designs accurate and realistic. Sizes of extremely shady or sunny spots are easy to estimate.
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Environmental Factors: 1
Recognizing and working with environmental factors helps to avoid expensive and distressing landscape design mistakes. Environmental factors interact with each other to make every site unique. Paying attention to these factors is also essential for a yard or garden plan to be successful over time.
environmental conditions • environmental factors • landscape design • climate • sun and shade cycles

Gardening In Shade - Introduction
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
shade • gardening in shade • shade gardening • perennials • shrubs

Choosing the Best of Italy’s Lakes
Como, Maggiore, Garda, Orta, Iseo: each lake has its own charm and character. Find the right one for a romantic getaway, solo vacation or family holiday.
best italian lakes • italy’s lake como travel • italian dream trip • maggiore vacation • garda family holiday

Northern Spring Perennials
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
snow • zone 4 • zone 3 • zone 2 • zone 1

The Coal River Valley Wine Region
The Coal River Valley Wine Region near the historic town of Richmond, Tasmania, Australia is an excellent place to taste award winning wine at the cellar door.
coal river valley wine region area • richmond tasmania australia • historic town village • hobart drive distance • cool climate wines

Come for a stroll in my garden
I live and garden in Tasmania, the beautiful island state of Australia. Our island is made up of mountains, lakes and rivers.

Frosty Morn Sedum
Frosty Morn Sedum is a problem solving perennial in my garden. It has earned a place in the garden by being a low maintenace plant that looks great without flowers.
frosty morn sedum • sedum • variegated sedum • plants bulbs • susan mertz

Annual or Perennial?
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
what kind of flower • annual flower • perennial flower • biennial flower • half hardy annual flower

Conflict for Lord Baltimore
George Calvert, the first Lord of Baltimore, visits Newfoundland then visits Jamestown, Virginia. He tangles with the secretary of the Virginia council William Claiborne.
george calvert • lord baltimore • maryland • new world • newfoundland

Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
The province of Hawke's Bay, a tourist-friendly destination on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, is a great place to visit.
hawke's bay • new zealand • sunshine • surf • art deco

Part Sun, Part Shade
Some plants prefer sun, some prefer shade so how do you handle part sun/part shade locations? These practical tips will help you decide.
flower garden • flower gardening • partial sun • partial shade • part sun

The Chemistry of Concrete
How cement reacts with water and the different types of admixture used in the construction industry
concrete • cement • admixtures • aggregate • construction

Broad Leafed Evergreens - Hollies
Hollies (Ilex) belong to the family Aquifoliaceae. There are over 350 species native to North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, the Orient and Brazil. They range in size from dwarf shrubs to huge trees. Both evergreen and deciduous ones are readily available from local nurseries and by mail order. The evergreen varieties are the most useful as ‘bones’ for the garden. Many will also provide the added bonus of berries, which can be red or yellow.
holly • ilex • aquifoliaceae • broad leafed • evergreens

Pedicure How-to
A little daily attention while in the shower is all it takes to have summer ready feet. Instructions on giving yourself a pedicure so your pretty feet will be sandal rea
summer ready feet • pedicures • sandals • pretty feet • home pedicure

Covering Ground At A Trot
Some groundcovering plants that don’t exactly gallop. There pace is more of a steady trot. These are all very easy to control if they put themselves where you don’t want them. Better manners, but steadily increasing cover without any effort on your part.
groundcover • groundcovers • mazus reptans • symphytum grandiflorum • comfrey

I'm a Gertrude Jekyll Wannabe: Mistakes Beginning Gardeners Make
Unless you have an estate sized garden, and a small staff of gardeners, some borders are just a bit ambitious.
english gardens • garden design • white gardens • color • colour

Creek Indians of Georgia's Islands
St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, for eons had been the home of the Creek Indians. Then in 1540 the Spanish invaded this Indian paradise and attempted to Chris
convert indians to christianity • georgia • st. simons • creek • indians

How to Get Out of a Makeup Rut
Make sure the time you spend on your face is well spent. Is your makeup still flattering, or are you just in a makeup rut?
makeup tips • makeup rut • foundation shades • beauty image • mixing foundation

Buy A Healthy Rose
Before buying a rose bush, you should kick the tires. Is the plant a healthy one worthy of being planted in your flower garden? Here’s what to look for in a healthy rose.
how to buy healthy rose • rose selection • rose graft • graft damage • scion

Edible Desert Gardens
There are many plants that are beautiful, produce edible fruit (or are edible themselves) and grow well in desert gardens.
desert garden • desert gardens • edible plants • rosalind creasy • perennials

Kermits Key Lime Pie Shoppe
All Key Lime Pie is not created equal. For a taste of the real deal, I headed to Kermit's Key Lime Pie Shoppe in Key West, Florida where I was richly rewarded.
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The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Everywhere: A Hitch-hiker's Database
One of the biggest problems with popular hitch-hiking guidebooks is that they go out of date. You follow the advice they give, and find you're standing one newly build motorway, or the road you hoped for has been bypassed and traffic is gone. Thrice I set out of London with a 1985 guidebook to draw on and faced problems like these. Here's a suggestion on how to work around that, cover more ground and stay up to date, it can be done, and I believe will be done, it's just a question of time ...

What Kind of Shade? - Part One - Shades of Shade
Definitions of shade aren't an exact science, but it's important to get a grasp on the shades of shade.
shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials

Broad Leafed Evergreens - Pieris
One of my favorite broad-leafed evergreens, Pieris or often mistakenly called Andromeda, is perfect for the shady garden. A member of the Ericaceae and closely related to Rhododendrons, it thrives in the same kind of moist, organic, acid soil.

Buying A Rose Bush
Buying a rose bush is an investment. Will it thrive and flourish in your flower garden? Follow these rose buying tips and be an educated rose consumer!
buy rose bush • rose shopping • healthy rose • good quality rose • research rose

Crete's Only Naturist Resort
Naturist & clothing-optional beaches in Greece and the Greek islands are plentiful but the Vritomartis Hotel in Crete is the only one on the island where you can bare all
crete naturist resort • naked holidays • clothing-optional hotels greece • nudist crete • vritomartis

Definition of Aboriginal
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.
aboriginal descent • aboriginal welfare • definition of aboriginality • aboriginal identity • indigenous claim

Marriage, The Early Years
Newly wed couples may be supprised to find themselves arguing in the early stages of marriage, but believe it or not, arguments have a place in a new relationship.
marriage • arguments • learning • relationship • exploration

Multiple Sclerosis Overview
Learn more about a neurological disorder that comes with bizarre symptoms, unpredictability, and hope for a potential cure.
multiple sclerosis • ms • central nervous system • avonex • betaseron

Trees: The Gift of Love - II
Arbor Day, observed in the U. S. on the last Friday of April, is a traditional time to plant trees. Trees in the home landscape provide physical structure and memories.
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