Articles from the ‘Home and Garden’ category
Posted by Contributor on November 2, 2007 at 3:55 pm in Home and Garden
Shape Magazine For the trendiest party this season, keep things simple and sexy. Here are some fabulous and easy décor ideas, as well as the most delectable dinner menu for your summer-time party. Décor direction * If you have a pool or a water feature, dot it with floating candles and artificial water lilies or [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 14, 2007 at 6:00 pm in Home and Garden
Deborah Hele Gardens are places of special meanings and memories. We need to allow our children to become involved in our gardens, through this comes the appreciation and caring that they will take with them into school and into their adult lives. Little pathways, fallen branches, benches, sandboxes, mud, swings in trees, water puddles, leaves, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:58 pm in Home and Garden
Claire Patmore Security is not all about barbed wire and bars. Nature provides a host of natural fences that make a better deterrent then most man made fences… Picture a climbing rose cascading over a wall, a beautiful site but not much fun to climb over! Bougainvillea too, is a riot of colour most of [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:57 pm in Home and Garden
Claire Patmore There is little to beat having your own supply of lemons. Whether in the ground or in a pot, fresh lemons are as easy to grow as (lemon meringue) pie! Lemons like a sunny spot. If they can sun themselves for six hours a day, then they are happy. A soil that has [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:57 pm in Home and Garden
Deborah Hele August is a month for planting and feeding, prepping those plants of yours for the hot season ahead. Here are some tips to get you going… # Plant Lilium Bulbs, especially our favourite — St. Josephs Lily — for added beauty in summer # Continue to feed and water your winter and spring [...]
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