Green Thumb Gardeners
Basic gardening hints & growing tips & tricks,landscaping ideas, anything about growing plants & tending plants in your home garden..all botany & horticulture...Come show & share pictures,stories of your own gardens & planting adventures here in this group.
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Lavender
Lavender is a wonderful herb and a great garden plant, it has found its home in English country gardens but of course it came to us from the Mediterranean originally. There are many things…
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How to Grow Cacti and Succulents
How to Grow Cacti and SucculentsCacti and succulents are great easy care, low maintenance plants.Cacti and succulents are undemanding plants to grow. Providing form, colour and texture, they add interest to difficult-to-fill hot, dry, sunny places in the garden. They are great easy care, low…
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Flowers from my Garden
The builders had planted a rose hedge as part of the landscaping of the estate where I live. Over the years some of the bushes died, so I'm glad I got a few pictures along…
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Why foraging is making a resurgence in towns..
Why foraging is making a resurgence in towns..With the economy as it is and the standard of living rising by the hour,while living in the suburban streets means it's fair to say I don't dabble in a lot of foraging - unless searching through the broccoli at Countdown supermarket counts. I do however…
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What Ive been doing in my garden..
What I've been doing in my garden in the past & coming weeks..I've been busy in my garden... yesterday I was clearing an area that was over grown along the fence line as I'm wanting to create better borders this summer, and I came across some huge bulbs I wasnt sure of what they were, so did a…
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Desmodium Gyrans the dancing plant
Desmodium Gyrans the dancing plantCodariocalyx motorius - formerly Desmodium gyrans.Codariocalyx motorius, known as the telegraph plant, dancing plant, or semaphore plant, is a tropical Asian shrub, one of a few plants capable of rapid movement; others include Mimosa pudica, the venus flytrap and…
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The Deep Living Project- Exploring Regenerative Living..
The Deep Living Project- Exploring Regenerative Living..Identifying Edible WeedsI had a chance to go for an edible weed foray with my friends.. It was early autumn here and quite dry but I still managed to find some of their favourite edible weeds including dandelion, purslane and sow thistle.…
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National Trust steps in to rescue rare English lichen
National Trust steps in to rescue rare English lichen..Just as an art gallery would protect its collection of fine and rare paintings, the National Trust is attempting to save one of England’s rarest lichens.The lungwort, a survivor of the ancient wildwood that grew in Britain after the last ice…
