Gardening, Garden Tips, Home Improvement

Mygarden is a site aimed at helping you with all your gardening, landscape design  and home improvement questions.  We have some great garden tips and ideas for your house (retaining walls, ground covers, terraces, design, outdoor lighting and low voltage lighting, espalier) for you and your family.  Be sure to check them out if you are renovating. Great ideas for kitchens and bathrooms too,

If you have questions that you can't find the answers to, please go to our forum. We invite you to join our friendly community of plant lovers.  Post your questions, share your wisdom, or just start a conversation!  We look forward to you joining. And remember, it's free of course!

In this website, we hope to give you gardening tips based on a combination of old fashioned knowledge, down to earth practices and some modern understanding too. The goal is to help people reconnect with mother nature by working in their own garden. Heaven knows we need it now more than ever!

On that note, nothing could be more pressing than the environment and global warming. For this reason, we have put together a collection of resources to help you navigate your way through the carbon neutral minefield. These include sustainable living resources such as green living (hemp products), recycling and sustainable living, garden sheds, sustainable architecture, renewable energy (solar energy, solar power, solar panels, biomass and biofuels, hydro and wind power etc..)

If you are looking for botanical taxonomical information, please go to our  database.  You can search for over 211,000 botanical names!  We aim to bring you the most complete listing of botanical names in the world!

We have many features on many types of both house and garden plants and flowers too. Some great orchid articles such as how to grow orchids and caring for orchids. Orchid flowers are truly amazing.

One of our most popular subjects is the humble tomato.  It has never been so easy to create your own crop - especially if you know all about your soil type. Mulch, and the different types of mulch is invaluable knowledge so you too can grow the best organic food, right at your back door (using permaculture design techniques of course!).

In Australia horticulture types covers almost all types of topography, seasons and conditions. From Alpine and sub alpine to coastal, rainforest and even deserts. However, if you plan on buying seeds from overseas, you should first determine if it is actually legal to bring them in into the country. You can obtain this information from ICON the Import Conditions Database which is maintained by Biosecurity Australia (BA) and used by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) when processing imports. Check out this link. You should also check with your own state authorities to see if these species can legally be grown.

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