Decor Works

Serious cactus enthusiasts probably recognize the name prickly pear cactus. But did you know there are both edible and medicinal prickly pear historical uses? This Southern California and Mexico naïve was once used extensively by indigenous people. You can find the pads and fruits in specialty markets today, an interesting addition to salads or eaten […]

Roe Sie fell in love with milling his own grains after he fell down the homesteading rabbit hole. His passion manifested into The King’s Roost, a homesteading shop, grain mill, and classroom on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA. This week’s podcast features a nerd-factor-five conversation with Roe, the ever-curious urban homesteader. We chat about […]

We build a relationship with tomatoes unlike almost any other plant in our vegetable garden as they need such constant and varying care. We start off seeds when it is too cold for them to survive on their own; we nurture young plants, trying to maintain the correct balance between heat and light until they […]

Like a lot of gardens, the garden featured in this month’s case study was a fairly typical one. It consisted mainly of just lawn with a few plants dotted around and a shed. So, if the majority of your garden is lawn, how do you make it more interesting? Step 1 Create a lawn shape […]

In A Stylish Rasied Bed Almost Anyone Can Build, Kerry Shay teaches us the ins and outs to building your own raised bed from scratch. Below, Kerry covers some alterations you can make to his plans if you are looking for a different aesthetic.   Typically we build our raised garden beds out of pressure-treated […]

Hydrangeas of varying types have to be the most widely grown summer flowering shrubs of all. How so? The numbers of cultivars bred from the species serrata, macrophylla, paniculata, arborescens, anomala (climbing hydrangea) and quercifolia (oakleaf hydrangea) surely number in the hundreds. The numbers of those hybrids and cultivars commonly available for sale are staggering. […]

Here at Gardening Know How we get lots of questions, and our goal is to provide answers to those inquiries to the best of our knowledge. Of these includes lighting for plants in the home and garden. The following information includes the 10 most commonly asked questions relating to garden lighting, both indoors and in […]

EACH SEASON I ask my cookbook writer friend, Ali Stafford, what new books look exciting to her. And for spring she had one in particular she said I mustn’t miss, “The Nimble Cook” by Ronna Welsh. Ronna asks us to think differently–specifically, to think about ingredients first, before recipes. And Ali was right, I love […]

For the last three summers I have been growing airplants outside in the Jungle Garden. Secured to the branches of a tree in dappled shade, they’ve added texture and interest where otherwise there was little else to amuse. In spite of their small size they have always attracted comment: few people expect to see these […]

Summer is the time to really appreciate your garden, so let’s maximise your enjoyment by making the landscape look as spectacular as possible! There’s nothing worse than finally sitting on your favourite sun lounger, only to notice how various parts of the garden aren’t looking as good as they ought to. Whilst the overall design […]