"Create your Home and Garden Dream!"
Your home and garden can be a beautiful environment totally unique to you. That personal rug or collage of photographs tells a story of your life, your experiences and your hopes and dreams.
Get a vision of your ideal home and hold it! It may be you already live in your perfect home but it could do with a face-lift. Get the finished picture in your mind and go for the dream...
Here are some great Home and Garden pages. Scroll down for 'Food and Drink' and 'Healthy Living'..
"General Home and Garden"
Grow them, nurture them and cut them... or get someone to present you with a beautiful bouquet every now and then! Find out how you can keep your blooms looking good for longer.
For full article click here: Caring for your cut stems
Garden Gifts:
Garden Gifts for all your gardening friends and even those who dont know a daffodil from a rose!
For full article click here Garden Gifts
Poetry:
Create a peaceful spot in the garden and take half an hour to sit in the fresh air with a notebook and pen. Absorb the environment.
For full article click here Garden Poetry
Proverbs:
So many gardening proverbs, quotes and sayings relate to everyday living. Maybe you know someone who always comes up 'smelling of roses'!
For full article click here Gardening Proverbs
Gift of Flowers!
Be nice to yourself and indulge in one of nature's awesome creations. It's true we don't actually NEED flowers in our daily schedules BUT since when did humans stick to what they needed!
For full article click here: Gift of Flowers
Giving Green
Put your feet up for an hour or so and create a 'natural' Christmas gift list. Okay it may be necessary to buy the new games machines for the kids, but for everyone else, giving green gifts will be very much appreciated.
For full article click here: Giving Green
Home and Garden Tips
These quick and easy ideas will cut down on chore time and add a touch of flair into the household. With general supermarket survival tips and how not to cut your nails while chopping herbs.
For full article click here: Home and Garden Tips
Home Garden Party:
Treat your friends and family to a completely organic home garden party - any time of year!
For full article click here Home Garden Party
Websites:
The internet must surely be the quickest and most effective form of communication and a perfect way to share your hobby or promote your small business.
For full article click here Web Hosting and your Gardening Website
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"If you need to find a
reliable gardener My Hammer can help."
My Hammer UK
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With holiday seasons always looming or someone's birthday just around the corner, original home and garden gifts aren't always easy to come by.
In the US Jackson and Perkins have a great range..
Home and Garden Gifts at Jackson and Perkins
And in the UK Crocus have a huge range of home and garden gifts available. Here's a small taster!
When you land on their homepage choose home and gifts and you'll find all sorts of wonderful gardening gifts for family and friends. - Gifts, tools and lots more at Crocus UK
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"Home and Garden - Food and Drink"
Drinking Water
You probably already know that it’s important to drink enough water. A minimum of eight glasses of water a day is recommended.
For full article click here Drinking Water
Fruit is a wonderful nutritional and dietary tool that nature provides for us. Here are some tips for getting the most from your diet.
For full article click here Fruit Diets
Fruit Smoothie
Who doesn’t love a fruit smoothie? How about a healthy one that has a taste that cannot be beat? You can stop your search today because this smoothie recipe has it all.
For full article click here Fruit Smoothie
Garden Soup Recipes
Fed up with intricate recipes and fiddling around in the kitchen? Throw a load of veggies in the pot and let them bubble on the stove until hunger pangs take over!
For full article click here Garden Soup Recipes
Green Tea
Find out why green tea is probably the best drink in the world! Green tea can even help you lose weiht..now how good is that!
For full article click here Green Tea
Healthy Eating
Work out your own healthy eating plan with this simple guide to getting going in the garden. The whys and wherefores explained..
For full article click here Healthy Eating
Mushrooms and Fungi
Mushrooms can be grown indoors, outdoors and even in a cupboard! Nutritious and tasty and on hand whenever you need them.. ( natural health foods at their best! )
For full article click here Mushrooms and Fungi
Organic Food
Top reasons to choose organic food for you and your family
For full article click here Organic Food
Potato Recipes
The humble potato comes into it's own. These potato recipes will overcome any desire to buy instant mashed potato ever again!
For full article click here Potato Recipes
Vegetable Recipes
Vegetable recipes make every meal a lot tastier and can even encourage the children to eat their spinach! Although vegetables are tasty, most of us in the western world have had our taste buds bombarded with all sorts of interesting flavours.....
For full article click here Vegetable Recipes
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Grow your own organic garden vegetables to make the finest meals for your family....
Thompson and Morgan are online worldwide suppliers of seeds and other products and they have some great pictures to drool over!
broad beans brussel sprouts Carrots
Chile Peppers Sweetcorn Tomatoes
Thompson and Morgan UK
Thompson and Morgan US
Garden vegetables at Thompson and Morgan Worldwide
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"Home and Garden - Healthy Living"
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a traditional holistic healing. Translated from Sanskrit, Ayurveda means 'the science of life'. ayur means "life" and veda means "science.
For full article click here Ayurveda
Pioneered by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930's, a flower
essence is a liquid preparation imprinted with the etheric pattern of a particular bloom.
For full article click here: The Twelve Healers
Bring Enlightenment to your Environment
To be truly successful, happy, wealthy and wise, draw on all things natural around you and create a stress-free home and garden environment...
For full article click here: Enlightenment
Exercise
You can exercise in the garden but unless you have a private space, it may be wiser not to prance around in your leotard for all the neighbours to see.... but gardening is exercise in itself!
For full article click here Exercise
Feng Shui in your garden:
Feng Shui (translated literally means wind and water), dating back over 5000 years, is the ancient Chinese art of positioning objects for harmony and balance in the environment
For full article click here Feng Shui
Stimulate Your Senses!
Whether you have a balcony or a backyard, you can very simply build a natural living world to plunge into whenever you choose. If you have neither, consider renting a small patch of land or sharing a garden with someone.
For full article click here: Stimulate Your
Senses
Grow a Healthy Diet!
We all owe it to ourselves to have a healthy balanced diet that will keep our body trim and reduce the possibility of illness and disease. Vitamins and minerals are just a part of the foods we should eat on a daily basis to keep the body, mind and soul functioning to its fullest capacity.
For full article click here Vitamins
Natural Weight Loss!
The weight loss industry is probably one of the biggest money spinners in the world, especially the western half! And it's not surprising when we know that a huge number of the world's population is now overweight, or even, to use that awful word, 'obese'.
For full article click here Weight Loss the Natural Way
Happy Home and Garden!
More "Home and Garden" Reading
Herb Gardening: Herbs are becoming recognised more and more as superfoods, as if we didn't know that really! 'Herb Gardening' has been beautifully put together by the publisher (Crowood Press) into a well presented book with full colour photos.
Along with the growing instructions for forty different herbs, there are lots of great ideas, including culinary delights and medicinal alternatives.
You'll also find gardening advice as well as some ideas on planning a herb garden. Order it now direct from the
publisher... Herb Gardening
Grow Your Own Pharmacy: If, like me, you want to be able to eat the best food on the planet, grow your own!
Grow Your Own Pharmacy
• Clear instructions on planning, planting, growing and harvesting the fruits, vegetables and herbs required for a healthy vitamin intake.
• Recipes and menus to help incorporate the fruit and vegetables into your daily diet.
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Granny's Book Of Good Old Fashioned Common Sense is packed full of great ideas and tips. Granny brings
traditional home-making up to date with cooking, gardening, needlecrafts and even games to play with the kids...Click on the link below to order your copy.
Granny's Book Of Good Old Fashioned Common Sense
Cooking doesn’t have to be a chore and preparing nourishing home cooked meals for the family will certainly keep them away from the goodie shelf. Gardening encourages physical exercise and a good healthy dollop of fresh air. And you can get the kids involved too.
Before the days of computer games and electronic pets, children used to have fun without rummaging about in the fridge every five minutes. Enjoy a few rainy-day games and crafts of yesteryear with today’s kids. They’ll love it and so will you!
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