"Create your Home and Garden Dream!"

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'..

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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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