Welcome to The Tao of Garden

Gardening is simply the practice of cultivating plants. People grow ornamental plants to harvest their flowers, foliage, or to get dyes out of them. They are also grown for their overall appearance.

There are also plants that are cultivated for human consumption. They are consumed as fruits, vegetables and herbs for medicinal purposes.

When we talk about gardening the subject ranges from fruit orchards to long boulevard plantings. Gardening practitioners may specialize themselves in growing only one type of plant or they may also practice mixed plantings that involve many various plants.

Gardening requires active participation of the practitioner and it usually requires intensive works and discipline.
Here you'll find many tips and tricks that are related to gardening.

There are various methods, types and approaches to maintain a healthy and beautiful garden. You can find all of them here.

You may want to learn what's the proper way to landscape the yard, choosing the right soil, maintain the plants, growing indoor gardens, and many many more.

We also look forward to hear your insights, suggestions, and even requests around gardening and landscaping. So please don't forget to leave your precious comments...

Happy gardening... :)

Making Desert Landscaping


If you are the citizen of desert place, then desert landscaping will be working for you.

Although, it is bit tough apply then any other landscaping method but the only way to apply in the deserts.

The desert landscaping only allows you to work with the plants and the trees that can retain water inside them and can survive for long time if no water given to them.

Of course plating those plants that cannot retain water will die soon afterwards and there will be your lose.

So before making desert landscaping, give some time in finding about the ways to do desert landscaping and collect all the required knowledge about it.

You will need handsome amount of money and time for irrigating the land in desert area. So the best way is to select those plants that can even thrive in the hot sunny days.

The advantage of using these plants is that they not only remain alive in the hot sunny days but also thrives in to the poor quality soil. It is very obvious that the place where the sun rays are too much and direct affects the quality of the soil.

Here are some suggestions about the plants that can be used in your desert landscaping:

1.    Longwood Blue bluebeard:

Longwood blue bluebeard is a shrub and deciduous plant. It re-grows in every spring season with full of health and that is the reason it becomes the first choice for desert landscaping.

Its growth is about 3 to 4 feet in height and 2 feet in width. It is a beautiful and lovely blue flower that clusters with silver foliage and it also smells good.

2.    Autumn Joy:

It is the wonderful perennial that can be used in desert landscaping. You can have choice for selecting the color of the leaves obtained from this plant. It can even grow in the rocks that make it the ultimate choice in desert landscaping.

The flowers of these plants are really awesome and different from every other plant. These flowers grow in clusters and have different shades and colors.

Yellow, orange and the pink are the most common colors. It also attracts the butterflies and makes the scene auspicious.

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