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How to fool cats who think garden’s a litter box

June 06, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Q: How do I discourage cats from using my garden as a litter box?
A: That is, how can you get cats to stop answering the call of nature in your particular corner of nature? This is a matter to which I have applied plenty of thought and experimentation.
It seems uncanny that a cat always finds [...]

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How the gardens grow at Ingliston

May 27, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

IT promises to be one of the most spectacular displays in this year’s Gardening Scotland extravaganza. Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden’s 16m by 17m exhibit, to be unveiled at the show which opens on June 1, will include 25-foot trees, two ponds and a summer house, as well as hundreds of plants from across the world.
So [...]

Master Gardeners: Add color to your hillside without drawing deer

May 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Gardening on a hillside presents a unique set of challenges. Hillside gardening without deer fencing exponentially increases the challenges.
My own home has a steep rise from the street to the front fence. For decades, families of deer have used this narrow space as their well-carved trail to access the tasty treats in the unenclosed neighborhood [...]

Shady opportunists with delicate grace

May 02, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Spring-flowering woodlanders are nature’s opportunists. They creep through the bare earth, prompted by lengthening days and warmer temperatures, then flower just before the leafy canopy extends overhead. Many are diminutive and delicately proportioned, but they make a huge impact because they flower while most of the garden is still at rest.
Ideal conditions for growing woodlanders [...]

State houses become stately homes

April 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Home & Decoration

The perimeters are the giveaway. Amid the bustling neighbourhood of townhouses, duplexes, apartments, flats and family homes, it’s odd that the fences are all the same. Pen-like, the 1.2m flimsy aluminium spikes and rails are sufficient to mark property boundaries, but leave an openness for all to see.
Backyards, front-yards and side-yards give up privacy for [...]

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If it looks great outdoors, imagine the effect inside

It may seem like summer's nearly over, but your yard and garden still have plenty of life left in them. So why not send up your last hurrah? From now until
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