Gardening and Landscaping - Top 10 of Anything and Everything

Top 10 Things To Make With Twigs and Branches

Walking through the wood I see lots of fallen twigs and branches, probably hundreds and thousands of them! I feel happy knowing that nature has its way of using them to feed back into the woodlands delicate ecosystem. But using just a few of them to make some of these amazing things can’t do any harm…

Top 10 Ways To Recycle and Transform Garden Tools

Today I have been clearing out the garden shed. While there aren’t many garden tools inside it, the ones that are there are starting to rust away, so I decided to look at ways in which I could transform them into something new…

Ten of the Worlds Most Amazing and Unusual Squirrel Feeders

Do you enjoy feeding the squirrels that come into your garden? If you do you will love seeing these ten very unusual Squirrel feeders that give you a little bit of fun to watch, but more importantly, they still do the job of feeding the Squirrels. So let’s grab our nuts and feel that wildlife…

Top 10 Crazy And Unusual Lawn Mowers

It’s that time of the year when the lawn mower is going away in the shed until next year. But I’ve started to wonder if I should get rid of my old mower and get one of these more unusual ones instead…

Top 10 Things To Make With Cinder Blocks

While most people will think about making a cinder block planter (Like those in my post: Top 10 Cinder Block Planters) there are many other things you can make with them. So I thought I would bring you ten of the very best ideas…

Ten Amazing Floats Covered in Flowers at the Bloemencorso Zundert Floral Parade

One thing I love to see is a summer flower in full bloom. From a single plant to a whole field of them, they never fail to make me smile. But the flowers I am about to show you should make your jar drop. These are the flower floats of the Bloemencorso Zundert floral parade…

Ten Creative and Unusual Garden Fences to Make Your Neighbours Jealous

Watching my next door neighbour paint his fence I realised that my own one needs a little sprucing up as well. After all, you have to keep up with the neighbours! But I want something a little more than a plain wooden fence, I want something that is creative, amazing and unusual. Something like this lot…

Ten Amazing Garden Paths That Would Make Any Neighbour Jealous

My own garden path is something that I need to fix. You see I once tried to put down a patio with rather a disastrous effect. So now I have a lumpy, bumpy, miss-match of a path that I need to start from scratch again. But while looking for ideas I come across some rather amazing paths as well…

Ten Amazing and Unusual Things to Do With Pine Cones

While out walking the dog in the woods I often see Conifer cones all over the floor, just about everywhere. But the other day I saw someone collecting them (hundreds of them) and wondered what on earth they could make or indeed do with all that make pine cones. Well, it seems there are quite a lot of options, but I …

Ten Amazing Things to Can Do With Tree Stumps You Need to See

Do you have an old tree stump in the garden? If you do you might want to check out these ten ideas for using them. Some do require a lot of work, but they are all amazing ideas that can turn any boring tree stump into something much more amazing…

Ten Ways to Use Old Volkswagen Beetles in the Garden

The first ever film I went to see in the Cinema was “Herbie Goes Bananas” way back in 1980 (yes, I really am that old and I was 5 when I watched that!) Anyway my point is that I understand some people’s fondness over their VW Beetles. Some people still drive them, some still race them and there are even …

Ten Amazing, Crazy and Unusual Bird Feeders From Around the World

I have always wondered if birds really do like bread or if they are just grateful for what they get?!? Well, maybe it doesn’t matter what they eat, but more where they eat it. After all, a feeder ball hanging in a tree is a much safer and better place for birds to eat than food just thrown down on the garden! …

Ten Great Examples That Show How Amazing Shoe Planters Can Be

This might just be me, but as a kid, I hated just one single thing more than the dentist, and that was shopping for school shoes! Boring shops, full of boring shoes, with boring people fitting them, and boring conversions about why that shoe I was trying on isn’t “quite right for him” boring, boring, boring. And to be honest, …

Ten Amazing Ways to Make Your Own Cinder Block Planters

I am going to admit to something here that not a lot of people know: “I HATE GARDENING!” I love the look of a nice garden, but hate doing it. For several years now I have paid my elderly neighbour in beer to cut the grass every few weeks because I hate doing that much! But something I do love looking at and …