Gardening: Transform Your Back Yard Into An Enchanted Glen

A bonanza of garden equipment and accessories at bargain prices awaits your mouse click, including such goodies as a gazebo you can purportedly set up in 30 seconds and a fairy fountain to transform your back yard into an enchanted glen. Buy grilling apparatus while shopping for perennials, then surf to sites that offer light and sound options for garden parties.

If you’re seeking an interactive experience as well as a chance to purchase horticultural accoutrements, you’ll also find magazines, garden clubs, and virtual workshops online. These sties are often as elaborately designed as a perfectly laid out garden, offering easy navigation and comprehensive search engines. Some even feature photographs of various gardening spaces, spanning such diverse sizes as window boxes, balconies, and manor lawns, then giving instructions for how to design and maintain them. The United Kingdom’s Royal Horticultural Society sponsors a particularly useful page advising gardeners on plant care, as well as advertising high quality fertilizer (for your practical side) and stunning arbors (for your whimsical one).

While you’re sprucing up a patch of land, why not get your house in tip-top shape with several sites devoted to home remodeling and repair? Ordering wrought iron fixtures, glamorous espresso machines, and voyeur-proof blinds will ensure that your interior décor is fit for a home surrounded by a thriving garden. The Internet has also become a wonderful place to exchange tips in chat rooms tailored for do-it-yourselfers, and to get advice on repairs from sites with reassuring names like Mister Fixit and the Natural Handyman.