Hallson Gardens

I discovered this site after doing some translations for college: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Japanese to English is one of the options. You can also enter the URL and translate a whole page. You may have to select VIEW>ENCODING and Japanese Auto-select on the top of your browser (MS Explorer). ...

Sign of good things to come!
Best wishes!

Back from limbo- selling or not selling the house- finally selling it. I have been busy with school, out of work, but my veteran's education benefits are still coming in. I got an Ukigumo, Tamukeyama and green seedling Japanese maples; 2 vine maples; a clump of 5 red maple seedlings, 3 amur maples s...

Hello to all, Long time, how's it been? I managed (yah that's the word) to take 33 pots of plants from the garden and make them at home at my new apartment. I only count 3 as "finished" bonsai and the rest in training pots will have more work done on them in the spring. Thank God for sunlight on apa...

My new intern job as a Landscape Technician at a local gated community has introduced me to my supervisor who used to manage the Japanese & Chinese gardens at the Missouri Botanical Gardens! I have been picking his brain when I haven't been working. Of course he tells me that if I really want to lea...

Here in the southeast you want something that allows good drainage like triple ground pine bark, coarse sand, and some composted cow manure (for water retention and increased organic matter). A lot of my potted maples have large pebbles in the bottom, then a orchid mix (organic and coarse), then com...

Perhaps what you seek is more of a courtyard style garden in the Japanese style? A couple of internet searches of images "japanese courtyard" or "courtyard garden" will come up with some nice ones. A couple of books about "Japanese courtyard gardens" are out there too. Good luck with your vision. Ri...

Cinnamon will work for antifungal? I think that would be better than smelly dangerous chemicals for sure.

Sorry to get off topic but...Its good to laugh aloud now and again! Besides its all in fun.

:beer: This list could be endless with such titles as: "You're Green and I'm mean" "Gardening with stupid" "Silent Gardening" "Why do you say that my landscaper must have been drunk when you know I did it?" "How to avoid jail time: Plant propagations for the cheap and irresponsible" or "It looked gr...

Now that that title has been taken I have no choice but to use "Garden Centers: How a fool and his money are soon parted!" Unless the titles: "If it looks like I know what I am doing then why do you keep asking?" and "Beginner's Plant Torchure Made Easy" and "Insects, Gardens and Throwing your Money...