Imagine a beautiful manicured garden so small that it takes up only a corner of your work desk or shelf. In land-scarce Singapore where the majority of people live in high-rise apartments with little or no outdoor space for a garden. miniature gardens could be the answer for those of us who have an aesthetically planted green space that can fit into our living or working spaces.

What is container gardening? Well, when you grow and arrange a selection of plants inside a suitable receptacle and in an aesthetically-pleasing manner, you are a container gardener.

Texture, the surface quality of objects, is an important element in garden design and compositions. A plant’s texture depends largely on the characteristics of its leaves, such as the shape, size, coarseness, smoothness, shade or tint. The concept of texture can also be applied to the appearance of tree barks. In any landscape, you should aim to achieve contrast between various leaf textures.

At the Singapore Garden Festival 2012 in July, groups of community gardeners gathered to put their green thumbs to the test. Five teams comprising some 30 community gardening groups from across Singapore came together to compete for the second running of the Gardeners' Cup - the first was in 2010.

Instead of holding a pipette and test tube and working in a laboratory after graduating with a biological sciences degree, Chai Weili is now holding a pair of secateurs and working outdoors. And instead of a white laboratory coat, Weili spends most of his working hours in his NParks tee, visiting empty plots of land to help residents set up gardens there, giving horticulture advice to residents and more.

Gardening goes beyond beautifying your home and can benefit your physical and mental health. Here are four reasons to garden!

Here are some ways to garden in a responsible manner to create a friendlier environment for you and your neighbours.

You might’ve encountered gardening “superstitions” circulating online and within the gardening community. So what’s right and what’s not? We suss out some gardening myths you’d do best to avoid.

Saw an interesting gardening hack online? We test out some common gardening tips found on YouTube to determine if they are true, false or unproven!

Rain, rain… come again? Try growing these edibles that welcome our wet weather conditions.

How well do you know fertilisers? Understand them better so that you can provide nutrients needed by your plants for their growth and other functions.

How much do you know about mints? We introduce some mint cultivars that you may want to try growing in your home garden.

Learn more about biopesticides so that you can provide your plants the much needed protection against pests.

Besides the common lemon we are all familiar with, did you know that there are various other plants in Singapore that have ‘lemon’ in their names?

Flowers are pretty to look at, but why not add them to your dinner plate? Here are some edible flowers you can grow for food!

Who says you shouldn’t play with your food? Here is a great craft activity involving edibles you can do with the family this year-end holidays.

Want your edible plants to grow and flourish? Give them a good start by getting the right planting soil mix.

Take a peek at some of the impressive entries from the Community Garden Edibles Competition 2021 March edition.