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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Looking for a fun project that the whole family can participate in? Or wondering how to liven up your garden? How about making a cute Miniature Pot Man?

Wondering what to do with all the old floppy disks in the house? Watch this video and learn from Hamzah Osman, a gardening enthusiast, who was featured in Issue 20 of My Green Space how to turn these disks into decorative pots.

Love the outdoors and have a green thumb? Join HortPark’s new volunteering programme for gardeners. The “HortPark Care for Plants” programme is open to interested members of public of all ages. It provides you with opportunities to share your knowledge and gardening skills with others.

Many orchids grown in home gardens are epiphytic, that is, they grow naturally on tree branches or trunks with their roots exposed to the environment. In cultivation, they are grown in open and free-draining media such as charcoal chips, where their roots get to dry quickly after each watering. However, it can be a challenge to fertilise them when they are grown in such media.

A chance meeting with a group of community gardeners changed the life of a young boy, turning him from a self-confessed computer game-addict to an avid gardener. As testimony to his conversion, 13-year-old Ng Jia Wei became the youngest recipient of the CIB (Community in Bloom) Ambassador Award, given out last October at the launch of Clean and Green Singapore 2012.

Tucked away in a corner of the Sin Ming heartlands, a young community garden has taken root of late - not just literally, but also, in the hearts of the residents. Less than a year old, the Sin Ming RC Garden is already blooming with fruits, vegetables and beautiful flowers and plants.