http://www.thegardengatesblog.com Here you will find all the newest things Home & Garden related, from new products to new landscape techniques, and everything in-between! Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:03:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a week ago I turned a year older; I am not saying how old, lets just say I am old enough to know not to tell. I woke up a did my usual morning routine with includes watering my container gardens. I have been working very hard on growing ... http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/08/the-best-birthday-gift/ [caption id="attachment_203" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Beautiful patinas on the pottery"][/caption] http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/05/204/ [caption id="attachment_200" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="90 days in production "][/caption] Here are the pots we selected for production in St. Jean de Fos, France. The production time is approximately 180 days and 90 days in the kilns. http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/05/anduze-pottery-in-production/ So it has been a really long time since my last post about our French Pottery. Well it has finally made it to the US. It has been the most difficult time have every encountered. Besides the ever rising Euro, the French ports went on strike at ... http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/04/french-pottery/ This is for the gardener looking for perfection. These shears make prune almost fun. Slicing through new growth, soft foliage or wet material is one of the most demanding tasks for a cutting tool. It is in effect a specialist job. It’s no good expecting secateurs to do ... http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/04/topiary-shears/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9x2p_C19k[/youtube] http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/04/garden-gate-ad/ Garden Gate advertises all the time and we finally decided to make our own TV commercial. We were only able to pull this off because our website guru is also a film guru. He did an awesome job and it truly is a piece of art. Hope you ... http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/04/making-a-great-ad/ So over the past few months, we have had some computer issues. I guess you could say it all started with a fire this passed January and it all went downhill from that point. The fire trigger a server disaster and it has been a rough run since ... http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2008/08/04/wowwe-have-had-some-issues/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD1LJf1Bm_Y[/youtube] http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2007/07/28/our-landscaping-company/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-0q6rxj5cg[/youtube] http://www.thegardengatesblog.com/2007/07/17/gardening-made-simple-before-and-after/