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Heralding the Return of Traditional English Country Gardens
Country Gardens
Country Gardens
Over the past decade you’d have been forgiven for thinking that every new garden has to be pared down to a few elements of contemporary styling. You know what I’m talking about – the big sheets of glass window, designer rattan furniture and stainless steel water features. These elements have been the soul of many designers’ gardens, especially the big show gardens seen at Chelsea and in the modern stripped out homes that inhabit the lifestyle magazines. Plants seem to have been pushed aside but fear not, get ready for a return to basics and some traditional English country
Garden Tractors
Garden Images
Garden Images
So often, garden tractors are used solely to mow the lawn, something an ordinary lawn mower can achieve with ease. Garden tractors are built with more heavy duty work in mind.
A garden tractor will have tires with good traction for working in a garden, a smallish (around 5 gallon) fuel tank, a PTO (this could be electric or engine powered) with a hydraulic clutch, and some offer 4WD. Depending on the specifications, garden tractors can be used with a full line of compatible attachments such as: dump cart, trailer, tiller, broadcast spreader, snow thrower, blade,
Choosing Backyard Garden Features
Backyard Garden
Backyard Garden
Backyard garden features are great accents for your landscape. You will find that there are many choices for the homeowner to choose from. Garden features can come in different forms such as, canopy gazebos, pergolas, arbors, ponds, waterfalls and bridges.
Each garden feature can be used to help accent a space for different reasons. For instance, a canopy gazebo can be used to provide shade and protection from harmful UV rays and protection from rain and other elements.
A pergola is primarily used as a structural accent that allows for a minimal amount
Garden Designs – Synchronizing Cottage Garden With Your House
Cottage Garden
Cottage Garden
It is important that garden designs must accentuate the style of your house. In the popular English cottage garden, the house serves as the biggest feature in the garden and it has to be seen in as much angle as possible. Being the focus of the garden, the house should stand out and the flowers and plants must be placed in such manner that they highlight the house. If you are successful with this, you will surely gain a cottage style of gardening that synchronizes with your house.
So, how are we going to synchronize our
Backyard Landscaping Ideas
Landscaping Ideas For Backyard
Landscaping Ideas For Backyard
There are so many ways to spruce up your home nowadays. If you haven’t already noticed, countless residential homeowners are always searching high and low for interior decorating tips, as well as backyard landscaping ideas. Anything that will make their humble abode look more appealing and desirable is sought after. Furthermore, you want to be able to make your house your home. It needs all of those quirky little details and customizations that reflect your personality and preferences. Fortunately you don’t have to look far to get a few backyard landscaping ideas these days. There are countless ideas provided
Gardening Zones – How to Identify the Plants That Grow Well in Your Area
Gardening Zones
Gardening Zones
In order to grow plants successfully, gardeners must choose plants that belong to their gardening zone. The majority of plants found in local nurseries are often compatible with the gardening zone they are sold in. Seeds, bulbs and seedlings ordered through catalogs are tagged to let gardeners know what zones they thrive in the best. These zones are identified depending on the overall climatic condition of the region as well as the minimum temperature recorded in that area.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) gardening zone map is based on the lowest temperature experienced throughout the
Retail Tip – Add-On Selling – Garden Center and Auto Repair Examples
Garden Center
Garden Center
Add on selling, companion selling, related selling, suggestive selling. No matter what name we give to it, it works.
I was reminded of this not long ago when my colleague, Jan Collins, was doing some training for a group of garden centers.
Jan had the challenging task of improving the sales skills of this successful group of garden centres. She started off with an evening seminar for all the employees to cover in basic terms the key selling skills. This was going to be followed up by one to one coaching with all
How to Build a Japanese Garden
Japanese Garden
Japanese Garden
There are few styles of garden more clinical yet as serene and calming as Japanese gardens. These gardens traditionally make extensive use of water, stone lanterns, bamboos, maples, azaleas, bridges and pagodas, but a simpler form can be created for small, enclosed gardens.
This is the so-called ‘dry garden’, a replica Japanese garden in which raked coarse sand or fine gravel covers the entire area and represents water, with rocks carefully positioned to create land. Additionally, distinctive plants in containers can be strategically placed to form focal points or areas of interest near paths or buildings.
Vegetable Garden Beds
Vegetable Garden Beds
Vegetable Garden Beds
You can accomplish a raised vegetable garden bed by simply mounding the soil or by actually enclosing the soil in wood frames, decorative stones, or concrete, etc. When you design the raised beds you should recommend that they be only 3 to 4 feet wide. Some people aren’t self sufficient but by planting a vegetable garden they were able to appreciate what fresh really meant. The area for your organic vegetable garden should also be near water. Or at least it should be easy to get water to the location.
Planning a productive, fuss-free vegetable garden
3 Tips For Raised Garden Beds
Raised Gardens
Raised Gardens
There are numerous benefits and rewards to be had from deciding to install raised garden beds on your property. Once installed you have more control over what you actually grow. Plus they help when it comes to being able to manage different types of soil and climates.
Also such items are handy in places where space is limited. In fact many people who live in high rise buildings like condominiums or apartments will find that space is restricted. However if there are rooftops available for them to use which can be made into a garden then
