It was during a carefree conversation about landscaping among my gardening friends, the topic of garden lighting came up. The lighting reflects the glamour and creativity in you garden. Also, you need to have some nocturnal plants to give a perfect touch to your garden during the night time. In other words, plants that flower during the dusk such as Night gladiolus, Angels trumpet and Moonflower vines should be a part of every garden.
However, garden lighting isn’t as easy as fixing a few light-bulbs here and there. There are all sorts of garden lights, including deck lights, garden spotlights, underwater and exterior lights for steps, driveways, or patios.
Modifying the visible features of an area of land is not just the art of beatification but is also a scientific technique that can be mastered by anyone as long as they understand the basic theory and knowhow on how to landscape a given area; though admittedly an ‘eye’ for this sort of thing does help immensely. Read the rest of this entry »
Aphids are without a doubt the biggest bane to a healthy garden. They come in droves and before you know it, your once lush, thriving garden suddenly starts to crumble. Fear not, however, for regardless of whether you have a small garden or large garden, here are a few handy tips on how to fight these insects and come out of the battle a victor.
Even though I’ve got a green thumb and love spending whole evenings in my front yard, lawn maintenance has always given me headaches. Maintaining the grass in their healthy green, keeping from weed invasions and cutting them to the exact heights, have taken up half the time of my gardening career. Making the whole land planted with grass and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height.
Isn’t it time that you take a serious measure to your landscape design to make it more nature friendly? Lots of gardeners today have some lovely, beautiful gardens. Hats off to them for their efforts. But please take a note that some of the measures you take without expert advice could harm the environment.
Though the pruning’s a pain in the back, neck and arms, it is an essential tool when using various types of landscape shrubs especially those that tend to grow tall and look untamed like Rose of Sharon. This particular landscape shrub sprouts beautiful blooms in the summer and is ideal to place along your property line to give your land a hint of privacy that is subtle yet captivating to the beholder. There are also many varieties of evergreen shrubbery that can be used to create informal hedges such as natural headlands and rock gardens boxwoods to give the edges of your garden a fairy tale beauty.
Lack of gardening space, especially in urban areas is highly challenging to the current environmental conditions, without doubt. Many try planting on their roof tops and yes, this genuinely helps to make the Earth a little greener.
However, what you want is a green roof, or a roof garden? Both sound alike, don’t they? But there is a difference. A roof garden is merely a place of entertainment, with a touch of greenery but, a green roof is a typical garden, only, a few meters above the earth.