Planning Your Backyard Garden – With spring in the air, now is the time to start planning your backyard garden. For many homeowners, a backyard pond is a perfect supplement to your existing layout. The trickling of water in the background is the ideal way to supplement the natural, serene and relaxing atmosphere that the outdoors should offer. Continue Reading
When you’re inside the comforts of your own home, it’s easy to think that you’re free from any outdoor hazards. However, the Huffington Post warns that indoor air can be two to five times as polluted as outdoor air, even when you’re not around cars or factories. Continue Reading
These are among the most dramatic and rewarding garden plants, lifting your eyes skywards as they reach towards the sun. They are ideal for beautifying walls, fences and ugly outbuildings, and can also be draped over pergolas to provide welcome shade, or used to carpet banks. Some have spectacular flowers that emerge in spring and can be deliciously scented. Others are grown for their leaves, while the evergreens provide year-round interest.
Clematis. There is a clematis for virtually every season of the year. All the following, group 1, flower during the spring on the previous year’s growth. Prune the bushes after flowering.
Lattice window boxes with beautiful flowers are better additions to your home. Whether you keep it as a home decoration or a way to beautify your own garden, the existence of flowers and plants around only signifies that nature really is doing its best to color our way of life. You may think that you could live without plants or flowering plants around you, you should think again. But, because of your own busy schedule, you cannot make some arrangements. That is the way of life as you always say but when you happen to receive bouquet of flowers, it helps lighten up your spirit and inspires you the whole day. It simply means that nature itself helps you in relieving your stress the simple but very effective way.
The romantic garden is basically a dream – a garden of bowers and gazebos, of scent and pastel colors, where plants grow with soft, arching habits and sweet-smelling flowers that never outgrow their allotted spaces. Birds flit from branch to branch, ferny foliage is reflected in still pools and nearby are the sound of waterfalls.
There is no reason why we cannot have a romantic garden in a modern setting. The most important things are colors and scent. The colors should be soft and gentle; pale pink, buff and white are romantic colors, and the flowers should be prolific. There are many new and old roses with pretty colors and delightful scents, which will flower for long periods and will not outgrow their spaces.
Because so much of the pattern in planned gardens is derived from paths and low hedges, it is necessary to bring in some vertical elements to provide height and interest. These can be introduced in various ways. A sundial or bird-bath on a pedestal or a stone fountain can make a good central feature. Yew or box clipped into tall shapes or mop-headed box or bay trees in tubs can be positioned in rows on either side of a path.
Focal points. A focal point is something that attracts attention. It might be a small building or tree on the horizon or a sculpture or urn. A focal point should be deliberate. You do not want the eye attracted towards a washing line or tool shed. The eye likes to go to a focal point in a straight line, so formal gardens are asking for focal points to be positioned at the ends of straight paths.
