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Landscape And Real Estate Makeover
Special consideration should be given to the garden potential by anyone buying a new home. This is a factor all too often ignored by purchasers who later regret their lack of foresight. You should, at the very least, be aware of the garden problems your new home will present.
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Lawn Keeping - Keeping Your Lawn Green And Beautiful
The appearance of your lawn makes a huge difference to how your property looks overall. When your lawn is lush, green and beautiful, your home looks better set against this backdrop. However, a lawn which is in poor health and is not well kept up can make your home look a little lacking, no matter how well your house itself is maintained. Lawn care can be a challenge, especially in the summer when there are several different things: heavier foot traffic, weeds and heat that make it harder to make your lawn look its best.
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Winter House Plant Warning
The month of September we begin to bring plants back indoors. There may be a long and sultry Indian summer later, but nature generally reminds us to get busy by providing a cold snap in the early days of the month after which she may relent and give us a reprieve of warm weather for a few more weeks. There is really no excuse for unreadiness when winter arrives.
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Garden Type - Know First Before Designing
The people of each country and period have wished their gardens to express different degrees of formality, which we call “type.” At one extreme we have formal gardens and at the other naturalistic ones. People do not like formality at all times; also, in small places dominated by buildings and rectangular boundaries it is almost impossible to imitate nature closely. Therefore, we have had to develop intermediate types of varying degrees, which we call informal and conventional.
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Garden Chores When Half Of Summer Is Gone
August summer is half gone and it is time now to think about the perennials, pansies, English daisies and myosotis that you want to bloom in your garden next summer. Here is where the coldframe comes in. For seed sowing the soil must be as carefully prepared as for seed pans in the greenhouse. Dig thoroughly, use liberal amounts of humus and some sand and rake the top fine and smooth. Sow the seed in shallow rows, label, cover and water. Keep the frame covered until germination starts. Shade.
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