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Stylish Gardens – Hints and Tips
With the coming of May, your thoughts are probably turning to your garden, and all the time you will be able to spend in it as the weather improves. Whatever the size of your garden, it can be a beautiful space which you can enjoy with your family, and whether you decide to tackle this yourself, or if the project is too big so you get some professional landscaping help, the lovely weather that we have been promised for this Bank Holiday weekend makes this the perfect time to get in the garden. If you are struggling to decide what to do with your garden, follow a few of the…
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8 gardening hacks using everyday household items
Gardening is incredibly rewarding, and it doesn’t have to cost the earth. There are plenty of household items that will be lying around in abundance that you can use to give your plants a healthy boost. The gardening experts Greenhouse Sensation bring you eight amazing horticultural hacks that you need to start trying today. The hacks below will help your plants to grow and flower. But you may have another problem with visitors to your garden that are not just insects or fungus. The likes of badgers, foxes and squirrels are typical garden menaces who can do a lot of damage to your garden. If you do need any sort…
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Can you Guess the Flowers?
There is nothing like the look and scent of fresh flowers in your home. They are just wonderful for creating an ambiance, for bringing a touch of Spring, or a look of your garden inside your home, and they add an affordable attractiveness and elegance to any setting. Whether this is in the form of freshly cut blooms grown in your own garden, or shop bought bunches and bouquets, flowers add prettiness, colour and stunning fragrance to any room they grace. But, when it comes to flowers, how many types of flowers can you actually name? I’m guessing that you will not have any trouble with roses, tulips and daffodils,…
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Final Garden tips now Summer is here.
Now that summer is finally here, my garden project is almost completed. This year was the year that my garden had an overhaul, down to the fact that Joe had grown out of his playhouse and most of his garden toys, so these could be disposed of (given to a neighbour with young grandchildren in actual fact), and that has given us more room for planters, flower beds and (Joe’s new obsession) goalposts. You can read all about the previous changes here, but now that we are firmly ensconced in a thoroughly British Summer I can share the final stages of garden development. The Lawn We have a rather large…
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Garden Inspiration for Spring
I love being out in my garden, sitting and relaxing with a book, or enjoying a game of football with Joe. But after a Winter that saw some very cold days, and an awful lot of rain, it is safe to say that my garden entered Spring looking far from its best. It looked tired, messy, the patio was full of weeds, and the plants were non-existent. In addition, the patio was covered in broken plastic clothes pegs which had frozen and cracked, and a wrecked goal post that had seen better days. Work was required. Ocean Finance have been asking people what they would do to improve their garden…
