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Log Cabin Kits for the Garden
Sep 4th
If extra space is needed for the home, a log cabin is an attractive and practical way to answer the problem. Log cabins are ideal as a home office, a gym, for housing Jacuzzi’s and saunas or as a playhouse for the children.
The size and style of your log cabin can be dependent on your budget. One way to make your budget go further is to use a log cabin kit and assemble the log cabin yourself. Most log cabin kits come with comprehensive assembly instructions, and with assistance from friends and family armed with tools, such as: a hammer, More >
Creating A Water Feature In Your Garden ? How To Start
Aug 20th
There are, of course, many ways of featuring water in a garden so it is crucial to establish at the outset the type of feature that you want. Essentially there are three general types:
1. Feature with moving water (fountain, cascade, and stream)2. Still pond for fish and wildlife (and plants)3- Self-contained water ‘container’ (barrel, wall, fountain, raised pond) waterfall header
Whichever feature you choose, consider very carefully how best it can be designed into the context of your garden so that it feels and looks right. In this way you will ensure that the feature – and therefore the whole garden More >
Lazy Gardeners Charter – 7 Things not to Do in Your Garden
Aug 19th
don’t mow
What a waste of time this is. You devote enormous efforts to making the grass grow – watering, fertiliser, weed treatments – and then once or twice a week you chop it all down again. Doesn’t make sense. Leave the grass longer. Or have a wild flower meadow. Do something !
don’t dig
A lot of effort here. You dig your vegetable patch, and then use half of it for walking on when you tend your growing crops. Make life simple by laying out permanent paths so that all your “patch” can be reached from a path. And when I say More >
Save Water and the World With a Rain Garden
Aug 6th
The indigenous soil and forests of many regions accumulate, sieve, and gradually release fresh, clean water to streams, wetlands, and estuaries. The varieties of life in marine and fresh water, as well as on land, require clean water to thrive.
As human populations intrude and alter natural settings, native forests and soils are replaced with roads, rooftops and other hard surfaces. When it rains or snows, more water flows from these surfaces than undisturbed areas, carrying oil, fertilizers, pesticides, sediment and other pollutants downstream. In fact, much of the pollution in streams, wetlands and rivers now comes from storm-water (water flowing More >
Improve Your Garden With Landscaping Companies Bristol
Aug 3rd
With summer looming it is vital that you make the most of your garden when you get chance. Known for itâs dreary weather, Britain thrives in the sunshine and to not have somewhere to go when the sun does come is a great opportunity missed.
Your garden doesnât need to be a flower show, a simple landscaping design from specialist landscaping Bristol companies is all it needs to look and feel like summer all year round. With landscaping designers, paving contractors and other specialists working towards making your site looking as it should, you can rest assured that your garden will More >
Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
Jul 23rd
Nearly every house and garden presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. Suburban gardens, estates, small city backyards, and summer cottages—all can be enhanced by this type of gardening. A few of the seemingly endless possibilities include entranceways, steps, courtyards, walls, rooftops, balconies, patios, breezeways, lawns, driveways, walks, sundecks, windowsills, porches, summer houses, even tree stumps can be utilized.
Let us start with the entrance, a focal point for every house. A simple arrangement consists of similar container plants at each side of the doorway. If the house is informal, painted tubs will make a cheerful note, while urns or ornamental More >
Fusion Garden Decking From Jas Timber
Jul 6th
Richard Burbidge Outdoor FUSION Garden Decking Components from JAS Timber
Visually stunning and easy to install, Fusion outdoor balustrade injects contemporary designer style into any outdoor living area.
The system can be fitted to most hard landscaping surfaces, from textured decking boards to contemporary paving slabs, or concrete layouts. You can complete the overall look with a choice of either acrylic panels or two distinctive infill option; slatted panels or vertical balusters, available in both; hardwood & softwood.
The Fusion Decking Range includes; Aluminium Rail and Hardwood & Softwood Top Rails, Aluminium Newel Posts and Hardwood & Softwood Balusters, Acrylic Infill Panels, Hardwood Slatted Infill Panels, More >
Yard and Garden: Home Shows
Jul 5th
Alright, let’s face facts. Homes get sold on first impressions. Well maybe not sold, but the first impression goes a long way to making up the minds of buyers. So what is the average buyer’s first impression formed on? The home’s exterior. So it stands to reason that the yard and gardens will play a huge role in helping to form a buyer’s first impression of the home. So how can you best showcase these areas to buyers? Well if you are the do it yourself kind of person then you likely already know what to do but if not More >
Fusion Garden Decking – Richard Burbidge Outdoor Fusion Garden Decking Components
Jul 4th
Richard Burbidge Outdoor FUSION Garden Decking Components
Fusion Garden Decking - Timber Porch Canopies
Visually stunning and easy to install, Fusion outdoor balustrade injects contemporary designer style into any outdoor living area.
The system can be fitted to most hard landscaping surfaces, from textured decking boards to contemporary paving slabs, or concrete layouts. You can complete the overall look with a choice of either acrylic panels or two distinctive infill option; slatted panels or vertical balusters, available in both; hardwood & softwood.
The Fusion Decking Range includes; Aluminium Rail and Hardwood & Softwood Top Rails, Aluminium Newel Posts and Hardwood & Softwood Balusters, Acrylic Infill Panels, Hardwood Slatted Infill More >
