A large garden space is a lovely thing to have, but it also takes more consideration. You will need to decide exactly how you would like to landscape your garden, and have a plan in mind so that it doesn’t end up looking haphazard. Here are some top landscaping ideas: Install a deck area. If the space is big enough, you will have room for a patio area as well. Choose a secluded spot and install a deck, as a place to sit and enjoy some peace. Have a pond – or several ponds. Make them into a little feature, with bridges and pathways. You could keep fish as well if you like. Create a rockery. This gives you the chance to plant cacti and other succulents. Have a rockery... Read More »

It is perfectly possible to grow cucumbers at home in the UK. You do need to be careful though, because these vegetable need some special growing conditions and if you do not provide these, it would be very easy to kill them. The first thing to do is to decide between a bush or a vine. A vine will need to be able to climb so make sure you have trellises or similar frames for them to grow up onto. You also need to make sure cucumbers are planted in warm earth. Don’t think about planting them until a good few weeks after the last frosts of winter. You can warm the earth up a little with plastic or start off a cucumber plant’s life in a greenhouse. Make sure... Read More »

Herbs can be very easy to grow indoors. Grow things like basil, parsley, mint, oregano and thyme easily inside your own home and have access to delicious fresh herbs whenever you want them. You should consider the herbs you want to grow carefully and choose ones that will grow well indoors. Usually, a window sill will be the best place to keep them as herbs tend to need a lot of warmth and sunlight. Buy herbs from somewhere like a garden centre or grow them from seed and purchase the seeds online. You can buy herb plants from places like supermarkets but they are probably not going to be in the best of health after sitting on a shelf with no sunlight. Supermarket herb plants tend to wilt and die... Read More »

Big gardens are lovely and lots of homeowners have one on their wishlist. It’s challenging to know what to do with them once you have one, though. Here are some ideas for planting a big garden area: Make it into a terraced garden if it is sloped. This will break the garden up into different areas and zones to give you variety. Vary the garden between plants, flowers and grasses. They will all bloom and flourish at different times of the year, so there will be something of interest all year round. Let the garden take over. You can only plan to a certain extent. Let the plants take over and fill their own space. Mix and mingle plants together. Don’t be afraid to try out different colours next to... Read More »

Rather than buying expensive furniture from a shop, why not try a little DIY? Even if you have very little experience, it can be easy to make your own garden furniture from pieces of wood like railway sleepers. These are ideal, as they can be ordered in a variety of sizes. You can easily cut them down to different sizes and modify them. For a more eco-friendly approach, choose sleepers that are recycled or that are made from sustainable wood. It is simple to make items like chairs, tables and benches from wooden sleepers. If you need some further help, look online and find some guides. All you should really need is a saw, a drill, a screwdriver and some nails. You can easily change the colour of the wood... Read More »

Thermowood Decking is a very popular choice for many homes and business owners, but it can be unsafe, which means that there is a growing demand for not slip decking that allows us to benefit from the strong appeal of the decking without putting the safety of ourselves and others at risk. Non-slip decking is often called anti-slip decking, but the principle remains the same. The problem with timber decking is that, despite its highly desirable appearance, when it becomes wet safety can be greatly compromised. In the UK especially, the chances of the decking become exposed to moisture are always high, meaning that only not slip or anti-slip decking can be considered for outdoor environments.

If you’ve been on holiday at a property (resort, hotel etc.) with extensive lounging furniture or patio, there are high chances that you’ve enjoyed the shade provided by patio umbrellas. These large umbrellas are also called commercial umbrellas. You can trust them to be very high quality and durable since they are specifically built for commercial use. Besides providing protection against harsh weather conditions like rain and sunshine, these versatile umbrellas also offer lots of other benefits to both commercial and private properties. Let’s look at some of those benefits in detail:

Buying a house is a lifetime investment. We only plan to buy it once unless we have plans to buy and sell or rent other properties as property prices go up and down. Whatever the reason you are buying a property, protecting your property that you have earned with sweat and years of hard work is the first thing you should do. After all, every single penny that we save to own our own personal space is worth a million dollars. We can secure our property by buying an insurance policy against fire, or other natural calamities. As predicting or controlling the fury of nature is not in our hands, at least we can protect our house from intruders by installing quality driveway gates.

Summer Bulbs are a great addition to any garden as they will provide colour year after year and can even provide additional flowers to be divided and planted in another part of the garden. Unlike normal flowers these flowers do not need to be planted each year, they are hardy in nature, and there is a colour, size or shape that should suit any gardening need. Summer Bulbs are one of the easiest types of flowers or plants to nurture and cultivate. For the next season, the best types of bulbs to grow to include true bulbs such as Asiatic and Oriental lilies, corms like gladiolus and crocosmia, tubers, examples of which are begonia, caladium or dahlia, and rhizome crops such as agapanthus and canna.

  Perennial plants are small flowering plants that live for two years or more. The word perennial is used to distinguish a plant based on its life span. Perennial plants are commonly known as they bloom spring and summer season and dies every autumn. Having a huge rebirth of its popularity, garden owners realised that one popular perennial plant named Dahlias provides a wide array of beautiful and stunning colours. These plants bloom its wonderful flowers from mid-summer season to the first frost. Similarly to other perennial plants, these Dahlias take the delight of the warmth to be reproduced in subsequent waves. Positioned in a sunny place with rich soil on its roots Dahlias will never fail to give you excellent blooming flowers. With the constant evolution range that Dahlias... Read More »