Strategically distributed, torches can provide a wonderful atmosphere to enjoy the garden on a clear night. Lighting is that games not only can be used indoors.
Outdoor lighting also brings us interesting contrasts in light. As you know, hours of availability and intensity of natural light range from the winter period and the summer months.
The torches are a novel alternative, rustic and romantic to warm summer nights, in which we can enjoy the garden in a small dining table or simply out to enjoy the breeze.
We do not require any support or wiring diagram, only to place containers. An alternative is the metal containers mounted on natural cane, which contain oil that allows light continuously for a period of 10 hours. May be placed on roads or around sources around the game table and chairs in a beautiful light show.
It is usual to think of stones as decoration in the garden, but in this case Gabion Box provides us with a basket that can be filled with different types of stones, standing for decorative purposes in different areas of the garden.
This company product Betafence suggests in a wide variety of decorative possibilities, which may provide a new air garden or work as spacers between different areas of it.
This is a design perfectly suited for gardens with ornamental possibilities in all sorts of directions and locations. Also, this is a quick and simple snap installation.
It is noteworthy that the placement of the basket of decorative stones in a particular location is not permanent or fixed, and the election, can then be varied without major inconveniences. This provides greater ductility and functionality to this add decorative gardens.
• This is a small aromatic shrub whose life is around six years.
• Cut it pass as flowering and payable after the cut.
• Dries in bunches hanging upside down in a cool and ventilated. Once dry, they serve to put in cloth bags to put in closets or shoemakers.
• Make perfume boxes with flowers or pillows mixed with various herbs.
• The essence of lavender is used in colognes and perfumes.
• In plaster, together with the thyme and rosemary, relieves sprains. Use for tea.
• It is grown from cuttings. Short pieces of about 10 cm. semimaduros stems in summer.
• Shrubs up to 40 inches.
• You need sun, grow well in all soil types and withstands drought.
• Do not pay with nitrogen because it lowers your resistance to frost to be tenderer.
• Like many other aromatic plants, pruning after flowering last year.
• In the kitchen is essential in grilled and stewed meats, soups, pickles …
• You can enter oil sprigs fresh thyme to make oil. Read more…
Cactus that comes from Argentina. Its trunk is spherical although in some species he becomes cylindrical during the growth.
It requires a sun position total, although it does not resist temperatures you cold in winter.
These cactus are very popular in the gardens and collections of cactus due to their spectacular flowering, with flowers that leave a fleecy tube floral and which they only permanence a day.
In the photo the floral tube with the flower on the verge of opening itself can be appreciated.
It is multiplied easily from the lateral piston rods that they appear united to the central trunk and that they can separate without difficulty.
We have often asked when trying to combine plants in the garden and pool which species are most appropriate to place around the pool and how to materialize the relationship between the two.
Ideally choose those varieties that shine in the summer, because it is precisely the time when most used the pool. It is also desirable that the case of plants that will not mess too much the pool, leaving a lot of leaves, fruit or petals.
When the space is small in the pool area, it is best to choose species with low development in order to avoid causing an excessive shade or encroach upon other areas of the garden.
It is important to have a plant protection as a green wall to isolate the pool from other sectors or neighboring gardens and win in intimacy. At the same time, it should cover the views of the pool when children are at home to monitor them properly.
Of the metals steel and aluminum are the two most popular in interior decoration and exterior, steel is harder and is usually associated with higher quality and resistance, and however well-treated aluminum can have a good durability and has several advantages over the former.
First, aluminum is very light, that allows, when used in furniture making large these are not very heavy and can be easily moved and this is especially interesting in the garden, an open space at our disposal in that we may be interested in changing the location of furniture in the circumstances to the sun or the shade, abgrigo the walls of the house or poolside…
In addition to aluminum, is a younger material than steel, as far as construction and interior applications are concerned, that means that they are still researching its properties and possible treatments to optimize, but we know that supports better than steel various situations, to better absorb shocks and is more resistant to various corrosive agents, as well as their production is complicated though, recycling is easy and it makes you start to replace steel in many of its uses. Read more…
“Dining or relax”
The garden table is undoubtedly the star of the summer for a dining or a relaxing break in the garden. There are varieties to suit all styles.
You choose between the different materials to create your environment:
- The metal tables are on the poetic aspect of the garden and bring a touch in a bucolic area plant. Choose a small to give a touch of intimacy and romance.
- The wooden tables are based in nature and adapt perfectly to large tables with their family size. They have also sometimes extensions.
- The resin tables set the tone with a very contemporary design. More specifically dedicated to relaxation, this type of development often takes the appearance of a room with a table and comfortable armchairs.
Not all insects are bad for the species that inhabit our garden and should be viewed as pests. Some of them are beneficial, like the bee and its excellent relationship with flowers and fruits.
The truth is that many gardeners are unaware that a lot of flowers and many varieties of fruit should disappear if not for the bees. In turn, the plants feed these friendly insects.
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In our previous post, we share some ideas about the utilities that can give the wood in our garden gazebo. We emphasize in addition, always compare the price / quality, which certainly deserves a look in terms of investment and not expenditure.
The key point is how to choose the wood for use outdoors. His attributes must be:
- Highly resistant to deterioration from exposure to natural elements such as snow, rain, wind etc.
- Also resistant to attack by insects and fungi, many of them generated due to a weakness in the previous section.
In this regard, councils are:
