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Pine bark can be a great embellishment to use in our garden. For example, can be very useful to define spaces or to create paths. It also presents interesting aesthetic and functional advantages.

Likewise, the ornamental variety existing application in any garden is really very wide and can accommodate all tastes and aesthetic contexts. In other words, the pine bark will not fail us in any case …

In addition to creating separate roads and spaces, pine bark color and texture can bring in specific sectors of the garden, among other utilities that have as their only limit our imagination.

This item is available in the weight value in gardening centers. It is important to consider in their location as the pine bark should be protected from the wind to avoid rapid discoloration.

If the goal is to place lattice panels in the garden as we see in the pictures, will be critical in principle to prepare a good basis for it to hold properly.

It is without doubt one of the most practical that we put in our yard for separation walls. The high functionality of these vertical structures is one of their main advantages, as well as its decorative value.

Although a wide variety of these lattice panels on the specialized market, it is important to consider the role they will play in our garden and its features. To fit the style of each place, the ideal is to paint in a color that relates to the environment.

For example, one of the issues to consider is whether we will cover the panel of plants, because then it will require greater strength in the structure. Installation is usually simple and can follow the manufacturer’s instructions.

The Mediterranean decorative style brings freshness, naturalness and simplicity, and may be great to implement in the garden. In the specific field of plant species, varieties such as lavender or bougainvillea around a meadow of grass can provide that touch.

The furniture should privilege materials such as wood, wicker or rattan. An ideal choice is the furniture rustic solid wood or natural fibers. It is also a good choice combined with wrought iron wood, very cozy.

The painting is very important, it is recommended such as whites in social spaces, to gain in brightness. It is noteworthy that natural light is one of the main points to consider in this style.

With regard to the soil before the grass or on roads and paths, selecting the most interesting is rustic flooring, for example in terracotta or wood. The same can be combined with tiles or mosaics. Also welcome are low wicker chairs in dark tones, scented candles and cushions.

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 the rest of this entry »

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 the rest of this entry »