Landscape Garden: Gardening Myths That Need to Stop
Most yards in suburban areas are adorned with plants and landscape garden. Aside from aesthetics, some of the essential reasons why homeowners grow horticulture at home are because of its numerous benefits. It helps purify the air, they balance the temperature within the vicinity, and most plants are edible and can provide helpful home remedies. Knowing about the basic things to do when tending a garden can be innate to some people, while others learn their gardening skills through instructions from elderlies at home.
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Labrador Landscape: Benefits of Indoor Landscape Garden
Since the beginning of modernisation, retailers found ways to cope up with the modern world through the use of plastic packaging, to aid us through our fast-paced lifestyle – to avail convenience. But the strategy backfired and became another factor of pollution. Although there is a movement that bans single-use plastics, the issue doesn’t stop there. Pollutants are still everywhere, which is why the best way to fight contamination is by taking care of our planet.
Rainforests are our natural solution. But since there is no rainforest anywhere near the city and urban areas, people are encouraged to install landscape gardens and any greeneries in their lawns, or even on the insides of their homes.
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Bringing Your Dining Experience Outdoors
The advantages of owning a yard are numerous. Aside from having extra space for events, it can be turned into a landscape garden to add aesthetics to your home, a pool feature for family and friends, and backyard fire pits for barbeques and bonfires. But if you want to maximise the space of your backyard, why not upgrade it into something more sophisticated and health-friendly?
Because of the pollution and stress produced by working in the city, sometimes we want to escape and travel somewhere to dine and unwind and relieve mental, emotional, and physical strains. But most of us don’t have that kind of luxury, due to lack of time, lack of budget and mostly, from lack of energy to go through packing and travel preparations.
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DIY Home Renovation Ideas: Garden Edition
Our backyard serves as an extension area of our house. It can be an open area or a covered court, grass-covered, or concrete pavement. The number of people partaking on home improvement projects has increased in the past decade. It is because of the influence and the popularisation of “Do It Yourself” or DIY tutorials found on the media.
Home renovations vary from repairs to landscape garden installation. It is rendered as beneficial for individuals to learn DIY for many positive reasons. People opt to do home projects aside from hiring a professional to do it because it:
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Start Your Own Cactus Landscape Garden
Although it has a prickly and robust structure, a cactus plant can look harsh and intimidating. But if you take a closer look, its rigidness is only a defence mechanism, and most cacti have a soft and fragile body. Due to a misconception, it has made others conclude that maintaining a cactus garden is difficult, but contrary to popular belief, starting a cactus landscape garden has never been this easy. You’ll only need to plant them according to their specific environment, water it a few times to let it settle in its new environment, and then you are good to go!
According to researchers, it was hard to determine when and how exactly the fad of cacti gardening and collection started. Humans have been using cactus for consumption purposes as early as 15,000 years ago. Today, succulents have a wider variety with purposes that range from alcohol manufacturing, pharmaceutical concocting, to ornamental gardening.
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How a Water Fountain in a Landscape Garden Can Be a Great Stress Reliever
In this generation where everyday living is a form of challenge, the majority of the people frequently experience stress. According to SBS News, “Australians are feeling more stressed than ever, with a lack of sleep, work pressures, and even social media playing a role, a survey has found. The number of stressed Aussies has jumped by about a third to 4.9 million during the past decade, research by health fund Medibank shows.”
From the type of work to environmental factors and the food we eat, it all contributes to the causes of many health problems including stress.
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What to Consider in Making a Landscape Garden Plan
Landscaping the front yard and patio area can enhance a home’s image. This is why homeowners that have a garden area would want to landscape it no matter how small the area is. It’s just that most people don’t have the knowledge of how to furnish their houses and make them attractive. This may be due to the shortage of space, minimised spending plan, or lack of landscape garden planning.
Keep in mind that landscaping projects can be expensive given that it follows a progressive method. In some cases, they can take years before the desired look is achieved. There are a number of factors that play significant roles in landscape planning. Here are some of them.
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Cheap landscaping ideas to adorn your yard
Customising the look of the exterior of your home is one way to create a space that reflects your character. And it does not really cost a lot to create a modern and beautiful yard as there are many cheap landscaping garden ideas you can try that have a high impact without a high price tag.
Know that even the most expensive contemporary gardens being featured in popular home and design magazines can now be achieved. Thanks to the creative minds of designers who use plants and materials that are easily sourced and are environmentally sensitive. Like what most efficient landscapers and architects do, cheap, free, or low-maintenance creative materials are re-used as well as plants that only require little water or care.
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Essentials in Preparing Garden Soil
Whether you want to create your first landscape garden or you need renovation, the health of the soil is critical when preparing for this. One way to determine the health of the soil is to check if there are lacking or abundant minerals in it. Usually, soil tests are done to measure the levels of soil magnesium, pH, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and often nitrogen. The test may also check the soil’s micronutrient content.
Here are some essentials to consider when preparing garden soil:
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All you need to know about modern landscape design
For a landscape design to be considered modern, it does not have to strictly display straight lines, exhibit minimalism, or require the use of concrete, granite, and mass plantings. According to experts, modern landscape garden designing combines different approaches, elements, materials, and techniques. These aspects may not be present in an outdoor space all at the same time, but in a truly modern garden, most of them will be utilised.
Here is a list of characteristics that will help you understand what a modern garden is:
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