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Garden Vacation for Houseplants

January 12th, 2011 Admin

A deck or patio can be a great place to give your houseplants a summer holiday.  Just like us, they get an extra bit of energy with a change of scenery and are the great shape to return to their natural indoor habitat when the weather turns.  The plants enjoy their new surrounds and make super additions to groups of garden pots and containers.  Everyone responds to the warmth, fresh air, rainfall and of course sunshine by giving off new growth and vitality come Fall.

There is a system to moving indoor plants outside.  It is imperative that they are moved gradually so that they don’t go into shock and become accustomed to the very different conditions over time.  Just like seedlings, they need to be hardened off.  Start to place the planters and pots outdoors once the weather has warmed up and any danger of frost is over.  Firstly, set the pots in a protected, shady area – even the cacti and succulents which love the sun.  If you start with the planters in the full sun, they will scorch – even though they have been in a south facing window all winter.  Gradually expose them to more and more sun over the course of a week or two.  Check every day to see that the soil is moist and there are no scorch marks on any of the leaves.

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The Great Garden Furniture Cover Up at Rawgarden.co.uk

January 12th, 2011 Admin

There’s a cover up at garden furniture firm Rawgarden (http://www.rawgarden.co.uk/)! That’s because autumn spells the great garden furniture cover up – when outdoor furniture and accessories should be slipped into custom-made garden furniture covers to protect them against the elements and keep them in tip-top condition.

When the first nip of frost bites in the back garden you know it’s time to step in to protect your outdoor garden furniture and accessories. Your wooden bench could fail to resist rot, your barbecue or bistro set begin to rust and your parasol start to stain unless you take preventative action and get involved in Rawgarden’s garden cover up. Rawgarden features an extensive range of patio furniture covers, fire pit and barbecue covers which are available all year round but which come in particularly handy at this time of year. Instead of having to put away your garden furniture (if you have the luxury of garage or shed space) or simply let it languish in the rain and frost of the autumn and winter months, you can keep it all exactly where it is and simply pop on its cover. This will keep everything completely protected from the harsh elements while allowing you to keep your garden layout as it was in the summer.

A garden furniture cover need not be an eyesore, either. There’s no need to make your garden look like a warehouse in the winter months because Rawgarden’s covers are all attractive designs which fit perfectly around a whole range of Rawgarden products and are in colours which won’t stand out in a winter garden (green and black). Choose from garden table covers, chair covers, fire pit covers and much more and make sure that not only is your outdoor furniture protected but it’s also ready to be revealed in seconds should the sun break through at all during winter!

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Eco Garden Room Methods

January 12th, 2011 Admin

I. Garden Room Environment Connections

The Garden Room and its place in the world.
The Garden Room meets a need.
Garden Room Fantasies.

 

Every garden in the world is determined by its own biosphere. In Asia a historic garden room is the ‘pergola’ where foundations, four posts and a tiled or a thatched roof is the convention. So humid is it that in parts of Asia this works perfectly and allows for quick cover during tropical rain.

In contrast the thickly walled, Scandinavian log cabin has played an important role as a garden room, housing the family sauna or as a barbeque room, in Norway and Denmark since the Bronze era. Due to a shear number of  Scot’s Pine Trees available it offers a resourceful efficient building material. The USA and the west inherited a great deal of the building processes from Scandinavian regions and as a result it is a very common garden room style throughout the northern hemisphere of the world.

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