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Ground Cover, make your garden beautiful

Jun24
2011 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Because you want a practical, vacant land in front of the house is usually covered with a layer of cement. And how is it cause excessive heat and the high threat of mild injury. Ironically, it is precisely this tendency neighborhood now.

It would be more useful if instead of cement, used a variety of cover crops (ground cover). In addition to cool eye because the yard is green, the area can be used as a playroom or child’s garden party.

Not all plants can be called a ground cover, although equally covered the ground. There is a certain height requirement which is about 4-5cm.

The species is classified as recalcitrant. Once embedded well, at least after 5 days, you just water it 1 time every day. To maintain shape, plants pruned once every 2 months and after 3 pruning, re-fertilized plants.

Multiple choice ground cover plants that remain in demand is a mini elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum schamach), ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomea batatas ‘Marguerite’), and ornamental peanut (Arachis pintoi).

But now the mini elephant grass variegata center to be excellent. Similar stature mini elephant grass, it’s just striped leaves.

Various types of plants are usually sold per square meter (m2). For each square meter, the price ranges from USD1.4-2.5. Interested?


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Make the Green Wall at Home

Apr22
2011 Leave a Comment Written by admin

If your house is the tiny size, do not make it as a barrier to create a garden at home. But how to make the park if the area to put the personal stuff was sometimes lacking? Easy, just create a vertical garden!

As the name implies, the vertical garden created on a field that stands vertically like a wall. Make it not too difficult. First, decide on one area of ??plain wall with no window or door holes. Then, specify the size of the vertical garden on the wall. He can be made in all areas of the wall, or only partially.

The next step is setting up a few potted plants that have been filled. You can choose which treatment is easy vines like peperomia, homalomena, or betel Ganding as shown. Once ready, wrap a pot with a thick wire, and connect to 2 other pots are also wrapped around the wire, thus forming a triangular pattern. Finally, bend the tip resembles a coat hanger wire.

The three pots containing plants that had been wrapped around the wire can be hung by linking wire on a nail that has been attached to the wall. Your home are now adorned with potted arrangement that forms a vertical garden!


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Park Home … is it necessary?

Mar05
2011 Leave a Comment Written by admin

It is a requirement to have a home that supports the health of its inhabitants, because the urban environment has become increasingly contaminated by pollution. Healthy home providing support for each activity the whole family. In it, the sons and daughters that we can get better support also in the process of growing development.

Now this is no longer his time designing a house that covers all areas of the house, even in home gardens. When the first houses are often designed to cover all the land the house, perhaps because it requires more spaces, but now, the presence of land overgrown with plants that can still be a fundamental requirement for every home. This is because the park home becomes very important in life in an increasingly dense urban areas.

Park home, be it in front of the house, the back or middle of the house (known as innercourt), is a way in to some basic potential as a requirement to live a healthy home. Her presence becomes a natural way in to the air, lighting from the sun and our relationship with nature. A small land can be used to be our liaison with the natural potential.

Often we look at the house that opens upward to receive the sunlight and natural air to the house to direct sunlight. Room like this, like a traditional house design in Japanese culture, has elements that blend with the home garden. Very remedy.

Today, with the system in land plots are sold, have a house within narrow plots, such as land area of 8mtrs x 10, 7mtrs x 13mtrs or something like that, the spaces are designed with very compact, and though there is almost no land for park, but its existence is necessary.

So, if we design a house, we should noticed how the air flow, natural light and all profits from the park. Even if necessary, space has been narrowed down to the park remains in proportion. This will greatly affect the health of its inhabitants.


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Minimalist Garden

Sep20
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

The concept of a minimalist home garden center preferred. You are one of them? If so, the presence of a minimalist style garden you need to bring about.

For a minimalist garden are usually located in a narrow area, not just any plants and ornaments worth put in there. One vote, which has a narrow land will look more narrow. Because land is limited, usually about two to six square meters, the homeowner would want a minimalist garden could be laid out optimally.

To create a minimalist garden, there are several characteristics that need attention. Building a minimalist style generally rise with a box shape or geometric. These forms give the impression firm and rigid. Well, the presence of the park is expected to reduce the impression of rigid.

Minimalist garden with a natural accent should highlight the material that is not too much, especially when building a house has a large window. Besides the health aspect and comfort of residents is to consider when creating a minimalist garden. You know not, minimalist narrow residential desperate need of oxygen supply. Well, oxygen demand can be obtained from the photosynthesis of green plants. Therefore, multiply the green plants in the garden is minimalist. Oxygen can also be obtained from the element of water. Therefore, the present pool plus a waterfall or fountain, is the right step.

Where should minimalist garden located? Very flexible. You can put it on the front, rear, corner, side, even in the house. If you love the element of water, you can put a minimalist garden-themed water park in the front of the house.

If the park is in the back of the house, make a simpler design. Avoid the shapes that resemble a mountain, because it would foster the impression of narrow. If you want to bring the grass, you should select a small leaved grass and smooth like howl.

Another case for the minimalist garden are present in the house. Plant the right to park in the house is a family of palm-paleman. Green leafy plants with slightly yellow tinge, Dracena fragrans, also deserve you choose.

Indeed, many types of plants that inhabit the park suitable minimalist. What is important, easily maintained, green, and it’s cheap. Some of them, namely linium Caladium, Calathea Majestic that has fresh green leaves, and Yang Liyu, which often adorn the pool area

For these types of flowering plants, you also have much choice. Call it for example, peacock flower, Alamanda, trumpet, jasmine, and yellow. Not just beautiful, yellow flowers are tiny but fragrant scent your garden can be as well. In fact, if planted near the carport, this flower can function as a barrier or fence. There are still other options? Of course. Anthurium plant, fitting well for your minimalist garden.

Not only ornamental plants. Plant fruit can you display the type of park this one. But remember, do not plant any fruit. Instead, select trees as slender and vertical growth. For example, trees Ceremai, sugar apple, and pomegranate. Crops such towering pine pole or wax can also be an ornamental garden. Not difficult, right? Armed with the above tips, hopefully you perform optimally even park on the property at a minimum.


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