I love creating flowers for my garden by repurposing things. It's fun to have little surprises tucked away here and there.
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How to Choose A Good Quality Wooden Garden Shed by Daniel Carruthers When it comes to choosing a garden shed, it is important to find a design that will suit your purposes and last for a long time. As an integral feature of your garden, and an important storage space, it pays to get a quality shed that will do the job you need it to for as long as possible. So how do you recognise good quality in shed design and manufacture, and why is one shed more expensive than another even though they appear to be the same size and shape?The answer is that sheds vary in strength and weather resistance according to the way they are built. Overlap, tongue and groove and shiplap are different styles of shed cladding that offer varying qualities of protection and structural integrity and, as a result, they come at different price points. Choosing the right option for you depends on what you will need to use your shed for, as well as how much you can afford to spend. It helps to be aware of the different cladding options available so that you can make an informed decision when it comes to choosing your new shed.
Rough sawn Timber
Sheds at the cheaper end of the spectrum are often made from overlapping rough sawn timber planks secured to a framework. Feather boarding, which is thinner at the top than at the bottom is sometimes used for this purpose too. If this is your budget be sure to ask the manufacturer the board thickness – you want the boards to be at least 12mm thick.
Overlap cladding sheds A shed with this style cladding is made with horizontal panels that overlap each other and are nailed to vertical bearers. This is the traditional style of shed manufacture and it provides a perfectly stable and secure structure. Particularly
I love creating flowers for my garden by repurposing things. It's fun to have little surprises tucked away here and there.
A garden with a restrained planting palette can be so exciting and atmospheric. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of the white garden. The limitations of choosing plants of a single colour means you can focus your attention; in fact there are so many plants out there that if you don’t have some sort of guiding principles when you set about designing your garden, you will soon be lost and overwhelmed with options.
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A garden shed can be far more than just a dingy, damp place where a few garden tools and plant pots are stored.
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For those of us who love roses, they are the indisputable queens of the garden, and we would never be without their beautiful flowers and their scent, which hangs on the air in summer. Rose haters are perplexed by our unwavering devotion and complain of the rose's susceptibility to sickness; this is fair, since many roses can be affected by fungal diseases, including the rather medieval-sounding black spot, which marks leaves with dark blotches. Thankfully, the worst outbreaks of rose sickness can be prevented with clever cultivar selection, planting, and maintenance, so that your summer profusion of roses is nothing but a joy.
Chelsea is always inspirational but there are some years when the excitement ramps up a notch, and this is one of those years. There are so many superb show gardens to steal ideas from, so many important messages to absorb, that it has been difficult to narrow it down. The plantsmanship is breathtaking, the designs imaginative and the themes thought-provoking, many of the gardens demonstrating how we can garden more sustainably in this era of climate change. From Cleve West’s atmospheric ruined house to Chris Beardshaw’s immaculately planted woodland glade, there is so much at the show to learn from. Here is my pick of the crop.
Most of us want our veggie garden to produce bumper crops, don’t we?Whether we’re feeding a family, shar
Making a rain garden is the best way to save the natural resourses and grow plants in a favorable way. Here’s all the information that will help you on How to Make a Rain Garden!
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Looking Good in the Garden at the End of October Rose Graham Stuart Thomas always seems to send up a few perfect blooms in October and November The ever gorgeou acer has deepened in colour for a final flourish before the leaves fall Cosmos flowers keep on coming – they are remarkable plants – they are about to enter their 6th month of flowering Flowers for a friend – it is amazing what can be found for a posy even in a garden that is largely drained of colour
I love this time of year, the days are getting longer, the tulips are out in force and there’s plenty of opportunity to enjoy the garden. This year I plan to spend more time enjoying the garden and one way of achieving this is to make the transition between the garden and the house as simple as possible. You see this being achieved on programs like grand designs where large expanses of glass can be opened up and the living and garden space become one. Before we go into the different types of aluminium door