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Even if you only have a patio, a terrace or a balcony, you can create a garden in the centre of the city. Not only a garden, but an outdoor room in which you can sit, relax and entertain. Your very own Eden. If your outdoor area is north facing and gets no sunlight, it is more difficult, but you can still turn it into a green area by growing shade-loving plants.  Most of these are moist condition plants so the planting can be combined with creating a water feature. Plant a variety of ferns to give a variety of leaf types and different heights and shapes. The giant holly fern grows to a height of 4 feet, the ostrich feather fern grows to three feet, other British ferns such as the maidenhair and the marginatum group have heights between 18 inches and two feet.They need a slightly acidic soil, so plant them in compost designed for growing rhododendrons or azaleas. If, however, your terrace garden is flooded with sunlight, you can have not only a garden but a productive garden. Cherry tomatoes, aubergines and peppers both sweet and hot, are all decorative plants .. more→

Organic gardening is considered much more healthy and nutritious as compared the normal gardening patterns followed these days. In this piece of writing, I will be discussing some simple yet effective organic gardening tips which will surely assist you in planting and growing your own organic garden. Soil is the most fundamental part to take care off when it comes to organic gardening. In order to make your organic gardening soil nutritious and suitable for different plants, you should use mulch. 2 to 3 inches of fresh mulch should be added each season so the decomposed mulch can be eliminated from the soil. The mulch drains out water and safeguards the soil from rainwater as well. However, you must make sure that mulch is kept away from the roots of the plants other wise the plants will rot.Natural fertilizers should be used to improve the condition of the soil. Composting is a great process of recycling food and waste and use it in order to provide more nutrients to your organic garden soil. To control the amount of soil and renew nutrients in the soil you need to rotate crops. Each plant .. more→

Remember the color wheel from art class in school? Some easy to remember keys to beautifully combine color in your garden areas lie in the way those six basic colors are set up on the color wheel. Starting from the top and working clockwise around the color wheel, simply remember the sequence of the colors: violet/purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and then back to violet/purple. By knowing and using the order of the colors around the color wheel you can apply the following three quick and easy to remember tips to beautifully combine color:Combine colors that are next to each other on the color wheel: Suppose you want orange flowers in your garden. To compliment the orange, you could combine orange and yellow flowers...or orange and red flowers...or orange, yellow AND red flowers.Combine colors that are straight across from each other on the color wheel: Starting with the orange example again, you could combine orange and blue...or yellow and purple...or red and green.Combine colors that form a triangle with each other: Orange, green and purple...or blue, yellow and red. Following the sequence of colors around the color wheel and these three tips as a guide, .. more→