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Landscaping Tips for Home Lawns and Gardens in the Autumn
Your garden lawn is a source of pride, a playing space for your family and a relaxing place. How you take care of your garden or lawn depends on the season and where you live. In the autumn, your garden transitions from active season of growing to a dormant season. Autumn is the best time to rejuvenate your lawn. As autumn weather sets in, you have to change gardening practices to prepare your landscape for the season ahead. Here are a few tips on how to start it and how to do it. Preparation A six-week window is enough for you to prepare the landscape of your garden. It is an ideal time for you to plant cool-season grasses like rye and fescue. This helps them to germinate and develop a strong root system. You may consider adding fertilizer to your garden preferably an all-natural fertilizer. Herbicides help in getting rid of weeds from your garden sprucing up its landscape. Maintaining the Landscape You can tidy up the landscape by removing fallen foliage, dry stems and other...
Your Guide to Patios and Decks
A patio is a living space built outdoor at ground level. It can be attached or detached from your house. You can construct a patio using pavers, concrete, stone, brick or tile and sometimes even wood. On the hand, the decks are external elevated structures constructed at different heights needing support systems and rails. A majority are made of wood, composite wood or vinyl. Here are a few tips that will help you choose between a patio and a deck for your home. Budget If you have a limited budget, you should go for a patio. In some cases, it might cost you twice as much to erect a deck than a patio. The cost depends on the material, location, size and the outdoor space available in your home. The support systems and railings required for the deck increases your budget hence you may find a patio more affordable. Location and View If your home is located in a scenic environment, you may prefer a deck. If you want an outdoor space off your upstairs...
Adding Elegance to Your Home Using Outdoor Pergola
An outdoor pergola is an ideal way of extending your home’s interior beyond its four walls. It gives your home style and panache making it more attractive. A pergola is a row of pillars arranged vertically usually supporting extra cross-beams on the top. The pergola helps you to create a bridge between the completely closed exterior and an open deck or patio space in your home. For your contemporary home, a pergola is a wonderful extension for beauty purposes. Different designs and styles are available for your home and integrating them into your shouldn’t be a fuss. Building Your Own Pergola Constructing a pergola is quite easy. It requires minimal carpentry skills, and it is quite cheap to do it. Most basic designs of pergola are not that difficult to build and with a little help from a friend, you can set it up. Nothing should stand before you and your desire to have a pergola in your home. It gives you, your family and guests with the perfect shade and environment for a...
Home Decoration with Fire Pits
Decorating your home with fire pits will gives it a welcoming environment. Lighting a fire in your yard especially during the onset of winter will help warm your family or guests. Gathering around the fire pit with your family or guests is a sure way of bonding with them. Fire pits give your home a pleasant outdoor feeling within the comfort of your backdoor. You may consider constructing it by yourself or purchase a custom made one from the market. Here are a few factors to consider when choosing a suitable fire pit. Safety Always consider on how safe the fire pit is especially if you have small kids. You don’t want your family stumbling on it causing injuries. You can use incorporate safety screen to contain the flames to the pit. Ensure you only use concrete, paving stones or other surfaces that don’t catch fire. It is necessary for you to keep a radius of 10 feet around the pit away from your home or other structures in the yard. Extreme caution should be taken not to install the...
Spring Cleanup
Spring cleanup tasks are sure ways of maintaining the flamboyance of your garden. You need to proceed and get rid of burlap from shrubs and trees, as the weather gets warmer. You can prune away branches that were damaged in winter to allow for new growth. You may consider cutting old perennials and pull up old annuals. March is specifically a good time for you to do the cleanup in your yard. At this time you can take stock of the garden and see what needs to be thinned out. You may also transplant plants to prevent crowding and fill up bare spaces. Pruning Dead Branches and Plants Cleaning up is quite a simple task. Branches and trees in your garden damaged by wind and snow should be pruned. Using hand pruners instead of electric shears removes an external layer of tissues that prevents air and sunlight from reaching the center of the shrub. You need to prune summer-flowering shrubs like Rose of Sharon before the buds begin to swell. However, you should wait for spring bloomers like...
