Four Spring Garden Tips To Prepare for The Season
The days are getting longer so we can soon spend more time outdoors. Prepare your Spring garden so you can enjoy the rewards when Summer hits. Use our four easy Spring garden tips. Whether you have a small balcony garden or a large backyard, you can do some simple things to get your Spring garden ready for the new season. In this article, we’ll give you four tips on how to prepare your garden for spring. We’ll help you prepare your garden beds, choose the right plants, and start planting. We’ll also give you tips on caring for your Spring…
3 Easy Crops You Can Grow Right At Home
Now has never been a better time to grow easy crops at your own home. Whether you have a small balcony or a large garden, these 3 easy crops will provide you with taste sensations for your cooking… easily. About 4.7 million green thumbs prefer to plant their own foods for consumption. Is this truly worth your while? Of course! Homegrown easy crops like vegetables and fruits contain more nutrients than store-bought ones. Furthermore, you can control how many chemicals you need for your home-grown produce, thereby protecting the environment from harmful toxins. Have you always dreamed of having a…
Garden Redesign That’s Divine Not Disasterous
A garden redesign can be great fun when you have a blank canvas onto which you can project your creativity. Even if you have just a small space, it’s redesign can be exciting and successful if you follow a few simple rules. If you are having a hard time figuring out what you want from your garden redesign these tips and rules will help you. Your outdoor space, no matter the size, is a place of leisure, pleasure and peace… so enjoy. Mark Out Your Garden Redesign Plan The first thing to do is mark out the area you want…
Create A Luxurious Backyard Retreat With 4 Gorgeous Ideas
Who doesn’t want a luxurious backyard retreat? Well… no-one. Regardless of the size of your garden, you can try one or all of these four gorgeous ideas. Your backyard is an extension of your home, and a place where you can relax and enjoy the fresh air with your family and friends. Turning it into your own luxurious backyard retreat and trendy oasis may take some time and a few investments. However, if you’ve decided you want upgrade your garden this season, here are several great ideas on how to do it. For A Luxurious Backyard Retreat Use Decorative Plants…
Creating A Lush Garden In A Dry Climate
Creating a lush garden in a dry climate is perfectly achievable with a few simple tips. Everyone wants a lush, green and vibrant garden so I’ve come up with some ways in which you can achieve it. The most vital elements to creating a lush garden is water. Very few plants flourish when they are placed in an environment which keeps them hot and dry. With water being a huge part of their structure, they simply can’t live without it, and even the hardiest will often lose their colour. When you’re trying to create a beautiful garden, this can be…
Relaxed Garden Living: How To Create A Sweet Space
Relaxed garden living CAN be obtained with a few simple tips and ideas. No matter the size of your outdoor space, you can create relaxed garden living to suit your lifestyle… and budget. When it comes to relaxing at home, most of us are pretty handy at ensuring our living rooms and bedrooms cater to our comfort needs. But relaxation stretches beyond four walls; there’s also the matter of relaxed garden living. Regardless of how big or small your garden space is, finding ways to increase the level of comfort will encourage you to entertain friends and family over the…
Home Perfection: Fall In Love All Over Again
Has your home perfection slipped from your grasp? Has your sparkling castle become tarnished? When you first move into your perfect home you’re likely to love everything about it. You’ll think it’s home perfection on a stick. If there were any issues, you will have most likely of noticed them before buying, and fixed them as early as possible. But we all know all too well what happens after a few years. You’ll start to notice annoying little issues that get on your nerves, yet you never seem to have enough time to fix them. Are we right? Well, with…
Stylish Outdoor Overhaul… It’s Easy
Stylish outdoor living spaces are an extension of our home environment. They provide a unique place for entertaining, exercising, relaxing or dining…the only limit is your imagination. Sometimes it feels more natural to rise to the challenge of sprucing up an indoor space, where limits stop at the four walls around you. It’s easy to spend time perfecting your interior. But then spring hits and you realise you now want a stylish outdoor area in which to spend the summer. With something as unique and full of potential as your own home’s outdoor space, knowing where to start can be…
An Environmental Home That’s Sustainable
Having an environmental home could be easier than you think. It’s not all about new build either, you can retro fit any home to be more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Sustainability is something at which homeowners are now looking. As well as helping to protect the environment, you are also cutting down on your monthly bills so it is a win-win situation. Now is the perfect time to create an environmental home with these improvements. Environmental Home: Insulation One of the best ways of retaining heat in the home is through insulation, and this can be done in walls, ceilings…
Help Your Garden Look Amazing With These Easy Tips
Help your garden look amazing with these easy tips so you can sit back and enjoy the fruits of your work without slaving away in the dirt every weekend. It’s relaxing to sit with a glass of wine and enjoy a beautiful garden, but most of us are just way too busy to spend time fussing over it. Just a few simple tips will help your garden look amazing even when you don’t have a lot of time for it. Keep Low-Maintenance Design in Mind You want to help your garden look amazing but you don’t have enough time…
How to Properly Use Earthworm Castings in Your Garden
One of the popular things that most gardeners use to grow their plants beautifully is by using earthworm castings. What exactly are worm castings? In a nutshell, earthworm castings are worm manure or worm dung. If we are to compare worm dung to the usual manure from cows or horses, worm manure doesn’t give off the same offensive smell. It is also safe to carry around and isn’t a threat to the environment, unlike synthetic fertilizers. You also don’t need to use as much of it as compared to horse manure wherein you need a fertilizer spreader. How to…
Nude Gardening Safety Tips (Yes, You’ll Need Them)
Nude gardening is a wonderful way to commune with nature, grow beautiful flowers, and sustain life by growing your own fruit and vegies. But nude gardening does come with some warnings and not just privacy issues. May 6, 2017, is World Naked Gardening Day with people across the globe nude gardening. Now that can be nakedly tending a flower box from the privacy of your fifth-floor apartment. Or it can be a community-friendly public park cleanup, sans clothing. I have been nude gardening for years, in the complete privacy of my own property. There are numerous benefits including no tan…
Easily Improve Your Home Street Cred
Fashionistas understand street cred – that indefinable sense of style and absolute cool. Home street cred is the extension of this design aesthetic. Your home is your castle. It can be a highly personal piece of you. Your pride and joy. And you want it to be the most incredible property in your neighborhood. That chic property everyone stops to look at for a few extra seconds. The home your friends and family love to visit on weekends.. and crash when your entertaining excels. It’s that vibrant property you can sell in a jiffy the moment you decide to move on.
Three Easy Ways to Breathe New Life Back Into Your Home
Do you have moments when you want to breathe new life into your home? Like, take a big fan and just blow away all the cobwebs? You’re not alone. If you’ve been living in your house for a long enough time, it can often feel like you’re not getting the full magical experience that you first got when you moved in. So these three easy tips will think you’ve moved to a new house.
Three Simple Garden Makeover Ideas for a Scintillating Summer
Simple garden makeover ideas can easily transform your outdoor space no matter how small it might be. From balcony to courtyard, and beyond, you’ll reclaim those long warm summer evenings for outdoor relaxation and entertainment.
Is your backyard ready for the change of the seasons? When winter comes around, we neglect our gardens completely. You might not know that, in the winter, grass actually stops growing so there’s no need to cut it. We don’t look after the plant life either because we’ll probably catch a seasonal chill. There’s also going to be very little chance to go out in the garden, so there’s no point in keeping it looking stylish. But all that changes once the first signs of spring start to show. It’s never too early to think about how you’re going to make your garden sensational for summer.
Hi, I’m Penelope Herbert, Interior Designer and Blogger. Welcome to Don’t Call Me Penny.
