Friday, October 2, 2009

Garden on a Windy Location

This garden, On the side of a hill and not far from the sea, has good views of hills beyond but has two major disadvantages. It is exposed (and windy) and it is overlooked by a number of neighboring houses.

You can choose to have a large area of decking in the centre of her garden with plenty of room to dance. You can use southern yellow pine which had been 'Vac vac' pressure treated - a clear preservative, harmless to wildlife. The decking is non-slip when wet. Paths are edged with timber, painted blue to match the fence, or water-shaped flat stones. Steps are constructed of railway sleepers covered with chicken wire to stop them from becoming slippery in wet weather.

A rectangular pool leads off a decking-floored veranda with a glazed roof. This is a box aside of railway sleepers with a rubber liner. A mirror, elevens' positioned at one end from ceiling to below water level, doubles the apparent

Fire scheme was based on orange, brown and silver to complement the blues of the fence and pergola. Acer campestre `Schwerinii), with red-purple young leaves, can be used to surround the Celtic circle; sedges and pheasant's tail grass provide the exotic effect

Packets of seeds can provide a wonderful splash of color when sown as a group display. Sow the seeds of poppies in spring in full sun and in fertile, well-drained soil and they will be in flower by summer. Flowers of many poppies then produce decorative large seed pods, allowing you to save the seeds for another year. This is the field poppy. Papaver rhoeas from the Shirley Series, the flowers of which come in single, semi-double and double flowers in yellow. Pink, and orange, as well as red.

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