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Interactive Window Box
- Interactive Window Box
This window box is filled with easy-to-grow annuals that will tolerate a sunny position and bloom with a riot of color throughout the summer and into fall. Plant after the weather is settled and there is no danger of frost; the nasturtiums may be sown two to three weeks earlier. Select healthy, stocky plants and pinch off youngest growth to encourage bushiness.
The box can be made of wood, heavy-duty plastic, fiberglass, metal, or any other suitable material. The dimensions are 36 inches long by 9 inches wide by 9 inches deep. It is important that the container provides good drainage, so the plants do not become waterlogged. Make sure there are sufficient holes in the bottom; to avoid losing soil through the holes, cover them with a piece of hardware cloth or screening. The soil mix should be light in weight; we recommend using a commercial sterilized soilless potting mix. Weight is always a problem; fasten your window box securely to avoid accidents involving pedestrians below. Do not allow the soil to dry out excessively; feed with half-strength liquid fertilizer every two to three weeks.
Rooms in Bloom Contest
Rooms in Bloom Contest
Have you decorated a room in your home using a garden theme? If you’ve incorporated floral fabrics or wall coverings; wicker, rattan, or other outdoor style furniture; accessories such as botanical prints, garden tools, or watering cans; or used any other garden-related home furnishings, you qualify to enter our Rooms in Bloom contest. Here’s your chance to show other Country Living Gardener readers how you’ve brought the outdoors in, and perhaps win a great prize.
Award-winning Japanese garden in the Munsterland
- Japanese bamboo gate with
Traditional flower and shrub gardens with richly flowering borders, diligent hum of bees and birds – as seen from many gardens in the region Steinfurt. The garden of family Ahmann from Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe was also formerly designed Sun Today, a large garden with stream dominated garden. Stone lanterns, evergreen conifers and rhododendrons are found there now too, because family Ahmann designed her garden for 15 years in the Japanese style.
Mary and Paul Ahmann had to be dug up in 1994 the majority of their garden, so that their leaky basement was renovated. Actually, they found their flower-filled cottage garden beautiful, but the garden, which she now had to create new, should be easy to maintain in any case. The landscape gardener of the family Ahmann suggested a quiet-looking, evergreen garden form shrubs, lots of water and gravel in front – a Japanese garden. The new design idea they were so exciting that they immediately bought some books on Japanese gardens. In short, from the easy-care compromise was a passion.
Two ideas for a hillside garden
Here we present two proposals on how to transform your garden slopes towards the road in an eye-catcher. On the last page you will find the planting plans in PDF format for download.
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A bare hillside road holding is considered a problem area, but by a clever planting it is a beautiful garden situation.
A new impetus for the front garden
A beautiful garden makes the house seem like much nobler. Our two proposals to make transplanting in your front garden for a fresh breeze.
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This garden is simply a lawn which is framed around with perennials and shrubs. The composition of the plant seems more random, a proper planting concept is not visible.
From the lawn to the dream garden
Thus, from a small grassy area behind the house a dream garden. Two design ideas with planting plans to download and transplanting.
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More than an unkempt lawn, privet hedges and flowering cherry trees in the background, not to offer this garden. A more detailed design would enhance the small site visually significant.
A garden becomes a wasteland blossom haven
A’s getting on in years garden will be transformed into a floral oasis. Two design ideas with planting plans to download and transplanting.
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A’s getting on in years garden will be redesigned. Biggest wish here: a thriving part of the paved terrace.
Two ideas for a large lawn area
A large lawn in the garden can make a lost impression. Two design proposals for transplanting, we show you how to make it into a colorful flower garden.
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This large complex with extensive lawn is not exactly what you would call a beautiful garden. Even the garden is a little lost there, and should be integrated with a suitable transplanting into the new design concept.
Ideas for the grave and the grave planting design
A grave planting should taste . Here we present you with suitable plants and successful design ideas.
Who had to take a loved one farewell, not left to the play many ways a final recognition of the deceased to leave. Many therefore make a beautifully planted the final resting place. Furthermore, does the gardeners of the soul good and so also helps the planting of the tomb, to process the loss.
For the grave planting there are many ways: To prevent unsightly weeds, are densely growing, evergreen ground cover as Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster dammeri) Ysander (Pachysandra terminalis), ivy (Hedera helix), Evergreen Honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida) Mühlenbeckie (Muehlenbeckia axillaris), European wild ginger (Asarum europaeum),
Stone figures for the garden
Today, sitting or lying Gargoyles as stone statues in our gardens. But what exactly is a Gargoyle? We give you a small but exciting insight into the history of eerily beautiful stone figures.
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Stone figures for the garden
In English they are called Gargoyle, Gargouille in French and in German they are known simply as gargoyles with grotesque face. Behind all these names is a long and fascinating tradition. Gargoyles originally had a practical use, for example, as clay pipes. This was already in the 6th Century BC, the water drainage from roofs in the gutter. The purpose of a gargoyle was therefore to manage the water after a downpour in an arc away from building walls to keep the facade dry.
