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2021 Trends in Garden Design

Organizing your garden, balcony, and window fronts are an aesthetic as well as a relaxing activity. In recent years, you can make impressive arrangements for any environment, thanks to design ideas that are suitable for all kinds of budgets. By catching the current trends, you can achieve much more attractive environments. Don't forget to take a look at 2021 trends in garden design to beautify your living spaces with the little touches you make.

Trends That is Effective in Garden Design

Especially in spring and summer, many people tend to beautify their gardens and balconies. That's why many new garden design ideas can come up as a result of brainstorming. As you start to spend more time in nature, you want to beautify your surroundings. It isn’t impossible to have your dream garden in an inexpensive and easy way. You can start by adding elevation to your garden. With stones or pieces of wood, you can make your home's garden entrance 10 - 30 cm higher than the ground. This small change will make your home look more magical while also highlighting the plants in the garden. You can use the stones in your garden in an artistic way. Large stones in the grass are among the indispensable parts of the soil. However, gray flat stones can be boring. You can create a completely different atmosphere by coloring the stones and drawing pictures on them. If you are complaining that your flowers are not growing, you can choose different plants. Succulents that are easy to maintain and require very little attention are the best alternatives. It will be enough to give water once in a while. You can make the surroundings colorful with succulents that you can buy in different colors and plant them in your garden. You will also catch the 2021 trends in garden design while getting rid of difficult flower care. Read the full article

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How to Create and Care For a Terrarium?

People who have narrow space generally think that they cannot feed flowers. However, you don't need a huge garden, balcony, or even a window to add color and greenery to your life. You can grow a world in small aquariums, jars, and special glasses by turning to a terrarium, which is the fashion of recent years. The important thing is to know how to take care of these beings that are different from classical flowers. Read the full article

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Homemade Pesticides for Your Flowers

Flowers that add color to your home, workplace, or social space can help make your world beautiful. With proper care and the right sunlight, flowers are extremely easy to multiply and come alive. However, sometimes, no matter how well cared for, plants can still get pests. It is possible to get rid of these insects and their damages through the homemade pesticides for your flowers you can prepare easily. Read the full article

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Installing The Garden Greenhouse

Regardless of the climate in your location, you can grow your own flowers, fruits, and vegetables throughout the year. You can use a garden greenhouse to provide suitable conditions for plants to grow. These structures, which can be arranged independently of the ambient conditions, meet the needs of plants under a single roof by transmitting light. Read the full article

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Best Plants For a Vegetable Garden

  There are different vegetables you can choose to create a vegetable garden. In addition, it is necessary to make the planning for the vegetables garden correctly. In this article, we will talk about what are the most ideal vegetables for a vegetable garden and what should be considered when creating this vegetable garden. Read the full article

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How Often to Water Cactus?

  The most important point about watering the cactus is not giving too much water than enough. Like it's being in a lot of plants, the best watering method is checking the moist of soil. Our main rule is not to watering cactus as long as the soil is not dry. Read the full article

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Leaves Turn Red in Autumn

You can understand that the summer season is over with the leaves that start to fall off. The sun is no longer so burning and uncomfortable. The gently blowing wind creates a romantic ambiance. Also, the leaves turn red in this season. This color makes you feel like you are in a fairy tale. By learning which plant species change color according to the season, you can make your gardening arrangements accordingly.  Read the full article

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Ideas for Landscaping With a Low Budget

DIY ideas have become very popular in recent years. You can now do many things yourself, without paying exorbitant prices for ready-made products and services. Of course, the internet is a blessing for ideas for landscaping. Through many blogs, videos, and schemes, it is possible to master any job. One of these is landscape design. Even with a low budget, you can turn your garden and balcony into a completely different place. Read the full article

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Plants are Useful to Prevent Coronavirus

As of December 2019, the whole world is suffering from a global pandemic. A drug or vaccine hasn’t yet been discovered against this epidemic is a new type of coronavirus. Therefore, it’s imperative to take individual measures to protect against the virus. One of these measures is to grow antiviral plants effective against Covid-19 in your life. Read the full article

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How often to water orchids?

  There are a lot of variables about how often to water orchids. To decide best frequency of watering we need to take into account these variables. But if you are asking for general watering frequency the answer can be "watering in every 4-7 days". Read the full article

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How to water orchids?

  Before to start watering the orchids the plant has been placed into a pot that has its holes at the under. There are two main ways to how to water orchids. The first way; watering directly The first one is watering directly via over its air roots. The "air roots" that we have mention is the roots that you can see on the ground of the plant clearly. (We don't mention the main roots that are deep in the pot.) While watering, you need to take care of touching the water to the leaves. Our target need to be air roots only. Go on watering till the water begin to flow from the holes that under the pot and this wil be  enough. The second way; sitting it in a container The second way is sitting the pot completely to the a container that has been filled water. After then we need to wait for 2-3 minutes. During this time the orchid will has been take water that it needs to live. The frequency of watering orchids Like other plants we decide also watering time of orchids by taking notice of ambient conditions. The main rule while watering an orchid is being kind to the roots as possible as. The roots of an orchid can be thought as living vessels that is providing its live. In addition this the roots give us a hint about watering time. By considering the color of the roots we can understand that does it needed to watering or not. Look at the color; is it lively green or gray green? - If it's gray green that means watering is needed. Read the full article

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Scales on plants

Scale insects have more than 1000 types in their family. A big part these looking dirty insects family is agricultural pest. Therefore as a plant lovers they are one of the our big enemies. The one of biggest feature of these insects is playing its big role about spreading plant diseases. This means if you don't provide against these insects in time, there is a high risk to lost your plants. Even if your plants have been placed at indoor. Read the full article

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Balcony Flower Gardening for Beginners

Although urbanization has changed the social structure, the peace of green cannot be denied. For those living in rural areas, gardening is both a tradition and a habit. Growing your own fruits and vegetables, planting your flowers is as enjoyable as it is healthy. However, it shouldn’t upset you that you don’t have a suitable and large area for this. Even if you are a beginner, balcony flower gardening can satisfy you. Basics of Balcony Flower Gardening Those who try to engage in gardening with an enthusiasm usually plant many things at the beginning. However, the right thing is to start by planting one or two plants and one type of herbs until you get used to the soil. After familiarizing yourself with care, you can make your hobby more professional. You should also be prepared not to get the result you initially dreamed of. Things will continue to move forward more easily as you learn. If you are new to balcony flower gardening, you can start with easy plants first. Aromatic herbs such as parsley, basil, arugula, mint and rosemary are fairly easy to grow. You can easily grow a branch of the plants you buy for consumption by rooting them in a glass of water. You can also buy ready-made seeds. These plants reproduce in a short time and grow quickly without requiring much care. You can grow one of these products in pots that you will put in a sunny place on your balcony. Read the full article

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How to get rid of fungus gnat?

How to get rid of fungus gnat actually there are many ways to rid of them. One of most known is intervening the plant with a mixture that is including some soap and water. This method works in generally. But it's important to applying and checking day by day. If it doesn't work, you can try the other solutions that we will have mention below. The ways to get rid of fungus gnat The first thing you need to know that is the fungus gnats love moist soil. This is an important information for us that we can use to against them. Namely; adding some sand or gravel on the soil that is ground of the plant will work. Because there's no way to live for them on the sand or gravel. They are familiar with moist soil and their living sources comes from soil. Therefore making some barrier between of they and soil, is one of the most easiest ways to get rid of fungus gnats. Since it will be impossible to breed they won't want to live there. Thanks to this method you can also get a chance to show your plant more beautiful by using some decorative gravels. What are the other ways to get rid of fungus gnats? The another solution is renewing the soil. But doing this a little bit troublesome. If you are sure to do this, it will enough to renewing the upper part of the soil. Don't try to renewing all of the soil. Lastly; you need to be attention about watering frequency. Notice that the gnats love moist soil. So providing stay moist of the soil for a long time won't be true. Read the full article

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Fungus Gnats - What is a fungus gnat?

  Outside of its scientific definition, with more easier definition; the little black gnats that are benefiting from your house plants are named as "fungus gnats". The fungus gnats are noticed while watering plants in generally. It's easy to see those by looking closer to the soil of the plants. In generally; the main reason of seeing a fungus gnat in a house plant is has been placed that plant in outside. Even if it has been placed outside for a short time only, the risk possibility is high. Why fungus gnats are harmful for plants? Actually, the harmful effects of them are related to strength level of the plant that have been haunted by them. If we are mentioning about a plant that has no strength roots, the being affected  possibility is high. But the stronger plants are always stronger. But even if your plants so strong enough to resist, you need to do something to rescue your plants from these gnats. Otherwise the result is gonna be bad and in every watering process you will have get the problem like flying of these gnats to on your face. How to get rid of fungus gnats? Luckily it is not impossible or difficult to get rid of these gnats. One of the most easiest ways to do it is mixing some soap to some water and spraying the mixture to on soil everyday regularly. Out of this solve method there are also many other ways to get rid of fungus gnats. But if you don’t get a noticeable result, we recommend to you trying other ways. Read the full article

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Design your landscape lighting

At the result of has been made a correct landscape lighting, especially at nights the ambiance gives us positive effect. Who don't wants to spend some time in a garden like this? With your friends or lonely, it's no matter. You can enjoy this garden in every situation. Thanks to LED technology we can design our gardens how we want.  But to get better result, we need to take into account some details. In this post we will give you some tips that have been approved by landscape architects also. Tips to design your landscape lighting Here some tips, First you need to consider types of lightning that have been improved for gardens. While preferring the right one, you need to consider the harmony of that product with the plant that you have got. For example if you have a plant like it's reaching to up, for this plant it will be the best choosing a LED lighting that also reaching to the up. As a result we need to look the shape of plants firstly. Aerial night view garden MyLandscapes Garden Design   Take into account the furniture also to design your landscape lighting Take into account the furniture also to design your landscape lighting Not only plants are composing your garden. That's why you need to take into account other factors that are playi   ng big role about the design of your garden. And one of the most biggest factors is the furnitures that you have been placed in your garden. Read the full article

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7 flower suggestions to attract butterflies to your garden

With 7 flower suggestions that will attract butterflies to your garden, you can have a magical garden where tiny wings fly. It is also possible to create a flamboyant and environmentally friendly garden by making room for the plants that butterflies like in your garden. Plants that attract butterflies are among the plants that butterflies cannot resist due to nectar in their flowers. Having plants that attract butterflies in your garden both contributes to the life cycle of these creatures and increases the energy of your garden. Here are 7 flower suggestions to attract butterflies to your garden. 1) Flame flower (Phlox) Flame flowers are a spreading plant species that bloom all summer and form a cover above the ground. Perennial varieties will be excellent as a ground cover for a year. With its appearance, it is possible to grow flame flowers from seeds, which will steal your heart as well as butterflies. 2) Tree enamel (Lantana) Tree enamel is a wonderful plant that tiny, glamorous flowers in various color shades open in clusters. It is usually grown annually. Additionally to butterflies and bees love this plant with high temperature resistance 3) Blue dahlia (Amsonia) The blue star is a perennial plant, whose height can reach almost one meter. Also It creates an extraordinary beauty in your garden with its blue and star shaped flowers opened in spring. 4) Read the full article

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