How To Create More Privacy In Your Backyard Spaces

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Are you tired of being overlooked in your backyard by your neighbours? If so, then this post is for you. Really look at some of the strategies you can use to create more privacy in your backyard spaces. You'll be less overlooked by neighbours and you'll be able to enjoy your outdoor areas without feeling self-conscious. 

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This summer has been filled with lots of fun, glorious days. Whilst many of them have been days out to attractions and beach trips, most of our summer days have been spent in our garden. 

Relaxing, lazy days outside in our own little flourishing garden with the kids having fun has been paradise. 

How to Prepare Your Garden for Autumn

Now that we’re nearing the end of August, we’re starting to get the summer blues and will need to think about preparing our gardens for the autumn season. It’s time to clear away the annual bloomers and prepare for colder weather. To help you, we have some tips from a topsoil seller in London.

Wonderful ways to help wildlife this summer season

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As you become more aware of the world around you, it seems saddening that our planet is under threat. If we don’t do our part to take care of the beautiful world around us, it won’t be here for our great great grandchildren to enjoy. You may have created the perfect family home, but we are having a huge impact on animal’s homes without even realizing. Helping wildlife is something everyone can do with a minimal amount of effort. Whether you’re feeding the birds or reducing the amount of household waste you produce, you can start doing your part this summer season.

Garden time with kids - vegetable growing

Both of the boys love being outdoors. They especially love spending time in the garden. Not only do they love playing in the garden but they also adore helping to care for the garden.

From a young age they’ve both been little green fingered gardeners who love nothing more than helping tend to the garden. They love planting seeds and caring for plants and flowers, watching them grow and bloom. They also find it lots of fun to get stuck in and muddy digging up holes to plant beautiful plants and flowers. 

5 tips for a terrific garden shed

A high-quality shed seals the deal on any garden — it’s a sanctuary which helps you make the most of your green space, whatever the weather.

However, shed designs are deceptively simple, so if you cut corners while constructing your own model or purchasing a kit, your dreams could quite literally collapse in splinters.

Fear not — follow our five tips for a terrific garden shed and you’ll soon be king or queen of your own miniature horticultural castle.

Picking the best type of grass for your lawn needs

The grass is greener, but only when the right grass is used for the right purpose! If you don’t have much of a green thumb, then you might not realise just how varied grass types can be. There are certain grasses that are better than other for you children to play on, for instance. Take a look through out guide below to find which grass would be best for your garden, whatever you use it for.

How your garden can help tackle air pollution

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Rising air pollution is a big problem. Air pollution can cause both short term and long term effects on health. In fact 40,000 deaths each year in the UK are linked to toxic air levels. The severity of this invisible killer is highlighted in the fact that one girl's tragic death could mark the first death certificate to have 'toxic air' cited as the primary cause of death.

With toxic air impacting on our health it is no surprise that people are considering what they can do to tackle air pollution.

Looking at our carbon footprint and making positive changes to lower our carbon footprint can help fight against rising air pollution.

Another way to change toxin levels in the air is to look at things that will clean the air – PLANTS! Thankfully there are a number of plants that can be grown in your garden and community areas that are ideal for fighting air pollution as they help purify and clean the air. Let's venture outdoors and look at the best plants to help purify, filter and clean the air.

Ideas for a summer house

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When I was a child I used to love visiting my great great aunty Nansi as she had a summer house in her garden. Positioned to the side of her immaculate lawn and amongst blooming flowers that she took great care of her summer house was a place for her to relax in on her sun loungers, a tranquil place to read a book and where she could admire the views. Her summer house was a favourite childhood haunt of mine, I spent hours in it when we visited her and I loved playing in it.

As I have such fond memories of her summer house I’ve always wished that I could one day have a summer house in my garden.

As well as satisfying my inner child’s desire to have a garden summer house to call my own, having a summer house in our garden would also be a great way to add more space to our house.

Garden care during autumn and winter

To have a healthy, flourishing and beautiful garden it is important to remember that caring for your garden is an all year task. Whilst gardening in the spring and summer may be more appealing, to keep your garden looking its best it needs to looked after during the autumn and winter too.

Gardening during the different seasons requires you to tackle different gardening tasks as the garden will have different care requirements. Not only do the different seasons have their own season specific maintenance tasks but different flowers, veg and fruit need to be planted during specific time periods to grow during different seasons.

Top gardening gadgets for every keen gardener in 2018

Technology is always developing, and this year, there is a selection of innovative devices and machines to help avid gardeners get ahead.

If you want to know what the best new technology is in gardening, check out this tech guide to discover the top must-have gadgets for gardeners in 2018…

Hotly Tipped Conservatory Designs for 2018

Just like the rest of your home, your conservatory is ready and waiting for you to add a dash of colour and style. And in doing so, you can create a dream space. But what design and trends are tipped for the hothouse this year? Here we look at all things conservatory from interiors to roof conversion and conservatory designs.

Getting to Grips with Your Garden

Your garden is full of life and colour but if it feels like it can sometimes run away with you, you need these top gardening hacks. Save time on weeding and pruning, and more time relaxing and enjoying your garden.

The beauty of fake grass

The garden is an extension of a home. Play and pleasure can be had there. Kids can play, garden parties and BBQ’s can be hosted al fresco, it can be a tranquil haven for relaxation and a beautifully cared for garden can evoke pride and joy.

Gardening is something that can be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. Adults often find gardening relaxing and the pride of seeing a garden transform and hard work come to flourish is very worthwhile. Children can learn about nature, be instilled with an ethic of working hard and gain a sense of achievement.

Whilst gardening is an all year round job, with there being different chores at various time of the year, this time of year induces an extra spark of interest in gardening and desire to give the garden some extra TLC.

Natural grass - high maintenance garden (patchy, muddy and discoloured)

Spring is the perfect time to transform the garden. Whether it is planting new plants, freshening up garden furniture, laying some decking, creating a special garden feature such as a water feature or relaxation area or redesigning your garden inspired by garden trends; now is the time to put in a little bit of effort to make your garden look amazing for the spring and summer months ahead. 

This years must have garden product is fake grass.

Caring for your garden all year round

Whilst it can be an easy mistake to think of gardening as a spring and summer job the truth is that gardening is an all year task.

To have a flourishing and healthy garden it is important to care for it all year round. The different seasons require different care requirements and gardening tasks. As well as season specific maintenance each season has different flowers, veg and fruit that flourish and the different seasons welcome its own variety of wildlife.

Top 5 gardening mishaps you may be making

Some people have green fingers, everything seems to bloom and grow healthily. It may be they have a special talent, but it’s not impossible for anyone to achieve good results. It takes time, care and a degree of knowledge gained by experience, or listening to sound advice.

Caring for our lawn is worthwhile so you have a healthy, good looking garden. If you need specific, expert help on lawn care check out https://www.lawncare.net/service-areas/virginia/ who can help you keep your lawn in tip top condition. Here they give five common problems that befall us in our gardening exploits.

Creating a safe and kid friendly garden

We love being outdoors. As we love spending time outdoors when we are not out and about having grand adventures in the great outdoors we naturally spend as much time as possible in the garden.

I have always loved spending time in the garden and spent many hours tending to and relaxing in the garden with a good book before I had my little family. Whilst the days of relaxing in the sun in peace and quiet with a good book are now very rare thanks to my boisterous boys, long days in the garden are even more frequent than pre-kids.

Even though the general up-keep of the garden is the same now as it was before kids such as mowing the lawn, keeping garden furniture clean, treated and in good condition, and planting flowers; now that I have kids the safety of the garden is now more important than ever.

So that we can spend hours at a time in the garden, having lots of fun exploring our little outdoor haven and enjoy playing with outdoor toys I make sure that the garden is kid friendly. Here are a few of our top tips for a kid friendly and safe garden -

5 of the UK’s best gardening events for 2016

Summer is approaching fast and if you, like many other homeowners, are looking for a little inspiration to spruce up your garden, it’s well worth going beyond the conventional, annual trip to the local garden centre and trying something new.

Stove Site a leading retailer of outdoor ovens, firepits and BBQs understand perfectly the desire to create something unique in an outdoor space and have shared this list of the five best gardening events coming up in 2016:

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Easy garden workout guide.

Let’s just start with the obvious: exercise is good for you. Even without the scare statistics we all know getting out and doing something is better than sitting around eating crisps and gummy bears.

“Gym memberships are expensive” is the UK’s favourite excuse for not exercising. But that starts to look a bit thin when you probe deeper and find, most people are prepared to pay for a gym membership but think it’s a waste of money because they don’t go. Work and life getting in the way is the top reason given for lapsing, but closer examination reveals plenty of us, just don’t like gyms. The equipment’s complex bordering on incomprehensible. Unless you hire a trainer for a few sessions you’ll be clueless and quite probably, humiliated. Gyms are filled with an overpowering scent of unhealthy competition. And, if you thought the membership was expensive, check out the price of holding your own as far as workout gear goes. Taking up running is a great and inexpensive way to exercise, but it’s tricky from scratch too and could give you more problems than it solves if you’re even slightly unfit.

So where does an ordinary human with an ordinary body and a little bit of ambition start, without heading straight for the mean-world of gyms or pounding pavements in earnest?

Open the door, step outside, stretch, breathe and garden. It’s easy, accessible, rewarding, doesn’t involve Lycra or super-cushy rides. And it’s surprisingly intense and effective, if you know how to work it.