Wicker furniture has long been popular for both indoor and outdoor settings. Whether you put your wicker set in the garden, on a patio or a porch, or in your living room, bedroom or sunroom, you’ll find it elegant, adaptable and long lasting. If you’re considering purchasing wicker furniture for your home, these are some things to take into account before you make your final decision:

Nowadays you can get both natural and synthetic wicker furniture. Natural wicker is a plant material derived from rattan, willow, bamboo, reed or abaca, and is well known for its beauty and versatility. Continue Reading

It’s really not hard at all to grow and maintain an organic lawn. Over the past few decades, it’s become so normal to use a lot of man-made fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides that everyone seems to have forgotten that you don’t need all these chemicals to achieve a beautiful, green lawn.

As long as you keep the grass healthy it will stand up to weeds and insects. It’s only the most persistent of weeds that can infiltrate a luxuriant, sturdy lawn with deep roots. Continue Reading

The term “thatch” refers to a buildup of dead and living grass stems, roots and shoots that sits directly on top of the soil, right below the grass.

In warm, humid conditions thatch will decompose quickly and serve as a useful source of nourishment for the soil. However, if it’s not breaking down as quickly as it’s forming, the thatch will accumulate and start to cause problems. Continue Reading

You might be wondering why you would need to learn how to water the lawn. Surely it’s just a matter of turning on the hosepipe, walking around and getting the grass a bit wet, or just leaving the sprinklers running for a while.

No, there’s actually a bit more to it than that, especially in these times of water shortages. Now that communities around the world are facing water use restrictions, it’s more important than ever to observe good conservation and lawn management practices. Continue Reading

One of the great things about container gardening is that it gives you the flexibility to use a different range of containers to suit your garden design and creativity.

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