Spades, Space and Spices: Your Picture Perfect Family Garden

Your garden is a sweet and safe sanctuary which is enjoyed all year round by your family. The one place the children feel free and easy is outside on the grass; fiddling with the grubby soil, getting their knees muddy and kicking a ball into the dainty flower beds, that’s what playing in the garden is all about. With the weather warming up it is an ideal time to start giving your outdoor space a little tender loving care.

In this day and age it is becoming more and more difficult to pry our little ones away from the televisions and iPads at home. Give them a reason to want fresh air and create a homely paradise which you can all enjoy. Wake up those tired little faces and allow them to acquire rosy cheeks and mucky clothes, whilst you watch them grow and play in a fresh fulfilling environment.

Food and Flowers

You may ask yourself this very question every day, why do humans love flowers? From their scent to their perfectly blossoming shapes flowers are a fascinating species for everybody. Children love to smell, touch and see beautiful blooming petals all year round. Let your children get their hands dirty and plant their very own potted plants. It is an ideal project to get them busy and excited and they can choose any type of flower they want. Giving them a sense of responsibility to keep their flower alive will do wonders for their development too. Use the different seasons to inspire your flower beds and get everybody on a trip to your local garden centre to buy new seeds regularly.

Spades, Space and Spices: Your Picture Perfect Family Garden

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Choosing a Wooden Playhouse for your Garden

A wooden playhouse is the dream birthday or Christmas present for many children. Despite being located just a few feet away from the house, the playhouse is a world of its own to your child. This is the place where they might spend hours daily daydreaming, organising imaginary parties with imaginary friends, or even to hide away after a stern lecture. In other words, a kids playhouse will be an important element of your child’s life. As such, it would be prudent to do plenty of research before committing to buy one – and we’d like to offer some help with your deliberations.

Choosing a wooden playhouse for your garden

Tips on buying a wooden playhouse

Wooden houses come in many sizes, shapes and theme. In order to buy the perfect house for your child or children, you have to first determine the theme that they like. A gingerbread shaped house? A Swiss cottage? A lodge? A castle tower? Show you children some images and gauge their reaction. After you’ve determined the theme, you can move on to the size. How old are you children? How big of a playhouse do they require? Do you need an activity or swing set attachment? Once you’ve established these criteria, you will be able to quickly filter out unsuitable options.

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Turning Your Garden Into A Homely Paradise

Spring will be on the way soon so now is the time to start thinking about and planning your garden space. A garden is more than a patch of grass – it’s part of your home. If you feel disheartened every time you look out of your kitchen window at the overgrown mess outside then it’s time to put some love and attention back into your outdoor space. Your home could become so much bigger if you spent some time appreciating your garden and relaxing there with the family; you’ll gain an extra “room”, essentially.

Turning Your Garden Into A Homely Paradise

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Here’s some advice on turning your garden into a homely paradise.

Get gardening.

The best way to turn your garden into a beautiful space is to get gardening. Planting more flowers and plants adds vibrancy and life to this outdoor area. You could even check out https://www.greenhousestores.co.uk/ for a greenhouse in which you could grow vegetables or plants. Even if you’ve never been particularly “green-fingered” in the past, it’s never too late for anyone to get started. Getting invested in your garden will give you a reason to keep returning to it. You won’t ignore that overgrown lawn or wilting flowerbed if you want to be out there tending to your garden. Turning your garden into a homely paradise is much like turning your home’s interior into a paradise; you need to regularly maintain your garden so as to keep it looking nice.

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5 Ways to Add a Touch of Class to Your Family Garden

If there’s one thing a lot of family gardens are missing, it’s a touch of class. There are so many classy ways in which you can upgrade your garden and make better use of it. The 5 ideas we’re going to discuss below will all allow you to add something new and valuable to what your family garden has to offer you.

Ways to add a touch of class to your family garden

Read on now and read all about them before deciding which of them should be implemented in your garden.

  1. Create Simple and Classic Ways for the Kids to Have Fun

Your kids are going to need some form of entertainment because this is a family garden after all. It’s your task to create ways for your kids to be entertained and have fun in your garden that are both simple and classic. A tree swing or a simple treehouse or climbing frame could add the classy forms of fun your garden needs most of all right now.

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Top Tips For Cleaning Your Greenhouse

Winter is practically here now in most parts of the country, which means that many of us in the gardening community need to transfer our plants from the garden, to the greenhouse. But before you get your plants all cosy for the winter, it’s important to give your greenhouse a good clean to remove the summer plants that will now be dying off, and ensure no nasty pests or bugs can find a hiding place.

Top Tips on cleaning your greenhouse

Here are a few tips to follow to get you started.

  1. Take out your plants and equipment.

Choose a mild day and keep your plants covered, or even take them into the house to keep them safe while you’re cleaning. Remove all equipment, pots and other storage containers from the greenhouse, vowing to return only the things that are absolutely essential.

  1. Get your structural parts in tip top shape.

In order to maximise the short daylight hours we have in the winter, it’s important to make sure the panes inside and outside of your greenhouse are as clean as can be. Using specially designed cleaner helps to remove particularly difficult algae, mould, lichen and greenhouse sun shading, but be careful to avoid getting water on the leaves of your plants. Make sure to mend any broken glass to protect your plants from the cold, and clean down any metal or other structural parts.

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Making The Most Of A Small Garden

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a garden, and with the rate the towns are expanding, most new houses come with an extremely small garden. But that doesn’t mean that you can make the most of it. Small gardens can be as lovely as a large one, plus it has the added benefit of not needing as much maintenance.

To get the most out of your little garden, you do need to spend a little time designing it in a way that creates and utilises the space you have, while also giving it the illusion of even more space.

Making the most of a small garden

Levels

Levels are your best friends when it comes to designing your small garden. Use plants of different heights, including climbing plants, to create the illusion of depth and height. Low lounge chairs are great to put you at a level to enjoy more of the space and to immerse yourself into the paradise you have painstakingly created. Hang potted plants along the fences, or implementing trellises will introduce more depth, and, by covering the physical edge of your garden, you’ll make it seem bigger than it is.

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