How to Design a Balcony Garden
Planning and designing a balcony area is an exciting prospect, but it is also something of a challenge even to the experienced garden designer or landscape architect. Apart from the…
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How to Decorate Screening in Your Balcony Garden
Your first consideration will probably be the style and type of screening that is going to give the balcony shelter and a modicum of privacy. In a block of apartments…
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How to Deal with Pest and Disease in Herb Garden
Fortunately herbs are not generally troubled by many pests and diseases. The point to remember is that strong, well grown plants are more resistant to pest and disease attack (though…
How to Create an Oriental Balcony
For many, particularly city dwellers, the controlled minimal ism and almost neutral colour schemes of classic oriental style is the perfect antidote to a stressful lifestyle and one which can…
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How to Create an Internal Partition in Balcony Garden
On larger balconies it may be desirable to erect some form of internal partitioning, using the more decorative forms of trellis. This might be to separate one part of the…
How to Create a Pleasing Sense of Seclusion in Your Balcony Garden
Some form of overhead structure is frequently necessary, both for privacy and to create a pleasing sense of seclusion. It will also act as a shelter by filtering light summer…
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How to Choose the Plants in Balcony Garden
Your most important accessories for color coordinating, creating special effects and both softening and adding life to your balcony scheme, are the plants you choose. If you are simply aiming…
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How to Choose the Materials for Your Garden’s Horizontal Surfaces
It is absolutely essential for a designer to know at least something about the materials he or she intends to use. In the case of plants, even greater knowledge coupled…
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How to Choose the Materials for Your Garden Walls and Fences
Perhaps you have been considering a getting a fence installed, and you're not exactly sure what you want. It would be a good idea to learn a bit on the…
How to Choose Plants for Balcony Garden
There is such a wonderful variety of climbing and trailing plants that have decorative foliage, wonderful flowers and sometimes bright fruits too, that choosing just two or three for a…
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How to Choose Furniture and Furnishings for Balcony Garden
Balcony furniture must be as practical as it is attractive; it needs choosing carefully, especially if you intend to store it under cover during the colder months, in which case…
How to Choose Fruits in Container Gardens
Apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, grapes and citrus fruits can all be grown in containers as dwarf trained forms. In my opinion all of these trees are attractive in…
How to Change Composts in Container Garden
When growing plants in tubs, urns, pots and similar containers, and in window boxes and hanging baskets, you should periodically give them a fresh supply of compost, for potting composts…
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How to Build Your Garden Floor with Timber Decking
Your balcony may be strong enough to take the weight of the full range of patio paving materials, but it would probably not be advisable to use the heavier paving…
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How to Build Hot Tubs and Spas in Balcony Garden
Those with only a small backyard or balcony at their disposal need not be envious of garden owners with their own private swimming pools. Spas and hot tubs can be just…
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How to Build a Patio in Your Garden
SIZE AND SHAPE This needs careful planning to ensure that there is enough space for a wide range of family activities. Sun loungers and deck chairs need space not only…
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How to Build a Garden Balcony in the Outdoor Living Area
If a building boasts serried ranks of balconies, the owner might be spoilt for choice over which one to use and when. The most common and profitable place to site…
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How to Add Water Features in Your Garden
There are so many different ways of featuring water in a garden that it is important to establish, at the outset, which type of feature is wanted: 1. Fountains, moving…
How to Add Water Features in Balcony Garden
If you take its limitations into consideration and adapt your ideas accordingly, all things are possible on a balcony. There is no reason why you should not incorporate a water…
How to Add Visual Effect to Your Balcony Garden
Before you start adding any furniture and furnishings, there may be a few special decorative effects you would like to consider that will bring just a little originality or a…