Outdoor Furniture for your Cottage Garden

A blooming cottage garden is a show stopping garden. It has a natural whimsical feel and it picks the interest of all its visitors with the desire to identify the different intricately placed plants. The cottage garden is a collection of bountiful blooms that give an ever-changing feel over the growing seasons. Although the most of the cottage themed garden is away from the street, there some hints in the front yard of the back yard treasure.
A cottage garden is one of the easiest gardens to maintain as it has a natural feel. There is however a fine line between a well kept cottage garden and a garden jungle. Maintenance of your cottage garden includes regularly inspecting the garden and pulling volunteer tree seedling. Keep the plants that spread at an invasive rate under check. Every time you walk your garden, carry pruning shears to keep your plants dead headed to encourage blooming. Once the perennials are spent and done with their blooming cut them back when they are no longer attractive.
One of the best ways to enjoy your garden is by sitting on outdoor patio furniture in your backyard. Invest in nice outdoor patio furniture. Shopping for outdoor patio furniture can be a challenge as well because of the wide variety to choose from. Outdoor patio furniture can be made from aluminum, which is lightweight and allows you to move your furniture around as needed. The type of outdoor patio furniture comes with fabric padding in all different colors and designs.
Some outdoor patio furniture is made from aluminum mesh; this resembles wrought iron but doesn't need the same maintenance that the iron needs. There is also patio furniture made of cast aluminum. This is heavier than regular outdoor patio furniture. It is however very ornate and beautiful and is available in many colors and styles. PVC has also been used to make great outdoor patio furniture. PVC makes for simple, durable and affordable patio furniture. Rattan has the more traditional look of patio furniture. High quality rattan is very durable. Other types are resin, steel; which can last a life time, teak, wicker and wrought iron. With such a variety, you won't have any trouble finding a style and design to match your needs.
Wood benches in your cottage garden blend in well. You can use them for sitting while admiring your handy work, allowing you to sit in your backyard and take in the smells and sights of your labor. There are also wooden benches that seat two. These benches are perfect for a quiet chat in the backyard with a friend.
There are many types and styles of wood benches to choose from. You choice of bench will be determined by its function. Garden wood benches are made out of many different types of wood. They can be made out of oak, pine or chestnut. Whatever wood the benches are made of, they need to be sturdy and resilient as well as being able to survive the elements. Garden wood benches are also found in many styles, the standard backless bench, the planted bench, a love seat style bench, a Nantucket bench, Adirondack bench and the bench that wraps around a back yard tree. Whichever you choose, it will blend well in your cottage garden.

How to Build a Golf Green

Hi this Blog today will be devoted to showing you an interesting design and build project from our sub division Greencare Sports Ltd.
We will show our latest project from start to finish.
Firstly we were given the task to make a Practice facility beside the first Tee at Ralston GC in Paisley Scotland.
As you can see in picture 1. We had marked out the rough shape and have started to dig shallow drains 100mm below the surface , as this is a push up Green you do not need to go down deeper.

In pic 2 we can see the covering of the area with gravel there are 2 different sized layers of this material to stop the movement of material through them to the drains.



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In Pic 3 we show the new rootzone material being put down this is made up with 80% and %20% soil
it is laid in 2 layers of 150mm and each layer is packed down.



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In pic 4 we are putting in the bankings around the green prior to the leveling of the green




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In pic 5 we are starting to shape the practice bunkers into the new bankings we have made.





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In pic 6 and 7 we are starting to level the greens with a bar level attached to the tractor this does the rough stuff after this we come in with
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In our next Post will show the final pictures showing the New turf installed

New Summer Lines

Hi it is almost summer and now is the time to get out all the garden furniture from the back of the shed or garage dust it down and check it, out some of you will find that it needs replaced dur to old age or maybe it is cracked due to being to dry in the garage.
Well here at Everything for the Garden we have a few new lines coming in that are worth a look here are some below.

Also check out the Party fridge this is a must for those of us that like to entertain outside and have little room in our fridge to keep our wine and beeers cool, it just makes the evening go that little bit BETTER ?.
So get along to www.everythingforthegarden.co.uk and check out the great prices we have also in the next few weeks we will be showing you how we make a Golf Green with pictures taken from our Greencare Sports Division so do not miss this as it is very interesting.