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Gardening Your Personality: The Greens Of Growth
Many gardeners are the nurturing type: just like Mother Nature.
People say they have "green thumbs" because they can make
anything grow. Is your personality the growth type? Are you the
kind of person who wants to see others grow and develop? If...
Selecting Roses For The Garden
Roses are a favorite plant for landscaping and can be used in a
variety of ways. These beautiful flowers can make the exterior
of any home more elegant and inviting and choosing the right
ones that will compliment your landscape and add to the...
Summer Gardening Tips
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The importance of bedroom design in a home decoration project.
Dear friends,
A home is a place where we live, spend most of our lives,
with family members and our loved ones.
A bedroom design project includes a careful study of the
surrounding of the entire home. When an architect plans
a home, he takes...
Tips to Improve the Functionality and Atmosphere of Your Patio with Plants
When I began to create planting plans for clients in the mid 1990’s one of my main concerns was, how will this collection of plants; the greenery, the flowering, the size and the shape grow together to create an aesthetically pleasing arrangement...
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How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues
Moss can make some garden elements and even entire shady gardens
look and feel aged and established. The trouble with garden moss
though, is that sometimes it may not even grow at all on its
own. And if it does, it could take a very long time to become
established.
Here's a way you can accelerate and establish a beautiful green
moss cover over your garden rocks and concrete features. This
method doesn't work well on resin statues and artificial
landscape rocks.
First stir a fist size clump of porcelain clay into 3 cups of
water to form a thin paste. You can usually get porcelain clay
from local hobby shops.
Then combine the clay mixture with one cup of undiluted fish
emulsion and one cup of fresh, shredded moss. Fish emulsion is a
plant fertilizer made from whole fish. It's usually available at
retail
nurseries and garden centers.
Mix everything together and paint it on your rocks and concrete
objects with a paint brush. Keep things in the garden slightly
moist by misting and taking care not to wash the mixture off.
Remember that moss grows naturally in patches, likes the North
side of objects, and takes readily to cracks and crevices.
Use this formula in shady gardens and in moist locations and you
can most probably have moss on your garden statues and landscape
rocks in a few weeks.
About the author:
Written by Steve Boulden of The Landscape Design Site. For more
free landscaping and garden ideas, visit his site
at http://www.the-la
ndscape-design-site.com
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