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How To Use Vines In Landscaping Your Home
Vines can be the quick salvation of the new home owner. Fast-paced annuals will twine up a hastily erected pergola almost before summer starts, providing a cool, fragrant and beautiful awning. Annuals and perennials (or hardy vines, as...
Japanese Gardens - Basic Design Questions That Should Be Addressed
As westerners, we are often compelled to try to control and plan
all design aspects of what we want when constructing something.
We try to anticipate every little detail so we don't make a
mistake. Although you will still need to organize and...
Pruning Basics
Pruning Basics Pruning can improve the health, productivity and appearance of your trees and shrubs. But improper pruning can destroy the shape of your plants and also cause more harm than good. Following a few simple guidelines can help make the...
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...
What You Need to Know About Planting Roses
When spring arrives, and the ground is thawed, it is time to start planting
your rose garden. Roses date back to biblical times and have been a
considered a cherished aphrodisiac then and still are today. Roses hold
particular mystery and...
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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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