Category Archives: Garden

DIY Potting Table

Growing vegetables and flowers indoors can be fun.  Here’s a quick guide on how to make your own potting table. You will need:Ten 2 x 4 x 36in shelf boards Four 2 x 4 x 19.5in shelf supportsTwo 1 x … Continue reading

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A Garden Home Office

The development of the garden home office market has led to a huge increase in the number of garden offices UK companies that are able to provide the home worker with a suitable and sustainable working environment. Any homeowner who … Continue reading

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Inspiration for a Decorative Garden Path

A garden path can go way beyond its primary function of being a utilitarian surface to keep people off the lawn and flowerbeds. With additional decoration it can become an attractive feature of the garden in its own right. Anyone … Continue reading

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Building a Garden Studio

Are you an artist or a musician? Do you struggle to create your work in your normal home environment? If so, a garden studio may be for you. A garden studio is a building in your back garden, usually made … Continue reading

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Erecting a Fence

Erecting a garden fence is necessary for home security and may take two or more days to complete depending on the size of the area to be enclosed.  A fence should also look attractive enough to enhance your property.   First, … Continue reading

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Working From Home in Peace

Garden rooms provide extra space and more room at home for people who are struggling to juggle home life with their working life, and so make the decision to work from home. Garden offices are becoming more and more popular … Continue reading

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Reasons to install a garden pond

Beauty and serenity: a water feature is always an attractive addition to a garden, whether it is a placid, light-reflecting oasis of tranquillity or a dancing, gurgling, babbling stream or waterfall. Water is a natural and harmonious element and what … Continue reading

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Going Green with a Garden Studio

A garden studio offers a great way of extending your home into the garden and vice versa.  It blurs the boundary between indoor and outdoor living by maximising all your outdoor space.  Given its self-contained construction, garden studios can be … Continue reading

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DIY Tips – Composting

Composting your kitchen scraps that you might normally throw in the waste bin is a great way to make a nutrient-rich additive for your garden.  It is one of the few do it yourself projects that takes little effort on … Continue reading

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Using Preservatives in Outdoor Repairs

Severe damage can be caused to timbers used in the house and garden by rot and attack by insects. House timbers must therefore be protected, and the use of suitable preservatives is ideal for protecting them from both types of … Continue reading

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