For those of you in the warm states, right now is the time to cut you roses back. The idea is to trim them enough so that they stay full and the shape you want is always round.
If roses are not trimmed, most varieties tend to become leggy. Each rose can get three to four feet! After you trim them, they are going to need some organic foods to ease them back into spring (which is around the corner.)
Give each plant two to three heaping handfuls of coffee grounds, sprinkled around the drip line of the plant. Cover a 360 degree area around the plant's base. Also a couple of heaping cups of Epsom salt provides them with magnesium for a great growth and flowers.
Next, add generous amounts of Black Kow cow manure which is one of the best soil conditioners a plant can have. Apply that all around the base of the plant and hand water, no sprinklers!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
he backyard is often the spot for a meditation garden, First of all let me explain what a meditation garden is. It is an outdoor room of sorts that you can create to be your personalized, customized beauty garden.
The purpose of this space is for you to enjoy quiet time alone. You can choose to read a book, watch the birds in the birdbath, or you can choose to sit there with your eyes closed and do nothing. The ultimate goal is for you to always know there is this special space that you can go to, to become centered.
In all of our lives, there is the hustle and bustle of the world around us. There are work issues, family issues, and of course some drama going on with one of your friends so it makes sense for us to have a decompression chamber. It also makes sense that this decompression space is beautiful.
For example, you can get a beautiful ornate bench, you can add a gorgeous European style pot with a cascading firecracker plant, a bird bath, a select piece of driftwood and a variety of plants including palms, azaleas, fragrant jasmine, fragrant gardenias, and fragrant tea olives. Over a period of time it will grown in and be your sanctuary for years and years in the future.
The purpose of this space is for you to enjoy quiet time alone. You can choose to read a book, watch the birds in the birdbath, or you can choose to sit there with your eyes closed and do nothing. The ultimate goal is for you to always know there is this special space that you can go to, to become centered.
In all of our lives, there is the hustle and bustle of the world around us. There are work issues, family issues, and of course some drama going on with one of your friends so it makes sense for us to have a decompression chamber. It also makes sense that this decompression space is beautiful.
For example, you can get a beautiful ornate bench, you can add a gorgeous European style pot with a cascading firecracker plant, a bird bath, a select piece of driftwood and a variety of plants including palms, azaleas, fragrant jasmine, fragrant gardenias, and fragrant tea olives. Over a period of time it will grown in and be your sanctuary for years and years in the future.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
If you were to go and stand in the center of your yard and look at your planting beds what would you see? You might see some plants thriving and looking very well and you might find others that are partially sick and you even might find some that grew too quick for their spot.
The key to good looking landscaping is to understand balance and flow, simply put, taller in the back, medium in the middle and lower in the front. The other thing you need to know is that shrub placement should be in the form of groupings rather than one of this and one of that.
Large showy specimen plants should be strategically placed between windows and on corners so that they can stay in that spot for many years into the future. You may want to study some beautiful landscapes that appeal to you and this way you will be able to figure out what it is about it that you love too much.
I can tell you now, that there will be a rhythm to the landscape that you admire and this is only because time and thought has been put into it.
The key to good looking landscaping is to understand balance and flow, simply put, taller in the back, medium in the middle and lower in the front. The other thing you need to know is that shrub placement should be in the form of groupings rather than one of this and one of that.
Large showy specimen plants should be strategically placed between windows and on corners so that they can stay in that spot for many years into the future. You may want to study some beautiful landscapes that appeal to you and this way you will be able to figure out what it is about it that you love too much.
I can tell you now, that there will be a rhythm to the landscape that you admire and this is only because time and thought has been put into it.
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