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How to Install Lawn Drainage
Poor drainage in the garden can have many causes.... if you want a lawn you can actually walk on after the rain without it turning into a mud bath, then you should install an underground drainage system of land drains....Read more
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How to Construct a Low-maintenance Gravel Garden
One of the most popular reasons why someone might consider a complete redesign of their garden is to lessen the maintenance involved..... Mowing the lawn is second only to the dreaded weeding. You can cut down on both these tasks by creating a low-maintenance gravel garden.....Read more
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How to Lay a Simple Monoblock Path
Good preparation is the key to success and you should start by setting out levels. Firstly, choose a direction for the water run-off.....
Having chosen your run, set up two string lines along either side of where the path will be and make sure, by laying a spirit level up to the string that you have the correct run. Then you need to dig down to the correct depth required.....Read more
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Measuring Your Garden
If you're thinking about redesigning your garden or even starting a new one from scratch, you can save yourself a great deal of time and money by drawing up a garden plan. Putting your ideas down on paper first lets you experiment without expense and the first step is to measure your garden.
Your measurements should be as accurate as possible because this will help you to calculate the amount of materials you will need when you come to do the job.....Read more
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Japanese Heaven
Thirty years in the making, George Nesfield’s Japanese Garden is a work of art of which he can truly be proud. Built to compliment his beloved Japanese Koi, it is a stunning interpretation of the Japanese gardening style and George’s Koi must feel right at home.
When we imagine Japanese gardens we think of peace and tranquillity, of being at one with all the elements of nature and George’s garden achieves this in bucket loads.....Read more
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How to Build a Simple Square Deck
Firstly, decide where you want the top height of the deck to be....Lay out your decking joists as shown below, with 450mm centres between internal joists and nail together with 4 inch galvanised nails....Now you are ready to lay the deck boards. The first board should go at the front (the most visible) end of the deck and should be laid flush with the front joist....Face any visible joists with deck boards to create a nice finish and then seal the boards with decking seal or decking oil....
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Design the Perfect Lawn
It is true to say that incorporating a lawn into your design doesn't make for an entirely low-maintenance design but before you discount including a lawn, think about what it adds to your design....By carefully planning your lawn, you can save time in the future and cut down on all the tasks involved in its upkeep...Now that you know the elements that make up a good low-maintenance lawn design, you can get to work drawing your plan.
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The Eden Project
Walking towards Eden from one of its many car parks, I felt a certain sense of anticipation. Was I really going to experience a tropical rainforest, right here in Cornwall?....As you emerge from the visitors centre, you can see virtually all of Eden below and, of course, you can't help but notice the huge biomes that are so synonymous with Eden....The planting on the slopes below the visitor's centre works really well with a mixture of grasses and bright coloured flowers all crammed together to create a mat of roots to fix the slope and choke out potential weeds....if you go now, you get the chance to see it while it is relatively young and you know that when you make a return visit it will only have got better....
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Designing with Decks
There's no doubt about it, decks sell houses. Despite having been around for a few years now, they still have that wow factor and a timber deck remains among the top 'must haves' for anyone wanting a new garden design. There are now as many design options for decks as there are for patios so, if you're going to have a deck built, why just build a plain one?...
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Counting the Cost of a New Garden
The trouble with costing a garden design is that the price really can be just about anything you like. Like indoor furnishing and decoration, it very much depends on the materials you choose. Even more confusing is the fact that you are faced with endless TV makeover programmes which seem to be able to transform gardens for next to nothing....As a general rule, a well-planned and built garden will add between five and ten percent to the value of your property and even more than that to the value of a new-build property which has no garden at all....One thing you need to know is that the budget they give you on TV makeovers is normally extremely unrealistic....
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How to lay a decorative patio
If you are laying in a random laying pattern, as we are in this example, you will need to draw up a plan for the pattern itself...Decide what will be your top level for the patio and where you want the water to go. In general, patios should fall away from the house and be level across the house so that the water never gathers at the house and causes dampness problems...When you have finished the patio, you can haunch up around it with a layer of mortar using your float.
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