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Fuchsia in the garden and at home
The flower of fuchsia, popularly called the gypsy because of the similarity of the drooping flower with the beauty of the earrings of a gypsy.
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Pond on the site
The best time to build ponds is spring. The construction of ponds involves a large amount of earthwork, of course, there will not be required such volumes as in the construction of pools, but the volumes are still significant.
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Decorative honeysuckles in our gardens
We will introduce you to decorative honeysuckles; they bloom beautifully; for middle-season gardens, honeysuckle is an unusually relevant shrub.
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DIY garden paths
The best decoration of the garden and yard is a green lawn, but constant loads on it only spoil the view. It is convenient and pleasant to walk along paved paths. From which to lay the paths, the owner decides. But you need to know that the stone for paving paths, porches and platforms should be non-slippery, frost-resistant, easy to care for and beautiful.
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Garden Lighting, General Concepts
So that in the garden you can have a wonderful rest not only during the day, but also when it gets dark, you need to equip your garden with lighting. And which lamps can be used, what are they like. Here is a little information about the lamps used in summer cottages.
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Landscaping Mirrors
A suburban summer cottage is a space designed to bring to life various design and sophisticated ideas. This place is ideal for building a massive fence around the perimeter of the entire site, for laying paths in the garden from various durable materials. Recently, leading designers have been striving to decorate the homestead territory in a very original way, looking for new ways and materials that, with the average layman, will cause interest and recognition. For example, an ordinary mirror. It would seem, what visual effect can a mirror in a patio decor, laid on the bottom of a dry stream or installed on a site with an unusual composition of plants, produce? After all, the bulk of the people used to associate it with the room.
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Ornamental shrubs in the garden, planting ornamental shrubs
Creating an interesting garden composition is unlikely to do without the use of ornamental shrubs. Their bright leaves, bizarre, or vice versa, surprisingly correct outlines emphasize the beauty of trees and the tenderness of flowers, some of their species themselves delight the eyes with unusually lush flowering, densely planted shrubs create very practical hedges. But in order for decorative and deciduous shrubs to organically fit into the garden landscape, one should competently approach their choice, planting scheme and care.
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Garden sculptures, how to choose where to put garden sculptures, do-it-yourself garden sculpture
With a careful study of historical data regarding the initial appearance of such a concept as sculpture, you can find reliable information that these works of art were used in ancient times, for decorating amphitheaters. Famous statues made by masters back in the Renaissance still adorn the halls of the most famous museums in the world, and the statue of Christ the Redeemer, installed on top of Mount Corcovado, is generally the hallmark of Rio de Janeiro and all of Brazil. Today, sculptures are used to decorate structures and squares, parks, squares. Moreover, they use not only classic options, but also quite modern ones, consonant with today's architecture and design styles.