Really cool green furniture  for your garden.  From benches to bird cages, you can admire and find out more information about these items here. The prices range from 8 Euros (bird house) to almost 1000 Euros (bench for more than two persons).

Enjoy and have a peaceful spring!

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It would be nice to leave home from time to time and not worry about your plants not being watered on time.

Here’s a good solution for this particular problem. The Drink Self-Watering plant form Joan Gaspar is equipped with an unique self-watering mechanism consisting of an internal capillary system.

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The bird home measures 10″ x 6″ x 6″ and retails for $28.00. It’s not cheap, but you might keep your friends safe. It comes in two models with orange or green roof and air holes at the base.

1. Plan your garden space. To obtain the best from the space allocated for the garden, you need to make a plan. Most people neglect to design a landscape plan for their gardens. So, they start planting flowers and bushes and discover the colors are totally mixed or the space wasn’t used to a maximum. My advice to avoid that mess is to write down a plan. Take a pen, a paper and draw your garden.

2. Conceive a scheme for planting. A gardening expert suggested to first plant the specials (usually large deciduous trees), then the skeletons (evergreens and hedges). The next on the list are the decoratives (flowering shrubs or tall grasses) and lastly the pretties (spring and summer-blooming perennials). However, your scheme can be personal. Do it your way, but remain focused on these guidelines.

3. Consider the climate parameters. Even if you live in a temperate climate area, in a tropical zone or you just want a greenhouse garden, you should consider which plants fit the best. For example you won’t be able to plant palm trees in cold climates. They won’t pass the winter, that’s for sure! On the other hand sweet alyssums and nasturtiums prefer cooler weather. First you should study which plants are specific to your climate area and which can adapt. In this way you won’t have flowers that never bloom, or scorched plants.

4. The plants. There are many categories of plants: annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, shrubs, ornamental grass etc. You should choose those that give the perfect harmony for your garden. The annuals complete their whole life cycle in one growing season. The biennials complete their life in two seasons while the perennials live for three or more years.

5. Single color gardens or combined pastels. I read that garden designers prefer the single color gardens because the they are sophisticated. The secret is to use varying shades from the same color. On the other hand, the combined pastels inspire excitement and have an eye-catchy effect. If own a big garden, then you won’t have trouble using multiple colors. Red and orange are more appropriate for hot summers. Another secret is to create contrasts. Use for example combined colors: red and yellow, blue and yellow, orange and purple etc. One thing to pay attention to: do not combine too many colors, because you can create a crowded effect.

I have found some interesting gardens that I want to share with you. Here are the photos:

I hope my advice has helped you. I will continue to write about gardening, as I’ve discovered it is a new passion.

Besides being a oasis in your court, the ecocube garden has an aesthetic effect. I would love to have a coffee in front of my laptop inside the ecocube. I really like the idea and I am thinking seriously to build one at my grandma’s house.

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After the automatic vacuum cleaner, that does the dirty work as you watch TV, KA came out with the idea of the automatic lawn mower. It is basically the same, but out of safety, they had to add a few minor modifications. As it works outside and after a random pattern, you have to keep it on leash, or you’ll end up searching throughout the neighborhood “have you seen my lawn mower?”. So, unless you have a well bordered yard, with no ways of escape, you’ll have to use the included perimeter cable, that you must lay down around the perimeter to be mowed (it doesn’t have to be the whole yard). The LawnBott detects the small signal emitted by this cable and it doesn’t dear trespass it. The other feature is that though it’s not waterproof, it has an incorporated water detector, so after it detects a few drops of water, it hides in its shelter. Oh, I forgot to tell you, it comes with its own lawn mower house, that you can put near the dog house, where it charges its batteries after a hard day at work. They might even become friends with your pet. After recharging, it resumes its daily shift, well, not daily, because it can even work non-stop (except for recharging time, of course) so you never have to lay a finger on your old, fuel powered lawn mower.

How it works? Simple, like in “I, Robot”, it follows a few simple rules:

1. Do not pass the perimeter cable

2. If it bumps into an obstacle, back up, turn around, follow another route. Randomly, as usual.

Echo Valley’s glow-in-the-dark gazing balls can be a pretty interesting decoration in your garden. Not only they look good during the day, they also absorb solar power during that time and in the evening they give life to your near-the-porch garden. You can use them to form a path through the yard for those late-night, last-minute “investigations”. Vendors promise their night-time light lasts for hours, but I wouldn’t rely on that. One thing is sure: during dinner and before bedtime they will provide an excellent look for your garden. Go ahead and try them out. One thing’s for sure, they won’t empty your pockets.