Articles, tagged with "foliage", page 1
Four Styles of Living Walls to Reflect Your Company Brand and Image
To many people, companies that invest in living walls simply have a large budget with enough spare to pay for such an elaborate feature and declare their appreciation of the environment. But in fact these walls of green can be used as a highly effective f...
Ideas For Your Most Beautiful Garden Ever!
A lot of people think tending a garden is totally beyond them, but that's true only for people who don't do their research. Knowing what it takes to correctly grow your plants will take you from an amateur to a master in no time. You can greatly increase ...
Blue Foliage Plants
Following on from last week’s article concerning silver toned foliage, this week we will be covering the colour blue, and a selection of the most effective cultivars for displaying this hue. As has been mentioned previously, it is interesting to consider...
A Guide to Spring Weddings
Spring is one of the most beautiful seasons of the year. Many brightly coloured flowers begin to bloom during Spring which can provide the perfect setting for a romantic wedding ceremony.
Spring occurs in March, April and May. It is the time when decid...
Seven Natural Ways To Cure Dry Hands
Healthy ways to treat dry hands involve applying petroleum jelly overnight, steaming your hands, using an oil therapy, applying an aloe Vera plant, applying an egg yolk mask treatment, massaging with almond essential oil, and moisturizing your hands with ...
Popular Flowers for Your Garden
When do flowers bloom and what are their heights? These are all very important questions, however they mean very little if you have not yet decided which types of flowers you want to plant. There are many to choose from and don’t le anybody tell you which...
The orange country pool builders
The Orange country pool designers might need experienced inside designing plus constructing luxurious pools in addition to spas, they be on familiar terms with the whole soil along with the strain of a geography. The whole Orange country pool builders ass...
Emeralds and Evergreens
Green is the colour on the agenda this week and, with the last frosts of spring soon to be behind us, we can expect a lot more of it in the coming months. The primary connotation of green is, of course, its prolific occurrence in nature and this is the pr...
How Office Plants Can Create a Workplace Utopia
Bringing plants into the workplace has plenty of benefits for staff and the companies that employ them. In fact, the advantages of office plants are no secret, but choosing the right plants is just as important as introducing them in the first place. Wh...
How to Write a Kissing Scene in a Romance Novel
I’ve heard & read various people say that learning how to write a kissing scene in a romance novel can be a real test and prove to be a challenge. I beg to differ from those authors; writing a kissing scene can be the easiest things to do if you have the ...
Silk flowers are an exquisite beauty
The History of Silk flowers began before the Twelfth century crediting the Chinese for being responsible in their creation, and at the same time, Italy was creating artificial blossom arrangements using the coloured cocoons of silkworms,improving on the n...
Yellow Fellows
Continuing our colour coding of the garden, this week, if yellow is your thing, we bring you a host of butter-toned cultivars. Yellow is considered, in psychological circles, to effects one’s self esteem, specifically to trigger confidence or anxiety depe...
Three Ways in Which Living Walls Can Enhance the Holiday Season
Creating a green working environment is one of the chief aims of the modern office and commercial building interior designer. The advantages of such a work place are already well known, with office plants helping to improve air quality and staff morale, b...
Three Forms of Commercial Landscaping Even Small Businesses can Afford
It might seem as though commercial landscaping is something that only the large multinational corporations can invest in. After all, they can afford spacious entrances, front garden areas and the general costs involved in planning, executing and then main...
Gimme Shelter
Trees serve many purposes in the garden. Whether it be providing excellent punctuation in your borders, housing a throng of blackbirds, or even hiding an unsightly feature on your Eden’s horizon, they are a gardening necessity, albeit perhaps an expensive...