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About Garden Decking
Garden decking can be one of the most desirable and reasonable improvements that you can make to your garden in particular and your home in general. Not everyone is a keen gardener and garden decking is one way to make a garden look very acceptable,with low maintenance, but still be a pleasure to relax in. There is something about being outdoors that makes you feel calmer and more relaxed (providing your next door neighbours’ teenage kids have not got music playing full blast! Spoils the effect somehow).
If you have a decked area in your garden, you can make it very conducive to relaxation. There are a number of construction materials to choose from. Timber is now a very popular choice because of it’s relatively modest price and flexibility, ease of working and adaptability to the ground conditions. For example on uneven land a structure can be adjusted to produce an acceptable result. At one time if you wanted a sitting area at the end of the garden you would create a concrete or paved patio linked to the main house with, perhaps a crazy paving path. Garden decking is a fine alternative. Sometimes, you want to, or need to, walk on part of your garden without walking on the grass and again decking, used as a path, is an attractive option. More and more people are opting for decking
15 Gardening Tips On How To Get A Great Garden Without Too Much Time Spent On Gardening
Here are fifteen ways to get a gorgeous garden with the least possible effort, so you can spend the summer where you belong – in a deck-chair.
1. Choose plants weeds hate.
Ground-hugging plants are ideal for this as they naturally suppress them. Scented, low-growing herbs like camomile and thyme, as well as periwinkle – are all good buys. Put them in borders and places weeds always take hold, like the gaps between paving. Squeeze weeds out by putting plants close together so there’s no bare soil for them to grow in. The smaller and narrower your borders are, the less room weeds have to take hold, so reduce the size of big borders with gravel or paving.
2. Get colour effortlessly
Plants that hardly need any attention to look fabulous sometimes lack colour, so if you’re planting box, rosemary or ornamental grasses, put the, in brightly coloured pots and they’ll look good all the year round.