Gardening at limited area III
Creating a garden to add green open spaces of course requires adequate land. Hmmm … then how in the urban areas are largely filled by a high rise building? This can be tricked by creating a garden on the roof or commonly referred to as a roof garden.
Roof garden can be made either on the roof of a house, office buildings, and hotels. Park like this could be an alternative to creating a green open space to replace the plants were taken over by the construction of buildings which are prevalent in large cities. The presence of a roof garden can add a natural shade and freshness, and can serve as an absorber of toxic gases.
As the vines have benefits that can absorb gases acetate, ammonia and other gases so that the plant is an option that is widely used to create a garden on the roof or roof garden. Well, how do I build this garden yes?
Usually before the roof garden is made, shall consider the construction of the roof of the building first because the garden on the roof must be supported by a strong roof structure. So keep in mind whether the roof of the building is designed to support the burden of growing media such as land and trees will be planted on it or not.
Moreover, the existence of garden on the roof capable of causing the load increases. As the barrow and the plant will increase the dead load, wind load, and additional water load on the roof of the building. It is therefore important to consider which plants will be used to the conditions and roof construction.
As for the planting medium, the composition should be light but has the ability to provide nutrients and moisture. For example, by mixing sand with wood shavings plus a layer of pine bark and fertilizer. The depth of planting medium for grass requires 20 to 30 centimeters, as well as cover crops. Meanwhile, shrubs and small trees require a depth of 60-105 centimeters. A large tree to a depth of nearly 2 meters.
Because the roof prone to leakage, so it should be made drainage that comes with a filter so that water flowing down does not bring with granular soil that could clog the drainage channels. To prevent damage to the waterproof layer, it is necessary plus a water-retaining layer to the plant roots do not damage the waterproof coating.
In order to plant the roof garden can still survive, regular watering should be done either manually or automatically.
In addition coridor beside the house and the rest of the existing land could be used as a park
Side alley, as access to the rear of the house, it could be a beautiful area. In fact, there could be a center of attraction the whole house. Why not! Limited land was used as a simple garden interesting, even with a fish pond decorated with artificial walls.
Color sending certain signals to the brain. Thus, the easiest trick is to play the color. Red, yellow, brown, orange, warm character convey signals to the brain faster. Nature to attract attention. Meanwhile, cool colors (blue, green, purple) are able to visually blend with the landscape.
Place the warm-colored flowers around the house to make it as a focus. Furthermore, cool colored plants can be planted around the fence and the other outside corners. The result, created the illusion of eyes an impressive garden becomes more widespread.
Still less?
Small-leaved plants have a similar effect with warm colors. Meanwhile, broad leaves make shadow over a lot and make the effect disappear or fading. Put a broadleaf plant near the warm-colored flowers before, surrounded by small-leaved plants.
Finally, add a tall tree and a kind of thin pine. Be careful, do not plant tall trees and wide. Later you even more narrow garden deh.
Limitations of land does not become an obstacle in creating a garden to maintain the quality of healthcare is not it?
Gardening in a limited area II
Vertical garden began in 1994 is widely known through the works of French botanist Patrick Blanc. According to Blanc, plants do not require soil media under certain circumstances. Land only ancillary mechanical. The most important role for plant life is the supply of water and some minerals needed for growth.
Vertical garden is a right answer to overcome the limitations of the land, as well as the roof garden on the roof. Both are actually an attempt to move an unused green space to buildings to the area of the building or onto the roof.
The most simple is better known as vertikultur. Stay with conventional growing media and containers such as pots, then made vertical. The difference, vertikultur used for gardening, now applied to the wall with ornamental plants.
Media cropping soil or planting medium instead of conventional, but rather use the felt as a planting medium. Point to connect the plant, used a kind of bracket (link). Drainage has also been set up, so it was no longer watering with a hose.
The principle is to plant crops on the wall. Typically use special media or the construction of the building is prepared to vertical garden. To consider is the type of plant selected. The reason, would be associated with the roots, so if for buildings, plants that need a combination with high humidity.
Problem area or location of the vertical garden, More and more land that could be used for green space, the better. The place could be anywhere, front and rear. In front of the reason that people see, so they can build awareness for others. Of the other parts should be considered and treatment.
Types of plants are suitable for vertical garden are:
• Elephant ears (Anthurium crystalinum), Elephant ears old kind berhelai typically large and small berhelai for new types. Feature of this plant is owned by a heart-shaped leaves with silvery white leaf veins. For a vertical garden, a small leaf type is more often used.
• Deer Horn (Platycerium bifurcatum), has leaves that are similar to the horns of a stag. The growth of wood attached to the goods, these clans were bred with the spores, he likes the shade and moist.
• Lili paris (Chlorophytum comosum), leaves of this plant with a long line of yellowish white. Usually used for borders or pots hanging plants. Lili paris terhdap resistant to direct sunlight and grows optimally in a shaded place.
• Cryptanthus, has a lot of leaf color, ranging from green, gray, brown to white lines. Cryptanthus also the plants that are resistant to scorching sun and can live in a place that has shade. Applied as a vertical accent in the garden, with Bromeliaceae as friends sandingannya.
• Leek, onion chives, onions are the smallest species of the family Alliaceae. Plant tubers as high as 30-50 centimeters and 1 centimeter wide, with leaf-shaped hollow tube about 50 centimeters has a soft texture. Leek-colored flowers of pale purple, star-shaped flowers with six petals wide.
• Neoregelia, this genus are often called by bromeliads. Though bromeliads is the surname of many plant genus. Neoregelia commonly used in gardens vertically, among others, Neoregelia species Polus olens with red tipped leaves flat, then Neoregelia carolinae with leaves striped pattern.
• Lipstick (Aeschynantus Radicans), the plant is growing creeper with a long stem. The leaves are kidney-shaped (cordata), the line moved at a red heart and the furry silver. The flowers are bright red.
• Kadaka (Asplenium scolopendrium), this plant is almost the same as bird nests Paku, just kind of leaves are smaller. Light green wavy edges.
• Betel Red, these plants like the shade, the growth spreads to the trunk berbuku, red leaves with silver lines. As a filler plant a vertical garden, Red Betel appear with red color.
• Singonium, herbaceous plant with a height of no more than 30 centimeters has a heart-shaped leaves with a mixture of leaf color between white and green. These plants are easy to grow as long as enough water.
Gardening in limited area I
How to anticipate and limited land left for parks in your home? The question most often haunting homeowners. The desire to get a green garden and limited land is an issue that can be solved with creativity.
Many steps can be taken to bring the green garden in a limited area. The first article discusses the plants in pots or can also by planting various crops in a single container or also known as the grouping plan. Excellence in container gardens like this are easily moveable. When tired of putting it on the terrace, you can move it into the house.
To create a garden in containers, choose plants that should be easy to maintain, such as succulent plant family. Sanseviera or better known as tongue-in-law is one of the succulent family is beautiful enough to decorate your small garden. This park can you name sanseviera mini garden.
Choose a Little
At least there are more than 60 species of sanseviera. Because the land in a fairly narrow container, then choose sanseviera with small size or dwarf. In general, there are types whose leaves grow sanseviera extends upward and some are short and rounded leaves.
There are 3 variants sanseviera whose leaves are short, which is Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Golden Hahnii “, Sansevieria trifasciata’ Silver Hahnii”, and Sansevieria trifasciata hahnii. All three types can be applied in the mini park.
According to the rules of making a mini park, the composition of existing plants must be balanced. That is, low height and color of the plant must be considered. For this mini sanseviera park, you can use this type of Sansevieria trifasciata leaves extends upward like Sansevieria “Bantels Sensation” or Sansevieria trifasciata Laurentii.
Getting the Natural Impressions
Mini gardening is almost similar to set the park in general. In addition to arranging the plants, we also need to regulate the use of sand and stone as a sweetening element, so the garden looks more beautiful.
Sand used in the mini park sansiviera as shown in the picture is kind of poor sand and sand Flores. This element serves to give the impression of a natural park, although placed in the container.
In addition to the use of elements of sand and stone, shaped like a container for garden natural stone made from cement and sand mixture.
Well, if you want a hobby farm but a narrow area, you can try to make the park a mini sanseviera.
Care and placement of
Sansiviera treatment plant is not too difficult. Watering is not necessary every day, and enough leaves are sprayed with water. Do not be too much flush with water for these plants are not too fond of water. Too much water it will cause the leaves decompose quickly.
For placement, this park can be placed indoors or outdoors. But this garden is a good idea not exposed to the sun continuously. When exposed to direct sun, over time the leaves will change sanseviera. Green leaves will turn darker. While the yellow leaves will turn slightly pale yellow.
Reforming the Small Garden
Each building must have a small land can use to make small garden. This small land will largely determine to increase the beauty of your home. Green leaves on trees and rocks black and white eye make surely this is cool and brings its own impressions. Beautiful garden with lush plants and tidy, you can also have. And for that, you can create one yourself.
It’s just that sometimes we do not understand, where to start. Whether buying or setting up the first crop land. Well, a beautiful garden setting, together with gardening in such a way as to establish the actual nature. Display a garden certainly did not depend on the size and extent of the land. When done with care and a mature design, a small garden can beautify the house as a whole. There are various ways to impress a cute little garden and amazing. Having a small garden at home is highly recommended because in addition to beautify the face of the house will also be very good for health and psychological.
Three points to consider in managing the garden are:
First, if we have limited land (narrow) one rule is, do not have the desire to want to move other people into the garden itself. This is because people tend to want to have what has been owned by a neighbor or someone else. Because we have limited land, make a small garden with various species of plants are too small (dwarf) it is to achieve a balanced proportion between the garden with the facade of our house.
Second, what about the direction of sunlight, this will affect the garden lighting conditions with the choice of plants. If the park does not get enough sun, can choose the type of plants that like shade (not too need sunlight). EDAR direction the sun is very important because it affects the photosynthetic process in plants in our garden.
Third, soil conditions and water absorption. To produce a good garden, it needs a fertile soil conditions. Categorized fertile soil if high levels of top soil making it easier to absorb water. For larger cities, usually less fertile soil conditions for the necessary treatment before make park. That is by mixing the soil with manure or compost.
Here are the steps that you can follow to construct the plant and its image.
STEP 1
Plant high / vertical at the very back and the highest land. For example you can choose the type of Pinang (red, green, yellow, pine and others.
STEP 2
Susnan The following is a plant that grows can be arranged. For example crop plants (green or yellow) and other soft-shelled.
STEP 3
The next crop is a type of short plants such as Lili Paris, Sianto or type grasses such as purslane.
STEP 4
Last stacking rocks. If funds allow, mix it with pond water garden. And keep in mind, the combination of plants can be added to the composition of four or five plants.
Importantly, remember the sequence and the high and low plants. Well, happy gardening. Enjoy your small garden.
Tips Making Japanese Garden Style
Characteristic of Japanese gardens are easy care, can be placed in a large yard or limited, inside or outside the room, contemplative (meditation, thinking) as well as the memorable ‘clean’ style park makes it most suitable for modern and minimalist house
tips for making Japanese-style dry garden :
1. Spread coral gray or white, shades a form by hand or a tool such as a comb””(see photo) though more contemplative.
2. Create a mound – a mound that resembles a mountain of soil is then covered the grass, planting thereon bonsai (Japanese garden concept is actually a natural landscape miniature; there are mountains, valleys, rivers / oceans. Please interpret these elements into a dry garden concept, examples; replace the element water with coral rocks, boulders the sharp corners as a cliff).
3. Place large stones (suiseki stone, stone strong character).
4. practice
God Luck…..make your Japanase-garden style
Create a fairytale theme in your garden
Your garden can be created in a variety of themes, such as a fairy tale theme. Creating a theme park with fairy tale will stimulate imagination your family members. In addition you will focus in managing the your garden.
You can choice enchanted by the lore of garden-dwelling fairies, carefree spirits who take great delight in nature’s splendor. In fact, her fairy garden came about because another free spirit, a child, planted the idea in her imagination.
If you didn’t even know what a fairy garden was, but you can started thinking about it, realized with fairy names, so why not put them all together in a garden? ‘Fairy’ geraniums, ‘Elfin’ thyme,’ Apricot Fairy Queen’ foxglove, ‘Elfin’ impatiens, ‘Fairy’ snapdragons, and ‘Fairy Earrings’ fuchsia are just a few of the plants that pay homage to fairy folklore in her garden.
Another interesting feature is that all the things the plants attract – bees, butterflies and birds – are exactly the same things fairies love. Of course, the flowers are also a source of food for the winged creatures, winged and mythical. Fairies are really particular. They don’t eat just anything, but they love pollen and nectar, a great addition to attract both fairies and beneficial insects is a strawberry plant.
Having a theme can also provide a solution to common landscape problems – for example, what to do to make a garden “pop”? For example, adds a few plants and a fairy statue with some bright red rose petals to add color and emphasis to the garden space.
Remember that fairies are small, and your garden can be, too. creates tiny garden beds fairy-size with small boxwood, a little river rock bed because fairies love shiny things, and fuchsias, since fairies and hummingbirds like the bright blossoms. fairy garden also attracts the neighborhood kids.
Starting your own fairy garden is simple. Nestle a fairy into a store-bought plant and you’ve got instant charm. Or start from scratch with a container. Use high-quality potting mix. Rosalind adds a dime-store bridge and several small plants. Even on a small scale, landscape design principles come into play as she arranges the plants. Tiny pebbles become a winding river, and to finish it off, she adds a tiny fairy.
Finery for marches
Placed on the stone staircase, three pots of chrysanthemum with small yellow flowers make their brightness. In the background, Virginia creeper and Sedum spectabile purpled enhance the decor.
Flowering: September to March for the chrysanthemum, from August to October for sedums, from September to December the Virginia creeper.
Our advice: winter chrysanthemums in a cool and bright. Pinch regularly for branching stems. The last pinch, no later than mid-July, will induce flowering. Alignment of cabbage
After summer garden
The summer moves, but the show must go, as in the massive pots.Asters, chrysanthemums, sedums, Skimmia mingle intimatelywith golden foliage, purple or chocolate trees and shrubs of the garden. You will find most of the plants sold in bud or in flower in the garden, in markets and in nurseries. All pots are easy to maintain -just a regular watering - and sometimes last for years with some care. To succeed in the culture pots, always use a rich soil, humus and well drained. In cold climate, protected by a veil of winter flowers during periods of severe frost to make them last. You can, in spring, transplant small shrubs or perennials in a massive garden.
Landscape Lighting IV : END
Choice your Light and Transformer
There are many types of landscape lighting equipment to put the light right where you need it. Lighting straight carries a variety of different style of each light type, for every area or task you can think of.
For walkways and driveways:
Path light such as pole lights and hanging path lights
Silhouetting, spot lighting, grazing of textured surfaces:
Spot light, Flood lights, tree or wall-mounted lights
Up-lighting through trees out of a well or pond:
Pond light, submersible underwater light
Lights for a covered patio or gazebo:
Hanging light, hanging planter light
Functional light for decks and patios:
Rail mount, column mount, step lights
Miscellaneous lights for specific functions:
Barbecue light, sculpture lights, birdbaths
CHOOSING YOUR TRANSFORMER
when you have chosen your lights, it’s time to figure out where to put them and how to power them. That’s where a transformer, a bit of sums and a touch of creativity come into
Step 1: Add the total wattage of all fixtures
The transformer must be equal to or higher than the total watts. If you think you may add fixtures to your system in the future, a higher wattage transformer is recommended. Transformers come in a wide variety of wattages from 60-1200 watts.
Step 2: Decide where you want to install the transformer
Be sure to install the transformer near a power source or outlet, and as close to your lights as possible to minimize cable runs.
Step 3: The transformer itself
Transformers vary in style and quality. It’s up to you to choose which one is right for your lighting plan and yard.
An optional photocell for dusk-till-dawn operation and timer are excellent choices, both as an energy-saving measure and as a security precaution if you should leave town.
Most transformers are installed on an outside wall and can be either hardwired or plugged into an outlet.
Landscape Lighting III : Make Your Layout Design
Now that you’ve decided to install landscape lighting, it’s time to design your layout. With careful planning, you can eliminate any problems that may arise during the installation process.
Step 1: Where do you want to light?
Take a look at your yard at night to decide where more light is needed, then make a detailed sketch of the yard. In deciding what to illuminate, consider your existing outdoors lighting. A good place to start is your walkways and other functional and transitional areas.
Step 2: What other extras do you expect from lighting?
For example, while you’re lighting the facade of a house, you very well may illuminate bushes or trees, as well.
Step 3: Pair other professional-looking techniques
There are lots of professional-looking and popular techniques that can create a dramatic and attractive design. Lighting the front of the house has a very impressive effect and can make your house inviting at night, except to unwanted guests.
A facade lawn is an ideal and easy subject for illumination.
Trees and plants can be back-lit to create a silhouetted effect or front-lit to showcase the plant itself. If you have a tall tree, place a light at the base and shine it up through the branches. You can also hide a tree mount fixture and have it shine down on a lawn or garden.
You may consider lighting other objects of interest like a birdbath or bench. It’s generally a good idea to spread your lighting out to create even illumination throughout the yard.
A word of caution: Be careful not to over-light your landscape, since too much light might prove unattractive. The secret is to be creative and light only what you want.