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 Art and the maniére to offer a garden downtown
How to transform balcony, patio or terrace in a bosky bower.
Initially, throw a glance on the surroundings: do there exist visual harmful effects ? Opposite are they numerous ? Which is the exposure of your terrace ?
When you have to identify the constraints related to your environment, adapt your project according to the solutions to these problems.
Doesn't your terrace enjoy a maximum sunning ? Choose plants adoring the shaded exposures - hosta, hydrangeas, palm trees…
You have opposite awkward ?
Will know that it is not always necessary to barricade it all the circumference of the terrace, less you will mark the limits of the place, and more space will appear large.
Thus, if opposite is side, install a covered trellis-work of climbing plants. Will know that a terrace should not become a drudgery, then privilege the plants with persistent foliage not to have to collect sheets, and plants with small development not to undergo repotting each year. Lastly, made the good choice for your external furniture.
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One dreams all of a large garden in the middle of nature. Often, in the big cities, it is often necessary to be satisfied with a balcony !
Use trellis-work in the too narrow places to plant trees, and make run of climbing. For the badly exposed corners: the jasmine of winter or the climbing hydrangea.
The garden must all the more be structured and neat that it is small. Do not let the jungle invade it. The objective is to give an impression of space in a small surface. In a square garden, avoid multiplying the floors in the center.
In a garden in length, leave a band of lawn in the center from one end to another to give him prospect. It is necessary that one can circulate easily in all the garden. Try to integrate a key of white into the bottom of the garden or in the darkest corner to light it or increase it.
Use plants which resist well the pollution and of the plants of shade for the badly exposed places.
Use annual flowers and bulbs to renew the colours of your garden each year, at each season, and to give him character.
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 Plants interesting to use
For the great potfuls which one returns the winter
- The hibiscus, several species and cultivars. Attention with the sunstrokes when you put them outside, in June. Start with the semi-shade. Cut about on February 14 in the St. Valentine's day. In September, made a light size, question of space.
- The rose laurel, Nerium oleander. According to the place available, use dwarf varieties with mixed sheets. It tends to lose its sheets in winter, which is normal if it misses light or if it is placed in a too hot zone. Cut it like the hibiscus.
- The maple of house, Flowering maple striatum, cut out of tree or shrub. The cultivar Thompsonii out of tree from six to seven feet top is splendid if one takes care to make a quite regular size in order to avoid the insane stems.
- The agapanthus, a solid plant pointing out the amaryllis a little. It is alas necessary to be patient with this long-lived subtropical because its growth is slow: it will hardly flower the first two years. If you succeed in making him spend a beautiful winter in a fresh and very enlightened part, I promise to you that this plant will make the pride of your garden.
- The bamboo, Phyllostachys aurea or will nigra. The effect outside is incredible and very dépaysant, but the difficulty, it is to preserve it inside the winter. Always the same principle: the maximum of luminosity in winter and a temperature close to 12 °C (a room not heated with douillette electric… and heating mattress!).
- A papyrus, Cyperus papyrus, the true papyrus which measures from two to four meters height. This common plant not very, like the phyllostachys, is not easy to find. Reserved for the green inches, even making green…
- An increasingly popular, splendid mandevilla when cut out of tree. Its continuous flowering, as that of the allamanda which resembles to him much, ensures an exotic effect the garden.
In the cities, the urban garden is a spontaneously réapproprié space, the voluntary shape of a corporate measure, it is the emergence of a gesture citizen. Independently of the systems programming sciences and by exploiting the forsaken grounds, the urban garden places at the disposal of spaces of culture and of relaxation, it allows also an alternative micro-economics.
A platform by of wood on which a piece of furniture of kitchen is carried out in an autonomous way with the migrants of the Appartenance center and accompanies the already existing kitchen garden.
This infrastructure acts of meeting place, lift, and information. Extension of the center Membership, it becomes a place of possible, namely mutual enrichment, the appearance of fresh impulse, social development and the training in contact with the ones and others…
Garden with durable vocation, each user joins his maintenance and guarantees the continuation of this experiment.
Meeting place, this new garden want to be place of convergence between the users of the Mosaïk center and the inhabitants of the city.
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