My Green Worlds

An organic garden brings a vibrant and colourful touch to any eco home. But instead of just the run of the mill vegie patch out the back, having a garden professionally conceived by a landscape architect can add a unique aspect that highlights your own green passion.

“Landscape architecture is a combination of science and art,” says landscape architect Steve Batley from Sydney Organic Gardens. To Batley, the process of designing a sustainable garden for an eco home involves a world of creativity while employing good practical design that works with nature.

A well designed garden is a living ecosystem that encourages animals and people to interact with nature. Children love connecting with the earth and gardening is a great way to teach them to cherish the environment.

Here are some handy tips to consider for your own organic garden:

A garden can be aesthetic, productive and even smell profitable. There are many plants that have flowers that smell righteous, but the 8 plants listed here are plants that even the leaves release fantastic aromas that can perfume your garden.

Hyssop (Agastache) – Flowers and leaves both have a aesthetic scent. Bees, hummingbirds and butterflies absolutely treasure the flowers. It is a perennial, hardy at least to zone 5, so it comes relieve year after year, bigger and fuller each year.

Scented Geraniums (Pelargoniums) – There is a wide variety of scented geraniums and they smell and leer so different. The Lemon Rose, which smells exactly as its name implies, is a dazzling plant with dinky, insignificant flowers. It’s all in the leaves. It is a tender perennial and has to advance into the house for the frigid months in zone 7 or lower. In warmer climates it can be planted in the ground, where it can score quite tremendous and may need pruning assist to believe a positive size. If you do prune it relieve, attach the clippings in a basket somewhere in your house for potpourri. You can save the clippings in water and root them to regain more.  Read more...

Nothing can give you a natural calmness more than your own house with its natural furniture. Most of people now tend to choose the modern minimalist furniture to furnish their house because of space efficiency. But then, when everything is too minimalist people should make use something else to enrich their life view to get the natural calming essence right from their own house. Every building uses the shiny silver furniture for furnishing the entire rooms. Every corner in the street also explores shiny colors that give people too futuristic impression of today’s life. So, the only thing to do to get the natural essence back to life is by applying natural furniture at our house.