Living with a Garden Patio -
The garden patios page show you how to start building
your own garden patios and points to other useful
sources of patio information
Essential
garden patios
The
addition of a hard outdoor surface, whether deck
or patio, increases living space considerably,
and will greatly increase the usefulness of your
garden. If you have any interest at all in spending
time outdoors, then garden patios really are almost
as essential to a garden as plants are. A transition
area between house and garden can become a part
of both and can greatly extend the season when
you can enjoy your garden after the hard work
of gardening is done.
Garden patios alternatives
The
alternatives to garden patios are wooden decks
or stone patios. Gravel doesn't really make a
satisfactory surface to sit or play on as it gets
into shoe patterns and is dragged all over the
place - very messy ! Grass can be perfect for
both, for much of the spring and autumn, it will
probably be too wet and muddy to be pleasant to
go on.
Hard surfaces are the most expensive form of ground
cover (more so than many fitted indoor floorings),
so make sure you are using all of the area usefully.
Pots can be placed in corners of garden patios
where you are unlikely to tread. There are many
designers and suppliers for materials and landscapers
for installation work.
Living in the UK ? - If you live in the
UK - you can buy garden tools from my affiliate
site as below - brackets ( ) indicate number of
garden tools available per category - so there
are plenty to choose from :
Knives (20) Shredders (18) Grass trimmers
(102) Lawn mowers (81) Rakes (51) Axes (61) Bulb
planters (3) Edging irons (15) Loppers (57) Spades
(41) Hand Forks/Trowels (76) Lawn scarifiers (18)
Scythes& hooks (6) Tree pruners (9) Chain
saws (74) Hedge trimmers (9) Log splitters (3)
Secateurs (99) Watering hose & accessories
(50) Garden shears (5) Shredders (9) Spreaders
(3) all from Wilkinson Sword, Wolf, Spear &
Jackson and other top makes.
Suitable
plants for your garden patios
Try
to mix up colours and types of plants so you have
colourful blooms all year round. Mixtures of greens
can enhance the overall beauty of your garden
patios and the use of various textured plants
and flowers will create a balanced effect on your
garden patios. Proper use of planters, stands
and colour will help to make your garden patios
a sanctuary.
more
on garden patios from the BBC - useful
online garden patio information
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