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Adding Color to Your Garden With Potting Benches

Potting benches are work stations created for gardeners. They usually offer several shelves for storage, as well as a work area. Some offer additional storage through hooks and drawers. Others include an inset basin for mixing soil.

Variety sparks interest in gardens. Even a plant with the most unusual shape, color, or texture won't hold the average person's attention long if it's the only plant in your garden. One component of variety is color. Potting benches not only offer you organized work space; they can also add color to your garden.

You can use a potting bench as a focal point, or centerpiece, for your garden. If you arrange some small potted plants and flowers on its shelves, you can create a gorgeous display. You can easily rotate the pots as certain plants stop blooming and others begin.

Potting benches come in different woods. The material itself can add color to your garden. Choose white cedar for a frosty look or red cedar for a warmer look. You can also paint or stain the wood to achieve a particular shade.

Team potting bench colors with the colors of foliage or flowers. For instance, if you prefer a natural white cedar bench, use lamb's ears plants with silvery foliage to carry the color throughout your landscaping. If you want to plant lots of yellow sundrops, choose a bright yellow paint for the bench. You can also use contrasting color schemes to add variety and interest to your garden.

If you like bright colors, consider not only flowers, but also foliage and vegetables. Many leafy plants, such as varieties of coleus, display stunning combinations of color. Some are bright, while others are deep and rich. Arrange plants both on and around potting benches.

Yet another way you can add diverse color to your garden is to plant vegetables. Some people prepare a separate plot of ground for a vegetable garden, but you don't have to. You can consider more common garden plants, such as tomatoes and lettuce. Don't forget eggplant, beets, and kohlrabi. And some common vegetables come in uncommon colors. How about purple or yellow carrots, orange or purple cauliflower, red cabbage?

You can use other accents to carry color throughout the garden. Recycle objects that no one else wants. Reclaim an old bowling ball by painting it, or by gluing mosaic tiles or faux gemstones to it. Use a colorful old tennis shoe as a planter. If you can imagine some use for an object that you would normally throw away, give it a try and see if your idea works. When you rework an object, you can make it exactly what you need to fit your garden theme; you are no longer limited to what you can find in a store.

Color and variety play a large factor in how pleasing your garden will look. You can experiment with color by bringing in potting benches, unusual foliage, colorful vegetables and flowers, and recycled objects. You can move potting benches and planters to different locations, so try several spots until you decide which location satisfies you most.

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	Jiffy-7 Jiffy Quality The Jiffy-7 pellet is made from sphagnum peat from specially selected peat bogs. Lime and a special fertilizer with a low ammonium content are added to the peat in order to stimulate growth...

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	Hanging Moss Basket (18") with Wire Hanger Average Rating:
	Hand made from the best farm grown sphagnum moss. No artificial matter or color added. Thick layer of sphagnum moss added to the outside of heavy duty wire frame. Will last several seasons. Better then plastic or coco fiber.

Aging your Garden With Moss - Part 1

Some gardeners hate it – other gardeners, like me, cannot get enough of it. What am I talking about? Moss. Moss is a simple little plant that does not have conventional roots, stems, or leaves. Moss is any species of the class ‘Bryopsida’ and is part of the division ‘Bryophyta’. ‘Bryophyta’ means the first green land plants to develop during the evolutionary process. Moss is thought to have evolved from very primitive vascular plants. Dinosaurs may have munched their way through tons of it and it has been used by gardeners in ancient cities to supply the backdrop to many beautiful gardens, perhaps even in the ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’.

It is interesting that moss has not given rise to any other kind of plant.

Because moss does not have the traditional vascular structures of true leaves, stems, and roots, its growth is limited to moist locations. Moss is very hardy and grows almost anywhere, all over the world except under the sea and in the desert sands. Moss normally grows vertically and of little use to humans’ apart from the use in gardening.

These are the ways that you can hurry up the process and help establish a beautiful green carpet over your garden rocks and concrete features. This method will not work on plastic, fibreglass, or artificial landscape rocks.

*First, you will need to buy some porcelain clay from a hobby shop. You can buy online at many hobby shops and that alleviates the need for shopping in crowded stores. One of the oldest established porcelain manufacturers in Victoria is walkerceramics.com.au I believe they have the finest clay.

*Secondly, you shall need a 250ml cup and a bowl, and a paintbrush.

*Thirdly, you will need some fish emulsion plant fertilizer. You can get this at nurseries, supermarkets, and garden centres. And most importantly, one cup of fresh finely shredded moss.(I have heaps of it and like to cultivate it for just this type of project). When you have the clay, stir a fist size piece into your bowl with 3 cups of water, and form a thin paste. Add one cup of undiluted fish emulsion to the paste and then lastly, the shredded moss well. Mix and paint it on your rocks and concrete objects with a paintbrush.

The Japanese have gardened with moss for centuries. Valued for its reduced need for watering, its greenness is considered to add a feeling of lushness and serenity to Japanese gardens. It looks particularly attractive around any Bon Sai. Even a newly potted plant, will look as though you have been tending to it for many years. Finding earthenware, planters, pots, statues, and rocks is easy when you log on to OzFreeOnline.com Australia’s largest free Classifieds site. In the Classified section, all you need to do is register, log in, and enter your keywords to do a very quick and thorough search. Best of all OzFreeOnline.com is and Australia-wide online search engine.

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Hanging Planters - Easy (Moss)