How to Make Your Garden More Welcoming for Your Guests?
It doesn’t require too much work to make your garden more welcoming for your guests but just a little restoration and refitting with the stuff you already have.
29/11/2019
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Gardens are the spaces to spend time when you are free, to celebrate when you are happy, and to find peace when you are done with the hustle and bustle of your daily routine. Therefore, a garden should be not just blessing in disguise but an actual blessing to feel the inner goodness of your soul. As Sir Thomas More says:
However, a garden in recent times is not just a small yard with some plants and grass, but something that your guests look at first while visiting you. Therefore, a garden must enrich with all flavors that make your guests feeling welcomed at your place.
Don’t worry, it doesn’t require plenty of exertion to make your garden more welcoming for your guests but just a little restoration and refitting with the stuff you already have. So, let’s start refurbing your gardens with us now:
Dress Up Your Garden Entrance:
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Instead of renovating the entrance at the end, you must do it at start. There will be two benefits for doing so; one is you will get a point like where you should start your garden remodeling and secondly, half of your work will become complete, by doing so. Now, for the entrance, you need to figure out all the elements for entrance of your lawn has or should have. You need:
A Small Garden Door:
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Sometimes, we think it a little hard and expensive to find garden doors, but actually its not. You can get doors made of wooden scraps in extremely less price from a used store. Repaint and use them.
A pathway:
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Right after the door, a pathway should start. It not only adds up to your patio appearance but also keep the grass from getting trod under the heels and boots of your guests. Do not hire staff in this regard rather buy a garden path maker to cut the cost.
Decorative lights:
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It is a must-to-have in your gardens and there is so much you can do about it. Take old spoilt bulbs in your home, break them, put some unvisitable scotch tape on corners to lit their corners, and put small solar-lights in there. You can also use old bottles, put lights in, and give your garden entrance a fairytale appearance.
A postbox:
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Though, nobody sends letter nowadays but the idea of putting a postbox at the entrance of your garden will provide a vintage touch to the sight. You can find an old hut shaped box in an old furniture store.
Updating your Inside Garden Yard:
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Now, it is the turn to rehab inside of your garden. The renovation of this place depends upon the size of your garden like if it is bigger or smaller. So, while configuring to the size of your garden, here is what you need for your yard beautification:
Flower and Plants:
You will already have plants and flora in your garden. Try to reutilize it by repainting the pots. However, if you need to add more to it, you can use old tree trunks, broken, utensils, and empty bottles for plantation and husbandry with the help of some DIY garden container tips.
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Seating Arrangement:
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If you have a big garden, you can use garden chair and tables. However, as a small garden owner don’t worry. As you don’t need bigger space to garden makeover so make your small garden look bigger by using old tree logs and empty bottle crates as seats.
Birdcages and Aviaries:
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Flora is always accompanied by fauna hence don’t forget to build the aviaries in your garden. Remember, it doesn’t matter if you choose a rare specie of bird or common one, they all look cuter in the garden space.
Lighting Projections:
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You also have to put some lights in your garden inside. It will make your yards looking wonderful, fairytale like, and of course bigger. Here, you need to put two types of lights; one is beaming one and the other one is dreamy one. You can take idea from outdoor restaurants as they have very dim lights. However, these turn into bigger bulbs for beaming lighting during parties.
Keep Your Garden Clean and Maintained:
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Making over your garden is not enough if you do not take care of it on regular basis. So, to make your patio welcoming for guests, you also need to put attention on its cleanliness and maintenance. For this you need to:
Use Bins:
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You don’t need to go to a shop and purchase a new one, you can use old bin in your storeroom and repaint it to use in your gardens. A small shopping bag is also enough because all you need is to put wastes in it.
Trim Plants Frequently:
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Also, don’t forget to trim plants and use fertilizers in the pots for long life and health of the colorful flora you have in the green spacing of your home.
Clean the Patio Regularly:
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All with this, the pathway and the grass both requires regular cleaning. Make sure to clean it after 3 days. Remember, if you will not do it on regular basis, your garden will look old and bogus.
These were some extremely basic yet extremely working low garden maintenance tips. We hope, these will come handy for you.