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Daybeds: Great Garden Furniture

These fantastic garden daybeds certainly inspire us to design gardens to put them in and I’m hoping that by showing them here as demonstrated at FreshHome they might inspire you guys to get us to draft you up some fantastic design for your own garden!

Sampan Daybed

These beautiful daybeds are made by Lifeshop Collection, a company that is specialized in indoor and outdoor contract furniture, hotel furniture, contract lighting, contract artwork, casegoods, and resin furniture. The summer is near, and a piece of outdoor furniture like this would be great, to relax outside your house, and breathe fresh air. These pieces would be also awesome for an outdoor party. – Via – Espaciohogar – Via – Freshhome

Cheers

Nicky Patterson, Garden Designer @ GardenImprovements.com

Originally posted 2009-03-26 17:00:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Indoor Wall-Tiles with a Difference

planter wall tiles2 Planter Wall Tiles by Maruja FuentesAt GardenImprovements.com we are constantly striving to convince people to introduce their gardens into their normal lifestyle habits: (more…)

Originally posted 2009-06-22 17:00:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Great Garden Umbrellas and Parasols

A funky and modern twist on the traditional garden parasol design: these can be used when the garden design is such that a traditional umbrella structured parasol might compromise the overall theme of the space.

Not Your Grandparent’s Patio Umbrella

Coolaroo Shade Sails are bold, brightly colored in square and triangle shapes. It’s remarkable how one lone shade sail can lend an outdoor space a contemporary touch. String up a group of shade sails—like in the photo, below—and you can transform a space into something you’d expect to find at a modern art museum.

Coolaroo Square Sail

What you can’t see from the photos is how durable the Coolaroo material is. This isn’t like hanging out a sheet. The shade sails are made for life outdoors. The sail’s nylon edges will not tear or fray. The color of the material will remain bright even when permanently hung outside and exposed to moisture, intense sun – which is inevitable in Glasgow! – and temperature extremes. The D-rings on the corners of the Coolaroo will stay anchored to the included stainless steel poles. Coolaroo products come with a 10 year warranty. If your shade sail becomes damaged the company will replace it for free.

Best of all, the Coolaroo fabric blocks out 90% of the sun’s harmful UV rays while allowing breezes to pass through. So life under a Coolaroo is cool in more ways than one.  – VIA – SpotCoolStuff

Cheers

Nicky Patterson, garden designer @ GardenImprovements.com

Originally posted 2009-03-25 17:00:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Eco Friendly Garden Furniture for Kids

notNeutral BBO2 recycled kids chair table photo

Fair-weather play dates come and go, but notNeutral’s outdoor kids furniture will hold steadfast, rain or shine. A collaboration with Loll Designs, the BBO2 collection comprises 100 percent recycled post-consumer high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a plastic resin used to make products and packaging such as milk jugs, detergent bottles, and margarine tubs. Roughly eight recycled milk jugs go into every pound of the furniture’s weight. (more…)

Originally posted 2009-06-16 12:00:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Garden Design Issues: An Apprentice’s View

Being new to the landscaping and design business it was always going to take me a while to get used to the different aspects involved, none more so than the design process; fiddling about on the laptop with the design software we use was all well and good- but it couldn’t prepare me for the real life problems presented by an actual client and project.

by Matthew Thomson

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Originally posted 2009-06-24 17:00:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Landscape Gardening and Winter

The winter months are in fact the best time to arrange to have a landscaping project scheduled for your garden; ensuring everything is in place for the new season to start and getting a real head start on enjoying your home outdoors!

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Originally posted 2008-12-24 10:18:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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The Big Chill

As landscapers and gardeners up and down the country shake off their festive hangovers and head back out – we find that country is frozen solid – but surely we aren’t ALL down in the dumps about 2009?

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Originally posted 2009-01-06 21:10:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Website Update!!

We received some mixed feedback form our December 2008 website revision with the flash navigation and music uploading.  I decided to remove the flash navigation and music altogether and changed the layout slightly to be simpler.

We have retained some the great fetures of the old site including our fantastic resources page showcasing all of our co-operative projects and our local business friendships as well as suppliers and helpful website links.  You can also now navigate to our main social networking sites such as twitter and facebook on the right hand sidebar and catch up on my latest updates via my twitter-feed at the bottom of the page.

We will probably be shifting the emphasis of our portfolio onto blog releases and onto our Facebook business page and a Flickr account.  We shall also shortly be announcing the launch of our YouTube channel which will serve as a video diary for our projects as well as showcasing our finished gardens and interviews with clients.  Exciting times!

The site will probably still be tweaked here and there but I would welcome any feedback you guys can deliever!

Cheers for now,

Nicky Patterson, Garden Designer @ GardenImprovements.com

Originally posted 2009-03-25 09:00:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Eat From Your Very Own Kitchen Garden!!

We are offering to design and build a kitchen garden for your garden in January or February 2009 for a credit CRUNCHILY friendly 20% off both drawings and labour!!

As we all look to our balance books and see what can be done to reduce outgoings and with constant pressure to be green and healthy at the same time, why not invest in your very own kitchen garden?  Feed your whole family for years to come from produce grown in your own back yard!!

We are offering as our winter (and credit crunch) special 20% off plans drawn to site your kitchen garden in the best possible place and tailor it with the most practical and fitting design for your lifestyle and your gardens surroundings.

We are also offering 20% off of labour costs for kitchen garden projects booked in January and February !!

Of course this is to try and fill our books during the enquiry barren winter months but it is also an opportunity for you guys to get a head of the pack, have fun, be lean and green and SAVE MONEY to boot!!

Book a survey with us quoting “KITCHEN GARDEN” in the further comments box and we will arrange to visit your property and discuss your requirements.

Nicky Patterson

GardenImprovements.com

Originally posted 2008-12-16 20:38:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Composting Your Own – What to Know

Here’s some handy hints on getting started with composting delivered by Margaret Hoyenga over @ Nest In Style.  Good luck and let us know how you get on!!

Nicky Patterson, Designer @ Gardenimprovements.com

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Originally posted 2009-06-23 17:00:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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