A house or commercial building is to be considered incomplete without having a beautiful garden. Every house owner who has a little bit of space outside the house may think about having the small garden. Even people who have large space, they can have bigger garden either. Everyone wants to live in an area full of shady trees and beautiful parks. Gardens are suitable for all wishes. They are maintained in residential as well as commercial areas through parks, theme parks, botanical parks and amusement parks. Gardens are helpful to make the environment pollution free and healthy. But gardens should be designed well and make them look attractive. For this, garden designing is the right option. A professional garden designer can design your garden according to your requirements within the limited area. For good garden design you need some articles and ideas like landform sources, fountains, garden pools, garden planting and buildings, garden ornaments, garden furniture and landscape materials. These are few basics that play a big role in making the garden look great. You can also use your own ideas to choose what you want. Water [more..]

Landscape gardening has often been likened to the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has doubtless told you that a good picture should have a point of chief interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make more beautiful the central idea, or to form a fine setting for it. So in landscape gardening there must be in the gardener's mind a picture of what he desires the whole to be when he completes his work. From this study we shall be able to work out a little theory of landscape gardening. Let us go to the lawn. A good extent of open lawn space is always beautiful. It is restful. It adds a feeling of space to even small grounds. So we might generalize and say that it is well to keep open lawn spaces. If one covers his lawn space with many trees, with little flower beds here and there, the general effect is choppy and fussy. It is a bit like an over-dressed person. One's grounds lose all individuality thus treated. A single tree or a small group is [more..]

Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden is a 500-acre (2.0 km2) botanical garden and tourist attraction at kilometer 163 on Sukhumvit Road in Chonburi Province, Thailand.Your visit to Pattaya is not complete without a day trip to the sprawling Nong Nooch Tropical garden, just 20 minutes away from the city. This stunning garden landscapes at Nongnooch Village is one of the largest botanical gardens in Southeast Asia. Nong Nooch stands for beauty, and that is what oozes out of every part of the park. The plants and the surroundings are very well maintained.Pisit and Nongnooch Tansacha purchased the 600-acre plot of land in 1954 with the intentions of developing the land as a fruit plantation. However, the owners instead decided to plant tropical flowers and plants as a wildlife conservation project. The garden opened to the public in 1980, and management was transferred to Pisit and Nongnooch's son Kampon Tansacha in 2001. The garden currently fills 500 out of the 600 acres.The garden is divided into the following categories:•    French Garden•    European Garden•    Stonehenge Garden•    Cactus & Succulent Garden•    Variegated Plants•    Ant Tower•    Butterfly Hill•    Orchid [more..]

You donâ??t have to live in the tropics to have a tropical themed garden or flowerbed.  You may not be able to grow the same exact plants that you could in South America, but you can imitate the theme and get some beautiful results. If you ask people what kinds of plants they think are in a tropical garden, they are not very likely to name anything specific beyond â??palm treeâ?.  But, if you ask for some words describing what a tropical garden looks like, then you are likely to get replies like lush, wet, bright flowers, full, flowing, fluorescent accents, big leaves and cascading vines. So you donâ??t actually need tropical plants to give a garden a tropical feel.  Bromeliads come to mind.   Some are actually pineapple shaped.  They have thick, green leaves and brightly colored centers.  Theyâ??re easy to grow in a variety of climates.  They are available in small or giant varieties. Ask a local nursery about which bromeliads will grow best in your climate.  Then determine whether you will want them in the sun or shade, certain varieties can grow [more..]

"The aspect of aesthetics is greatly in demand these days than before. We cannot blame people who yearn to create a scenic view in their homes. Itâ??s natural for everybody to want an attractive and pleasing home. In Long Island, everyone performs varying landscape designs as a form of lawn maintenance to improve their surroundings. Contrary to the notion of a selected few, landscaping is a need not just a whim. Every one of us aspires for a better home so that our family can live in style and comfort. Performing a landscape design in Long Island is not easy. It is achievable though through the diligence of landscape design experts in Nassau County. Knowledgeable and armed with state-of-the-art tools, they are unquestionably the right folks to depend on. Stop envying your neighborâ??s fabulous landscape design in Suffolk because you can have that, too. Why donâ??t you consult a landscape design contractor in Long Island NY? Having the knowledge in the area of landscape, he can definitely provide solutions to your backyard that is currently in disarray and transform it to paradise. [more..]