Choosing Plants For Your Shade Garden

Shopping at the nursery for plants for your shade garden, you should look for flowers with bright green leaves and foliage. For example, hostas will definitely flourish in shade gardens, and some ferns will grow in even the poorest shade conditions.

Some annual plants love shade, such as impatiens and violas, and when they are planted every year, they can give your garden a splash of color.

Being aware of the part of the country you live in, can help your shade garden, as these gardens grow best in northern climates, because there are more definite changes in the season.

Shade flowers also grow well in cool areas, but you must water these plants regularly, to maintain healthy plants in healthy soil.

A shade garden can also provide a number of decorative advantages. This garden will improve the overall landscape of your garden, and could even help to increase your property value, so keep this in mind if you plan to sell your home.

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Making Insect Treatment With Natural Ingredients

Basil is a key ingredient in insect treatment. You can buy a small amount of basil at your local grocery store in its green original form, or you can grow basil in your own herb garden in your backyard or even in an indoor herb garden.

Mosquitoes do not like basil, and the herb is also good to use in your cooking, because it will help to boost your immune system. This way, even if you get a bug bite during the summer, you will be more inclined to protect yourself against the symptoms.

It is easy to create your own natural insect treatment. You can place basil leaves in a few ounces of water and let the leaves steep for about half an hour.

If you do not want to use fresh basil, you can buy potent basil oil from your local health food store - to add any additional oil that will make the natural bug repellent smell like lavender or bergamot oil.

Your next step is to strain the green liquid, and then add four ounces of vodka. Put the mixture into a spray bottle and you’re ready to use the concoction on your skin and your plants.

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Attracting Wild Birds With Homemade Bird Feeders

For example, a number of wild bird species will eat rodents and insects that may otherwise infest your home. You would be creating a natural extermination system for your home and avoiding the use of insecticides, ghastly rat traps and rat poison.

When you construct wild bird feeders, you should choose the type of food that you put into the feeder carefully, and also the location of the feeder. Homemade bird feeders in your garden will provide a significant amount of food for wild birds, some people believe that birds that migrate will share your food with the birds in the area all year round.

However, once you observe the frequency of the birds’ visits, you will be able to adequately provide food all year round for different species of birds, coming to your yard.

You may wonder about the kind of food you should place in your wild bird feeder. Your decision depends on the birds attracted to your yard. For example, if you have hummingbirds in your garden, then you can fill the feeder with plant nectar, small soft insects, and sugar water.

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