Landscaping: Colour schemes for vibrant plant beds
The analogous colour approach entails choosing two (or three) colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel
By Hosea Omole 5 years ago
Landscaping: Colour schemes for vibrant plant beds
Designing a townhouse garden
These spaces present special challenges
By Hosea Omole 5 years ago
Designing a townhouse garden
How to design outdoor areas that mirror interior style
Outdoor living is the in-thing in landscape design.
By Hosea Omole 5 years ago
How to design outdoor areas that mirror interior style
Decorative lighting for elegant garden
?After sunset, even the most modest of gardens can assume a regal enchantment, thanks to skillful lighting.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Decorative lighting for elegant garden
Fruits as part of landscape
Fruits are healthy. And nothing beats fresh fruits from your own garden, especially when you grow them without chemicals.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Fruits as part of landscape
Picking a garden style that works
Selecting a theme helps ensure consistency in the final product
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Picking a garden style that works
Designing a garden for low maintenance
Today’s typical urban dweller hardly has the time or the money to spend on plants and devoting their weekends to garden work.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Designing a garden for low maintenance
Gardening and landscaping
This is one of the most important elements.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Gardening and landscaping
Why it is important to understand gardening basics
The information out there can be overwhelming, it is important to know the basics before you start.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Why it is important to understand gardening basics
Designing your garden space
Your garden is an excellent opportunity to show your unique style
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Designing your garden space
Sculptures for elegant gardens
When choosing a sculpture for your garden, don’t limit yourself to ready-made pieces
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Sculptures for elegant gardens
Get the most out of bougainvillea
Many people are obsessed with shaving and trimming them, which does more harm than good
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Get the most out of bougainvillea
Working with sandy soils
Sandy soils are well aerated and free-draining. But that’s about as far as advantages go.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Working with sandy soils
Designing an urban garden
Private gardens in towns present special challenges that require specific responses.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Designing an urban garden
The formal garden guide
If you like a neat, well-structured and controlled environment, then this style is for you
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
The formal garden guide
How to make a garden fit for children
Although you can plan so that children play freely and safely anywhere, it is always a good idea to designate a space that is specifically designed fo
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
How to make a garden fit for children
Borrow neighbour’s landscape, views
If you are lucky to have a home that overlooks a magnificent landscape take advantage of such views to enhance your own garden
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Borrow neighbour’s landscape, views
How to decorate with found objects
?Salvaged and found objects can add personality and a sense of history to a garden. They are especially perfect for finishing off an
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
How to decorate with found objects
Want endless bloom? A cut flower garden’s all you need
?A well-planned cut flower garden will fill your backyard with endless bloom and supply your vases and flower arrangements for months on end.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Want endless bloom? A cut flower garden’s all you need
Choose furniture fit for your style
The demand for outdoor living products is on the rise, with many suppliers offering different kinds of furniture styles.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Choose furniture fit for your style
Colour effect on landscape
Every shade used adds predictable effects to the ambiance of your home
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Colour effect on landscape
Choosing shades and covers for stylish outdoor spaces
Outdoor living spaces often require some kind of a cover to protect you from the elements. But there is a lot more to shades and covers than...
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Choosing shades and covers for stylish outdoor spaces
Quick rainy season makeover
Before you descend on your garden with a spade and a hoe, take some time to plan.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Quick rainy season makeover
How to create a fusion garden in style
The only rule is that there are no rules: just pick whatever you like from different styles and blend them to create your own style.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
How to create a fusion garden in style
Colour in the garden
Of all the elements of landscape design, colour is perhaps the most powerful. It sets the mood and influences how space is perceived.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Colour in the garden
Go bold with palm trees
The beauty, durability and variety of palm trees rank them among the most highly valued landscaping gems anywhere.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
Go bold with palm trees
A guide to water plants
To produce a natural looking water feature, all the above categories are important.
By Hosea Omole 6 years ago
A guide to water plants
Go green with living roofs
From reducing storm water runoff to improving the roof’sheath insulation properties. They are also very beautiful and unique.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Go green with living roofs
Three trends in modern design
Over the past decade the garden space has been redefined. With the ever increasing value of land and space, gardens are no longer just for viewing and wowing over. People also have a lot less time and money to do gardening work hence today’s garden is a lot less fussy about maintenance.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Three trends in modern design
Retaining garden walls
Sloping sites present a special challenge to homeowners. Pool areas, patios, garden sheds, play areas and other functions which require relatively level ground cannot be realised without changing the terrain.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Retaining garden walls
How to use landscaping in managing storm water
The problem of flooding can easily be controlled through proper landscape planning.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
How to use landscaping in managing storm water
Gardening and landscaping: How to grow alpine plants
Plants from high, rugged, mountainous areas are among the most beautiful garden flowers out there. Once you have grown a few, you will want to make room for more.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Gardening and landscaping: How to grow alpine plants
What’s hot in landscaping
As with all art, landscaping has evolved over the decades to reflect changing cultures, technology and lifestyles. These changes happen more rapidly at a global scale faster than ever before.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
What’s hot in landscaping
Modern methods of growing orchids
Did you know that orchids are the largest plant family in the world? It is estimated that there are over 3,000 species and many more man-made varieties. But orchids are hardly commonplace.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Modern methods of growing orchids
Decor for outdoor living
Today’s outdoor living space is not just a verandah with a table and a few potted plants. The exterior of a home has literally been turned inside out.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Decor for outdoor living
How to avoid chaos
Nothing is more disconcerting than a garden that is a chaotic mishmash of all sorts of plants, ten different paving materials, and too many colours.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
How to avoid chaos
How to stay safe around the swimming pool
Your swimming pool should be a place of relaxation and enjoyment and not a cause of constant worry. No precaution should ever be spared to ensure that users and pets are safe from drowning in the pool.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
How to stay safe around the swimming pool
Designing for privacy
Modern lifestyles have elevated our gardens from a space for lawns and flowers to an outdoor living space for family and visitors.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Designing for privacy
Beauty without flowers
The notion that garden beauty is about flowers is widespread but flawed. In fact, flower colour plays just about the same role as paint does in a room: highlighting what is already good and enhancing the mood within finished garden rooms.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Beauty without flowers
Prune your garden right
Pruning is not just about chopping the top off a plant that is growing out of control. If you get it right, you will be rewarded with a plant that produces more flowers and fruits, has a good shape, and is a lot less prone to diseases.
By Hosea Omole 7 years ago
Prune your garden right
Bitter Christmas for former Mumias Sugar workers
Western
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