Gardens

Garden lawns recovery

From frazzled to fabulous: bring your garden back to life with expert advice

With a summer of relentless heat and lack of rainfall, many gardens across the UK are looking worse for wear. Many Brits have been left with brown, straw-like lawns, dry, cracked soil, and dying plants, but early autumn is actually a great time to repair.

With this in mind, MyBuilder.com , the reliable way to hire tradespeople, has compiled a list of simple ways to restore your garden to one...

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Low-Maintenance Garden Features That Could Appeal to Future Buyers

A garden can play a significant role in the first impression a prospective buyer forms of a home. An organised, usable outdoor area can help viewers picture morning coffee on the patio, summer meals outside or children having room to play. By contrast, an overgrown garden may immediately suggest a list of jobs waiting after moving day.

Not every buyer wants to spend weekends pruning...

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Branching Out into Landscaping as a Renovation Business

If you are reading this, you are a well-established home or commercial renovation business – and you’re looking to diversify. Even though the construction industry is one of the more stable industries going , there is still volatility; volatility best met by diversification.

There is a lot of crossover between the worlds of site renovation and outdoor landscaping, and a fair few...

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Gardening Season Prep: How to Keep Your Energy Up for Digging, Planting and Heavy Lifting

Spring and summer often bring a wave of home improvement projects, from new flooring indoors to fresh paint on the walls. Gardens, though, call for a different kind of effort. Beds need turning, borders need shaping, and patios need clearing before you can plant or build anything new.

Unlike indoor jobs, garden work is rarely finished in one sitting. It stretches across weekends and...

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Setting Up a Multi-Purpose Garden Room

UK homes have not grown much larger over the years, yet the number of tasks a household expects from its rooms keeps growing. Work, exercise, hobbies and quiet time all compete for the same square footage, and many families have started looking outward for extra space instead of adding an extension. A garden building stays within reach of the house yet counts as its own separate area, making...

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Garden room

Cabin Master and Arctic Cabins celebrates ten years of growth with £10,000 off garden room giveaway

Nottingham family business Cabin Master and Arctic Cabins is celebrating ten years since opening its show site by giving one household £10,000 towards a new garden room or Scandinavian-inspired BBQ cabin.

Since launching the Nottingham show site in 2016, the garden room specialist has helped thousands of homeowners transform unused outdoor space into offices, gyms, studios, bars,...

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Plant clippings

Green gold: The free hack that improves plants - and saves time!

After a prolonged period of hot weather in July, many of our plants are starting to die back for Autumn. So for millions of Brits across the country, it’s time to reach for the clippers.This can seem like a laborious task as we collect waste and dispose of it, but now, an expert is advising gardeners to use this one simple trick to save time, and money.

An expert gardener from...

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Is Your Lawn Really Dead? How to Tell During a Summer Heatwave

A spell of hot, dry weather can quickly transform a green lawn into a patchwork of brown grass, leaving many homeowners wondering whether they've done something wrong.

The good news is that a brown lawn isn't always a dead lawn. In fact, during prolonged periods of warm weather, many lawns simply enter a dormant state to protect themselves until conditions improve.

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Garden Football Pitch

Creating the next Kane? Expert guides Brits on how to turn their garden into the perfect football pitch

The World Cup is on the horizon, and there's no better time to get outside and enjoy the longer days and warmer evenings. An expert from MyBuilder.com has shared simple ways to combine the two, enjoying the weather with your very own football garden.

It might sound like mission impossible, but gardening professionals from MyBuilder.com , the reliable way to hire tradespeople, have...

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Replacement driveways

Thinking of Replacing Your Driveway? Here's What to Weigh Up Before You Commit

A driveway is one of those parts of the house you stop noticing. Until you do. A cracked slab, a puddle that won't drain, a surface that looks tired against a freshly painted front door. Then suddenly it's all you see.

Replacing a driveway is a bigger decision than most homeowners give it credit for. It costs real money. It affects how your home looks from the street. It can help or...

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Sheeps Wool

Don't get fleeced: Expert gardener reveals a cheap product that can rescue your Spring gardens

An expert gardener advises on a secret hack to save and protect British gardeners' plants this spring, after a long, wet winter.

With spring fast approaching, gardeners across the UK are preparing their outdoor spaces for the season ahead and the sunny months to come. While this brings with it several challenges for gardeners, such as unpredictable weather, undesirable soil...

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