Gardeners Belfast

Flower Pot Gardeners Belfast is an established award winning firm which achieved the Judges Supreme Award at Hillsborough in 2007. Our aim is to widen your options to make the most of your budget, and provide Belfast gardeners services to Belfast and the surrounding areas with individually tailored landscape design solutions that suit your lifestyle.

Flower Pot Gardeners Belfast will also provide you with high quality professional gardening services, including garden maintenance. We offer our clients fair and reasonable prices and won’t break the bank!

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Beautiful Flowers for Gifts

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Some people feel that giving flowers as gifts has been overdone and does not feel like anything special any longer. However, with a little bit of creativity they still make great gifts for the special people in your life.

For Mother’s Day, there is nothing as special as telling your mom thank you, and saying it with a bouquet of blooms and a box of goodies. You can get busy with gifts crafts and make your own gift basket with a little bit of material, ribbons and a hot glue gun, which can be used for decorating. When fresh blooms are not an option, consider baking some flower cookies; with some icing, script an “I love you” or two.

For your Christmas gift giving needs, there are many different ways you can incorporate a single flower or a whole arrangement into gifts for everyone on your list and you can always add a wine gift to the arrangement too. Poinsettia, mistletoe, winter whites, amaryllis, a Christmas cactus or holly are all well loved and appreciated symbols of holiday traditions. Deliver them yourself, or have a florist send your gift directly.

Another great way to use flowers as a gift is to cut out photos of events or people pertaining to the recipient’s life and mount them on magnetic sheets. Then put them on those sticks that florists use to attach the gift card and place them throughout the arrangement. Once the arrangement has died the recipients will still have some great pictures to put on the refrigerator or anywhere they desire.

The gift itself is not as important as the thought, so any extra touch or sentiment makes it that much more special. Don’t be afraid to experiment you may just come up with a great and unusual ways to give. Consider incorporating flowers in gift baskets for all occasions, especially a Christmas gift basket, even better if you have some nice home grown flowers to include with the gift. Also, shopping for gifts online may well provide you with a plethora of ideas.

Quite possibly the absolutely best reason for sending flowers is for no reason at all. Of course, Mother’s Day, Valentines Day and birthdays are all the “usual” times to send a floral arrangement and that is great. But, if you really want to surprise someone, then send one for no reason at all with a little surprise note attached. I guarantee it will be greatly appreciated.

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Indoor Home Garden

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An indoor home garden is a delight. When it comes to interior decorating, people are just as concerned with their choices of plants as with their choices of furniture and other soft furnishings.

Some take the easy option and opt for realistic artificial plants, but most wish to go for the real thing. As winter draws in, and Christmas approaches, many people focus their attention on their indoor plants, or lack thereof.

Apart from their decorative function, nearly everyone knows that there are also health benefits from having live plants indoors. Provided that several important factors are attended to, indoor plants will clean the air during the daytime of carbon dioxide, giving off oxygen in return.

Lighting

This is perhaps the most important factor. Most indoor plants must have a good source of light. Most of the time this is provided through natural lighting and good plant positioning in the room of your choice, or through the use of electric lighting. Luckily darker leaved plants usually don’t need as much light as others.

This is where armed with a little knowledge, you can avoid choosing plants which are a going to be a challenge to provide adequate lighting for, and give yourself a much better chance of a successful outcome in creating your indoor home garden.

For an indoor garden, there are five varieties of plants which require medium to low light, and which will suit our purposes admirably. I’ve listed these below.

a. Philodendrons
b. Boston ferns
c. African violets
d. Cyclamens
e. Creeping Fig

Watering

The next biggest mistake in caring for indoor plants is over watering. This leads to rotting roots. Pay careful attention to the label that comes with your plant because each plant type has differing watering needs. Of course the biggest mistake following this is under watering and neglecting your plants to the extent that dust builds up on leaves. We’ve all done it at some point, haven’t we?

Potting

Choose good quality and attractive container for your indoor plants. Make sure that the pot is clean before placing your new plant into it to prevent infection and to encourage healthy growth.

Humidity

The fourth biggest mistake in indoor gardening is having the correct humidity for the plants. The amount of moisture in the air surrounding the plant has an effect on its growth. During mornings, you should spray the plants with water for their much-needed moisture with a fine mist atomiser. A small open container ornament with a small amount of water inside placed discreetly nearby is helpful.

Fertilization or feeding.

Feeding isn’t such a big issue as a good slow release indoor fertiliser can be bought from most home department stores, however just like watering, each plant type requires different amounts of feeding. If you’ve got most of the other factors right, fertilising isn’t going to require that much of your attention, unless you’re growing orchids for your indoor home garden which will require special fertiliser and a bit more of your loving attention.

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Feeders Bird Baths

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The sight of migratory birds feeding and bathing in your garden or yard is sheer beauty. To bird lovers the sound of chirping birds is music, a vibrant symbol of life. There are quite a large variety of feeders bird baths available on the market to cater to the birding hobby of many. Decorative bird feeders and bird baths are good. But they should not compromise on the needs of the birds. Argos has a nice example for sale just now.

The bird bath is an artificial puddle of water created for the birds to have bath and drink water. A shallow basin is put on a pedestal and a depth of two inches is sufficient for the wild birds, as they do not submerge their entire body in the water. They just dip their wings and splash water all over the body. You can heat up the water in bird bath with solar bird baths. The wild and migratory birds can get warm water to bathe in during the winter from your backyard. You can even add a suet bird feeder during the winter months.

The feeders bird baths should be cleaned regularly to maintain proper hygiene and to prevent the spread of any diseases. Different species of birds carry different harmful viruses and bacteria, which could affect the health of other birds. It is amazing how fast the feeders bird baths can get dirty. The bird bath can be scrubbed clean; however, a tablet containing naturally occurring bacteria and enzymes can be used to break down organic waste and keep the bird bath clean with less scrubbing, which will leave more time for bird watching.

The positioning of the feeders bird baths should be such that they provide shelter to the wild birds when there is a possibility of attack from birds of prey or other predators. Usually, a big tree or a big bush in your garden or yard can provide shelter. Bushes bearing berries can act both as shelter as well as a food source to the birds. When there is a sign of an attack, the birds can fly immediately and save themselves. With all the flying involved, migratory birds will love the warmth and safety of your feeders bird bath.

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