• Budget

As to me, that is the first and main option. Figure out your budget and know your limits. Always remember that you can buy nice and attractive patio and garden furniture even if your budget is scarce.

• Style

Decide what you want. Have a look at your patio and understand what kind of furniture you need: luxurious or simple, small set or big set, how many people will use it and how often you are about to use it. Remember, that garden furniture can serve many purposes: dining, sleeping, having fun, drinking tea with friends, and relaxing, so you can choose any furniture and even playful.

• Material

Pay attention to the fact that the furniture’s material determines maintenance requirements. Think where your furniture will stand and how much time it will spend outdoors. For example, you can choose teak, and your garden furniture will be very durable. Also, don’t forget to determine if you want cushions on the chairs. Think of the table top as well.

• Comfort

Make sure the set you’ve chosen feels comfortable enough. Pull chairs to the table and find out whether they are ok for dining. Pay attention to the details: if the seat height is right for the table height, if you have enough space for legs, if armrests are comfortable and etc.

• Color theme

That’s a very important issue to serve – have a look at the rest of your yard and your garden and find out what kind of furniture can work there well.

• Details

Decide on details and carefully choose the options you wish to have, for example, an umbrella or outdoor fireplace, a small coffee table and etc.

Good luck, hope your furniture will serve you well!

The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden can exist in any places as long as you offer water it. It will take only ten days little mushrooms to come out and so you can . From now now on you can have multiple crops.

The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden was first launched in March 2010 at the Berkeley Whole Foods and it was a huge success!Nowadays, this garden is much talked about and everybody would love to have such a mushroom garden at home. 

You can get it here and it costs only $19.95

Do you know that these tiny trees are real ancestors of the giant California redwood? The best part is however the following: these small Bonsai trees turn their leafy needles from green, to yellow, to copper in accordance with the season. I am ready to bet you will love the changing seasons on your own desk or window.

The following kit includes everything you need for growing a big and beautiful garden. It was handmade in USA.

Take it here for $50.

• gather pinecones and decorate your house with them – they look charming and very festive in bowls and even dishes, also you are welcome to scatter them in the center of your table;
• take some tea candles and place them in a dish filled with water, out some pinecones there;
• foliage will be OK too, you can place it in the same way as pinecones;
• decorate your house with bows, make your own evergreen wreath;
• you can put previously cut branches from a shrub with berries into a vase.

Thus, the atmosphere will be festive and so natural!

Everything your recipient has to do is simply pull off the foil top and bottom piece, and adds some water to the soil.

The beans are available in Thank You (with Thanks in Japanese), Love (with a heart), Happy Birthday (with a musical note), Get Well (with Get Well written in Japanese on other side), and Good Luck.

It has everything a beginner or a keen gardener needs: tips, photos, reliable pieces of advice.

The book is written by a passionate gardener, who is in love with his garden and adores exploring every aspect of his hobby.

You can download a book here.

The bucky table is made by Demacker Design Studio.

This piece of furniture is a nice combination of a table and a garden vase. You can out a plant or flower under this table and enjoy it.

Gardening is a year round activity.

Watering: water the plant you live in soil (for example, evergreens) before the cold months strike;

Brush the snow and ice: take care of your shrubs and trees and help them to get rid of ice and snow – cover them with dead leaves and so. Remove the broken limbs removed as soon as the weather permits.

Orders seeds in time: if you like ordering seeds from a catalog, then you’d better make your mind by the end of January.

Firewood: don’t keep firewood in the house because insects can come in with firewood.

• Be very careful and be attentive to cover all wind-sensitive evergreens. Such shrubs as yews, dwarf Alberta (white) spruce, rhododendrons or azaleas need your protection as well. Cover them with dust or bark. If snow covers more than just a few centimetres – be very lavish while protecting your plants;
• If there are roses in your garden, insulate them with topsoil;
• Make natural compost. Put all the remnants of your plants in one bin … and let them have some rest. For example, till the spring.