Showing posts with label roof garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roof garden. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Earth House, Switzerland


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The house is located in Switzerland. People call it "Earth House" as part of the wall is made of residential mounds planted with ornamental grasses. So the impression that the house is shown together with the surface of the Earth. Grass accents also appear on the page.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Tips For Attracting Nature


English garden landscape design

Traditional English gardens invite an array of insects andanimals that add to the quaintness.Knowing that your garden is providing a haven for wildlifewill give you a closer connection with the nature.
Activities such as watch birds feeding or playing in a bird bath can lift the spirits and improve your sense of wellbeing.

Here are some tips for attracting nature to your garden:
• Create natural animal habitats with decorative arrangements of rocks, branches, or other natural elements.
• Select plants that attract butterflies, insects, and hummingbirds, like lavender, clover, and asters.
• Ponds and natural waterfalls are scenic additions to your garden and are inviting to birds, frogs, and other wildlife.
• Make your garden alluring to birds with colorful berry bearing shrubs, decorative bird feeders, and rustic bird baths.
• A natural, meadow style yard design will be the most appealing to native wildlife.
• Rustic wooden fences or decorative stone or brick walls make wonderful barriers and can add to the English garden style with climbing plants like wisteria and fragrant jasmine.
• Tranquil gazebos and scenic bridges make charming additions to your English garden landscape design.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Above Roof Garden

To help prevent or reduce the pace of global warming, adding to the green open space with a garden on the roof of houses, buildings, hotels and offices is one effective way. Although the condition of the urban region largely filled by a high rise building, the designers (architects, and landscape architects) to create a green open space to add plants that had taken over when the building was constructed.
By creating a garden on the roof, high-rise buildings can still have a green open space, because there is space efficiency. Garden on the roof (roof garden) is as an alternative reforestation to improve the quality of the environmental health of a large city. Currently, only a few five-star hotel in central Jakarta that has a garden on the roof (roof garden).

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