Raised Garden Beds

You can save money by building your own raised garden bed. These can be used for flowers and even for vegetables. They are gaining in popularity because they are easy and inexpensive to build, making them practical parts of the landscape. Additionally, they are fairy easy to plant and maintain. They are even relatively easy to weed.

In addition to being convenient and practical in maintenance, they also drain sooner as well as warm up faster. This means that you can plant earlier in the season, resulting in the possibility of multiple harvests if you use your raised gardens for vegetables. You can make your garden a temporary bed or a permanent bed, and reap the benefits of a simple way to enjoy your landscape more and even dress it up a little bit.

The first thing you need to do is make sure that you have all of the necessary tools and materials. You can make your beds out of rocks, concrete blocks, bricks, naturally rot-resistant wood (cypress is very slow to decompose), or wood treated with a safe preservative.

It is important to make sure that treated wood does not have anything harmful in it that could leach into the soil and thus be absorbed by the plants. This is especially important if you plan to eat whatever you are growing in your raised bed. Other things that you will need include optional wood preservative (like sealant) or sheet plastic, spading fork, shovel, iron rake, hammer and nails, measuring tape, compost, and topsoil. All of things are necessary for creating a successful raised garden bed.

When making a permanent garden bed, you should make sure to use more permanent materials. If you plan to use your bed for flowers as a prominent part of your landscape, bricks make very nice beds, as they are attractive and often complement most traditional landscape designs and plants. The bed can be as long as you would like it to be, but it should be at least one foot deep and no more than four feet wide.

Wider beds can make it difficult to reach the middle of the bed to take care of things like weeding and fertilizing. If you have the bed against a house or fence, wide beds make it difficult to reach the backside of the bed as well.

Temporary beds, unlike permanent beds, allow you to change the design every year. If you like the idea of being able to make small changes to your landscape each growing season, then temporary beds can help you achieve this. Additionally, they are easier and less expensive to remove if you decide that you would like to take them out.

Wood is best for these types of beds, as the wood can easily be taken apart. Choosing attractive woods can add to the look of your landscape design. You can also decorate the wood with non-toxic paint if you would like to have a little different look. As with permanent beds, make sure that you build them at least with a foot of depth and not very wide.

When planting your beds, whether permanent or temporary, you should begin by preparing the bed. Remove rocks, sticks, and debris from the beds and make sure that they are prepared for plantings. Be sure to allow for drainage. You can build your bed on a patio or on soil, but either way you should ensure that there are adequate pathways for excess moisture to escape.

When using brick or concrete blocks, they can be stacked in a staggered fashion to allow water out of the bed. When building on top of soil, loosen the bottom soil with a shovel or spading fork. The bed should be filled from bottom to top with a compost and topsoil mixture. After this is done, rake the top of the bed so that it is smooth.

Once the bed is prepared, you can plant flowers, herbs, or vegetables inside the bed. Tall plants should be put in against a fence or wall, or on the bed’s northern side. Make sure that you take proper care of your plants in your bed, and remember that raised garden beds can dry out faster. They may need a little more water.

Avoid stepping on the bed as much as possible to prevent soil compaction, and follow up your planting with a proper application of mulch.

by --Flowers&Garden.com

The post of dispatching cakes

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Summer of Love$46.00


Sincerely$46.00


Sweet$52.00


(1) To ensure the cake fresh, allcakes which would be dispatching that day are all made on that day. Cake is a kind of food that should be kept fresh, so please every custom who had received the cake enjoy your cake as soon as possible, or put it into the icebox in order to avoid it go bad. To ensure the cake fresh it couldn’t last 3 hours without the cold storage, and the temperature must be five below zero, and it’s better not to store it more than two days.

(2) Please consider the number of people who will eat the cake to decide how many pound will you order, so that you can eat it up in one time. Usually, 2 people need 1 pound, 3-5people need about 2 pound,5-8 people need about 3 pound, and so on. If you need to add more, please phone us.

(3) If you ordered the cake, we will send a set tools for eat, like paper dishes、knives、forks and candles.

(4) The cake is a product which was made by hand, different cook will have different views on the shape of the type, and their skill will be different too. In addition, because of the local resource, when some materials or colors are lack of, we will find some other which are similar to them instead. The product you received may be a bit different from that you saw on the internet, so the cake based on the actual dispatching. If there is something inconvenient, forgiven please.

(5) If your order was during the Christmas day、Spring Festival、Valentine’s Day、Mid-autumn Day、Mother’s Day and some important festival, because making cake is a handwork, you would need to order advanced to avoid delay.

Buying Flowers Online and Sending Flowers as Gifts

Buying Flowers Online and Sending Flowers as Gifts

If you have the need to send flowers to a family member, a friend or a professional colleague for one reason or another, you may have found yourself on the hunt for a flower delivery service.

When it comes to selecting a flower deliver service, there are some facts and factors that you should keep in mind as you do look for a flower deliver service. Our local flower shop locator service can be a real time and money saver. Buying local also means you get the best possible service from business owners you know and can trust.

When it comes to a flower delivery service, more and more men and women are turning to the Internet and World Wide Web all of the time. In this day and age there literally are thousands of different flower delivery service options available to you on the Net. By taking the time to surf the Net and shop around, you will be able to find flower delivery service options and providers that can meet your every need. This includes reasonably priced flower deliver services that are in business on the Net today.

Even when it comes to a flower delivery service, the typical person would like to save some money in the process of sending flowers to a friend, family member or professional colleague. In point of fact,when it comes to your need to send flower bouquet, there are even discount and wholesale online florists.

Through these types of florists, you actually can end up saving a great deal of money.

New coffee shop replacing Starbucks in Forbidden City

A new coffee shop opened last week inside the Palace Museum, located exactly at the same place where a controversial Starbucks coffee shop had situated for seven years.

With wooden tables, wooden chairs and pictures featuring Chinese culture, the "Forbidden City Cafe" serves not only coffee, but also traditional Chinese beverage such as tea.

"Different from the Starbucks coffee shop, the Palace Museum is the managerial authority of the cafe," Beijing Daily quoted Li Wenru, deputy curator of the Forbidden City, as saying.

In a separate interview with the Beijing Youth Daily, the deputy curator emphasized that the "Forbidden City Cafe" is only part of a store which mainly sells souvenirs to tourists.

"We want to provide tourists with a package of products relating to imperial palace and Chinese culture," Li said.

In 2000, the Seattle-based Starbucks Corp. opened its outlet in the Palace Museum, the former imperial palace, at the heart of Beijing.

The outlet, however, closed its door in July this year after facing years of opposition as some Chinese think the American coffee shop poses a challenge to traditional Chinese culture.

About Guangzhou City

Guangzhou, located at the north of the Pearl River delta, is an important trading center as well as a busy port and the capital city of the province of Guandong . The city has an area of over 16,000 square kilometers and a population of 6.7 million.

The climate of Guangzhou is sub-tropical. The average year-round temperature is 22C. August is the hottest month, with an average temperature of 28C. January is the coldest month, with an average of 13C. The rainy season falls between April and August. Average annual rainfall is 1,720 mm.

Like Athens of Greece and Rome of Italy, Guangzhou also has a history of more than 2,800 years.

There are a lot of interesting legends concerning its past. One of the beautiful stories which gives the city its name Goat Town says that five gods riding on five goats brought the first grain to the city. So, it is also known as the City of Five Goats. Besides tales and stories, here and there stand monuments of the city's democratic and revolutionary past. The monument to the Anti British struggle at San Yuan Li is in remembrance of the 1841 uprising against a British invading force. The Huang Hua Gang Park keeps alive the spirit of the 72 martyrs killed in an 1911 uprising against the Manchu dynasty. The National Peasant Movement Institute is the former cadre-training school founded and run by Mao Zedong and Zhou En Lai in 1925-1926. The Guangzhou Memorial Garden is in memory of those who lost their lives during the Communist Uprising in 1927.

Guangzhou is also one of the most important centers of foreign commerce in South China. The Chinese Export Commodities Fair has been held twice a year in the city since 1957. It is also a cultural center. There are several universities, the Zhongshan University, the South China University of Technology, the Ji-nan University and so on. There are also higher educational establishments. The city is renowned for its arts and crafts, namely the Guang Dong embroidery, ivory-carving and ceramics.

Guangzhou is a beautiful city with an ever-green scenery and flowers blooming all the year round. The city boasts many tourist attractions, among which highlights are White Cloud Hill Scenic Spot. Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou Zoo, Six Banyan Temple and Flowery Pagoda, Dr. Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall, etc. In the Suburbs, there are such scenic spot on Conghua Hot Springs, Xiqiao Hill Scenic spot, Seven Star Crags, and Foshan City. Lots of tourists to Guangzhou like to cover one or two of them for out-of-city pleasure.

"Eating in Guangzhou" has become a popular saying both at home and abroad. Guangzhou ranks first in the number of restaurants and tea-houses in the country. Cantonese cuisine is good in color, fragrance, taste and presentation. In addition, the delicate Cantonese pastry is also well-known for its wide range of varieties, delicious flavor and beautiful color. Cantonese cuisine is among the most famous four in the country.

As for hotel accommodations, there are Garden Hotel, China Hotel, White Swan Hotel, Dongfang Hotel, Nanhu Hotel, the Overseas Mansion, the Overseas Chinese Mansion, the Overseas Hotel and others.

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