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Flowers and plants are wonderful ways to create atmosphere in your home or office. The flowers and live plants can be a burden for the owner of an occupied house or an office manager, and should receive adequate attention in order to create beautiful surroundings. A plant can die for many reasons, and a plant or wilted flowers are in very bad taste. In addition, plants that grow care and you will be pruning and repotting your decorations a couple of times a year. Add to the disaster created by the fallen leaves and earth and see why having plants indoors can be a difficult task, even if you have ability to deal with plants.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to real plants if you want to add that extra color to your home. Artificial plants and silk flowers are an ideal alternative low maintenance for home or office in terms of decoration.

Artificial plants can be purchased almost anywhere; they do not require special care. Artificial plants can be placed on store shelves for long periods of time, like at home. Artificial plants and artificial trees are manufactured for all varieties of real plants, and can be tailored to their needs for space. You choose the plants to the pot and then head home with his new decorative item. The only maintenance you have to do is dust it off once in a while!

Silk flowers are more popular than artificial plants. Silk flowers and arrangements can be purchased separately or in a variety of replicas of the species and sizes. There is no need for silk flowers in a vase, if you have small individual daisies along the edges of your bathroom can do it with silk flowers!

In addition to its low maintenance, artificial plants and silk flowers do not produce pollen or sap, which is no longer a risk to any person suffering from allergies. Artificial plants and silk flowers are perfect for decorating a home or office.

The orchid is a plant native to Asia and, although it needs some special care, can be grown and look inside the home with good light. Some tips to consider:
■ Temperature: not stand night temperatures below 16 °. The day can range between 23 and 35 °. Mature plants need a difference between day and night temperatures of 6-8 °. Temperatures below 10 degrees can cause the loss and fall blooms.
■ Irrigation: Basically, these plants grow better if allowed to dry slightly between watering through the cultivation and irrigation. It should be watered in the morning, room temperature and especially in the summer.

■ Light: It is important that the plant receives plenty of light, preferably morning sun. It must also be placed near a window. The leaves have to have a light green color. If you have a darker color, it means that they lack light and possibly little or no flowering plants flourish.
■ Humidity: it is ideal to keep the plants with a minimum of 50% moisture, up to 80/85%. It is important to manage moisture with adequate ventilation, such as a good air flow.
■ Fertilization in spring and summer, apply a water-soluble fertilizer rich in nitrogen and in autumn and winter adding fertilizer rich in phosphorus. It is ideal to apply these products every ten days.

For floral arrangements, or decorate with flowers, not everyone has that ability, we must have good eye to find the flowers, mix colors, aromas, etc. Do not forget that everything is natural spring, full color, any flavor. To fix everything is a nice, from a glass vase to a soda can, is as present and garnish. Depends on what style you prefer, if you’re a minimalist style with three long-stemmed flowers placed at different levels, green branches, set with taste is solved. On the other hand if you are the classic style roses with sprigs of asparagus and some yellow lilies, transforms any corner of the house, in a romantic corner.

Here and need a vase of porcelain or ceramic, inside you can put a mesh type of goose nests. You have to make a ball with the net, putting the flowers be the largest in the center and smaller at the edges, which are of various sizes, but there is not much difference. After placing the flowers you put foliage in the empty spaces in the same schema.

When you make a more informal basis, get a can of red or green, high and right, this may be of cookies. To place the flowers, now you begin to reverse, first the foliage that may be branches of eucalyptus trees to fall and block part of the can, then you insert some red carnations and nuanced with small white flowers, can be illusion, or roses Rococo or others. In simple and practical way you have another arrangement, which can distribute different parts of the house.

Decorating a garden can be simple or complex depending on the features, space and utility that we’re going to give this venue. But most important knows how to choose good plants and furniture, adapting them to our tastes. The garden furniture, being outdoors, requires some specific materials and some conservation efforts go beyond the interior, but this need not be a problem.

The vegetation will go based on the shadows, taking into account what spaces will be better as moisture and light they need. When choosing which plants are best going with our garden we must realize that although we all have favorite flowers, may not be well adapted for the climate and orientation. It is advisable to combine with other flowering plants that do not have, depending on what one we like and combine with some seasonal perennial. It is also useful to include some aromatic plant which runs through our garden of a very characteristic odor. We will go to a nursery where they often advise what the best species for your area are.

A garden has to be a playground, where they meet friends and where children can play at home without complications. These features make the furniture is mainly based on a table and chairs for lunch or dinner in the warmer months. The table and chairs have to be of material consistent with our tastes and above all strong. There is plenty of garden furniture in wood, iron, and bamboo, plastic … ideal materials for this part of the house, though not all require the same care.

Tropical timber is very suitable for the garden because it has resins that make it more robust and has very beautiful designs; the drawback is its high price. More normal woods such as oak are more economical but require varnished annually and stored over the winter. Aluminum is the most appropriate material, can last many years without any maintenance, but lost in warmth. Finally, other materials are very characteristic for gardens wicker and bamboo are very nice and very summer create ideal. The drawback is resistance, the water damaged and rotting.

The decorative elements of the garden must follow our taste and the line of furniture we have chosen. It is important not recharge, torches, lanterns, dwarfs and other figures can warm at first but end up tired and creating an environment overloaded. A good option is to place incense in different corners of the garden to provide warmth at night and decorate the table with a floral element. If we have children, will need to find somewhere to put their play area, a good chest will be essential to keep the toys.

The flowers provide a great life to stay where you are also helping to give a personal touch to our home. Each flower conveys a different feeling and that is why we must not neglect the containers in which they are, and that they depend largely on the visual effect those results.

In the market we can find a wide variety of styles of vases decorative elements because they are very versatile thanks to the diversity of shapes, sizes and colors they have. In addition also have different styles: modern, classic, oriental … For this reason, it is important that the vase that we will use as a vase holding a style and tone appropriate to the room that will remain thus helps us to decorate properly our favorite corners of the house.

Nor should we forget that the choice of container in which to place the plants must conform to style them so that, in this way, either sees their role diminished. Those that have a long stem should be placed in vases tall and thin to avoid kinking.

If what we have is a pitcher rather broad and flat earth tone flowers we can mix with other elements such as straw, nuts or sand and get a rustic and sophisticated home. On the other hand, if the vase is glass we can fill it with water and place floating candles with flowers (or petals of these) and get, in this way, an elegant centerpiece for our dinner and original.

The larger jars are perfect on the corners of the room, avoiding the space given that there is emptiness. It is a perfect way to take this opportunity, often forgotten. There are also vases for its appearance would not need any other additives to stand out from the rest of the room. In this case, it is advisable not to add any other item to avoid any refilling.