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Wood is an ideal material for building your greenhouse frame, providing you with a practical, effective and attractive finish. Our guide takes you through each step of building your greenhouse frame from timber and describes how this the best choice of material.
It’s not often I’m lost for words, but even I’m ever-so-slightly gobsmacked at just how utterly gorgeous my garden is now. I was hoping for this cacophony of colour by mid August, so to have it already is like some sort of magical and wonderful blessing.
It has long been suspected that gardening is an excellent way to relax and it is becoming clear that spending time in the garden has a measurable positive impact on health and wellbeing.
The vast majority of British gardeners use their greenhouses for growing vegetables and starting off flowering plants for transfer into the garden. Some also use their greenhouses for growing more exotic plants or for flowers to be cut and displayed in the home. This is because the greenhouse offers a controllable environment and one which makes the most of the fleeting appearance of the British summer. However, knowing what to do in your greenhouse and when is an essential part of successful gardening.
When someone asks if greenhouses are environmentally friendly, we usually think of the little, glass shed we have at the bottom of our garden. This is hothousing on the smallest possible scale and surely can’t have any negative impact on the environment.