Animals and Gardening

We all know how it goes; you are trying to maintain an immaculate garden but, while doing so, you are also trying your hardest to look after pets. It is not an easy balance to maintain; especially when the pets that you are trying to look after are ones like dogs or cats, specifically ones that like to rummage around outside like they are digging for flipping truffles. Is there anything you can do, though, to protect your garden, protect all your hard work against the foraging paws of the deranged animal kingdom? The short answer is yes you can. The longer answer, the answer that you are probably waiting for, is that there are products you can buy to ward off your animals with foul, pungent smells of anti-animal...
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Mirrors: The secret to a big garden

There are a lot of tricks of the trade to make your garden seem more inviting. People can spend years studying the layout of flower beds to maximise their beauty, while others will move and remove shrubbery to make their garden as beautiful as possible. For lots of people, however, they simply do not have the time to commit to that kind of experimentation in their gardens. There are, thankfully, some very simple tricks you can use to change the look of your garden. This one is particularly clever trick (and very generous of me to offer it to you all!) but mirrors are a cheap and clever way to to alter the look of your garden. By placing them in key locations in and around your garden you can...
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