Let’s get the garden looking good for spring!

4 tips to make our outdoors special

Winter isn’t the ideal season for gardening and taking care of flowers and plants, so it’s the best time to be making a start on maintenance activities for the outdoors, taking advantage of those first days of sunshine. Starting from March, we can get down to those jobs that’ll help ensure we have a splendid garden ready for springtime: a pleasant space to welcome friends and relations.
Here are a few ideas to start thinking about your new projects for the outdoors.

Landscape design

Before the time comes to start planting, we still have a few months to think about garden design. It’s important to identify the best points to grow flowers or plant trees or vegetables, so as to give each plant the ideal environment and exposure to sunlight to grow strong and healthy. Especially if you like a garden full of flowers, it’s essential to make sure that once grown, the plants are able to bring a pleasant appearance to the garden: flowers are ornamental plants, after all, and their purpose is to embellish outdoor environments. So give free rein to your creativity, providing you respect the rhythms of nature!

Green is the new black

Lawns are sown in the winter, so that the grass will have reached a good height by spring, offering a pleasant, green appearance. Before sowing grass, it is important to carry out all the preventive, preparatory and fertilizing operations necessary on the ground, in order to guarantee an ideal habitat for healthy growth. Hedges can also be planted in winter. There are some plants that can be sown from the end of February, especially if the weather is mild and no excessive frost is forecast. Examples include fruit trees, which will bloom in the late spring and bear fruit in late summer. Similarly, winter is the right season to plant bulbs for autumn flowers that will bloom between September and the start of November. What is important is not to rush things: if temperatures are extremely low, it’s best to put these operations off until the middle of March.

Building work – new prospects for our gardens

When we’re not busy with planting in the garden, it’s a good time to get some building work done, to give our outdoor areas a new look. For instance, it might be an idea to organise some new flowerbeds, to organise our plants better, or build a walkway in porcelain stoneware, so we can walk around our new flowerbeds more easily, or a new greenhouse. Greenhouses in particular are very popular with gardening fans, since they can be used to experiment with new plants that would be unsuitable for the local climate, or to create a little winter vegetable garden.

Stone-effect material mood

Ceramiche Coem offers a wide range of tiles for the outdoors that team design with sustainability and excellent performance. Some of the new collections in particular are perfect for bringing a personal touch of character to out outdoor areas: one example is Porfirica, named after the ancient Greek for violet, which can be used to give our walkways a red, brown or grey nuance, the colours the collection takes its inspiration from. Porfirica comes in the GresX2 (2 cm thick) finish for outdoors. Other very interesting stone-effect options, ideal for outdoors, are the Moon_Vein collection, which takes its inspiration from the brown Brazilian quartzite stone, thanks to which it can bring a particularly elegant, sophisticated look; or Riverslate, which offers an appealing material, stone-effect appearance (available in an outdoor finish and in the 2 cm thick GresX2 version). Massive Stone, with its uniquely attractive nuances, comes in three sizes for outdoors, and is perfect for lots of different types of specific outdoor furnishings (available in an outdoor finish and in the 2 cm thick GresX2 version). Lastly, Kavastone takes its inspiration from a slate of Greek origin, used mainly for outdoor paving and interpreted here respecting the perfectly calibrated, natural shades, able to create extremely striking effects in our gardens (available in an outdoor finish, in the Palladiana version and in the 2 cm thick GresX2 version).
All that remains is for us to dream of how our outdoor areas will look for the spring/summer 2020 season.