Make your garden fulfiling with a gazebo
Apr 04, 2008
A garden can be an extension of your sitting room if well tended. It can be the perfect place in a home for relaxing and entertaining, says Andrew Ogago, a gardener with Norfolk Gardens in Kyambogo.
By Harriet Birungi
A garden can be an extension of your sitting room if well tended. It can be the perfect place in a home for relaxing and entertaining, says Andrew Ogago, a gardener with Norfolk Gardens in Kyambogo.
When you have a beautiful garden, you will not be short of entertaining grounds. You can have the shade of a tree turned to a gazebo (recreation area where you can have a view of your surroundings), adds the gardener.
For instance, you can prune lower branches of a tree, capable of growing tall and leave the desired ones to grow from a certain point. And when they attain the desired height, use them as poles to support either bamboo sticks, grass or whatever material you want for a roof of a relaxing sitting area.
“The trick is in ensuring that the roof does not leak and the root growth is not affected,†Ogago says.
To attain that quality, he says, the roof top can be cemented as a way of sealing off water.
The ground should also be cemented and a trough-like shape constructed and filled with soil and manure.
The beauty of cementing the surface is to provide an easy-to-clean area and yet allowing the roots under the ground to grow normally.
Apart from enjoying the fresh air that the plants give off, especially on hot days, the gazebo will provide you with a beautiful area, where you can relax.
Further still, on a warm morning, the gazebo can be used as an area to have breakfast.
This format, of utilising a corner of your garden as a resting point, makes the gardening experience rewarding to the gardener.
“Setting up gazebos supported by plants is one of the ways one can fully appreciate the beauty of plants,†says Ogago.
A garden can be an extension of your sitting room if well tended. It can be the perfect place in a home for relaxing and entertaining, says Andrew Ogago, a gardener with Norfolk Gardens in Kyambogo.
When you have a beautiful garden, you will not be short of entertaining grounds. You can have the shade of a tree turned to a gazebo (recreation area where you can have a view of your surroundings), adds the gardener.
For instance, you can prune lower branches of a tree, capable of growing tall and leave the desired ones to grow from a certain point. And when they attain the desired height, use them as poles to support either bamboo sticks, grass or whatever material you want for a roof of a relaxing sitting area.
“The trick is in ensuring that the roof does not leak and the root growth is not affected,†Ogago says.
To attain that quality, he says, the roof top can be cemented as a way of sealing off water.
The ground should also be cemented and a trough-like shape constructed and filled with soil and manure.
The beauty of cementing the surface is to provide an easy-to-clean area and yet allowing the roots under the ground to grow normally.
Apart from enjoying the fresh air that the plants give off, especially on hot days, the gazebo will provide you with a beautiful area, where you can relax.
Further still, on a warm morning, the gazebo can be used as an area to have breakfast.
This format, of utilising a corner of your garden as a resting point, makes the gardening experience rewarding to the gardener.
“Setting up gazebos supported by plants is one of the ways one can fully appreciate the beauty of plants,†says Ogago.