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How to DIY garden decor Birds Stones Fairy Stools- Entryway garden challenges

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How to DIY entry way garden decor. So while you can hire someone to make a great garden,  and also an attractive entryway garden design, I have seen so many homes now go barren with all the plants dead!So once you see a garden and in few months nothing! yet facing entry way garden challenges but shifting some plants, adding some and trying new plants for brings positive energy to our garden. The old news papers recycled making paper mache toad stools, pebbles, tortoises. Yes, they are not so perfect like machine manufactured toys, but they are made with my own hands and with loads of love! Making fairy stools Mushrooms at home Hand made recyled news paper garden decor  And the obsessive artist gets to pour out some more creative energy. Hand made tortoises  entry way garden decor Pebbles and stones entry way garden decor design ideas  Wall decals, wall stickers are also available cheap now a days you can order online very easily and you get lots ...

Excoecaria cochinchinensis Bicolour Variegated Cordylines why plants have red leaves?

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Excoecaria cochinchinensis Bicolour Variegated Cordyline terminalis Pink day lillies Ribbon grass, new additions to window sill garden. Eranthemum, Tricolour Stromanthe, Triostar Stromanthe, Stromanthe Sanguinea. Why are leaves red? why crotons plants are having red leaves? Pigments present in croton leaves give the colour. chlorophylls, carotenoids, tannins, anthocyannins. each absorbs energy from different wave lengths and different regions. these properties give each pigment colour. some absorb red and blue, some absorb green. This also is affected by the amount of sunlight received by the plant. The important pigment associated with red leaves, red plants is anthocyannin. Chrophyll decreases and anthocyannin increases in some plants due to reflected light and energy they absorb. These beautiful vibrant crimson lake red leaves are so beautiful against the greyish green variegated top. Artistry in nature, and beauty, so many different shades, you wonder what a bea...