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Mid-century modern American interior design: but who cares about bedroom design before a beautiful garden?

In the world of interior design, there’s something undeniably captivating about spaces that blur the lines between indoors and outdoors. This American mid-century modern bedroom offers a perfect example, with its sleek, minimalistic lines and refined use of materials. But beyond the architecture, what truly steals the show is the enchanting garden just outside. Who wouldn’t be inspired to wake up here, where the boundary between the comforts of modern living and the serenity of nature fades away?

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Pool Construction DIY – With Counter-Current System

Buy it in winter, dig it out and build it in spring, so you can swim every day from the beginning of summer.

A self-installed, in-ground, concrete, insulated, steel-walled, foil-lined pool will be presented, including the installation of a counter-current system and heat pump pool heating.

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Have you ever experienced this?

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You don’t need a large dog for this. It’s enough to have a tired foil inflatable pool, from which air is slowly but steadily escaping, and a curious cat, who, preferably in the middle of the night, presses down the edge of the pool to see what’s inside. Once it does, the edge won’t come back up due to the low air pressure, and by the time you wake up from the sound of the gushing water and rush out, the garden is already ankle-deep in water.

This is when you decide you want a safer solution.

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Built-in steel-walled foil-lined pool with insulation and concrete

The choice fell on a steel-walled foil-lined pool, and since the manufacturer suggested that the pool should be at least 30 cm deep in the ground for side stability, we got the idea to dig it in completely. This way, it doesn’t overwhelm the relatively small garden.

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Creeping bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) – green in winter, burgundy in summer as a robust ground cover

Two years ago, I bought a single plant to enhance my rock garden. I didn’t expect it to be such a vigorous and fast-spreading plant, beautiful even without flowers. Over two years, my single plant has multiplied into hundreds.

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Since I initially bought it for rock garden decoration, it worked very well but I found it also suppressed other plants. Therefore, I had to cut off the runners. It’s easy to propagate, and almost all cuttings survived.

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Oleanders for creating a mediterranean garden atmosphere

In Mediterranean countries, oleanders grow wild, but in Central Europe, they can only survive if kept in pots and overwintered in a protected place. – For now!

When you first get your oleander and enjoy the first blooms, you water it, feed it, overwinter it, and you’ll have a pretty but leggy plant. People will tell you to cut it back, but you might be afraid to, seeing that flowers grow at the ends of the branches. If you cut the ends, there won’t be any place for flowers to grow. Eventually, the time will come when it no longer fits in its overwintering spot, and you’ll have to prune it drastically.

And behold! – It becomes bushier, denser, and though it blooms later, it rewards you with even more flowers.

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It’s easier if you have several oleanders, allowing you to cut back half of them drastically every other year. Over the years and decades, you can have oleanders with very characteristic trunks.

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