Imagine combining two favorite pastimes and making them into one festive event. You can invite family and friends to enjoy one another in the backyard and admire the cheerful setting. This is a scene that greets and makes your guests feel welcome. It doesn't matter if it's an impromptu gathering, a big bash or casual meal, the garden plants can enhance the unforgettable experience.

Whether you make a centerpiece for the table in less than a half hour by using different plants your guests can take home with them or turn a garden potting bench into a convenient serving sideboard, you can certainly find unique and creative ways to liven a party. Other suggestions can be to assemble colorful container gardens for color, fragrance and summer-long privacy screening. No matter what method is eventually used, fresh air, sunshine, moon-glow and plants can certainly boot spirits for any social gathering.

A guarantee to ignite a summer-fun exciting occasion is to combine plants and candlelight. It usually depends on the mood and time of day, but it can be used as a lantern or a birdbath. The birdbath creates imaginative access of clay pots. A wide selection of colorful, cascading plants gives it a bright flair. As birds gather around the planted bath in the day, drinking and splashing water, at night your plant transforms into a sophisticated lantern, with bright candles in glass holders that are set in the bowl and reflect from the water. You can even arrange the lantern to be used as a centerpiece or maybe just an accent. The light will not only sparkle, but lift spirits as well. Finally, you can make several and enjoy the mood-setting, serene lighting at the edge of a deck, patio or a path.

Planting around the perimeter of the huge clay bowl displays the cascading greenery as it gives the plants vast space sprawl over the edge. Varieties with silver foliage, like licorice plant and Artemisia, or white flowers, like Bacopa, will beautify any location by glowing in the dark.

In the early months of autumn, you can recycle dead nettle and the Perennial St. Johnswort. If you transplant them to a somewhat shady place in your garden and water them well, they should return by early spring.

Prior to putting plants in outdoor displays, make certain that the tender young garden plants that have lived only in a greenhouse or home have the care to make a healthy transition to the to the garden.