Beauty Tricks For Your Garden

Working hard for your money day in and day out can become stressful. Getting back to basics is a great way to tap into your inner self and joyful spirit. Finding activities to do on the weekends that will fuel your soul are far and few. After all, cheap margaritas and guacamole gossip can burn out your post work bliss.

Returning to nature is one of the best ways to feel better. Coming to your own home, and using it as a sanctuary will be an enjoyable way to spend your time.

Gardening is becoming one of the most popular activities for women. Women love spending time in nature, and digging their hands into the dirt, to create foods and flowers, it is a rewarding activity.

People who garden spend hours outside, playing. Playing in the dirt, getting back to the simple pleasures of life and being outside. Here are major health benefits of gardening.

Fights Depression

The effortless action of paying attention in your gardening can help improve depression symptoms. In a recent study from Norway, people who were diagnosed with depression, or had persistent low moods, including “bipolar II disorder” were encouraged to spend up to six hours a week growing flowers and vegetables.

After only three months, more than half of the participants had reported feeling a measurable improvement in their wellbeing and depression symptoms.

Plus, their mood was happier, even after the gardening research program ended. This type of research suggests that the novelty of being in nature and gardening can have enough to help people who garden ease depression.

Stress relief

Another study reported from the Netherlands suggested that gardening will fight stress much better than other types of relaxing or leisure type activity.

The study asked people who participated in stressful tasks, to read indoors or either garden for 30 minutes outdoors. Afterward the experiment, the group that spent time outside in the garden, said they felt better more than the reading group. Plus they had lower levels of stress hormones such as cortisol.

Here are tips to help your garden glow.

1. Beauty Barrett’s

For a quick fix to hold plants in place, skip the store-run and use old hair clips from your junk beauty drawer. They will help hold plants to stakes so they grow upward. This will work well for many plants such as tomatoes, orchids and dahlias.

2. Curb the Cute

It may be fun to collect plastic bunnies, gnomes and kitty cats, but over loading your garden with cute statues could distract you from tending to the garden.

Speaking of cute, bunny’s, deer, squirrels and cats, although oh so cute, can damage your garden. One beauty trick is to use human hair at the base of your plants. This will keep the cute away. Next time you trim your bangs or clean your hair brush, use the hair in the garden to keep cute critters away.

3. Diva Den It

Your garden is your sanctuary and it can be a place of relaxation and meditation. Invest in some lawn furniture to create a sacred space. Having a relaxing place you can sit outside will help reduce stress and create a sense of wellbeing. “The furniture style you pick should reflect your personality to help create the space especially for you,” says Brittainy Tiffany an expert home decorator at Tiffany Home Furnishing, a furniture store Portland Oregon.