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1. Water your plants in the morning

   The Royal Horticultural Society stated that the best time to water plants is in the morning because water seeps down at its roots with less evaporation at this time keeping the moisture of the plants the whole day because the heat is still light and won’t dry your plants

2. Cinnamon powder for protection

   A dash of cinnamon powder, which contains some anti-fungal properties, on your seedlings can help protect them from diseases, plus its good smell won’t hurt either.

3. Magic of eggshells

   One way to protect plants from pests are using roughly crushed eggshells spread in the soil as sharp jagged fences against some garden pests like snails and slugs that can kill your plant’s health. Eggshells are good fertilizer and composting ingredients too.

4. Teabags as fertilizers

   Help your plants thrive clean and green by placing some teabags around them. Tea bags dug around plants compost add nitrogen rich component balancing carbon-rich materials being absorbed by the plants. This benefits plants to grow healthy and strong.

5. Vinegar against weeds

   To get rid of pesky weeds in your garden, you can use small amounts of vinegar that will help burn weeds in warm conditions.

6. Grow plants with hydrogen peroxide

   Hydrogen peroxide or agua oxinada will aid in sprouting seeds, the growing survival of plants from root rot and proptection against many fungal diseases.

7. Honey to propagate cuttings

   The enzymes that honey contain promotes root growth. Honey helps plant cuttings in setting roots so they propagate easily.Baking soda keeps plants weed-freeLike the vinegar, baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is also an effective agent in eliminating weeds by increasing salinity. With too much salt, weeds find it hard to survive.

8. Baking soda keeps plants weed-free

   Like the vinegar, baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is also an effective agent in eliminating weeds by increasing salinity. With too much salt, weeds find it hard to survive

9. Add sugar when watering plants

   A bit of added sugar to the water for plants changes the ability of the plants absorption of water and helps initiate the process of photosynthesis that helps plants grow faster. This can be used to save plants that are dying off.

10. Cocoa goodness for the soil

    Cocoa shells add nutrients such as nitrogen and proten to the soil as it decomposes through time. This mulch helps keep plants healthy and thriving.

Nature is always taking care of us so in return we must keep the relationship mutual and take care of it. A home that is well lived is one that is well loved by nature just like in Pahara, your home is surrounded with the best views of nature. Live the Pahara life, one that is thriving in nature, INQUIRE NOW.

Sources:

https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/71785/easy-gardening-hacks-to-take-the-graft-out-of-growing

https://balconygardenweb.com/gardening-hacks-to-change-the-way-you-garden/

https://www.organicauthority.com/live-grow/7-reasons-your-garden-will-love-cocoa-mulch

https://www.hunker.com/12484396/what-happens-if-we-give-sugar-water-to-plants

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Don’t know how to design or fix your backyard? We have 4 easy tips for you!

Incorporate Greenery

We suggest decorating your outdoor space with lots of plants! There are a lot of physical, mental, and emotional benefits of being one with nature, and where better to experience that than your own backyard? You can plant your own kitchen ingredients in various stylish pots, low bowls, or even repurposed wooden boxes or crates. If running low on space, you may opt for vertical gardens in containers attached to your wall or hanging gardens suspended from beams, eaves, or wall hangers. You can grow a variety of plants such as succulents, herbs, flowers or vegetables.

Maximize the Space

Treat your outdoor space like an extension of your living room. Fill up your backyard with functional and space-saving furniture, with a few decorative accents here and there such as side tables and a stylish rug! You can take advantage of the free wall space at the back exterior of your house by setting up shelves to hold plants and even food for gatherings. Keep the back uncluttered by building more storage space or hanging swing benches.

Light It Up

Hang string lights around your outdoor space to make it feel warm and cozy while also saving on floor space. These look great at night, and also look amazing in photos! Make sure also to take advantage of the sunlight in your backyard during the day. Find the balance between putting up shade and sunlight spaces to get your daily and healthy dose of Vitamin D.

Make it Party-ready

Make your backyard ready for intimate gatherings, or even just meals outdoors with your family! Place a small kitchen and dining area in your backyard. You can add a grill, counters, a cooler or small refrigerator, and outdoor dining table and chairs to complete your set up. If the space does not allow this, you may use a rolling bar cart and foldable furniture for an easy and portable arrangement

Apply all these design tips in your very own spacious Pahara lot with an assured breathtaking view! Inquire about our offer today or learn more about Pahara here:Pahara Residential Lot

Sources:

https://www.thespruce.com/small-backyard-landscaping-ideas-4691367

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/decorating-ideas/g32596610/small-backyard-ideas/?slide=3

https://www.housebeautiful.com/room-decorating/outdoor-ideas/g26136212/small-backyard-ideas/?slide=29

https://happydiyhome.com/cheap-landscaping-ideas/

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Being one with nature improves physical health

•  It encourages physical activity

There’s something about green spaces being accessible that highly motivates people to spend more time outdoors. Our bodies behave differently when surrounded with nature, making us feel more energetic and alive, therefore exercising while surrounded by greens, sunlight, fresh air, and sometimes even people, decreases the feeling of boredom (that we may get from indoor workouts), and nudges us to workout longer and harder.

• It improves memory and attention span

Studies suggest that communing with nature can help improve your short-term and working memory by at least 20%. As humans, we are instinctively attracted to and focus on nature and our experience within it. Through this, we find peace for our overactive minds, and this refreshes our well-being, therefore boosting our productivity and mindfulness for our tasks.

• It provides Vitamin D and prevents eyesight problems

With most of our days spent cooped up indoors and in front of computers, conditions arise such as Computer Vision Syndrome (CSV), or Vitamin D deficiency. Proper levels of Vitamin D in the body improves our immune system and prevents various diseases. Our eyesight also greatly benefits from looking at natural scenery.

• It releases toxins from the body

With so much pollution intake especially those living in an urban setting, these result in damage to our respiratory system and difficulty in breathing. Being exposed to more nature and trees that release high levels of oxygen would naturally purify our lungs, release our toxins in the body, and make us feel renewed and rejuvenated.

Being one with nature improves mental and emotional health

• It reduces stress and improves mood

Nature is the best healer! One of the most well-known benefits of being one with nature is stress reduction. Viewing natural scenery reduces blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension due to stress hormones. With everything that is happening in the world right now, a quick trip to the garden or green spaces could easily alleviate your mood, and release dopamine or happy hormones in your body.

• It relieves depression and anxiety

During this period that we spend more hours at home because of quarantine safety measures or work set-ups, we tend to fixate our attention to television, mobile, and desktop screens. The lack of time in the “natural” world has been associated with depression and anxiety. Nature helps us cope with pain and traumatic events. Because as humans, we tend to find natural elements captivating, we are absorbed and distracted by natural scenes from feelings of sadness, fear, and anger.

• It encourages positivity, social interaction, and connection

Studies show that people with closer connection to the landscapes are generally happier on the inside, resulting in strong social relationships and positive approach to life. The emotional balance and clarity of having a strong human-nature relationship gives us the drive to face anything in life with more resiliency and focus. Taking care of our environment has built a thriving sense of community, inspiring us to treat each other with dignity and respect as we treat the environment the same.

Pahara at Southwoods City, with its rolling terrains, scenic green views, and blue skyscape is surely a sight to behold. The cold gust of wind with a view like no other within the borders of Pahara is truly rejuvenating for the soul.

Live light and bright in Pahara today! Send us a message for more inquiries or check out more details here.

Sources:

https://www.theshoresoflakephalen.com/benefits-of-being-in-nature/

https://positivepsychology.com/positive-effects-of-nature/

https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/how-does-nature-impact-our-wellbeing

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Meditate

Meditation helps you be in control of running thoughts and get your attention to focus in the now. You can do it by sitting or lying comfortably while listening to your own breath while in silence or surrounded by calming music. You put your full attention to your own breathing. Just breathe naturally. Notice how your body feels at every inhale and exhale. This practice is one of the fundamental ways to practice mindfulness to have mental and emotional clarity. Best to start your day with this to set the tone right.

Have a journal

Writing your thoughts and feelings on a journal is a good practice of acknowledging every present moment. It could be listing down all the things that you are grateful for everyday, writing a poem, expressing a concept or describing an experience as one creative learning on how to live in the now. Writing affirmative positive statements also helps you wire your brain with good thoughts and great ideas.

Listen to music

Listening to music is one wonderful way to relax your senses and calm your body. When you are paying attention to every melody you are hearing, you also understand how your body responds to it. Music has a powerful effect to relax our body and mind.

Move

Letting your body do activities like yoga, stretching, running or workouts allows you to explore and feel sensations that your body experiences. Exercising the body is also a way of exercising the mind. Becoming more aware of how you control your mind and body during exercises improves your relationship with yourself as well.

Slow down

Mindfulness is also experienced when you are giving deliberate attention and careful thinking in everything that you do, savoring every feeling coming out in every experience and enjoying every process. Whether you are reading a book, brushing your teeth, eating your meal, getting dressed or writing a report, giving it an intense awareness is a good habit for sensible personal progress and avoid feeling overwhelmed.

Eat mindfully

Being conscious of what you eat and knowing its effects on your body is important. Every intake that you give to yourself has an impact on the way you think and perform. Healthy food will always boost your brain and help your body become stronger. It is best that we opt for good food, eliminate junk. Understanding your hunger or cravings and why it occurs also lets you become more wary of your bodily sensations. Give your food full attention, take away the presence of TV, gadgets and social media while savoring your food. This simple practice puts you in the quality of mindfulness.

Have a break

Taking a pause from your day to day busyness and treating yourself to a vacation or just by relaxing and not forcing yourself to accomplish tasks on hand will also help you become more conscious of the present moment. Let yourself explore cultures and new places or engage in fun adventures or treat yourself to a rejuvenating activity. When you feel in doubt, tired, stressed or just don’t know what to do, sometimes inactivity or a deep rest will help you feel better. When you give yourself a break, you let a space grow from within and stretches your creativity so you have more beautiful ideas when you get back on track.

Be easy with yourself

Always have compassion for yourself. Remind yourself that you are doing the best you can to live a life of purpose and be your best version. When you make a mistake, take with you the lesson rather than dwell on regrets. Be a good critic with yourself and avoid negative chatter. Let positive thoughts run in your mind when you ruminate. Be easy with yourself, we are all humans after all.

Be with nature

Spending time to connect and explore with nature helps one gain mindfulness. By simply appreciating its rawness and beauty, you use your senses in full acuity. You let your attention wander in nature whether simply feeling the coolness of the waters, appreciate the boon of trees, be challenged by stamina inducing hikes or just by letting oneself be in awe of glorious skyscapes. Being with nature helps one increase the ability to be receptive of our surroundings and its infinite inspiration.

If you want to live a mindful life, live light and bright in Megaworld’s Pahara – a 26-hectare residential lot development set amidst the emerging Southwoods City. Perched on a hilly terrain, it provides its residents a nature-rich setting with its sky bound views and green spaces such as pocket gardens, linear parks, jogging paths and yoga lawn for that beautiful solitude and tranquility that your soul desires. Learn more about Pahara’s green spaces and pocket parks here

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Investing in green spaces has been the direction property developers are taking now, especially in the upcoming post-Corona era. Megaworld however has been in the forefront of this green movement in its townships for years. Pahara is an exclusive residential village envisioned and constructed to be a home nestled within touches of natural bounty for its residents. Hidden within Pahara’s gates are its very own variety of linear and pocket parks. Going around the Pahara vicinity makes you feel like you’re in a hole new and refreshing world as you are surrounded by tree shade as you walk through its pathways, and the sweet smell of refreshing flowers capture your senses. If you long for peace and quiet in your morning route, the tranquil yoga lawn and jogging paths are your very own heaven on earth. The diverse gardens, lawns, and parks, will keep you and your family entertained and revitalized, because Pahara is where beautiful solitude and nature abundance are.

Pahara at Southwoods City’s promise will always be this: live light and bright.

Interested in a life of beautiful solitude and natural abundance in the heart of Southwoods City?
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Security

Real Estate ownership provides an unmatched sense of security. Not only is shelter a basic human necessity, it is also accompanied with the matter of prestige. With all the current issues surrounding space and housing specially during lockdown, the people will seek to own their personal spaces. Since real estate is a tangible asset and is not paper money, reliability and return on investment is assured.

Safety

Real Estate investment is a safe investment. The property market remains resilient despite various threats to it because of its assured value appreciation. As more land gets developed into booming urbanized cities and  townships, and more property developers move toward provincial areas, your real estate properties’ value will never decline in the long run wherever you are.

Stability

Real Estate has been the most favored investment since 2013 according to a survey conducted in the United States. Even with the economic recessions, and various threats to the market, real estate’s popularity is timeless; it is also inevitable in countries with booming economies because the higher the economy, the higher the demand for real estate.

Do you want to invest in condominium units, townhouses, or residential lots? Let’s talk investment! Send us a message!

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Exclusivity within Exclusivity

The Upland Villas promises a peaceful and secure lifestyle. Located at Southwoods City, it is set inside its private enclave that is made safer by the Pahara’s top-notch security.

Outstanding View

With outstanding views on the topmost block of the luxurious residential village of Pahara, the Upland Villas surrounds itself with greenery. It features lush gardens and parks, alongside the esteemed Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club.

Invigorating Location

Devoting a large portion to nature and wide, open spaces, The Pahara neighborhood is designed with landscaped linear and pocket parks and jogging paths. Featuring its amazing and exclusive amenities, residents can enjoy these luxurious offerings, while forming bonds within
the community at the Clubhouse:

• • Lap pool and kiddie pool
  • Multi-purpose function area for events and activities
  • Children’s playground for the kids to enjoy; and
  • Themed gardens like yoga lawn, meditation garden, reflexology garden, color garden, and an aromatic garden.

The Upland Villas’ very own flower and herb garden is just a short walk away from its town and duplex homes.

Convenience at its Finest

Located inside the township of Southwoods City, the Upland Villas brings you modern conveniences right at home. From schools and hospitals, to retail and dining spaces, enjoy a balanced live-work-play-learn lifestyle.

Home Sweet Home

Set in a heartwarming, oasis-like environment, The Upland Villas makes coming home a fantastic experience every time. It has a courtyard feature on the first level, with modern residences that hit the sweet spot for start-up families and people searching for an address where they truly belong.

The Megaworld Name

Investing in a Megaworld project gives investors a sense of pride, luxury, exclusivity, and assurance. Megaworld GERI’s The Upland Villas makes each investment extra special because it only has 65 units. Its limited number of units make it an intimate home to be desired.

Experience a home made just for you, send us a message today.

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The Upland Villas will be rows of two-storey townhouse and duplex villas in modern and tropical architecture within the 26-hectare Pahara residential village.

Each unit has its own living and dining areas, kitchen, maid’s room, common bathroom, and a lanai at the ground floor, and bedrooms and bathrooms at the second floor. Each unit also comes with a two-slot carport.

With exclusive access to Pahara residential village, future residents of Upland Villas will also be able to use the Pahara Clubhouse and amenities, which include a swimming pool, fitness center, jogging paths, children’s playground, multi-purpose function area, yoga and reflexology garden, meditation and aromatic gardens as well as landscaped open spaces.

“Set within the exclusive enclave on the hills of Southwoods City, Upland Villas is a unique residential offering where one can relax and enjoy the beauty of its natural surroundings. More importantly, since we have easily sold out the lots of Pahara, this is an opportunity to own a property within this sought-after village inside Southwoods City,” says Rachelle Peñaflorida, vice president for sales and marketing, Megaworld Global-Estate, Inc.

Only 65 units will be offered in Upland Villas, which is expected for completion in 2024.

GERI is expected to generate around P1-billion in sales from this new residential project.

To date, GERI has already launched three residential developments inside Southwoods City, with a total of 2,237 units and lots.

The company has also launched two office towers in the townships, offering 46,000 square meters of office spaces under Megaworld Premier Offices.

Home to the award-winning Southwoods Mall, the expansive Southwoods City is surrounded by a golf course and has its own exit at the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX).

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Christmas is almost here! And for that matter, be in for a treat! Because Christmas is coming to Alabang West and Southwoods City.

As you would all know, we have finally started opening our Alabang West township to the public bit by bit – starting off with the Alabang West Parade, which opened its doors last September 2019. Not much stores are open, but as the Christmas season starts to roll in, more and more boutiques, restaurants, and other specialty shops are starting to fill up the mall.

Aside from Alabang West, Southwoods City has also started to roll in. Southwoods City is introduced as the most extensive and only fully-integrated township with a golf course set to rise in the South of Metro Manila. Experience the balance of living, working, playing, and learning only at Southwoods City, where residential, business, retail, leisure, and commercial hubs are just right around the corner.

Experience the glitz and glamour of Beverly Hills in Manila’s very own South in Alabang West and achieve the LIVE-WORK-PLAY balance of your dreams in Southwoods City all for a great deal! And, not to mention, a complete steal!

Christmas 2019 Promos and Discounts

This Christmas, we’re playing Santa as we offer enticing promos and discounts for you. Christmas is definitely coming to Alabang West and Southwoods City. Here’s the list of promos available this Christmas season:

• Reserve Now, Pay Next Year | Promo period until December 31, 2019
• Build Your Dream Home With Only 30% Payment | Promo period until December 25, 2019
• Tulip Gardens Unit, Yours at 8k per Month | Promo Period until December 15, 2019

For more inquiries, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Have a Merry Christmas with Megaworld’s very own Alabang West and Southwoods City!

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