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Friday, January 6, 2012

8 Tips On How to Design Your Garden, Landscape and More

Designing your garden is a lot like creating a room, although there are a few other elements to take into consideration during your planning process.

1) What is the primary purpose for your garden? Leisure, play, events and company, edibles and feeding the family, educational purposes. The list goes on, however, if you determine what you will be using your garden space for, the design portion will be much more fluid.

2) What is your soil like? Does it consist of clay, hard dirt, or sand? If so, what procedures will you implement to test and adjust your soil to meet the needs of your plants?

3) Choose your garden's color theme, including foliage and flowers. Purple, red, orange, and yellow, there are so many exquisite possibilities.

4) Garden styles: Whether you choose a low-maintenance cottage garden, a bulb predominate Dutch garden, privacy or shade garden, or a soothing Japanese garden, a beautiful garden always starts with one thing, a well-thought-out and executed garden design.

5) Incorporate fixtures and accessories into your garden with the use of birdhouses, trellises, fountains and much more. These items make great centerpieces to design your garden around or use as smaller accent pieces.

6) How much work and maintenance do you want to put into your garden? Daily, Weekly, Monthly?


7) Will you be adding container gardening to your dirt garden

8) Consider your climate, planting times, harvest times, and sunlight or shade needs for your plants to survive.

Best wishes on your garden design, and be sure to subscribe to my blog to learn more about designing your garden and incorporating new and exciting strategies into it.

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