~ Anyone with a garden will likely have a vision in mind that reflects their green dream. This could be lots of colorful plants, a garden full of growing vegetables, or somewhere to host parties. Whatever your garden goal is, it is possible to achieve it with regular maintenance and enough love.
Pre-plan your landscape projects
If you have particular landscape projects that you want to do to achieve your end result, then it is a good idea to pre-plan, at least start reading and researching into the idea. Take baby steps – sort of as doing homework. This will help you ensure you know every detail and what will be needed in order to achieve your final result. Look at internet design pictures to get ideas. Perhaps someone’s established work will speak to you.
For instance, you can use free landscape design software where you can plan what your garden will look like before you start the job so that you know you will be completely satisfied with the final result. This will ensure that your ideas can truly come to life and make the planning much easier.
Do your research for your produce
When planning a vegetable garden, making a list of things that can grow at certain times of the year. You will not want to waste your time planting strawberries in the midst of winter as they simply can’t thrive or grow at all. Therefore, ensure to do your research into seasonal planting and seed varieties.
The same idea applies to flowers and plants. Some grow best in certain temperatures and some stay dormant. Doing plenty of research will allign your future gardening goas with the results that you wish to accomplish in the garden.
Use some seating
Whether or not you like to have people over in your garden, it is useful to pre-plan some seating ideas. This will help in case you have parties or simply want somewhere to sit outside.
Outside seating is an easy gardening tip and will ensure that you can use the garden for more than work. You can sit back and appreciate your efforts.
Focus on the largest area first
Should you want to renovate your entire garden to achieve your desired result or simply want to tweak one area to change its whole look, it is best to focus on the largest area.
For instance, you may dislike your garden due to too much maintenance of the grass and a lack of color. Therefore, you could replace the grass with artificial grass or patio so that there is less to maintain. Likewise, you could plant some flowers around the area to brighten it up. This will ensure that you can maximize the end result of your garden with one project.
Make it a beautiful day, my dear friends.
Luda@PlantsandBeyond.com
Plants and Beyond 