The Garden Of Your Choice
According to Garden Guides magazine, there are many types of garden design plans available. You can choose water or dry gardens, wildlife attracting flower gardens or edible gardens. Perhaps the best way to get started is to assess the space you have to work with and look at some photos to determine what sort of garden tills your soul. Once your imagination is lit afire, it will be much easier to begin choosing plants and mapping out your game plan.
As you know, choosing the plants is a particularly important facet of garden design. One strategy you might use is to see which plants are most successful in your USDA horticultural zone. You can start by looking at their map (www.garden.org/zipzone), type in your zipcode and then click on “Find Plants In Your Zone.” On the National Gardening Association website, you can then do searches based on your hardiness zone, the time of year you want the flowers to bloom, the amount of light the flowers needs, the height, the color, the foliage characteristics, whether they will attract butterflies, and more! Here are a few perennial flower gardening tips. When choosing flowers, be sure to consider finding taller flowers for the back rows and shorter flowers for the front rows of your garden for the maximum effect. Also consider placing analogous colors (that are next to one another on the color wheel) near each other. To view the color wheel, visit www.colormatters.com.
When you’re planning your garden design, be sure you choose plants that play well in the sandbox with one another. You don’t want to put something like ivy in a place where it will consume and cover all your other selections. Be aware of flowers like impatiens, which like to spread out, so plant them far enough apart so they have room to grow. Be mindful to put plants that grow tall in the back and shorter plants in the front, with medium-sized arrangements in the middle to create cohesion. Color and texture are a very personal matter, so you’ll need to look around at different pictures to see what appeals most to you. Before you plan, sketch out an aerial diagram. Leave space for mowing, watering and maintenance.
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