Gardening

When it comes to gardening, creating divisions will help create a beautifully landscaped feel. Take advantage of different types of floor coverings including: grass, woodchip, pebbles (you can find many different sizes and colours to suit your needs) paving, decking or even concrete! Water features, can be anything from a small fountain, a manmade or natural stream or even a pond, all of which can be a beautiful break in the landscape of your garden. Being clever with planting can create illusions, from raised plant boxes and beds to just purchasing plants of varying heights. Another important consideration when creating a garden design is the furniture you plan to have in it, especially when you are picking permanent features. This decision will vary greatly dependent on your needs and also the size of your garden and budget. Lastly, an aspect many people don’t think about is lighting. This is something to consider especially if you like enjoying long summers nights outdoors. Outdoor friendly fairy lights can add a beautiful touch to any garden, but you may want something more practical to follow a path.

Wanting a low maintenance garden? There are several aspects you need to consider. To keep your garden looking nice all year round you’re going to want to pick plants that will retain their colour. something like a bamboo is a good choice, but if you want some other colours you may want to pick a verbena. It won’t be around all year, but it will come back every year!

Divide the space in your garden to break away from the classic squares and rectangles. Keep your design simple, but have different materials and hard landscaping in different colours. Breaking it up with low maintenance plants and see through plants like the verbena will help and colour, shade and texture to your garden whilst keeping the space feeling open. By varying the heights of plants to include a mix of ground covering and tall plants you will be able to create the illusion of a fuller garden, without having to put the time and effort into it.

If you want to make any drastic changes to the layout of your garden, the only satisfactory option is to hire a landscaping agency. This type of company and profession focusses on how to renovate a garden, turning it into what you’ve always wanted. It is a construction process which focusses in geological engineering, changing the very geography of your garden and land area, so that the effect you want to achieve is actually possible.

They can also play an instrumental role in designing a design theme for your garden. Unlike your typical owner, they’re well suited to refining a broad design concept that is typical of an amateur, into something which people will look at and be astounded. They will also have a wide range of resources to draw from, from extra man power, to excellent connections with horticulturists, with access to a wide range and variety of plants and garden furniture.

For most plants, you can usually get a generic compost which will do the job, but if you want to have optimum growth, then you should try to find the ideal compost for the plant. Plants will generally require different food, with different levels of nutrients, moisture content, oxygen content, etc. It can be quite difficult to find relevant information about this, at least information regarding individual species anyway, even through the internet, so relying upon the advice of garden centres, and looking for compost which targets specific plants can be a great way of maximising the growth of your garden.

If you try to do as much of your own composting as possible, then a good option is to just experiment with different composites of materials, until you find one which a particular plant really likes, and then try to replicate it from there.

Gardening can demand a large amount of expertise, but for somebody just starting out, the most important information about plants that you need to look for, is whether the plant is a Perennial, Biennial, or an Annual plant. This classification refers to the life cycle of the plant, and is very important for planning your garden’s layout.

A Perennial plant is one which will live for longer than two years. This of course means that planning for the perennial plants you’ve bought would require you to look at them as a more permanent fixture within your garden, and then plan accordingly.

A Biennial is a plant which will only live through two yearly cycles. These plants will usually spend the first year of their lives acquiring nutrients, only to, in the second year, expend all of their stored energy on propagating. Many of them make beautiful additions to your garden.

An Annual plant is one which only live one year. This category of plant is usually made up of fast growing and lovely coloured flowering plants, which are great for spreading around your garden, and for creating effect.