Designing Your Garden
If you are a keen gardener, or are simply looking to start from scratch with your garden, then the process of designing (or indeed re-designing a garden!) can be one of the most satisfying projects to run, and particularly if you are then able to see your ideas come to fruition, perhaps literally in planting apple trees and so on that bear fruit down the line!However, starting with a blank canvas, or blank piece of paper, can be somewhat daunting - and given this, many people decide either not to design their new garden themselves, but get experts in. For the brave souls who do decide to do it themselves, what should they bear in mind?
Well, first off: remember that if you go for something overly whacky and weird and wonderful ("eclectic") then whilst it might be to your taste, it could put future owners off and reduce the value. As a property site it is worth mentioning this. For mass appeal, then a sort of garden that you think most people would appreciate would work best. Whether you take this in board depends on how eclectic your tastes are, and if you want a garden that is purely for your own enjoyment with no thoughts to the future possibility of selling the garden, then you are free to indulge your every whim and fancy, budget permitting.
First of all, you need to understand the type of soil in your garden, and also which areas get the most sun, which are shady, and so on. This then will give you an understanding of which types of plants would be most suitable and likely to thrive in each section of your garden. Once you have that knowledge, you can start to find plants that suit both the sort of garden you want, and also that will do well.
Overall you need to decide if there is a theme to the whole garden, and if so work around that, or rather if you are going to have lots of different areas, for instance a rock garden with one set of plants, a wet/pond area, perhaps a wild area and so on, which you can then work out the relative sizes and shapes of, and work out the seeds and when you need to plan and sow each area.
Many people now grow their own fruit and vegetables so again this is something you can plan for accordingly.
More articles on looking after your home:
- Building a Pond
- Adding a Water Feature
- Finding an Electrician
- Making a Garden More Interesting
- Designing Your Garden
