The Garden Of Your Choice

Anyone can plant a few flowers, but it takes a special sort of mind to grasp garden design. Many of the best gardeners come from an engineering background, with the ability to draw up diagrams, create timetables for planting and measure the perfect plot for the construction of raised beds. However, there are also many avid gardeners from the art/aesthetic side of things. They understand color very well and have no trouble researching garden advice on what plants look best next to one another. Perhaps this is why many American couples with very different skills come together to assemble the perfect garden, using a little bit of right brain and a little bit of left brain thinking.

A great strategy for garden design is to choose a theme for your garden. At Garden Guides, you can choose between “dry gardens,” with cactus, drought-resistant plants, herbs, rocks and heat-loving plants; “edible gardens” for fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs and plants; “flower gardens” for annuals, perennials, biennials, roses, orchids and wildflowers; “wildlife gardens” to attract birds, butterflies, dragonflies and bees; or “water gardens” like ponds, bogs, water features and tropical gardens. There are also distinctive styles to consider, such as alpine, cottage, English, family, forest, fragrant, Japanese and Zen gardens. For more information, visit www.gardenguides.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.

Tania Hurtis caters both big and small clientele who needs a new look of their homes. Home improvement is her forte and she is really good at it. So, if you think you need a home revamp, check her website and call on her now, or simply get her recommendations on her tools of choice such as measuring tape, drills and so on.