Making Your Small Garden Beautiful
Posted on Mar 11, 2010 under Best For Garden |
For most landscapers, the unique beauty and spirit of something made by hand, constructed, and shaped, emphasizes the joy of creating. And even if it means having a small garden to work with, every landscaper knows the value of enjoying their craft and mastering their skills.
Having a small garden to work on does not necessarily mean less details and minor work. What should matter most is to closely assess each detail to come up with the best result.
Working on a small garden is never a problem to most landscape designers. Whether the area is large or small, the sales continue to have a gradual annual growth increase of 8% for the last five years.
In addition, from 1997 to 2002 alone, landscaping sales achieved a growth rate of almost $40 billion. This shows that the landscape designers know how to hone their craft well, regardless of the size of the area they work on.
Generally, when people describe small gardens, they refer to those areas that have straight walls, borders, lines, and/or walks. Then a problem is created because small gardens tend to create an impression of being dull, rigid, and boring. The goal of landscaping should delve into how to make the garden look alive, larger, and more appealing.
The Main Concept
The very core of landscaping a small garden is based on how a landscaper can make the most of the size of the area through plant selection.
With a small garden, having the right kind and size of plants is crucial to the outcome of the whole project.
Size is an important factor because the size of the plants that will be used in the garden should project an image of a bigger space, even if the area is quite small. The color, shape, and texture of the plantings should be coordinated.
It is best to use curves to create a visible flow to the design. Since small gardens tend to have rigid, straight lines, it is best to have curves to open up the garden to reveal its natural beauty. It is also important to create illusions that will give a small garden an effect of being larger.
Considering these, landscaping a small garden will never be a daunting task. As they say, it is all in the details. So whether it is a small or a large garden, landscape designers always take note of the details in the design.
Joey Simmons
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Spring is in the air!!! I need to know everything about gardening?
Only if you come from a country with four real seasons.
How should I make a garden? WHEN should I make a garden? How long will it take for vegetables to grow? Should I grow them in the house first? Any other tips I should know? I tried a small garden years ago, and it was a disaster!! But I am determined to try again and to learn!!
Maybe with your help it will be beautiful — even though gardening is not something I particularly enjoy. I just want to try the experience while I still am capable!
So, if you are experienced, tell me step by step what I should know and do!
Gracias!!
I live in Canada if it helps.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:38 am
there is so much for you to know,its impossible to tell you here,the best advice i;d give you is to go to your library,or go to a store like Home Depot and buy a gardening book/or a book store,one that reflects your growing zone,Ive been gardening since i was 18,im now 49,but it came natural to me because i love plants and working in the yard.You’re going to see several "types" of gardens,example:cottage style,so you will be "drawn" to certain plants,flowers,and go from thereas to what your style is.If you have any more questions,you may email me @ donniecribb@ymail.com,good luck!!!
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:40 am
Go to the library and get a book on basic gardening. There’s WAY too much information to give you on a forum like this!
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:42 am
Hi there Rona
I am not a gardener but I love pottering around in the garden and that is basically how lots of people are, and I must be doing something right, for every year I have a big splash of colour in my garden. I am from the UK so yes we sure get 4 seasons, yet even in the midst of winter you can still grow things.
Here’s a few tips of what I have learned, often by reading on the back of a packet of seeds, and it would be a good idea for you to buy a book on Gardens for Beginners. Plenty of those sorts of books out there in the stores.
Important basic things :
Your Soil.
Sunny or shaded garden
Follow instructions carefully
And water the little darlings
Soil
Most plants or veg will do good in any soil, but its good to buy a fertilizer for when you plant flowers or veg. You really should get a book because you need to learn how far apart you should plants things too - you have to allow for the plant’s full growth and the width it will take up in the flower or veg bed. But mainly with reference to soil, get a nice fertilizer from your Gardening Store, and ask assistants about the plants you choose - normally they are qualified and know about all the plants that they sell.
Sunny or Shaded Garden
Certain plants like full sun, or partial sun, or will not thrive at all unless they are in the shade, so again if you plant from seed the packet will tell you where to plant the plant, and again the shop assistant will guide you too. I have a back garden that has no shade at all, whilst my front garden is shaded by the house, and then sunny near to the road - so you can have a mixture of different preferring plants in the same area.
And lastly when plants are new, for the first two weeks you must go out and give them some drinkies every night, never water plants in the sun, it will scorch them and burn them and make the poor little fellows die.
I don’t talk to my plants, but I mumble sweet things if I know my neighbour is out of ear shot, and I stroke their leaves after water them - don’t laugh but lots of people do say that plants flourish when you talk to them, including the house plants too.
So you see, you learn a lot just from the package of seeds, a shop assistant and reading a good gardening book, which is where you will see so many choices of lovely flowers.
Potato’s grow very easily, but they will bush out a good 2 or 3ft, so allow space for them when planting.
You will gave a peaceful buzz when you see them pop up their little heads. And don’t turn your nose up at the already grown plants we ca n also buy, for example the good old Geranium which has lovely Colors of pink, white, and red, will flourish all summer long - easy to manage and lifts the mood of any garden. Planted in the ground they spread quite a bit, and all you do to them is water them each night, pull the dead flower off the stem and believe it or not within a day its grown a new head.
Good luck, its true what they say ” a garden makes you feel you are near to God”.
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:44 am
just because the air is warmer does not mean the soil is.
so if it is a 1st. garden ,grow potatoes ,they allow the soil to be tilled as you hill up the sides of the plant, then you can plant broccoli and other greens until your soil is nice and friable for the deep rooted plants such as carrots, parsnips etc. also add compost to the garden that allows the worms to start their job
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