July 19th, 2011
Choosing The Perfect Garden Style
The amount of space you have available to you will greatly influence your type and style of garden. Assuming you live in the country, you would be very fortunate if you have a large garden that can be divvied up accordingly, thus allowing you enough space to have several types of garden. If on the other hand you live in a city centre and only have a small area, then your choices are greatly reduced.
The next thing to keep in mind would be the free time that you would have for gardening. If you have a demanding job or a large family to take care off you may find that trying to cope with a large intricate garden to much to cope with. Large flower gardens for instance can be very time consuming to maintain and to keep them looking their best, as many flowering plants need continual dead-heading to prolong their flowering period.
The style of your garden can also be determined by your level of physical fitness. If you have a difficult time breathing, or if you may have a history of heart trouble, then it may be too laborious for you to take care of a sizeable vegetable garden. If you are confined to a wheel chair or suffer with back problems then you may need to consider having raised beds that you can reach easily.
Another important factor you have to keep in mind is the purpose of the garden – what is it?
Are you wanting to create a makeshift wildlife preserve?
Do you want to entertain your friends and family in a wide open, attractive space?
Do you want your children to play in a safe area?
A peaceful place to relax?
Do you want a vegetable garden for your family’s meals?
Remember that if you are concerned about your garden style, you don’t need to choose just one style of your garden – you can choose many garden types in one. Some vegetables can be considered ornamental edibles and thus planted together with ornamental plants. One technique certain organic gardeners use in driving pests away is to plant ornamentals in their vegetable gardens, so you may want to give this a try.
Be aware of the pointers we have just discussed in order to avoid the regret of planting a garden for all the wrong reasons and few, if any, of the right ones.
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