Country gardens can be gorgeous and many of us have dreamed having one just like we’ve seen in gardening magazines. Though the gardens featured there are often professional gardens where the owners have devoted hundreds of hours to planning, designing and maintaining, we picture lush patches of flowers in our own yards that could rival those photographs. Then when our gardens pale by comparison we wonder where we went wrong.
It’s important to realize that few of us have the time or money to create gardens like the ones in landscaping and country garden magazines. If you’ll stand for no less and you have the money, you can use a trick of the affluent to go from bare plot to gorgeous country garden in a few days–buy all the plants and flowers fully grown, or almost grown. Some of the best looking gardens are created, not from seed and careful nurturing, but because the owner went to a greenhouse and selected several ready plants for his or her yard. Barring that, it’s important to realize that while your country garden might never rival those on the cover of a magazine, your garden should be a reflection of your likes and your personality while being something you can maintain.
How much room do you really have? If your yard is small, it’s probably easy to be envious of sprawling country gardens. And you may want to plan a garden similar to one you’ve seen. But remember that you can’t fill every inch of your yard with flowers and vegetation. You’re best planning a few border patches of flowers, a flower bed around the base of a tree or a mailbox, and sprinklings of plants here and there. Even a small yard can benefit from gardening and landscaping, but often other touches besides plants themselves help make it beautiful. One garden plot can be made more dramatic with a path leading to it or some carefully placed statuary.
How much time do you really have? Even if you have the space to rival a magazine-cover country garden, do you have the time to maintain it properly? Think this over carefully while you’re designing and planning your landscaping. Even if you choose ready-to-go plants instead of seeds or tiny plants that need to grow into the space, a garden will still take work. There’s pruning and trimming, pests to worry about, weeding . . . if your time is limited a small country garden will probably be best no matter how badly you want an acre of flowerbeds.
Is it really what you want? Your neighbors might grow roses, there might be a Rose Fest in your town every year, rose growing competitions, a Rose Bowl and a Rose Queen. So you might decide that you should have roses, too. Learn everything about growing roses. Then decide if you’re willing to devote the time required and do you even really like roses that much? Grow what you think is beautiful, and what you can maintain.
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Originally posted 2009-01-08 14:20:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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