When you’re planning your country garden landscaping, of course you’ll want to think about your favorite flowers and shrubs and how they’ll look together here, or combined over there. The big fun and joy in country garden landscaping is how creative you can be. You can choose one color theme or go wild with different hues around the garden. You can have dozens of different types of flowers or just few or one, in different shades, if you like. Tall flowers, short grasses and ground cover, hedgerows or a scattering of plants—your country garden is your canvas and you should let yourself create.
But first, consider some practical points when planning your garden landscaping. Painters have to work within the boundaries of their canvas, but that lets them focus and create. So you should have a framework in mind when landscaping your country garden, and then you can create within those boundaries and end up with a spectacular garden that you’ll enjoy for years.
You could hire a landscaping designer to plan your country garden, of course. You’ll spend a lot of money, but you’ll benefit from the expert advice and design experience of a professional. The best landscaping experts will listen to your wants and help you design the perfect space for what you’d like to achieve. But if you don’t want to go that route, you can plan your country garden landscaping yourself and get great results with a few helpful tips.
Consider where you plant flowers in your country garden, not just for their visual appeal but because of the things around them. Think of where they’ll draw the eye. Will a gorgeous flower bed in the corner just make people notice the fence that’s in need of painting, or will it add a touch of beauty to the bare side of a building? Instead of changing your country garden landscaping plan, paint the fence, and plan ivy to go up the building side or tall plants in the back to minimize the bare space and get the most impact—just be aware of these things before you start planting.
Also, look at the structures already in place with an eye toward incorporating them more fully into your country garden landscaping. The base of a mailbox or a tree is an excellent place to add some color and interest. Low-growing flowers can make a bare mailbox look dressed up, as long as the circle of foliage doesn’t extend out so far that getting the mail becomes difficult! And the base of a tree is an excellent place for a circle of flowers or some dramatic plants like hostas, which do well in partial shade.
To give your country garden landscaping the designer touch while still exercising your creativity, simply make every choice look deliberate. Use the same kind of border stones around various beds to link them together. Or have a certain color appear in each different spot, or use the same flowers in different areas to provide a connection.
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Originally posted 2008-12-08 17:36:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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