Country Garden Landscaping

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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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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