Benefits of Designing Your Garden

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By dannykeyes

You may think that getting a garden up is just by growing some plants or flowers of your liking. Most gardeners take pride in the garden becuase they spend their time designing garden to blend well with the present landscape, or allowing the house to blend in with the theme of the garden.

Do you know that a well-designed garden can add value to your real estate property value? You can make use of the garden to seclude certain areas of your real estate or buffer the perimeter of your property.

A well-designed garden add color and elegance to your house as it helps to bring out the contrast on the property.

Your garden can be used as a place for rest and relax or even to enjoy the nature and natural beings such as butterflies and birds. Thsu, you can design your garden around a word area, a swimming pool, a storage space, a patio, a play area for your kids or even a barbecue pit used during the summer time.

The designing phrase gives you the opportunity to plan what kinds of plants and flower you will like to grow and the purpose of this garden. You can ask yourself how often the family will be using it.

This will help you to decide how big or small scale your garden design will be. Also, whether you will like to get foundations, what kinds of rocks and ornamental to beautify your garden.

During the designing stages, here are some questions that you can use:

- What is the purpose of the garden? This will help to determine the size of your garden.

- Do you want your garden to be the center of the yard?

- How often it will be used for entertaining guests?

- Do you want your garden to be a wildlife sanctuary or butterfly habitat?

- To determine the selection of foliage, flowers and objects to be placed in the garden.

By giving yourself the time to design your garden, it allows you to really think creatively about all the ways you can use the garden. You can sketch your design on paper and finally in the soil.

By desiging your garden in advance, you can enjoy the benfit on making decisions based on location of other structures on your estate. In choosing the colors of your garden, you think about how far the garden will be from the house. Placing cooler colors such as blues and purples in the gardens that are close to the house. Choose colours like yellows, oranges and reds in the garden that are far from your house. It is important to take your time to plan the what color plants you want to plan in order to bring out your beautiful garden.

Doing the design will give you an opportunity to visualise how your future garden will look like. Thus, you can make better decisions about what plants and flowers to grow and whether your landscaping ideas complement your house. Hence, designing your garden brings you benefits of saving time, resources and moeny because you make better choices.

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Zsuzsy Bee Level 3 Commenter 3 years ago

I enjoy gardening too. Good information filled hub!

regards Zsuzsy

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Bob Ewing Level 3 Commenter 3 years ago

design and a written plan will help you create the look you seek.

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C.S.Alexis Level 1 Commenter 3 years ago

Nice write, tell us more! C.S.

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C.S.Alexis Level 1 Commenter 3 years ago

Nice write, tell us more! C.S.

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sfharper 3 years ago

Very helpful

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