{Collaborative content} The warmer months are
slowly on their way, waving goodbye to the winter with love
and appreciation. This means that once again we will
soon be considering our exterior space, spending time in the garden
and allowing our children to play there during the weekends and after
school. The arrival of the sunny weather once more may get your
creative juices flowing again, and this may lead you to ask ‘just
how am I supposed to design this garden?’
When we have the
ambition to make the most of our green space, we can immediately
begin to feel somewhat overwhelmed by the task. It’s like staring
at a blank canvas on an easel, we know that the first brush stroke to
get the painting going is the hardest stroke of all, because it
immediately plucks a direction out of the infinite choices you could
have made, by extension limiting yourself to a certain plan.
Yet these plans can be
wonderful. It’s our hope that with the following advice to guide
you, designing a garden can be a carefree and worthwhile use of your
time. Please, consider:
Excellent
Inspiration
Finding
inspiration shouldn’t feel like a chore. Some may
arrange it to feel just like that, which is often borne from the idea
that you need to be perfect and to try and find a perfect replica of
another garden to guide your efforts. But truly, inspiration is more
than that. It might come through reading gardening magazines,
watching television programs or YouTube channels that shed light on
someone elses’ project. You may also find inspiration walking
through your local gardening centre, or heading to a larger and more
impressive facility further afield.
Inspiration, from
the colour depth of flowers to the beautiful arrangement of a garden
path and how the lights help it look ethereal at night, will help you
encourage your decision making process with more confidence, and that
in itself can be a wonderful thing to build and enjoy.
Know Your Purpose
What’s your purpose
for designing this garden this year? Do you wish to restore some of
the natural beauty of the property now that you’re renovating it?
Might this enable you to install some french doors and a beautiful
deck or patio to help you entertain with relative ease as the
interior and exterior of your home merge?
Might it be that you
wish to grow vegetables this year? If so, segmenting space for said
root vegetables can be a great idea, as can looking at the best
greenhouse
ideas to help you squeeze out the most value from this
process. Might it simply be that since you’ve had tree surgeons
completely remove a somewhat broken and rotting treeline from a
property you’ve just moved into, you now have much more space to
work with? That can be a great, yet humble place to start.
When you know your
purpose, you can define your garden inspiration and practical
decisions around that, which gives you an orientation to follow. To
that end, this process will be much less confusing.
Have Fun With It
Have
fun with the process. You don’t have to win any
awards to enjoy a beautiful garden you most appreciate. For instance,
your project for that month may be purchasing overarches to line the
garden pathway, which you then paint white and line with orchids.
Maybe you’re interested in building a small and humble treehouse
for your children, provided it’s safe. Additionally, maybe you’re
happy with opening up space for a garden trampoline for your children
to enjoy, despite this cutting into space where you could have
planted a flowerbed.
It’s fine to fit your
garden for you, even if the colors of flowers that go together may
not be the first choice of a florist, or maybe despite needing to
repair a fence. For instance, sometimes elderly homeowners decide to
use synthetic turf to help their garden stand out and make the
environment much easier to maintain, which is understandable. No
matter what you go for, make sure it makes sense to you, and allows
you to enjoy this space in health and appreciation. Curating your
garden space shouldn’t be a chore, it should be a practice you
enjoy and take part in because you wish to. No matter if you hope to
achieve that all on your own, or with the help of a landscape
architect, you’re on your way.
With this advice, we
hope you can better design your garden with confidence.
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