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Good Tips for Your Garden Design
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You certainly have a feeling of great abundance with you see plant-packed containers on your deck, patio or in your garden. There is nothing like container gardens to link the indoors and outdoors between home and garden. After choosing the right planters, pots and containers from a wide range of materials, styles, colors and sizes, the time is right to think about what you are going to put in the planters and where to place them.
You can use your planters, urns and pots in many areas. We know that we need to plant containers properly and of course to water when needed. Pick containers that will handle the size of the plants you are considering. You can contrast large and small containers together for a stunning effect. Annuals and bulbs are very popular choices for pots and planters.
When you are ready to plant, fill the containers to within about three inches from the top and gently firm down the soil. When you have large containers or when they will be seen from all sides, set the tallest plants in the middle and surround with the other plants.
Gently firm the soil around each plant. When planting, a good tip is to make sure that the roots of the plants are very damp or wet before planting. Then water your container thoroughly when you have completed your arrangement.
Now is the time to move your garden planters and containers to create the overall look that you would like to achieve in the chosen space. It is always a good idea to keep the sun loving plants together and separate from the shading loving ones. Mix large containers with the small ones, arrange in groupings. Place one or two on plant stands to create a focal point in your arrangement.
Executive summarize about garden design by Marion Stewart
Water in Traditional Garden Design
If we cherish the belief that a garden design must be a place of restfulness as well as a place of visual beauty, then water must surely be the essential ingredient. On a grand scale, imagine a country garden design complete with a lake edged by gently sloping banks, a meandering stream spanned by a Monet-style bridge; on a minimal scale, think of a Japanese water fountain with a stone water bowl providing a cool resting place for native birds.
Our Past Heritage of Water Garden Design
The role of water in garden design has a long and illustrious history, both in the East and in Western gardens. During the time of Plato, public fountains adorned parks and temple groves, while sacred fountains and shrines to Pan, nymphs, and the muses nestled in private garden sanctuaries. Ultimately, the development of hydraulic engineering and aqueducts in Rome produced many ornamental fountains and water garden designs including Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli, which boasted an extravagant display of waterworks in the form of streams, canals, fountains, and pools. In the Paradise Gardens of Islam, water was an integral feature with water canals representing the ‘four rivers of paradise, dividing garden plots.
The region was rich in natural beauty; and water must have been plentiful to have supported a variety of ornamental water garden designs.
In China and Japan the influence of water was pervasive; no Chinese garden was designed without a combination of water and mountains. The landscape of these two countries is for their use of water: streams, springs ponds, small fountains and lakes cleverly designed to emulate wild nature. Garden designs were always an oasis of beauty, with scented shrubs forming an understory to shade trees. In European gardens of the Middle Ages a fountain or water basin was considered essential, and was usually located in the middle of a walled area. The parterre gardens of Tuscany, both modest and grand, have inspired many contemporary landscapers, and here water gardens are a recurring theme. Even in the small city garden design, garden fountains or small ponds can bring a restful place to refresh our spirits and our soul.
Executive summarize about garden design by Amber Liddell
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