If you are creating a full yard landscape and using trees, shrubs, hedges, and other larger plants to tie everything together you must take into account how much trimming, or pruning, you are setting yourself up for.
Keeping your plants trimmed is an ongoing process and one that can be a lot more like work than “gardening”. Regardless trimming must be done if you are to keep the visual impact of your overall design you want.
How many times have you passed a property that is so overgrown that you can barely see the house itself? These Read the rest of this entry »
One area of small garden design that is often overlooked in the planning stages is irrigation.
Planning for how you are going to get water to your new plants is important because the plants you choose to include in your small garden design may very well have different needs than the rest of your backyard landscape.
In some cases, depending on where you are locating your new garden and the plants you choose, your existing irrigation system will work just fine. Even if Read the rest of this entry »
Your worms don’t need to be in a box, but it can make it easier to maintain them in a herd. The very best components are wood or plastic. Metal gives off poisons the way it acts with all the water and also acids in the bed. The bin should be at the very least 8 to ten inches deep,and preferably twelve to sixteen inches, and also should always be wider than it is deep. A great operating measurement Read the rest of this entry »
When beginning to plan their garden layouts many gardeners fail to take all the features of the space into account. These can be surrounding structures, retaining walls, height limitations, and how steeply the garden plot is pitched.
By taking your time in the planning stages and working as many of these challenges into the design as possible instead of fighting against Read the rest of this entry »
If you are setting out on your first attempt at garden design, it can seem overwhelming. But don’t be discouraged, small garden design is just like anything else; once you get the hang of the basics, it’s really pretty easy.
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