Make the most of your outdoor space by working with the surroundings. The lines of this garden and structures are geometric closer to the house and become wavy and organic as the cultivated areas blend into the natural forest.
Leisurely Walk Through
This sunken garden is designed in a formal style with stucco perimeter walls in quadrants. Because the garden’s grade drops three steps, proper drainage is a must. Add a runnel down the stairs leading to a one-of-a-kind water feature created from a big copper syrup kettle. In every space, add something to make people want to linger.
Embrace Your Home’s Style
For front yard, matched the hardscape to your home’s architectural style for a cozy cottage garden. To keep the yard low maintenance, lay a large patio using arizona flagstones, then filled the rest of the space with lush #Flowerbeds. A reclaimed concrete bowl is transformed into a water feature that brings the sound of rain to the garden.
Cut spent blooms periodically
Many plants will re-bloom, but only if the old blooms are cut. Also, support and prune your plants as necessary.
Water thoroughly
Like a good waiter, a good gardener will check whether water is required before watering. How much you water will depend upon the needs of your plants, the Climate and Exposure, and how much rain your yard gets.
Its Time to Start your Own Garden
Start small. Enthusiasm for gardening is great, but can rapidly dry up when the work mounts. Start with a #Small flower bed, say 25 square feet, which is room for around 20 to 30 plants with perhaps three types of Annuals and one or two Perennials. You can always increase you plantings as your experience grows.
If even a 25 square foot plot seems like too much, make a small border or do your first flower gardening in a container. Two or three plants sharing a fancy container can look stunning and give you a sample of what’s to come.
Creating the best Color combinations in your flower garden
-design can be tricky. A good place to start is the color wheel. For example, gardens planted in shades of the same hue — pink, to name one — are pleasing to the eye. Colors next to each other on the color wheel — purple and red — look good together, as do colors across from each other — purple and yellow. Foliage can also provide much-needed texture in the garden to add visual interest even when blooms have waned.
Garlic pepper tea insect repellent
Gardening tip
Fill a blender halfway with purified water, liquefy two bulbs of garlic and two cayenne or habanero peppers. Strain out the solids. Pour the garlic pepper juice into a one gallon container. Fill the remaining volume with purified water to make one gallon of concentrate. Shake well before using and add 1/4 cup of the concentrate to each gallon of water in your sprayer. To make garlic tea, omit the pepper and add another garlic bulb. Use plastic containers with loose fitting lids for storage. Wear gloves when making tea.
Vegetable Soup gardening tip
Gardening Tip
After you boil or steam vegetables (using purified water), don’t pour that water down the drain. Let it cool then use it to water your garden you’ll be amazed at how the plants respond to the vegetable soup.
Potted kitties
When planting your cats make sure to space them 6 inches apart so they have room to grow.
