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Planning To Landscape Your Summer Garden
Kyle BesserThere are many things that must be considered when planning and planting your summer garden. One of those things is the natural landscape or terrain of your lawn and garden area. It is best, whenever possible to work with the landscape rather than working against it or going to extraordinary efforts to make changes to the natural landscape of your lawn when you could very easily and beautifully plan your summer garden to go with the flow of and work well with the natural terrain of your lawn and garden area.
One way to accomplish this is by taking a quick survey of your lawn. This will need to be more than a cursory visual survey. You will need to walk your lawn and the area in which you are planning for your garden space. You will need to measure the terrain and take note of inclines and slopes.
Also study the condition of the soil and any areas that seem particularly inhospitable for planting. If these types of areas are present in your garden, you will need to decide what you want to do about them. Is it possible to turn an inhospitable patch into a water feature or some other attractive addition to your garden rather than having a bare patch in the midst of your flowers and plants.
You should determine the amount of shade a particular area receives. If the area is in direct sunlight, determine how to create shade for those plants or flowers that grow best in indirect sunlight. This can be accomplished by planting them creatively in the shadow of other plants, shrubs, or vegetables that grow much taller or by using rocks to create shade or even climbing vines on trellises or fences to create shade.
Once you have a good feel for the terrain and landscape of your summer garden you will need to plan for the vegetables, flowers, or plants that will be used. Vegetable gardens tend to be less aesthetic in nature and are often the easiest to landscape since it is a matter of need rather than beauty.
If you are planting a flowery summer garden, it is quite likely that you will be planning to achieve some degree of beauty within your garden. Decide now if you want to keep the flowers and plants within a certain color scheme or if you want dramatic blues and greens combined with bright and vivid reds and yellows. This is a personal decision but will greatly affect the appearance of your garden.
You should also landscape your garden according to the amount of time and effort you want to devote to working in your garden any given week. Some plants require more care than others. If you want a garden that is easy to care for, you need to make sure it is filled with plants and flowers that are low maintenance. Most vegetable gardens require a good deal of tending to flourish.
If you are completely lost as to how to landscape your summer garden, it may be worth the effort to consult a landscape gardening book or take some landscape gardening courses to learn more about landscape gardening design and construction. You could also have a professional in landscape gardening services come in and do the landscaping for you. When procuring their landscape gardening services be sure to either check into a maintenance program with them in for the upkeep of the landscaping or have them provide a low maintenance type of landscaping that you will be able to maintain and duplicate on your own.
Many gardeners find the task of landscaping their summer garden to be the highlight of the summer growing season. If you are not among those, maybe these recommendations will provide you with a good start and several helpful tips on getting your garden landscaped and ready to grow.
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