The Easy Way to Your Dream Garden
If you love flowers, trees, birds, and even fish in your yard, but hate the weeding, watering, trimming,and upkeep so many gardens require … Don’t give up. This site will show you the easy ways to keep your trees healthy, your flower beds blooming, your pond sparkling, how to fill your yard with songbirds,and how to make your deck or patio your favorite room of your house.
Avoiding the first mistake
Most garden plans start with the borders and work their way into the beds and plants close to your house. Only after tons of work and sometimes years, do you get to the close in parts that you see daily. Turn that idea around and start with what you enjoy and only gradually get to the the outer beds and borders and you’ll save a lot of time and unnecessary work.
It’s all about scale, and small gardens close in really are more fun and less work. They provide privacy, beauty, and even add to resale value without needing the massive upkeep to discourages many new gardeners.
If you plant only what you like, when you like, and keep the projects small enough to do in only a few minutes per day, in a short while you will have your dream garden.
If you have a bare suburban lot and want privacy immediately, go for a hedge or some trees along the edges, and pay someone else - ( a gardening friend, a garden center, or a commercial landscape service) to put them in and get them started. Meanwhile your time is better spent on the spaces beside your doors windows or paths that you use frequently.
Avoiding the second mistake
Competitive plantsmanship is a killer. This isn’t a battle, and you don’t have anything to prove. Nature provides a huge selection of plants. Grow stuff that grows well for you. The same effort that goes into nursing along one sulky, sickly looking exotic plant that will never look good in your garden will provide a lush and colorfull bed or border chuck full of plants that like what your location offers.
A balance of trees, shrubs, vines, annual, and perennial flowers all growing and flowering at their own pace,will ensure that something always looks good, and will let you relax and not stress about those that don’t look so great.
Even though things like a dream deck with spa, the splashing of a waterfall or fountain, a sweep of roses, a perennial border, or a koi pond are considered high maintence, you can have one without giving up your job, your leisure time, or you sanity in the process.
This site will show you how.
