Landscaping Ideas Issue 1 | Page 13

Gardens Galore!

If you like simple and natural landscape designs, you may want to try creating a garden to make your outdoor space more interesting and stimulating. Here are some guidelines when creating a new garden in your front yard or back yard:

1. Choose first what kind of garden you want to create. If you want a functional garden that produces food, an herb garden or vegetable garden is a solid choice. Vegetable gardens are not unattractive at all.

It all depends on how you arrange the rows and the vegetables themselves. It's up to you to mix the colors and textures of the vegetables, so that the landscape will spring to life when the vegetable garden is in full bloom.

The same principle applies if you are interested in creating an herb garden. Herbs provide an interesting mix of textures, so it is up to you to ensure that

there is harmony and balance in your new herb garden.

2. Are you interested in a loose design where colors abound? A cottage garden might be your best pick. This type of garden utilizes the abundant flowering of perennial flowers, and gives a landscape a truly comfy aura. If you are the type of person who enjoys peaceful views and loose symmetries, you will definitely enjoy building and admiring a cottage garden.

3. Many people like being organized and precise when landscaping. If you are one such person, then you may want to use hedges instead. Hedges allow landscape artists to demarcate specific loci in a given area easily.