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Designing Your Garden: THE MOST important thing in deciding how to make a new garden or how to improve an existing one is to know about your area, for the character of a garden is influenced by climatic conditions, soil, aspect, views (or lack of them), the buildings around you and so on. The combination may seem so unpromising as to be difficult, but no site is incapable of being improved by thoughtful design and carefully chosen plants.
Whether your backyard is brand new or an old, established plot, the same principles apply to planning and designing your garden. First, assess what you have got, then decide what kind of garden you want and whether you can achieve it. Assess your yard's potential, its strengths and weaknesses, and then decide how to take advantage of all that is good about it and play down the bad points. But, remember: nothing happens overnight, and you will not wake up the next morning to find the perfect garden!
TlME AND money are two major factors to take into considetation when designing your garden. Only plan a garden that you can afford to make (and, incidentally, that you can comfortably afford to maintain) in a realistic timescale.
The joy of gardening is that it suits every pocket. Landscaping a small area with choice materials and lavish, mature plants is expensive; by contrast, using inexpensive materials, propagating as many plants as possible, and being prepared to wait is the best way to develop a fine garden on a tight budget. |
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