What Can I Do To Make My Garden?
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What can I do to make my back garden look good? In my back garden I have got a fence all round a shed and green house a lawn a patio and a small pond. in the winter im painting my fence but what else can I do to make it look good?
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Why don’t you use utah retaining wall instead of fence? well you can landscape your garden if you want I’m sure it would be very pretty if you had landscape it.
If you are new to gardening why not start out small and experiment. Buy some cheap plastic tubs, a bag of compost and plant a few bedding plants from B&Q, supermarket or garden centre…whatever takes your fancy. You could position them at the edge of your patio or pond and enjoy their display. When the autumn comes, pull up the bedding plants and stick a load of tulip or daffodil bulbs in the tubs and wait for the colourful show in March and April… or snowdrops even earlier.
If you are really adventurous why not try some plants for the pond, irises, rushes or reeds and wait for an invasion of wildlife. Whatever you do, enjoy your little bit of green space.
you could plant a few shrubs, tall grasses where the pond is located , perennials flowers and some annuals , design vignettes in corners add some paving stones like these for example http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2386…
I like Bleeding hearts you can see them in this picture http://www.maryahernartist.com/art-blog/…
those are Perennials
buy a garden bench a few garden statues you can make it an Oasis if you wish http://garden.lovetoknow.com/wiki/images…http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/gard…
If your garden is small you can have it into a smaller scale .
Go to your garden centre and buy as many perennial plants as you can afford and pack them in. Nature will do the rest. Just sit back and enjoy.
You could try planting flowers during summers, maintain the grass. Make sure every maintenance is conducted. You could try putting borders around the garden to make it look cool
add more flowers large pretty tall sunflowers along the fenca and marigolds
plant trees
more flowers
Sounds a bit flat. Thought of planting a small tree?
Can you give us some idea of the space you have?
Me, I’d tackle that bare fence first. Painting, or treating, it is good but only for maintenance; you don’t want to actually look at it. Instead, cover it: A Montana clematis will grown very fast and vigorously so after the first couple of years, you’ll be cutting it back regularly so it doesn’t take over, but that’s no hardship. Or honeysuckle or an attractive ivy e.g. Canariensis, with large pale, variegated leaves (not the dark green small-leaved variety assocated with derelict houses). To help your plants up you could fix trellis to the fence, or staple the plastic kind of trellis (much cheaper), or buy or make 1 or 3 wigwams out of bamboo or willow. Then your ‘backcloth’ will have height and different shapes and texture, and not just be a bare fence. As a stopgap, put tall planters/pots in front of it to give shrubs etc a helping hand up.
You can also fix hanging basket brackets to the fence posts if you like that kind of thing – I do because my garden’s so small I have to use every inch of space i.e. up walls and fences, and hanging from them too. But some people are snobby about them. They can have seasonal bedding (pansies in winter, fuchsias in summer kind of thing) or better, have some permanent planting (I have heucheras in shady areas) and ring the changes around them.
You can use your shed to grow things up too! Again, for height, how about a row of canes for runner beans. And you could paint the shed interestingly, just for fun (e.g. like a beach hut)
Next you want a permanent framework which’ll give you something year round. This means evergreen shrubs; where they get some sun, go for variegated for, obviously, variety. Try and get some that provide interest at different times Don’t know how big your garden is and therefore how many you can get in. Don’t overdo it if it’s not very big! I’m not talking Shrubbery, I just mean some at intervals in a bed, say, across one far corner, or a shaped bed offsetting the pond, or even one or two dotted about by the house, the shed, beside the patio. You can try, say, mahonia for yellow scented flowers in winter (followed by bunches of purple ‘grapes’ – fruit!), Eleagnis for fabulous yellow and green variegated foliage and the new leaves are almost silver and shiny, a scarlet Berberis for flaming autumn foliage and then berries, philadelphus for zingy lime yellow leaves in spring and gorgeous scented flowers, spiraea – good boring but reliable, choisya called Mexican orange blossom, again for interesting shiny leaves and scented flowers, Robinia is another stock ‘boring green’ one but not if you keep pruning it: its new leaves are red. And so on.
OK now you can put in some perennials, perhaps beside or in front of the pond, and one or some tubs of annuals on the patio – and how about dwarf fruit trees in pots – or against that fence if south facing.
Not too far from the house because of the watering and harvesting, have you room for a veg plot? If not, add a border next to your green house so you can at least have some tomatoes and lettuce, and also grow herbs in a big pot near the back door in a sunny spot.
Stating the first thing last, what makes a garden interesting and look good is different shapes, stuff like paths disappearing round behind something, but that’s hard to do in a small garden. You need a good path, and try not to have it just a straight concrete one, but something a bit more interesting and curving. And you need a good focal point, preferably off centre, like one well-chosen well-placed ‘specimen’ tree e.g. hiding some neighbour’s ugly drainpipe. Mine was a£1 Torbay palm bought at the market which I put in the ground and it grew to a 15 foot tree – but I’m in the southwest where they’re hardy. In a damp area, a small ‘Flamingo’ willow (salix) is a good buy; mine’s only in a, well, small dustbin actually, and its pink leaves make it look as if it’s permanently flowering.
That’s enough to be going on with… Hope it gives you a few ideas!