By Darren Hartley


Small garden ideas require taking time in the careful planning of a small garden, with as much, if not more, care as a large garden. It is best to think about how the garden is to be used throughout the year. It is good to remember that seating and plant choices are dictated by where the sun falls during the day.

A pronouncement of small garden ideas is that a corridor-type garden that serves as the main route to the front door can be both practical and visually attractive. For this type of garden, plants that grow slowly must be chosen to ensure the elimination of the need for constant cutting down the path.

A tiny balcony or any inauspicious square of concrete in a mansion block can be quickly and economically turned into a private oasis as suggested by small garden ideas. To make way for the installation of chairs and tables, a rustic woven hazel fencing and plants in pots will be easy to move around.

Flower bed edging lend character, definition and texture to landscaping beds. A classic, widely available and relatively inexpensive landscaping edging choice is brick. To minimize spaces between the bricks where turf can slip through, the bricks must be tightly pushed together.

The laying down of old, mismatched bricks on a diagonal will achieve a 19th century domino effect to a flower bed edging. The digging of a trench and the addition of several inches of sand for drainage will ensure that the bricks will not heave.

The creation of a winding path through the landscape is the purpose of the serpentine shape of a concrete flower bed edging. It also provides mowing ease. By using varying heights, interest is added and a smooth transition on a slope or uneven landscape is allowed.

A classic look well-suited to country and cottage gardens is lent by a flower bed edging with flagstone. Easily used to coordinate or contrast plants, other landscape stonework or house stonework, flagstone is available in a number of colors and thicknesses.




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