How To Start Your Garden Landscaping

Mid spring is the best time to start doing your garden landscaping. Spending more time in the fresh air, working with plants is a real pleasure in this time of the year.
But before you get too excited and hurry outside to start digging and planting, think for a while. Garden landscape design, as any other DIY project, requires some initial planning.
Here are some tips to help you get the garden of your dreams. The job will become a real pleasure, not a routine hard work.

1. The first thing you need to consider before deciding on what plants to grow in your garden is your climate. It refers to both the global geographical climate of the area where you live and to your garden’s climate in particular. Is there more shade or sun? Does it face north or south? All this is important when choosing what plants to grow.
2. Garden landscape design is a pleasant yet hard work, which requires some effort. You need to plan beforehand in what time merits you are going to finish landscaping, are you going to do it all at once or do work in blocks. Make a list of what should be done first and try to define how long each work will take.
3. When doing garden landscaping, take into account the exterior design of your home. If your exterior design is minimalist, perhaps you should think of creating a Zen garden, using free growing plants and few colors. On the contrary, if your home is cottage style, colorful flower beds will look great.
4. Map out the area. Decide on where each plant will grow and how each separate part of the landscape will look. You might want to gather some information on how tall different plants grow, to arrange them in the right way.
5. And at last, look for inspiration everywhere: look inside magazines, visit your neighbors to look at their gardens, memorize everything that you like and want to see in your garden.

Garden landscaping will bring a lot of joy to you and your family if you are well informed about it and plan your work beforehand.
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