Planning Your Garden
Flowers bloom in many different colors and at different times
of the season. Because of this, it is always a good idea to
plan your garden before you put a shovel to the ground. This
allows you to design your garden to achieve excellent color
balance and appearance throughout the temperate season.
How to Make the Plan
There are many ways you can plan your garden. Here are some
ideas:
- Draw your plan on grid paper.
- Use gardening books to determine colors, heights, and
blooming periods of the plants you want to place in your
garden.
- Disadvantage: You can't visualize your garden in color.
- Make a garden collage.
- Collect different color pictures of plants that you
like from gardening magazines. Make cutouts of the plants
and position them on a piece of paper, creating a garden
collage.
- Disadvantage: You destroy your gardening magazines.
- If you have a computer, use landscaping software.
- Many landscaping programs allows you to plan your garden
in three dimensions.
- Some of these programs create animations to show how
your plant choices will bloom over time.
- Disadvantage: The initial cost of the program.