Traditional Garden Design

Traditional garden can be wonderful view if you can arrange the plants with nice color, Garden will look more romantic and comfortable when we create traditional garden design. Traditional garden style depend on which area you are living. For an example in ASIA, you can learn and look at classic Chinese or Japanese style. In these country, they have many of interesting plants and flowers with nice color.

But if you live in Europe, beautiful garden design with traditional style may you can see some countries such as UK (London), Holland, and also France. Anyway, there are some tips for you how to make your outdoor environment look like traditional or classic garden style :

Traditional garden design Chinese style (Wikipedia)

Traditional garden design Japanese style (Minimalisti)

Traditional garden design Franche (Franchesca W.)

• Clean and prepare the land area by removing any sod or old plant life within the area
• Select the type of flowers or vegetables that you will be planting
• Prepare the place (vase) for small plant or flowers
• Make or buy the compost for nutrient of your plants
• This is also important for you, The weather in your area of course.

Modern & Contemporary Garden Design

How to make your garden looks like amazing viewed from both the ground level, and all upstair levels of the house? Modern and contemporary garden design style is the answer for that question. Modern garden design enables functional elements of the landscape such as walkways, patios, and motor courts, to work as integrated portions of the landscape rather than typical stand alone elements.

You must know that the good designed landscapes complement your home's architecture and design, giving the home a story that can be read inside and out by people who come to your house. If your home design set as modern layout and contemporary style, It's mean that you must arrange your garden as modern garden design.

Popular garden features include pergolas, patios, garden paths, outdoor lighting, container gardens, garden sheds and cottages, raised beds, vegetable gardens, birdbaths and feeders, and beautiful borders, all of them giving important support to the modern and contemporary garden design.

Modern garden design is little bit similar with contemporary garden design. You can create your modern or contemporary garden with low cost and no need be time consuming to achieve. For example, a simple change of planting or colour scheme can work wonders in a space. We need to painting the walls or other surfaces in bright or contrasting colours, So it will give the best effect to start modern and contemporary garden design.

Modern and contemporary garden will be look nice if we use metal to put all kind of plants. We can create them either shop bought or bespoke, are a simple way to do this. Use them in repetition to create a designed feel.

Choose some nice plants with single flower, It will be strong architectural forms to create a modern look. You must also consider that to give more space on your garden layout for seating and children's playground. Use lighting to create a stylish, modern or contemporary mood when the night has come. You can buy an architectural exterior lights on the market, such as light sticks, blocks or bollards.

Garden Design Sytle

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. Garden design is the creation of plans for the layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. (Wikipedia).

To get nice garden design style you must learn some tips how to create perfect garden according to your home interior design. Some tips that basically you need to know are list bellow :

• Learn about how/where to put (using) plants. It's about consideration for their horticultural requirements, their season-to-season appearance, lifespan, growth habit, size, speed of growth, and combination with other plants and landscape features.
• How the garden will be used. Garden design can be roughly divided into two groups, formal and naturalistic gardens.
• How much Budget do you have. It will decide you to choose and buy fewer plants and hardscape materials.

There are some garden design style may give you an idea to create your home garden design, including interesting pictures each style :

-Traditional garden. This landscape style is all about creating romance with beautiful plants, statues and other items.

- Modern garden. This is about European gardening styles and influence came from across the Atlantic ocean. The Modern garden style embodies clean, simple, geometric forms and architectural planting. Stainless steel, anodized aluminum, and Ipe wood exude good taste and quality in a horizontal, elegant design. This garden style also called as contemporary garden style, Trees in a contemporary garden tend to have a more upright habit, so they become a structural element.

If you don't have enough space to create your landscape garden style, here are some nice design for you to arrange what you can prepare with small size area on your home garden design style ;

- Clever corner plant stand. You can buy three-tier corner plant stand, put your plan and flower into pots or container.

- Create an office outdoors. Turn your outdoor plot into a workspace, use colorful woodstain and see the plans that look similar color.

- Wall shelving. You can make your wall for garden style also. Choose the plans that nice preformance when you put them on the wall.

- Patio gardening.If you have no flower beds to speak of and your garden consists of a square of concrete, bring it to life by mixing up a jumble of planters filled with bright blooms.

- Minimalist garden. minimalist garden features a built-in bench painted in Ivory Stone paint. You can design them as modern or contemporary style, make a surfaces like wood, slate and metal create a garden that looks sleek, streamlined and spacious.

Garden work

I have begun the war against stinktree for the season. For those of you unfamiliar with stinktree, it is a tree-like weed that stinks to high heaven when you touch it or cut it. It looks something like a palm tree, and when they peek up through my lilacs, my garden starts looking like a tropical rainforest. I wage constant war against it.

When you look it up, you'll find it is also called the "tree of heaven". Before Isabel, there were three tree-sized ones in teh surrounding yards- and I mean tree-sized, and in 60 feet tall, and looked like trees. They were actually quite beautiful, but getting on and brittle, and one went over in the storm; the others were removed as precaution. My garden became beautifully sunny, but I miss the dappled shade and their winter silhouettes. The whole nature of my own garden was dramatically changed.

I went from dappled shade to sun. That meant that the weeds began to win. I now have more Virginia Creeper than I can deal with on my fence. If I let things be, I'd have a whole grove of mulberry to make jam. Why can't a few birds drop off some dogwood seeds or something useful back here? I won't even get into my ever-present ground ivy.

I could spend whole weeks just trying to clear out the weeds. Fortunately, I have a good pair of loppers, a lot of newspaper, and I intend on getting in a fresh supply of mulch very soon. It may be a never-ending battle, but I at least have some shortcuts.

Tomatoes: Planted!

The first plants have hit my little corner of veggie gardening: tomatoes are in and growing! Woo-hoo!

A new plot for vegetables

I am working on a new project: vegetables. With the price of food soaring, I wanted to give it a try; plus, the guys may like digging in the dirt (if it ever cools off enough to let us put anything in). It may seem a little late to be planting, but I haven't had a chance before, and we had to move the sandboat to make the space.

I have turned the small plot over by hand. Its only about 4 x 5, so hiring a tiller for such a mini-garden seems a little silly. So out came the shovel, and I did it the semi-old-fashioned way. I also have a garden weasel, and I'm using it to "till" stuff into the little plot, like leftover potting soil. I am still working on getting the grass all out- crabgrass is a real problem here. I don't want to kill it artificially, because I want to use the plot for plants, so out they have to be dug by hand.

It is very therapeutic. Even in the heat.