How to Design My Own Garden
Designing your own flower garden can be fun. It is also a great way to add color and interest to your yard. This article explains how to design a garden layout that works for your home. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Take a walk around your yard and note where you would like to add flowerbeds. Good areas can be right in front of the house, by the walkway and driveway or by fences. Basically, you can put a bed anywhere you want extra color in the yard.
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Make notes about what parts of the yard get full sun, shade and partial sun. All of these areas can be used for flowerbeds, but you will need to adjust your expectations for each area depending on how much sun hits the spot. For example, you can't plant daisies and roses in shady areas, but you can plant ferns and shamrocks.
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Bring your notes indoors and take out your graph paper. Sketch your yard the way it is now. If you don't have any artistic skills, you can just draw different sized circles for trees and shrubs, and lines for the driveway, walkway and house.
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Sketch flowerbeds on your yard drawing, according to your notes. Use big, curvy shapes to draw your flowerbeds. Remember, there are no straight lines in nature. Flowerbeds look best if they are rounded.
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Research the best plants for the type of sunlight you have and write down these types in each bed, marking where you would like them to be. Put the bigger plants in the back of the bed and the smaller ones closer to the front. Now, you have your garden all planned out!
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Tips & Warnings
Try to incorporate plants that do well in your climate.
