Blue flowers. Planning and Creating Your Own Garden.

Garden Planning & Creating Your Own Garden

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Date Published:
09/06/2008
Soil Climate. Planning and Creating Your Own Garden.

3. Know your soil and climatic conditions
Often the reason most plants and shrubs fail to grow is that they've been planted in the wrong place. Remember that plants are as individual as you are. So some will love sun and dry conditions, while others will prefer damp and shady conditions. By carrying out a survey of your garden in terms of soil and climatic analysis you can easily work out what will grow well and where.

4. Set a budget for your time and money before you begin your plan
For most of us, time and money are limited. Before starting your project work out roughly how much time you realistically have available to work on creating your garden, and also, how much money you have available for your project.

Planning and Creating Your Own Garden: Wood Decking

5. Always complete your hard features first
Divide your project up into two separate areas - hard and soft features. Hard features include things like patios, decking areas, pavements, driveways, fences. While soft features include your plants, shrubs, trees and so on. By their nature hard features will require you to tramp over lawns and so on to construct patios, paths and fences. So if you get these out of the way first, you're then ready to lay your new lawn, plant your borders etc without having to worry about damaging or destroying newly laid soft features.

If you follow these simple rules then before you know it you'll have a garden good enough to make your neighbours green with envy...

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