Saturday, 5 April 2014

Ideas For Small Garden And Edging For Flower Bed

By Darren Hartley


Small garden ideas require taking time in the careful planning of a small garden, with as much, if not more, care as a large garden. It is best to think about how the garden is to be used throughout the year. It is good to remember that seating and plant choices are dictated by where the sun falls during the day.

That a corridor-type garden serving as the main route to the front door can be visually attractive and practical at the same time is a pronouncement of small garden ideas. For this type of garden, plants that grow slowly need to be chosen to eliminate the need for constant cutting down the path.

A suggestion from small garden ideas is the quick and economical turning of a tiny balcony or any inauspicious square of concrete in a mansion block into a private oasis. Easy to move around to make way for the installation of chairs and tables are a rustic woven hazel fencing and plants in pots.

The lending of character, definition and texture to landscaping beds is the primary purpose of a flower bed edging. Brick remains to be the classic, widely available and relatively inexpensive landscaping edging choice. The minimization of spaces between bricks where turf can slip through is attainable by tightly pushing the bricks together.

For a 19th century domino effect to a flower bed edging, old, mismatched bricks can be laid on a diagonal. To make sure that the bricks do not heave, a trench may be dug and several inches of sand may be added as drainage.

The serpentine shape of a concrete flower bed edging creates a winding path through the landscape aside for providing ease in mowing. For added interest, varying heights may be used. This option also allows a smooth transition on a slope or uneven landscape.

A classic look well-suited to country and cottage gardens is lent by a flower bed edging with flagstone. Easily used to coordinate or contrast plants, other landscape stonework or house stonework, flagstone is available in a number of colors and thicknesses.




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