Some advice you should consider when arranging your garden

Posted by elutzik on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment |

When you have a beautiful house, you necessarily need to have a great garden as well. For that, you not only need inspiration, but you also need to follow some simple rules.

Firstly, you need to level the land, which is recommended to do in autumn, before the rains, and leave it like this until spring. 

After you have leveled your land, you need some terraces for those areas where you have visible inclination. If  you don’t like terraces, you can always replace it with a slope. Anyway, you need to be very careful when you make them because if you make them too tall and rigid can mean just the opposite for your garden, which is making it look smaller. We recommend  placing them near the house to leave more space for the lawn.

Next step is to create some nice alleys and footpaths. Just make sure that they match the rest or the garden, or they can ruin everything. They need to be the shortest way to access a particular place. As for the permanent alleys for car access, you should consider the flow of water so that it wouldn’t form unsightly puddles. You can use cement, tiles or gravel.

For the lawn you need to prepare your soil, because once planted, its level and outline shouldn’t be changed. Earth should be loose for the roots to dig deep; the best way to get such land is the drainage. However, each type of grass has submitted instructions on the box of seeds. Make sure you have a garden hose, because it needs to be watered quite often.

Now for the flower area. Flowers are usually planted at the same time as the lawn, or after. They can be planted only after the ground is leveled and the areas are identified with sticks. Trees are best to planted in spring or autumn and the tuffs are best to be placed in the back yard.

After you have followed these steps, you can now think of other accessories such as bird baths, swimming pool, or benches and then relax.