| Design is an element of planning your garden much | | | | collect like teapots? Use teacups and saucers, and |
| like it is for any art. You want your garden to look | | | | even cracked teapots, as planters for small plants |
| lovely not only to you but to anyone who sees it. So | | | | you display on your patio or terrace. Or perhaps you |
| where do you look to come up with ideas for your | | | | like old farm implements and have a select few to |
| garden to begin your gardening around your home? | | | | serve as pots for some flowers in your favorite |
| Where do you look to find design inspiration?To get | | | | colors to form the base of a country garden theme. |
| ideas for your garden, start with looking at your own | | | | Larger implements can serve as the basis for |
| interests and your own home. After all you will be | | | | flowering vines to grow upon.You could simply begin |
| looking at and living in your garden just as you look | | | | your garden based upon your favorite colors. This is |
| at and live in the interior of your home. Presumably | | | | a good place for beginning gardeners to start. Pick |
| your interior decorating reflects what you like and | | | | two of your favorite colors, being sure that they |
| this is a good reason to carry that decorating | | | | complement each other, and select flowers and other |
| scheme outdoors into your garden.Is your home | | | | plants to provide these colors within your |
| decorated in a country French theme? Carry the | | | | garden.Look also to the style of your home when |
| colors outdoors with the fabrics you use on your | | | | designing your garden. A lovely colonial would be well |
| garden furniture and the flowers you plant. Country | | | | served with an English garden or earthen colored |
| French usually uses the colors of yellow and blue or | | | | adobe home would look great with interesting cacti |
| red and a touch of green. Create a garden room as a | | | | and succulents appropriate to the area. Keep this in |
| place to dine using these colors. And don't forget the | | | | mind when coming up with your garden ideas. Don't |
| almost obligatory pottery chickens or chicken platters | | | | try to create an English cottage garden in the middle |
| in your country French theme.Have you a nautical | | | | of the desert in Arizona. It just doesn't fit the climate |
| theme indoors with lots of blue and white to invoke | | | | or location.copyright 2006, Sandra |
| the seashore? Plant white and blue flowers. Use | | | | Dinkins-WilsonLooking for more articles? Come |
| nautical items to add interest to your garden. Rope | | | | discover all kinds of Gardening Tips at our site. Read |
| wrapped planters with blue and white flowers and | | | | articles about water, shade, rose, butterfly gardens, |
| large seashells, as pots for small plants, are interesting | | | | gardening tips, and more. |
| touches to add.Do you have things you love to | | | | |