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