| Everyone has their own idea of their perfect garden, | | | | steps towards your goals. |
| from those who will enter competitions for the best | | | | Invest in good quality gardening tools. Quality |
| rose, to those who want a low maintenance garden, | | | | tools like secateurs will make keeping a garden |
| to those who love to entertain friends on the | | | | maintained so much easier - cheap secateurs will likely |
| weekends. King William III's idea of a perfect garden | | | | just make it hard to prune and damage the plants. |
| involved the hedge maze, this still survives to this | | | | The garden will need some maintenance, so keep this |
| day in Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, UK and is the | | | | in mind. Though if you like a more 'natural look', just |
| oldest surviving hedge maze in the world! Most of us | | | | leave it to grow a bit wild. |
| will not be so elaborate, but we still want our | | | | Keep a hose handy - if you can't have a hose |
| landscape design to reflect our personality and suit | | | | grab a watering can - whenever anything looks too |
| our needs. It can be a challenge to get started but | | | | dry. Choosing plants that suit your climate and |
| the only way is up when you create your garden | | | | conditions will minimize maintenance and the |
| either for food, fragrance, relaxation or resale. | | | | disappointment of losing plantings. |
| An idea of the perfect garden has to start with your | | | | It can feel dreadful to pick those gorgeous |
| own imagination, and you have probably seen those | | | | flowers in your garden for indoors so why not create |
| professional landscapers on the gardening programs | | | | a patch called a "picking garden" - this is the best |
| coming up with all sorts of wonderful ideas. How do | | | | way to enjoy your garden inside and out. |
| they make it look so easy? Not surprisingly they | | | | Whatever you decide is the perfect garden you wish |
| generally have years of experience and hundreds of | | | | to create you will need to have some great garden |
| examples of garden landscape ideas to draw from. | | | | design ideas to get you started. These can be |
| These tools and resources that they have available | | | | collected from home-maker magazines, or from |
| to them would make any would-be landscaper's job | | | | driving around your neighborhood for inspiration. A |
| easier | | | | professional landscaper can be engaged to provide |
| When making your garden plans, you should | | | | suggestions, advice and a landscape design, but for |
| remember: | | | | most, this service will severely eat into the budget |
| There is no right or wrong garden and your | | | | available for doing the whole landscaping project. An |
| definition of a perfect garden is just perfect! | | | | affordable and far more practical and enjoyable |
| Consider your budget, and how far it will stretch. | | | | option is to utilize clever landscaping resources from |
| If you can't complete the whole landscaping project | | | | Design Great Gardens. |
| in one go, for time or budgeting reasons, break it into | | | | And how about this for a Did you know? The largest |
| smaller, manageable mini-projects so that the whole | | | | bouquet every created was made from 156,940 |
| exercise doesn't get too overwhelming. Choose some | | | | roses, in Germany 2005. One would hope that |
| small projects that can be completed in a weekend - | | | | someone would have invented a tool to get rid of |
| to keep that motivation going - and to achieve small | | | | the thorns on that lot! |