How to make a cozy garden – tips for beginners
A cozy, sunny, colorful garden should be in every person’s life.
The garden itself in the summer turns into another room for relaxation and reception of guests. Kvitkainfo.com (Kvitkainfo) offers you some tips for creating a cozy garden.
How to make a cozy garden – tips for beginners
- Start small. Do not immediately make large gardens and flower beds, the care of which requires enough time, which you do not have, which includes regular watering, fertilizing, weeding, pruning, and so on. Try to make a small garden with small flower beds and few trees first. Plant 3-4 trees, make small flower beds so that caring for them is only fun. Over time, your confidence in growing plants will increase, and accordingly, flower beds, gardens will become larger and larger. After all, there are so many plants in the world……
Invest in the soil. Beginner gardeners should start planting plants in fertile (organic-rich) soil. On such soil, plants will thrive with minimal care and fertilizing, which significantly reduces the gardener’s work at the very beginning. Add organic matter to the soil annually (compost).
- Plant selection. The main work in the garden is to take care of the plants. Choose plants that are easy to care for first. As you become a more experienced gardener, you can increase the number of plants in the garden or flower bed, and start planting exotic plants that are adapted to your climatic conditions.
What to plant in the garden. There is no right or wrong way to create landscaping for your site, so choose what you love. Plants that are easy to care for: tulips, muscari, hyacinths, daffodils, daylilies, lilies, primroses, conifers, hostas, shrub roses, hydrangeas, marigolds, zinnias, irises, succulent plants, ornamental maple, forsythia, lilac…
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The role of mulch in gardening. Mulching helps maintain soil moisture levels and protects against weed growth. What kind of mulch can be used: bark, straw, hay, wood shavings, compost or leaves. Over time, the mulch rots and improves the soil. Mulch also gives the garden a neater look.
Automatic watering. With the help of modern technologies, drip irrigation hoses have appeared on sale. You need to wrap or run such a hose around or near the plant, connect it to the water supply, and the plants will be watered without your additional effort and time.
Additional tips for beginners to create a garden
- Stones in the garden. Large stones look beautiful in flower and coniferous flower beds, they complement plant compositions, giving them a more natural look.
- Add a bright and interesting accessory. A garden accessory provides the center of a garden or flower bed, and also attracts passers-by and guests to the garden. To create a floral accessory, baskets, jugs, boxes, stumps, old shoes, watering cans, kettles are suitable… .
- Use annuals. Flowering annuals provide a variety of colors in the garden from spring to late autumn. For example, petunia, petunia-surfinia, marigolds, balsams, lobelia…
- Make paths in the garden. Garden paths visually relieve the garden from crowded plantings. More importantly, the paths make the garden more welcoming and easier to maintain. For paths, use gravel, garden slabs or concrete. The grass path is suitable for those areas where traffic is very small, and of course such a path requires regular mowing.
