Garden Enhancing Techniques

Once you have decided which plant you wish to grow in your garden, you can decide what kind of features your garden should have and how it should look. Island beds have the considerable advantage of allowing the plants growing in them to be viewed from all sides.

The beauty of this is that they can be cut out to any shape or size, suited to their surroundings and thus gives the gardener much more scope than the traditional border with its straight sides and backdrop of hedge, wall or fence.

Garden Enhancing Techniques
A small garden space is used to recreate images of rugged mountain landscapes. And it has been a part of horticulture since the last two centuries. Along with the recent escalation in gardening techniques and the constant availability of different and unique plants, one can always opt to have an space efficient rock garden, which allows you to grow the kinds of plants you wish to have.

Since large acres of land are not available to all, many a contemporary gardener can fulfill their desire of growing their desired plants in small spaces of land. If one does not have the luxury of space then one can still carry out intensive gardening in limited spaces. It is only in recent years, too, that rock plants have been liberated from the traditional rock garden to grace many gardens in flat beds, peat beds and the like.

Rock Garden Landscaping

Rock gardens still have their place, of course and the way rock plants are grown, in conjunction with a water feature (two pools. one above the other, with a waterfall in between and an electric pump to circulate the water), provides a rock-water feature which is can be maintained for many months of the year.

It is easy to look after a rock garden and has the kind of informality which accords well with this modern age. The water pools are made of concrete, but pools are also made with the modern fibre-glass and plastic, ready made pools as long as the edges are masked with plants and stone. Provided there are beds up against the house walls, any gardener worthy of the name is going to make good use of these.

The warm south and west sides of the house will naturally make the perfect sites for rather tender plants, and the north and east prove excellent for camellias, honeysuckles and other decorative plants. (whose late- winter flowers are so easily damaged by early morning sun on frost-covered petals). Plants can be grown around your house to cover up certain manhole covers which may not be large but are just about the biggest eyesores at ground level to be found in any garden. When their ugliness intrudes on some carefully contrived and otherwise attractive garden scene, an easy way round this particular problem is to plant one of the prostrate conifers just on one side so that the growth the plant blankets the ironwork. There are some shrubs which are excellent for this particular job. Some other shrubs are used for masking the bottom of drain pipes, and at the same time provide the necessary shade for the roots too.