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Ideas to Turn Your Garden Into a Magnificent View
The season of spring is a gardener's fantasy. Every gardener looks forward to escaping inthe garden and getting things well-kept. We also look over the garden with an eye toimproving our little space, planting a new bed, or simply updating a plan with some freshfeatures. Whether you're working from scratch or already have an established garden,here we have some garden design ideas which can be incorporated in either case.Start by measuring your garden cautiously, including marking the border of your home,steps, existing trees and shrubs and any pathways. Mark the drip line around trees, as thiswill be a consideration in developing your garden design themes. Double check your measurements for accuracy. Now, plot your garden on graph paper, or use garden planning software. Now that you have your garden visible in a virtual aerial view, it's much easier tovisualize the scale and proportions of the area you have to work. Scale is crucial, as inany composition. If you look at a painting, you'll see that the available space is dividedup in sections of varying and pleasing proportions. As you calculate your garden designideas, keep this principle in mind.Utilising your plot plan, roughly divide the available space until you have proportionsthat please your eye. Again, with the 'aerial' view, it's much easier to attain good design proportions. Next, you'll want to look at the exposures for the different areas. Let's say one of your garden design ideas is to put a garden bench in, where you can sit and relax with a book and a tall glass of lemonade during the hot summer afternoons. Obviously, you'll want toinstall the bench in an area that's shady in summer. Placing that bench under a largedeciduous tree serves you in summer, as well as on sunny winter days. Now you'll want to give some thought to your colour scheme. Gently color in your garden plot with the predominate colors of your existing garden. Blues and purples tendto recede, creating a sense of distance, while brighter colors, such as red, orange andyellow make the space seem closer to the viewer. A street side planting of marigolds or some tall red gladiolas, combined with a summer planting of white and sky blue MorningGlorys vining around the porch posts will make the distance between the street and your  porch look longer. Blue and purple flowers, in a shady area, will create a feeling of coolness and welcome respite in summer. As you work out your garden design ideas,remember that color is a powerful agent in garden design. Next, take a look at those favorite plants. Maybe you've got a bed of tulips or daffodilsthat have naturalized, making a attractive exhibit each spring. You need to determinewhich plants are the 'keepers' and those which might be replaced. You may have someflowers which are very high maintenance, susceptible to molds, mildews and an array of  pests. Look through your garden books and catalogs and find another plant or hybridthat's a little more sturdy and that will be an asset to the garden.
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