Any Home and Garden Space Can Be Enhanced With Planning and Design
Garden design incorporates statuary, garden furniture, fences, arches, paths, stepping stones and lots of other items into the landscape to customize the space. Many design features will rely on whether you would like to particularly reinforce the space to draw in birds, bees or butterflies. Bird baths and birdhouses are a notable feature in several gardens.
Butterfly housing is becoming more popular and bee hives might or might not be practical where you reside. It's all part of the design planning issues you may consider as you look at your space. Garden design is the way that you take your garden from simply a "plant place", to pleasing and enchanting. Nothing is more relaxing, pleasing or gratifying than a well-tended garden packed with powerful plants and completely balanced in color and design.
Many favored styles, eg the English Cottage Garden, or the Japanese Garden will seem familiar to you but there are lots of other themes and designs to conform to your special taste and the site of your house. Your garden should have clear plan and a key to spot each component and plant in the design. Organizing a garden and making adjustments can be done anytime of the year.
There are particular activities in the garden that are better done in winter and some that are best done in one of the other seasons but gardening is a year round activity. Winter planning lets you see the skeleton of the garden without the intervening foliage so basic shape planning is easier. Spring planning may target the study of your spring climate and the positioning of the early warm spots in your garden. You might like to do a spring study every year and keep the notes in a special notebook so adjustments can be made as your garden grows.