Gardening in the home can be tasking, tiring, rewarding, and beautiful. Having a garden is like having a child, you continue to care for it even when it is grown. Gardens increase the property value of your home, Gardens have so many benefits, such as food, fruits, great aura, and other environmental benefits, etc.
However, they can look unorganized, messy, and uncared for sometimes. Sometimes the issue is not knowing just what to do to your garden to make its beauty more extra or special.
Before adding anything to your garden for aesthetics purposes, you have to examine your garden to know where to place certain things, what to use and what not to use, this is so your garden doesn’t look packed or clumsy afterwards.
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Here are 7 ways to make your home garden beautiful
If you need ideas to make your home garden more beautiful, consider these.
1. Flowering plants
Flowering plants are one of the ways to beautify your garden, they add colours and colours can influence our mood and the way we think. Flowers also attract beautiful insects that help with pollination. Some vegetables and herbs also have beautiful flowers. Before planting, make sure they’re not plants that bloom at a time.
You can plant a flower that blooms in summer and another that blooms in the spring, that way, you have your garden filled with flowers, all round the year. Here’s a list of flowers that bloom all summer long.
You can also make use of perennial plants, they are plants that live for more than 2 years, some of these plants grow in a season and die back in another, the benefit of these plants, however, is that you do not have to plant it, it simply grows back the next season, this is also dependent on the environment in which it is planted.
2. Utilise Pots
Pots are known to house some plants in our garden, however, they can add beauty to our garden. Pots that make statements with beautiful plants in them will leave your garden elegant You can also create a pattern for your pot and container arrangement.
3. Theme
Recreating your garden according to a particular theme will make it attractive. You can pick plants with the same flower colour and arrange them together, to form different patterns. Colours can also be mixed to achieve a theme.
4. Scented herbs and flowers
It’s not just enough to create beauty, adding herbs and flowers with nice scents will leave you glued to your garden. they add fragrance to the beauty in the garden.
5. Garden art
You can never go wrong with garden arts, garden arts gives your garden characters, beauty and makes a statement. Your garden art doesn’t have to be something big or expensive, it can range from a little ornament you treasure, a pot, or just anything that adds colour.
There are blooming flowers that can grow on walls or fences, there are also creeping plants with beautiful flowers, these flowers to your wall can make your garden more beautiful.
6. Water gardens
Water gardens are one of the things that makes a garden beautiful, at the thought of it, you may think you need a river, fountain or pond to have a water garden, that’s wrong! You can have your water garden in your home, your backyard garden, or anywhere in your house.
Making a water garden for your home is very easy, all you need is your pot or a shallow container, get some water garden plants e.g, water lettuce, water hyacinth, Azolla, etc. Then, turn on the tap. You have a garden! Your water garden can be placed anywhere in your garden.
You should change the water whenever it gets dark or is giving odour. You can also add little fertilizer every time you change its water.
7. Fairy gardens
A fairy garden is a small garden with a tiny house, chair, lawn, ponds, etc. A fairy garden can be created anywhere, regardless of how much space you have. A fairy garden is a classical way to beautify your garden, it gives you the feel of having a baby garden in a big garden. A fairy garden can be bought or made, it all depends on your budget.
The beautiful thing about making a fairy garden yourself is that you get to choose any theme of your choice. Rapunzel, Cinderella, Alice in a wonderland, etc. You can buy all the items you need for your fairy garden at any garden shop of your choice. There are a wide variety of plants to use for your fairy gardens I.e Corsican mint (mentha requiring), Oxalis (oxalis corniculata), Stonecrop (sedum album Faro form), etc.
Wrapping It Up
Gardens are fun to have, there is also no end to how much you decorate your garden or make it more beautiful, you can also make use of other things in your home to make your garden more beautiful. You may not need to buy a lot of things to make your garden beautiful, you can make them yourself too. While this is pocket friendly, it also helps you to be connected to your garden.
Happy gardening!
