What About Embracing Gravel Gardens?
Yeah, we know, you are accustomed to purchasing mulch and other potting products when you tend to your garden. But making use of mostly natural soil is an idea that has been around for ages. A gardener possesses two main quality, that is being resilient and creative. With unpredictable climate change, resilience and creativity have to be employed. You may be required to think outside the box. So these are some of the things that you need to consider.
* Enhance Your Garden with Edimentals
Yeah, we know, you are accustomed to purchasing mulch and other potting products when you tend to your garden. But making use of mostly natural soil is an idea that has been around for ages. A gardener possesses two main quality, that is being resilient and creative. With unpredictable climate change, resilience and creativity have to be employed. You may be required to think outside the box. So these are some of the things that you need to consider.
* Enhance Your Garden with Edimentals
Edimental plants are both edible and ornamental-- are beautiful and easy to grow your own food in your garden, whatever the size. Edimental plants are easier to care for than traditional vegetables. with fruiting time throughout the year rather than all at once.
* Explore Naturalist Planting and The New Perennial Movement.
Originating in the Netherlands in the 1980s, the New Perennial Movement is finally becoming a mainstream design aesthetic.
It's a slightly wilder, softer aesthetic , neither manicured nor neglected, but one that takes its cue from nature. It's a garden filled with drifts of plants and grasses that appear to have naturally re-seeded themselves in place, though in reality are carefully placed and chosen. The focus is on diversity of plants that blends with nature.
* Preserve Every Drop of Eco-Friendly Rain Gardens
It's a slightly wilder, softer aesthetic , neither manicured nor neglected, but one that takes its cue from nature. It's a garden filled with drifts of plants and grasses that appear to have naturally re-seeded themselves in place, though in reality are carefully placed and chosen. The focus is on diversity of plants that blends with nature.
* Preserve Every Drop of Eco-Friendly Rain Gardens
With drought an occurrence in many regions, rain gardens have soared in popularity as a method of slowing down the rain water and irrigation, keeping every last drop of precious water on site and out of the street's storm drains. It also minimizes roof and driveway pollutants from rain runoffs, as the roots of the plants slowly filter the water.
* You Learn To Love Bugs (Even Those That Munch!)
* You Learn To Love Bugs (Even Those That Munch!)
While we don't want full-blown infestations destroying our gardens, a shift in perspective can result in a more sustainable garden.
There are some bugs that will perpetually be on the naughty list, but there has been a fundamental shift, on how we perceive the vast majority of bugs, even those that make us squirm. The Royal Horticultural Society recently de-classified slugs and snails as pests.
* Adapt And Grow With A changing Climate
There are some bugs that will perpetually be on the naughty list, but there has been a fundamental shift, on how we perceive the vast majority of bugs, even those that make us squirm. The Royal Horticultural Society recently de-classified slugs and snails as pests.
* Adapt And Grow With A changing Climate
We must adapt to weather rapidly becoming hotter/colder/wetter/drier than ever before, forcing us to re-evaluate the garden's roles in our lives. Many are walking a tightrope between the desire to create stunning aesthetic innovative breeders, designers, and gardeners who focus on sustainable beauty, and increased native plant selections available in nurseries.
*Create Unique Outdoor Spaces
*Create Unique Outdoor Spaces
With more people more working out of their homes, gardens are being transformed into hard-working spaces for the entire family. Of course outdoor cooking and dining remain one of the top requests, when designing a garden. But spaces devoted to other aspects of everyday living are a growing demand.
* Embrace Gravel Gardens For Low -Maintenance Beauty
* Embrace Gravel Gardens For Low -Maintenance Beauty
With temperatures trending hotter and drier, than ever before, gardeners are re-evaluating their plant choices, planting methods, and dependency on water to create thriving gardens. Gravel gardens tick all the boxes of a sustainable, low-water garden.
A gravel garden is a low -water, low- maintenance garden bed primarily consisting of gravel instead of soil, with carefully chosen plants throughout. Gravel of a uniform size is evenly spread over the existing ground to depth of 4-6 inches. The root -ball base of 3-to 4-5 inch potted plant is then placed near to the top of the ground and surrounded with gravels. Placing the root-ball base near the ground encourages the root to grow deep down, resulting in a much hardier plant that can withstand drought.
* Rediscover the Beauty of Biodiversity of Stumpery Gardens
A gravel garden is a low -water, low- maintenance garden bed primarily consisting of gravel instead of soil, with carefully chosen plants throughout. Gravel of a uniform size is evenly spread over the existing ground to depth of 4-6 inches. The root -ball base of 3-to 4-5 inch potted plant is then placed near to the top of the ground and surrounded with gravels. Placing the root-ball base near the ground encourages the root to grow deep down, resulting in a much hardier plant that can withstand drought.
* Rediscover the Beauty of Biodiversity of Stumpery Gardens
While once a Victorian fad to designed to show off fern collections, stumpies are making a comeback. Only the focus isn't on plant collections but on creature wildlife sanctuaries while showcasing shade-loving plants.
