Bonsai Trees Care

Whether you live in a City Town House with very minimum space or on hundreds or thousands of acres a home garden is a cherished resort for many.

The home garden should consist of at least 3 main areas, the public area, the private area, and the utility area. The public area should always look presentable and welcoming whether formal or informal. The private area may have a patio with contemporary garden decor and furniture, a grape covered arbor, swimming pool, with areas for entertaining family and friends, or in some secluded, shady nook you may have your own secret garden to curl up with a book in the lazy days of summer.

The utility area should be a place for home units for heating and cooling, garbage storage as well as other storage areas for gardening supplies and equipment, pool equipment, etc.If space in your home garden allows, you may want to have areas to garden with vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, grape vines, and roses - both modern and antique.

The property, if space is available should have a border of small trees, evergreen shrubs and vines,or a well-designed fence to frame the house as a picture frame sets off a picture. If space is available there should be a background of trees or foliage to form a skyline over the roof of house. For the foundation planting, avoid planting a lot of shrubs kept pruned to some weird rounded shape, all of the same size looking like soldiers standing at attention. Here a few choice shrubs should be planted to accentuate the corners and entrance to the house. For the corner you can plant a small deciduous tree faced down by a threesome of small evergreen shrubs (make sure these shrubs are very slow growing), or you can plant a specimen evergreen shrub at each corner that grows not much more than half the distance from the ground to roofline. For the entrance, you may use a choice slow growing evergreen on each side of door or a threesome of evergreens kept pruned to around one third the distance between ground and roofline. If you wish to have a low-maintenance garden, you can use landscape fabric and a mulch of pine bark, cypress, pine straw, etc. or plant evergreen groundcovers at the base of shrubs and trees.

If you are attracted to the English Cottage look, you surely will want borders of perennials, annuals, herbs, and so forth in the home garden. Perhaps you prefer the look of ornamental grasses and bamboos with perennials growing up amongst them, which provide a rustic look to much contemporary garden design. Perhaps you have a formal townhouse or hotel particular. You want to design using straight lines, rectangles, and arcs with such plants as common box or yew. Whatever, the successful home garden should mirror the personality of its owners and fit in with the local scenery. Whatever style you choose, a neat, well-design is money well spent, for you it will add bucks to your resale value.

My name is August and I am a baby boomer. I retired 4 years ago. I enjoy gardening, reading, and studying finance and investments.

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