Ideas For a Summer Garden Landscape
Ideas For a Summer Garden Landscape
Landscape sounds rather splendid sort of Capability Brown stuff with great avenues of elms shading you from the summer sun - or was it Capability Brown who had all the great avenues cut down so that the grand houses had an uninterrupted view? Can't quite remember. Either way, it sounds rather grand and not really applicable to the 12 paces by 16 paces plot you are looking at. You could not be more wrong.
The landscaping of small areas are what separates the sheep from the goats (neither of which you want in your particular small area). It is the creation of a picture, a landscape, on however small a scale, that not only is a delight to look at, but makes you want to step straight into the frame and wander round this "landscape".
This is what we are aiming at for the summer garden. Except that for a summer garden, there most definitely has to be a shady spot in which you can stop all this wandering round and sit down with a cool glass of beer or white wine. How do we do it?
If you already have a fifty year old spreading cherry tree or weeping willow under which you can put your chaise-longue, then your summer garden is already perfect.For the other 99% of us, a shaded swinging seat is perfect for the summer garden. A good wooden one will last a lifetime, look stunning, and survive the winters.
Obviously, if you spent the winter busily putting in lots of lovely perennial flowers, little flowering trees, or even the odd fruit bush, then you can now lie back and enjoy it all.
If, however, your garden efforts either didn't happen or were directed towards a stunningly impressive Yen garden with not much in it, you may find that your landscape is a tad bare. That, I'm afraid, is what garden centres are for. You can, by ignoring the contempt of "real" gardeners, buy yourself a ready made garden.
You want it for this summer, so choose plants that are already beginning to flower. Ignore the advice of the pundits and transplant them. Shove in the contents of a few bags of compost if there isn't much soil. Soak the plants in their pots in a bucket for a few hours and, in the evening (that is vital) carefully tip them out of their pots and put them in the soil. Water them well in and shade them with newspaper from the sun for he first couple of days. Keep watering them for a week they will do fine.
Add a couple of lavender bushes in pots to put by the swinging seat; the scent is wonderful and every nice fat bumblebee in London will arrive to give the authentic hot summer day in the country sound. I hope this gives you some ideas for a summer garden landscape. London's Secret Cinema's Travel Guide To Mahabaleshwar New Country Songs of Country Pop Singer Taylor Swift Travel To See The Architecture Of Naples Italy How you can to Become An American Citizen - USCIS Citizenship Test - USCIS N-400 New Country Songs of Australian Pop Singer Missy Higgins A Quick Guide To Summer Gardening In The Desert It's Almost Swim Season! Top Beach Cover-ups and Swimsuits Spring Casual Clothing Options- Long Sleeve Shrugs Summer is Here! Our Top 3 Cruise Clothing Picks African Mango Exciting Activities during your Isle of Wight holidays Fish for the Pike Predator of Ireland