Metal Plant Markers are an Integral Part of Your Garden Design

Each gardener has his own tastes. You might like to mix your tomatoes and your marigolds or you may prefer to keep your neat rows of vegetables far from your manicured beds of perennials. Gardens are your landscapes and your choice of plants are the colors on your palette. If you have a garden that tends to be too much of a mixture of color, texture and variety, you might want to follow some tips to create a pleasing, but more simple garden that delights but that doesn’t overwhelm.

Some gardeners decide to focus on detail in their gardens that become the repeating focal point to relax the eyes and create a nice blend throughout the yard. Whether it is foliage, flowers, texture or the height and width of various plants, some repetition can be soothing. A shady backyard can become a pleasing diversity of foliage. From deep purple to lime green and forest green leaves, the one detail of leaf variety can make your garden peaceful. Metal plant markers can be tucked indiscreetly among the large leaves of hostas and other greenery so that you can enjoy your lush green oasis, but still remember throughout the seasons where things are planted.

If a backyard of various shades of green is a little too simple for you, add a few splashes of color in different spots, but don’t overdo it. Let the foliage still be the focal point. The trick to adding a bit of color is to find vibrant, colorful flowers that are small or that are large, but spaced farther apart. Flowers with long erect stems that only contain single blooms at the top are good choices for adding dots of color but not too many clustered in one place.

If you are more of a flower fanatic and love to show off your blooms with metal plant markers, than you can find ways to let color thrive in your yard in a bold yet controlled flow. In backyards you can go crazy experimenting with height, color, texture, fragrance or all facets of plants. But the front yard is a different matter.

Planning your front yard garden is different than planning your backyard garden. Small, low-to-the-ground plants glow when they have miniature blooms to brighten them up. Clusters of these different blossoms can keep your eyes skimming the ground seeing the plants like stepping stones that invite visitors up to the house. Too many mixtures of tall and short flowers in repetition might make your front walkway less inviting. Your visitors’ eyes will be rolling up and down between the ground and the sky in a sensory overload. Rather, a nice simple mix of low and medium-high plants should pull the visitor’s eyes up the walkway to your front door in an inviting way.

Metal plant markers, like the ones designed by Kincaid Plant Markers, aren’t just for backyards. They can be tucked in among the flowers in the front yard so that passers-by can admire your garden and learn a few names of ones they might want to add to their own yard.