There are long lists of factors to consider when designing a garden. You must often consider the natural outdoor elements including sunlight, moisture and soil type, but consider your indoor elements, too.
How nice to have a room with a beautiful view outside. Consider where you most often sit on those excessively hot and humid days that keep you inside the house and away from your garden. You can still enjoy your garden’s beauty by planting flowers outside of your windows. Waking up in the morning to the cheery bright faces of black-eyed Susan’s underneath your sill or to the scent of roses drifting in through your window starts your day off positively. Imagine your window as a canvas. As you stand looking out through it into the yard, what picture would you like to see on that window wall?
Design your garden to have color or interesting texture all throughout the seasons. Let your live wall garden picture add beauty to your home’s interior. You can use garden markers to help you remember what plants will bloom in what seasons. Those garden markers can also help you figure out your placement of plants when you decide to divide them and move them around the yard or pass them to a friend.
Consider, also, the view from your outdoor spaces. When you sit on your deck or patio, which plants would you like to glance up and see blooming back at you? Which ones will shelter you in privacy or invite you to get out of your chair and walk the landscaped path further into the yard?
Finally, consider the view from outside of your yard. Walk across the street and down the street and give your own house a good look-over from different angles. Is your house on a corner or a curve where you could add some plants to soften and beautify it for the traffic that passes down the road? When pedestrians pass by, do they first see a weedy dry slope in your yard or do they smile because of the colorful blossoms that sway with the breeze and energize them to keep their stride or to stop and smell the roses?
Another consideration as you plan your garden design is to incorporate background structures into your garden picture. Fences can double as decorative trellises and open boundaries where plants from other beds can peek through and mingle stems and petals. Garden markers can let plants mingle as much as they want and still keep their identity known.
When planting in front of solid walls, house foundations and solid privacy fences take care to not pack the plants too tightly or too close to the wall. Moisture can build up and cause fungus and root rot.
As you paint pictures through your windows, let Kincaid Plant Markers help you organize your colors and textures. Throughout the seasons our 100 percent stainless steel garden markers will remain steadfast and herald the changing hues of your garden as it grows as pretty as a picture.
