Landscaping is the most costly area of work in your garden, and it is the one that people most often struggle to complete successfully. Planning a new garden is about a lot more than planting a few flowers and hoping for the best. Landscaping plants will certainly play an important role in your new garden, but with landscaping, the focus is on the overall impression that your garden gives to visitors, rather than the appearance of every individual plant.
Start with a plan
Knowing the effect that you want your garden to produce is vital to successful landscaping. Before you can buy your landscaping plants, you will need to be sure where each plant will be placed and how it will look in relation to every other plant in that section of the garden. Look at the overall shape of your garden, and divide up the space so that you know how each area will be used.
Plan your spaces
Not all of your garden can be used for landscaping plants. You will probably want some space for a lawn on which you can play games or relax. You may also want space in the garden for a shed or workshop, perhaps with a path leading down to it from the house. Work out how each area of the garden will be used. Decide on the best location for every feature; are there some things that cannot be moved or which only make sense in a particular location? These are the fixed points. Once you have determined where they are, you can plan the rest of the garden around them.
Choosing your landscaping plants
Once you know which areas of your garden will be planted, you can visit your nearest garden centre and see what landscaping plants they have available. If you are starting an entirely new garden, then you will need a plentiful supply of bulk plants in a range of sizes to completely fill up the barren garden. Decide on a colour scheme for your plants, and stick with it. Don't forget that you can create an impression of a bigger, more colourful garden by planting up as well as along. Placing taller plants towards the back and smaller, more dainty landscaping plants at the front of the beds builds depth into your flowerbeds and provides a rich display of colour to delight any gardener. Remember to plant flowers for all seasons of the year so that whenever you look out into the garden, there is always something colourful to brighten the view.
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