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Elaborate or Simple. It's Your Garden

What you bring to your garden is what you will get from it.

Whether your garden is as elaborate as Victoria's Butchart Gardens pictured on the left or a simple potted plant (inset left). Plan your garden around your life, rather than trying to plan your life around your garden.

Spring has sprung the grass has riz, outside (or in) is where the flowers is. May is, in many places, the month for gardening, here is no exception. I have been trying to get my garden in order for about two months now and I think it is finally starting to look like it. The tulips, Daffodils and Lily of The Valley are almost done and the Columbine is just starting to bloom. I have some early vegetables peas, carrots, beets and spinach growing already.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants, to residential yards including lawns and foundation plantings, to large or small containers grown inside or outside. Gardening is a popular and flexible hobby for people of all ages. Gardening is done on a smaller scale, primarily for pleasure and to produce goods for the gardener's own family or community.

Gardens are Everywhere

Ornamental gardens were known in ancient times, a famous example being the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, while ancient Rome had dozens of gardens. Gardening also takes place in non-residential green areas, such as parks, public or semi-public gardens (botanical gardens or zoological gardens), amusement and amusement parks, along transportation corridors, and around tourist attractions and garden hotels. In these situations, a staff of gardeners or groundskeepers maintains the gardens. Click Here to view data from 2009 that quantifies the benefits of school and youth gardens. to support educators using school gardens to teach about nutrition and sustainable agriculture.

Design

Now is the time to swing your garden design ideas into action. Garden design can range from simple flower boxes to complex knot gardens. A good digital camera in hand and a pleasant trip to a garden either local or far away will assistyou in your own design.

Organic

Organic gardening is more than just a buzz word; it’s becoming a lifestyle choice for people concerned with the effects of chemicals on fruits and. Organic gardening is a means of controlling pests naturally, without the use of dangerous chemical pesticides. Organic gardening is a simple healthful way to convert living organisms into carbon compounds in a way that considers the whole of nature and its integral place in that scheme. Organic gardening is the oldest method of cultivation, it's good for your family, and it's less expensive to do.

On With It

So as you can see, it doesn't matter if you are new to gardening or are an expert, if you want a large garden or small garden, all you have to do is find the right information for what you want to accomplish. After that all that is left to do is enjoy the feelings of peace and serenity that working with plants of any type can give you and the satisfaction of knowing that you can do it.

Do what you will, but harm none.
Shelagh Drew
PS More to come soon.