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No matter if they are urban or rural, all gardens benefit from preplanning and design. This doesn’t mean just knowing where you want your garden, but the overall design of the garden. Today, gardening can include everything from vegetables to flowers to lawn care. Carefully planning what you want, and where you want it, beforehand will help you get the most from your garden.

Planning Your Garden

To begin, measure and draw a plan of your yard and/or garden as it is now. Your plan should include the placement of your house, driveways and walkways, property boundaries, trees and shrubs, and utility services. Using graph paper, draw everything as close to scale as possible.

What Is Your Garden’s Purpose?

Make a list of everything you want to have in your garden area that you consider essential. This could include a vegetable plot, fruit trees, or flower borders. Once you have your basic essentials listed, move on to your “wish list.” Your wish list would include items such as a water feature or a potting shed. Put the items in your list in the order of their importance. Now, place a piece of tracing paper over your original garden plan drawing and draw in your essential and wish list items. Divide your garden plan into zones such as public area, surface area, and private areas.

How Much Space Will You Need?

Everything that you want in your garden plan may not fit in that area that you have available. You may have to make decision about which features are the most important to you, or how to incorporate them differently (like in containers). Think carefully about how much time you will have to devote to your garden’s maintenance and care. Eliminate those things that you know you will not have time for.

What Kind of Garden Do You Want?

There are many different types of gardens that you could have. Besides having vegetables and fruits growing in a certain area, you may also want one of the following types of gardens.

Kitchen Garden. If you don’t have the space or a large vegetable garden, you may want to plant a kitchen garden. This type of garden is usually planted close to the house where you can harvest the plants easily. However, you need to make sure that it is not so close to the house that it does not get adequate sunlight. Plants in a kitchen garden are usually those that are easy to plant, maintain and harvest.

You may want to have an ornamental garden. An ornamental garden and either be formal or informal and is characterized by having plants or shrubs rather than flowers. Some people prefer to use ornamental gardens for their private outdoor rooms.

If you live in a rural area, a Wildlife Garden may be an appropriate choice for you. A wildlife garden will usually include a water feature, tall grasses, and lots of flowers and fruits. This is the type of garden that small critters, butterflies and birds will be drawn to.

Your Final Plan

Your final gardening plan should include those items that you consider essential to your garden and those on your wish list that will fit in your gardening area. By now, you should have all of these features drawn in on your graph paper. Take a good look at your plan to make sure that all of your flowers, vegetables, lawn, and other features are placed in areas that are most appropriate: where they can get the best shade and sun and are aesthetically pleasing.

Now, following your plan, start putting your garden together. It doesn’t all have to be done in the same day. In fact, it’s best to take it slowly and create one area at a time. This way, if you find that some features would really fit another place better, changes can be made before planting.

By: Jude C Wright

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In today’s cramped spaces, even apartment dwellers are keen to have some sort of garden – even if it is a kitchen garden or the terrace garden that means shared garden space, but at least some nature’s beauty for them. So, when people are lucky enough to have a private garden area, then it’s a bigger reason for them to invest in good quality patio furniture of a standard make and quality; when it comes to practicality, affordability and style, there is none to beat the most popular outdoor furniture manufacturer – namely, Garden Oasis patio Furniture Company.

The USP of Garden Oasis Patio Furniture Company is that it produces and sells a wide range of outdoor furniture that is eco-friendly since the wood used for manufacturing its product line comes from well-managed and manually sustainable plantations, not the natural jungle which can affect ecological balance of the earth. Thus, it is an environmentally conscious effort on the part of the manufacturers to create wood-like beautiful and trendy patio furniture.

Their slogan says it best for them: (Where Quality Doesn’t Cost The Earth) – and since this company uses FSC hardwood from their own plantation to make their garden furniture range, it is what discerning customers are accustomed to receiving in terms of quality, style and useful patio set.

Their Napoli Garden Bench in particular is a great model piece of patio furniture that is both hardy and comfortable for two people to sit on and is available at an affordable price (just fifty chips) besides being a space-saving design that is ideal for those with limited garden area. It is made out of Acacia Hardwood and gives the impression of being made of teak-wood, which has been left untreated. If actually left untreated, this variety of Napoli garden bench turns a silvery grey color because its material requires treatment a couple of times a year with good oil to maintain the warm, woody tones to it.

Besides this particular set of Garden Oasis Patio Furniture Company models, there are other trendy and practical patio sets, such as the Prairie Stone collection (also featured in the Sears catalogue) and the separate pieces that can be bought piecemeal if someone does not quite care for the 7-piece set. However, this UK based patio furniture manufacturing company is so well known for its classic designs and timeless beauty to outdoor furniture that people are keen to save up and buy their sets to offset the natural beauty of their garden – modest or luxurious, whatever the space be! So, besides the table, 2 swivel rockers, 4 stackable dining chairs make up the 7-piece set that comes with an enviable hand-applied antique finish to enhance the traditional design of the patio set.

The fabric used on the dining chairs is polyester sling, which is both durable in all weather and also comfortable while the center table comprises a traditional ceramic tile design in 12×12 sizing.

What makes this garden furniture company such a hit with customers is that they also celebrate earth day and ensure their unique range of products also highlight the need for using FSC hardwood in a bid to safeguard precious forest cover, a fact that concerns all of us as responsible citizens of planet earth.

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