| Have you ever taken a walk through a well-made | | | | to have solid boundaries. |
| garden? These types of gardens are not only well | | | | Now it is time to determine the structure of your |
| tended, but there is also a noticeable structure. Small | | | | garden. You need to consider which plants should be |
| fences, fountains, or statues add to the ambience | | | | in the garden, and where they should be positioned, |
| and beauty of the garden and may help to guide | | | | to ensure that all of them grow well. It is important |
| people along or attract their focus to an area. These | | | | that you decide which plants will be harmful next to |
| garden structures are useful additions that add to the | | | | others, and which will compliment their neighboring |
| attractiveness of a garden, but there is one rule | | | | plants. Most importantly overall is to build your garden |
| about structures in a garden. The more natural a | | | | so that it will become it's own structure. |
| garden is, the better. | | | | If a wall must separate the walkway and garden, |
| This is why it is important to set your garden up for | | | | you should start with a picket fence or some artificial |
| success and let the plants guide the person through | | | | structure; then choose bushes that will be firm |
| the beautiful world of your bit of nature. The way to | | | | enough to trim into walls when they are fully-grown. |
| do this is to have a plan for your garden before it | | | | Also, of those tools available, many are tailored to |
| ever gets started. It's important to sit down with a | | | | define which way your plants grow. For example, you |
| piece of paper and outline how you want your | | | | can use a plain wire walkway to create an area for |
| garden to be laid out before you actually get to | | | | people to meander through, especially if you cover it |
| planting. Too often, people just want to go get 10 or | | | | with ivy. |
| 15 plants they like or find attractive and get to work | | | | Remember, nothing happens immediately. When you |
| planting them. This is a lazy thing to do if you are a | | | | first set up your garden, it may look a bit cluttered, |
| gardener. If you were building a house, would you | | | | in spite of your best efforts to reduce that awkward |
| just go out and buy lumber, nails, and a saw and | | | | look while small plants strive to take root. Once your |
| start building away? Of course you wouldn't, so you | | | | plants start hitting their full growth, that unattractive |
| shouldn't do the same with a garden. Just like building | | | | stage ends and you can remove supporting |
| a house, a solid foundation is the most important | | | | structures to leave only nature. By the time plants |
| thing to get started. Figure out what kind of area | | | | have reached full maturity, you'll have an absolutely |
| and space you have to work with. You can leave | | | | beautiful-looking garden. |
| room for expansion later, but for now, it is important | | | | |