Principles of garden designing - Flower gardening

Flower garden designing techniques
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Designing a flower garden (contd)
Features of a flower garden
Different gardens - water garden, bog garden and wild garden
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Different Features of a Garden - Water garden, bog garden and wild garden.

Different features of flower garden explained here.

Water garden

In landscape gardening, use of water in their setting plays a prominent role for many obvious reasons. Garden designers have always produced the most satisfactory results, when they have been able to bring water into their compositions. It is beautiful and attractive at all times and providing a pleasant ever changing surface varying with the change of season and weather.

The murmering streams or a ripping waterfall attract the ears and eyes. The beauty of water-side planting is enhanced by charming reflections. Lovely hybrid of water lilies atld water loving plants are gaining much importance in modern gardening. If in any site of a garden, natural stream, pond or lake exists, water garden is at once assured by planting suitable plants. If no such natural facilities exists, an artificial pool must be formed in a sunny spot. It should fit with the overall garden design. Available space and individual choice well determine the size and shape of the pool.

The success of fountain, however, depends upon obtaining the water at sufficient pressure and skillful plumbing. If surrounded by large basin or pond, upright jets may be adopted. For smaller fountains some simple form of bubbles or jets thrown out from the side of a central arrangement would generally be found most satisfactory.

A sheet of water is not only a welcome feature in the landscape, but also proves useful for boating and fishing in almost all seasons. The beauty of a lake also depends upon reflection of the objects upon the bank. Smoothness and softness of effect have been recommended as the best treatment of the surroundings of the lake. The artificial treatment of water, especially when it is required to form a part of formal scheme, is one of the most costly affairs in the whole practice of garden crafts.

When a rock garden combines with water garden it gives more attractive appearance. A formal garden of this type should be the key note in rock and water gardening. Here, the pool or a series of small pools should combine in an artistic manner surrounded by rock garden.

Bog garden

Though not an important feature in a garden design, bog garden is interesting if facilities to form such type of ground naturally exist at the site. It is not always advisable to level the low lying areas as it creates opportunity for growing some special kind of plants without taking help of any artificial means. Bog garden can be laid out in a marshy spot, partly in sun and in shade and plants can be selected depending upon the moisture of the ground. Deposition of organic matter markedly improves the growth of the plants. It should be specially designed in order to fit the overall plan of the garden.

Wild garden

With the increasing popularity for informal design in gardening, laying out of wild garden is also getting importance in garden planning. It is the desire of man to communicate directly with nature and neutralizing home living with no touch of artificiality.

Combinations of some plants are very attractive in wild garden e.g. fine leaved plants, ferns, climbers, grasses, trailing shrubs and flowers if grown together in informal beds of rough undulated places. A wild garden will show its best when the plants have grown well and this type of garden should be attempted in large garden area. Designing a wild garden requires imagination and careful selection of plants depending on the growth habit of the plants.



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