Start simple for your home garden and see it bloom later.

Start simple for your home garden and see it bloom later.

by Henry Camba

A dreamhome has a home garden as it’s essential component. Make it too complicated, however, and the home garden has an easier chance to destroy the harmony. Besides it is also more difficult to maintain. So a simple home garden is more appropriate to start.

A simple home garden adds beauty and value to your dream house. The attraction is not lost by having a simple garden. It is actually much easier to destroy the balance if your garden is complex and too fully featured. If you plan too much for your garden, especially if it is fairly small, chances are it will end up an eye sore and worse, a pain to maintain.

Simplicity, however, should not be separated from function. A simple home garden can still function in many ways. If you desire a garden with commercial returns, for instance, a small garden can be made up of vegetables which could otherwise be difficult to get or expensive. Likewise, it can be hydroponics in nature and you can have all the exotic plants within your home.

Flowering plants, usually a central feature of home gardens need no professional help to start with. A few correctly selected, planted and placed can a source of delight for you and your visitors for a long time. A simple home garden will stand out more easily in this respect than an overly sophisticated one all crying for attention.

For sufficiently large spaces, however, it may make more sense to create areas for different purposes. However this should not be overdone. There should not be artificial barriers between, say, vegetables and flowers. Playgrounds can be together with playgrounds. Vegetables may make good sense to be together so that harvests can be easily done within the same area.

Easy to maintain plants and vegetables should be grown first. That way you can gain confidence before starting on the more difficult plants. You don’t want to wait for 6 months to know that your first plant was started wrongly! Plant easily so that you get fast results as morale booster before you go for the difficult one.

Use your experience on simpler plants to go for the more challenging ones. The simpler successes will help you feel good if you happen to fail in the more difficult plants later.

Start simple and you have the chance to see it grow. Start big and chances are you will fail. Grow with your experience and do not force it. After all, a garden are filled up with living beings needing love and care. Before you know it, in fact, you will have a simple but successful home garden, a pleasure for your soul and your heart.

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Posted in Gardening on Aug 24th, 2008, 4:34 pm by Henry Camba   

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