Small Garden Design - How to Get Started

Or you've decided to start a small garden, but where do you start? The first step in any small garden design project considering the kind of garden you want to grow.

You want a small garden with lots of colors? Do you want flowers, you can cut and put inside? If yes, then you need to think about the design of gardens. You want to combine an interest in the kitchen with a small garden design or herb garden design? You may want to consider a combination garden.

Once you have a starting point on the type of garden you want, before you start designing your garden, you should consider a few things ...

What is your planting area?

How many times your garden gets the sun during the day?

Is the change amount of the sun during the day and the seasons?

If your garden is a small part of a meter, what else is already growing in this area?

Start with your planting area. What is a planting area? In North America, the USDA has created a hardiness zone map divides North America into 11 different areas of the plantation. A range of high and low temperature of each defined area. Although there are limitations to the use of a map of the area, which will give you an idea of ​​whether a plant to survive in our climate.

Some sources of information are the plantation area to the back of seed packets, in the description of the plant and the Internet. This information will not only help you determine if a plant can survive in your climate range, but how early you can plant a particular plant in your area. Although maps of the area are not perfect, they can provide a good starting point for the determination of plants to use in the design of your garden.

One of the most important factors to determine the types of plants you can use as you develop your small garden design will be the amount of sun you get in the area you want to plant. If it is a container garden for your patio, terrace, balcony or roof or a small terrace where you can pitch, you need to spend a little time to assess the amount of sun you get in this area. Do you have the sun for 6-8 hours a day? This is the area where the morning sun and afternoon shade or shade in the morning sun and afternoon?

The amount of sun you get in your planting area will determine whether you can plant sun lovers, shade plants, or plants that can take sun / partial shade. Armed with the information about your planting area and the amount of light in your area, the next step is to begin to identify the types of plants you want in your garden design. Now the fun begins ...