From picking the right flowers to decorating your garden shed, here’s everything you need to know to create a beautiful backyard.
To make a shallow yard seem larger, use horizontal layers of different heights to create the illusion of depth, such as low shrubs before a slightly higher fence, flower beds and an arbor beyond, and taller shrubs near the house.
This way, you won’t have to keep going back and forth and search for the trowel or rake you just know is in the garage somewhere.
It’s better to give your lawn and plants and good soaking less frequently than several sprinklings more often. The reason is that the roots, the only part of the plant that can really absorb the water, lie underneath the soil. Small waterings are quickly absorbed by the topsoil, or even the matting of the pant material the covers
Garden tool can get dull easily—especially the ones that prune bark-covered branches and hack through tough, fibrous roots—so sharpen the blades from time to time. An ordinary mill file, available at any hardware or home improvement store, is all you need.
Glam up your backyard workspace by adding plenty of surfaces for cutting flowers and a sink for washing muddy hands. You can also utilize the walls to hang brooms, rakes, or other gardening tools.
To attract butterflies to your garden, concentrate on plants with long blooming cycles, such as hollyhocks, coneflowers, nasturtiums, sunflowers, and even blossoming weeds. Blooming herbs are a special treat, as irresistible to butterflies as apple pit is to humans.
By combining flowers and plants of different shapes, you can add interest to a backyard border—even when little is blooming.
These otherworldly flowers open as early as December and often stick around well into April. Get the plants in the ground in the spring and you just might find yourself looking forward to next winter.
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