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Garden Design Tips.
It is great fun to plan out your own designer garden. You can design the perfect garden to meet your needs! People will take great effort to personlise and create a unique look to their home, but often the garden is left to follow a standard design plan.
The following brief guides will hopefully provide you with some useful starting points for designing your own garden.
Build a Rockery
A classic garden feature and well worth considering in any design plan. The best time to build and plant the rockery will be in the early spring, when all new growth is starting. This will give the newly planted rockery a chance to establish itself.
General building guides:
- Select a site receives a good amount of sunlight. Then remove the turf in the area you plan to build the rockery on. Keep the turf stored to one side.
- If the area is flat, you may want to build up a level of earth and base material, old bricks, and non-toxic garden waste can be used.
- Lay the turf upside down over the rubble and firm down. Fresh soil will be needed to raise the level further still. If possible, this should be mixed with coarse grit (4mm to 6mm is ideal) and some generous handfuls of bonemeal or a similar slow-release fertiliser.
- Now you can add in the rocks. It is a good idea to use local rock if possible, as this will look more natural to your area. Bury at least half the rock to help the plants' roots remain cool in summer and survive any drought. The rocks should be placed together to make appropriate planting areas.
- Top dress the bare soil with gravel that matches your rock. This prevents the soil drying out too quickly and stops the small plants being splashed with mud during heavy rain.
- It is a good idea to let the garden settle for a few months before planting. This way, any subsidence can easily be repaired without disturbing the planting.
When the rockery has settled and you are ready to plant it, use bulbs and a range of suitable rockery plants. Consult you local suppliers to see the range available. You can use dwarf conifers and shrubs as the permanent framework, and alpine plants and bulbs inserted in the gaps.
