Design a garden for free
You don't need to spend thousands on landscape designers. Design a garden for free!
If you've been gardening for a while, but find you'd like to redesign your garden, with an updated look or more sophisticated features, you can do it yourself, for free. If you've just bought a home with bare dirt as your only landscaping feature, you, too, can easily design a garden for free. How, you say? Free garden designs and landscaping ideas and advice are available at hundreds of home and garden DIY websites. Here are several ways to make the most of expert advice and create your own dream garden.
Your first step is to scope out some of the garden design sites to see which ones have ideas suited to your sense of style and size of garden. Most of these sites do offer a range of garden design plans applicable to both urban and rural gardens, and everything in between.
Most also offer free e-newsletters, with articles on landscaping design or gardening advice which can be valuable in your efforts towards designing a garden for free. For example, you may have decided to include a bed of gladiolas, your favorite flower, next to your vegetable garden. That sounds lovely! That is, until you learn from an e-newsletter gardening tip, that gladiolas are the arch enemy of a vigorous tomato plant.
Read the newsletter archives and other articles of each site which may give you tidbits which will influence your design plan. You can learn how to create an illusion of spaciousness in a small area, or how to install a berm, build a brick pathway or a stone retaining wall. All of this information is inspirational and useful when designing a garden for free.
Sure, if you hire a professional landscape designer, that person knows every facet of garden design. On the other hand, it's your garden. You know just how you and your family intend to use the garden space, without spending a small fortune. Besides, the time you spend designing a garden for free is fun and educational.
When you've gained some new ideas, along with an array of plants you'd like to include in your garden design, it's time to take advantage of the hundreds of free downloadable garden layouts, some of which include plant suggestions geared to your growing zone.
Other resources available to the DIY'er seeking to design a garden for free, includes garden design software and garden design courses by email, at no cost! Garden design books and Home and Garden television programs are yet additional resources.
When you design a garden for free, you can take all the time you want, tweaking your design until it's perfect. You can tackle just one section at a time, if you wish. In the end, you'll have the garden of your dreams, done by your own hard work – and maybe teens and your hubby lending a hand with some of the heavier tasks!