A Garden is Relaxation, Not an Item on your "must do" list

Your garden should is the place to “recharge your battery”, to relax and have fun. The fact that is all too often seen as a lot of work can be easily avoided if we plan right. We can fit our garden design to our needs, if that is low-maintenance but great looking. Why not. Smart Garden Design and the use of some new technologies will get you there, in this series I want to show you how. We have helped dozens of people rearranging their garden to their needs, so just stay with us and we will show you the way. There are a few principles that we will have to keep in mind and that will leverage your result immensely Applying these principles will give you time to

• to enjoy the beauty of your garden
• Relax after a day’s work
• Entertain guests
• And do whatever else you want to do

And so far for the intro, our aim in this series is to lower the maintenance load without compromising the beauty and diversity of plants.

The law of garden laziness is to encourage plants you want to grow and discourage any other plant.

We have to really think about

• The choice of the plants and the way in which you use them.
• There are many plants that don’t need a lot of attention and work

You will dramatically decrease the workload in your garden by implementing an intelligent design. Plus some more technical measures we will discuss later.

Advantages

If you don’t have a huge property the time you spend on tending your garden can be less than a half hour per week. And we do that without a single compromise to the landscaping quality of the garden and patio.

If you remove the more labor intensive elements like a lawn and the very labor intensive plants you can lower your workload even further and go on holiday for a few weeks and return to a nicely growing garden.

Let’s start with some basics

Make a list of the garden tasks you enjoy and the ones that are a burden.

• With our plan we make garden design an easy and logical process.
• If for example you love growing plants but you hate to dig out weeds. Design in a way that discourages every plant except the ones you choose. That will take care of most of the weed burden. Don’t worry we’ll show you how If you have no time to mow the lawn, you have to look for a neighborhood kid or find ways to gracefully get rid of the lawn altogether. There are lots of great ways to replace or reduce the size of the lawn.

Designing a smart garden is not difficult, and this series will walk you through it. It is however with these gardens of more importance that you

• Soil and Plants are a good fit
• That each plant gets the place where he will be at his best
• If necessary replace soil and use ornaments as containers.

In fact what it all bowls down to is plan better. And because of it you work smarter not harder.

Over the coming weeks you will receive:

· Tips and howto’s on Smart Garden Design · Plants, Soil and the use of hard and soft objects · Technical tips, and howto’s

Next week we will take our garden design as focus, and give you some rules of the thump to spot labor intensive parts in the garden.

We would love to hear from you. You can reach us by email through barbarawibault@live.com and MSN at that address.