Learn the most important tips for designing the best gardens

How do you approach a small house garden design project? What gardening tools should you buy? What tools do you not have to buy? And how do you make the exterior design of your home look like a work designed by gardening and landscaping experts... Sometimes, when you start establishing a home garden, you have a lot of expectations. That makes you start thinking, measuring, distributing, choosing the most suitable garden machines, etc.

Today in this article we want to help you design or repair your garden if you want to enjoy it more during the coming months of sun, light and good weather.

• take your time

The first advice that we will show you to design your garden in a short time and with very good and clear results. It is advice that all experts will give you, which is: Do not touch a blade of grass without an idea and plan for your future garden.

For a gardening project it will help you: The time you will spend planning

- Browse every square meter of available space looking at terrain details, the distance separating each part of your home, weak areas, etc.

-You have to observe the terrain at different times of the day to see how sunlight affects space.

- You have to think about the necessary practical aspects such as the budget you need not only to design and create the garden, but also to maintain it properly, what you would like to grow and what you will not, and what tools or machines you will need to work comfortably and get the best results in a short time. (lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, trimmers, leaf blowers and vacuum cleaners, etc.)

• Put the answers to the main questions on paper.

Our first tip was to take your time to imagine your future garden. The second piece of advice is to write down on a piece of paper the answers to the following main questions that certainly emerged during that period of thinking: These questions are:

-Why do we want to use the park?

Before you start designing a garden, you need to think about the use we will give this space. Maybe we want to have a small garden to plant some aromatic herbs or hedges of roses or geraniums, or maybe we want to tackle a more complex project and design an outdoor space with areas for eating, playing and planting...

-Who will maintain my garden?

Surely you have seen a lot of pictures of gardens full of flowers, ornamental plants, aromatic herbs, wonderful Zen ponds, gazebos, gazebos, playgrounds, swimming pools... We would all like to enjoy a special landscape like this, but the main question we should ask ourselves is what to do when we see those wonderful small or large gardens. In magazines, who cares about maintenance?

If you are going to do it yourself, evaluate the time you will need so that every corner of your garden is in perfect magazine condition in any season of the year. If you work from sunrise to sunset, you may have to think about a minimalist design of your garden, placing resistant plants that almost take care of themselves, changing the gazebo for a built-in barbecue, reducing the space you devote to areas that take longer to maintain, etc.

- How much will my garden cost?

A fairly common mistake that many people who design their own garden make is to calculate only the budget necessary to start the work: machines that must be paid for only once, fences or closures, irrigation system, tool shed, etc., but they do not include Maintenance expenses in their accounts.

There are many factors that affect the cost of maintaining a garden, but one is particularly important: the type of vegetation you will include. Each plant, tree, shrub, flower, aromatic herb, etc., has special needs in terms of soil type, quantity and quality of water, fertilizers... There are plant species that require practically no budget and others that you may need. Sorry you planted, so… do the math and answer the million dollar question “How much will my garden cost now… and tomorrow”.

• Take advantage of new technologies

Today we have the huge advantage that we can find software to design practically anything, for example: a professional-looking home garden, for example:

Marshall Garden Visualizer . An interesting 3D tool that has the huge advantage of displaying realistic images of future gardens

Garden Puzzle: A simple program that allows you to design the main part of your garden in a few minutes.

These are just two examples, in future articles we will tell you more details about software and mobile applications that can help you design all types of gardens, especially small gardens. Anyway, if you prefer to design your future garden with pencil and paper, go ahead! The project will be a little more difficult, but definitely just as effective.