Friday, 4 September 2009

Plan Design and Planting of Your Garden Now

Now is the time to take a hard look at your garden. Its more or less done its bit for the year and you know where it did and didnt quite do it for you.
Seek professional advice and call in a garden designer. He or she or I will look at your space with an unbiased eye. As it is still in flower it is far easier to appraise. One can immediately tell what's good and what needs to go. In late autumn or winter, after die-back, one can only guess and its amazing how even you can forget quite what is and isnt planted.
Even a garden that needs a total overhaul benefits from an early site analysis. Overhanging trees for example are not nearly so obvious in winter. By the time you have got a design, approved, got quotations for the work, started and completed construction -it will be the end of October. November is the perfect month to plant. Although one can plant in Spring, if it's a dry Spring as we have been experiencing these last 3 years, it is not nearly as desirable as planting in late Autumn. All new plants need massive watering and no irrigation system works as well as Nature.
As soon as you have called your garden designer, go out and buy a couple of garden magazines for inspiration. It will make you feel that much more confident when chatting to the designer and also help the designer know what the effect is that you would like to achieve.
After all its your garden , your space and you know how you want to use it.
Call me now on 077 100 37002 to arrange a time.