A garden is a designed space which is mostly outdoors, set on the side for a display, for cultivating or just for decorative purpose. The garden can have both fabricated and natural materials. The most common form of garden is a residential garden. All the western gardens are based on plants. Zoos that had a display of animals with natural habitats were known as zoological garden. The term ‘garden’ means enclosure. In British English, this term means an enclosed area of land, which adjoins a building. In American English, it is referred as yard.
Many gardens are for ornamental purposes and others for food crops. Food gardens are very different from ornamental gardens in various ways. Flower gardens have a combination of texture, color, height and fragrance. All the gardens have a different design, layout and the way of planting. The garden owners do the designing of the garden. There are many professional garden designers; they are trained in designing and horticulture. The basic elements of garden designing are landscape, rockeries, water features, decking, paths and the plants.
Designing your own garden is not difficult. Here are some tips on how to create you own garden
How to create a Fairy Garden
Things Required:
• Land (with 6 hours of sun light)
• Bricks, wood edging, stones
• Herbs
• Flowers
• Top soil
• Fairy figurines (if required)
• Fairy furniture (if required)
• Gravel for pathways (if required)
Steps:
• Choose a place in the corner for a garden and make a small bed in your yard. It should not be big. Always keep in mind that the flowers and herbs need at least 6 hours of sunlight everyday.
• Make raised beds for the herbs, with the help of bricks, wood edging or wood. Fill this area with top soil. Sketch the plant design on a piece of paper.
• Start planting and begin with fairy roses. These pink fairy roses will last the entire growing season. These flowers are disease resistant and sturdy. They need support while growing up, you will have to put some small trellis, which will grow in poor soil and can bear some neglect.
• You can also put a large pot of rosemary or little pots. There is some legend about the rosemary , the Sicilian fairy babies slept in these flowers.
• Use variety of thyme to create a carpet. Plant the thyme right in the middle of your garden. To give wild effects to your garden, plant some Scatter Johnny Jump-Ups. These flowers are self-sowing and grow everywhere.
• If you want to invite the fairies to your garden, plant some foxgloves. It is believed that fairies nestle, sleep and dream in foxgloves.
• Planting bluebells is also a good idea. Fairies wander and dance in the light of the moon by the ringing of bluebells.
• In the corner of your garden, plant some violets. It was said that fairy queen treasures the violets in a very sacred way.
• Every fairy garden must have lavender. Without the purple blossoms, there will be no grace in your fairyland.
• To give your garden a look of tiny village, you can make pathways with tiny pebbles. Add some fairy furniture. You can also place some fairy figurines to give it a lively effect.
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