Garden Plans - planning your garden

An attractive garden is a dream which requires proper planning and careful nurturing. To create a beautiful landscape around your dream home you need basic garden plans to begin with. These plans are generally provided by a professional garden planner or landscape designer.

The garden plans can be of many types. You can plan for more than just beautifying your garden, your garden plans can also be made to decide the theme of the garden. Some of the popular garden plans are:

* Garden for full sun
* Garden for shade
* Corner of grasses
* Corner of shrubs
* Corner of perennials
* Island bed
* Privacy garden
* Butterfly garden
* Fragrant garden
* Vegetable garden
* Bird-friendly garden
* Clay soil garden

Garden plans give an aesthetic dimension to the garden along with its basic theme. Colour schemes, quality and variety of plants, height of the plants, border, flooring etc are implemented to give the garden its uniqueness. The colour scheme of the garden is created blending the different coloured and textured plants. The plants are also selected according to their height which creates the contour of the garden and the skyline of the garden. Garden plans also include the kind of plants to be used according to the theme chosen. For example, a fragrant garden will contain flower plants while bird-friendly gardens will have the high trees for the birds to reside. A butterfly garden may have the plants that caterpillars feed on.

Garden plans help the gardener develop both beautiful and emotionally restorative spaces. A garden can provide a visual, perfumed, tactile, sensory experience. The garden design needs to compliment the home and connect the interiors with the external environment, making the most of the available usable areas. Master planners know that the selection of plants is of equal importance along with their strategic placement on the landscape. Garden plans also include the planning of the garden features, arbours, gazebos as well as garden furniture.

It is recommended that you start plannig your garden in advance of starting work. That way you can be sure that your garden plan is properly costed and you have a timescale in mind which you can agree with your suppliers and contractors.