Fill your home with life and color by creating your own garden.
1. Find the style that best suits your home.
The first thing to decide is which style best suits your taste and your home. We often think that what works best aesthetically, is a single style for the whole garden, but it can also be divided or separated into different areas with a different style in each of them. There are no strict rules when it comes to style. Here are the different types of gardens that can inspire you to create your space of nature at home.
Herbaceous border garden (Herbaceous border)
This garden has a formal planting style consisting exclusively of herbaceous perennials, which will look their best from early spring through fall. It is often a single color and primarily uses perennials, shrubs, and bushes. perennials, shrubs and topiary are used.. It is a beautiful planting style that requires constant care and maintenance to keep our plants looking beautiful and healthy.
Cottage garden (Cottage garden)
The country or cottage style garden has a very natural feel to it, and although it may look messy, the key is to get a mix of flowering plants, some wild looking and others more elegant, aromatic herbs and even some vegetables.
Gravel garden
A gravel garden is an alternative to a lawn and instead grows plants that require little water, such as cacti or succulents. cacti or succulents y cycadaceae. It can cover large areas and has an informal, rustic look. In addition, its maintenance is minimal compared to the care required for grass.
Meadow garden
Meadow planting combines ornamental grasses with late blooming perennials to create a natural meadow look. It’s all about letting plants and flowers grow without restriction, but without forgetting style and elegance. Meadow garden care requires only moderate watering. Once established, you can install an automatic watering system. install an automatic watering system.
Swampy garden
This type of gardens are ideal for those areas that are permanently humid or poorly drained as they are ideal for plants that require humidity. Attention must be paid to maintenance since it is important to have an irrigation plan that guarantees optimum humidity conditions.
Tropical or exotic garden
Tropical gardens are characterized by their exuberant appearance as they combine large-leafed plants with vibrant and eye-catching colorful flowers. They are gardens that generate a great visual impact thanks to their colorful foliage with different sizes, shapes and textures of leaves interspersed with colorful flowers and fruit trees. fruit trees to create a lively look reminiscent of a jungle.
Urban garden
Urban gardens are a protected microclimate but face the pollution and scarcity of city resources, so the plants we choose must be hardy year-round and long-lasting in bloom. Small to medium-sized herbaceous plants and easy-care vines will give our garden a bold, contemporary feel.
Wooded garden
A woodland garden is perfect for an area of the garden that is shaded by trees. To give a woodland feel to the garden, all those small shrubs and trees, ground covers and mosses, along with other shade-loving perennials are suitable.
Wild garden
The wild garden has a natural air created with plants and species that abound in the fields spontaneously. It tries to reproduce the wild nature in our land and results in a simple but resistant garden that does not require excessive maintenance.
2. Choose a balanced combination
A good combination of plants is key to the design process of your garden. It is possible to create a harmonious yet eye-catching garden project by playing with different types and sizes of plants, foliage shapes and flower colors to create a contrasting effect.
Combination of different types of plants and flowers
Different types of plants and flowers can be grown to give a sense of depth to the garden composition. The variety of heights and shapes will bring personality and vitality to the garden.
For the composition of any garden, what works best are perennials for their color and foliage and which serve as a framework for interspersing between them other types of plants.
Another fundamental aspect when designing a garden is to pay attention to the different textures of the leaves and their blooms, which in the case of aromatic plants with scented flowers, will be one more aspect to take into account in order to personalize the aroma of the garden.
Color combinations
The secret of a successful mix of plants and flowers in a garden lies in knowing how to identify the colors that combine best with each other. For this reason, applying color theory is fundamental to create intense, soft or showy effects.
In order to combine plants of many colors in the most suitable way possible, the key is the conjugation of colors from the primary ones (yellow, blue and red) with the secondary ones (green, violet and orange) and whose combination will give rise to the tertiary ones, which are the predominant colors in nature.
In a matter of color combinations there is nothing written and it will depend on the tastes of each person. Betting on a monochromatic combination should not be boring if we know how to intersperse one or more plant species with a single flowering color.
Both greens and browns can give rise to fantastic gardens by playing with shades and textures. If we opt for analogous colors, it will be enough to choose those colors that form gradual tonalities and that serve to create compositions of similar tones, thus giving the garden a cold aspect if blues and greens are chosen or a warm aspect if yellows, oranges and reds are chosen.
At the other extreme would be the complementary colors that are on opposite sides chromatically speaking, thus creating a contrast more striking and with more strength as could be for example a blue-yellow or a green-red. Finally, neutral colors (grays and whites) are often used as a wild card to highlight other colors, thus creating a contrast between light and dark colors.
Combination according to size
It is very important that no specimen steals the limelight to another, so those trees and plants that have greater height, will act as background and in front of them will be placed those plants with smaller size to give a harmonious and balanced effect, so it is essential that none of them overshadow the other.
3. Give the final touch to your garden: Pots and pots
Whether you have a large or small plot of land or simply have a patio or balcony, the choice of pots and planters offers a multitude of opportunities to turn the garden into a focal point that brings life and defines your home.
There is a wide variety of plants that can be grown in pots, from hardy garden plants to bulbs, herbaceous plants, fruits and vegetables and even shrubs and trees. However, it is important to know how to give them the best possible conditions because plants grown in pots need a little more pampering than those grown in the ground.
Choosing a good location
It is essential to place the pots in a suitable location according to the needs of the plants that will grow in them. Plants that require at least six hours of sunlight per day should be placed in south or west facing locations. On the contrary, plants that need less sunlight should be placed in shady areas.
To better preserve the plants, it is advisable to protect them from the cold and wind that can dry and damage their leaves and flowers, so if possible, it is recommended to take advantage of walls, fences and hedges to act as a shield. Whenever pots are placed on a wall or balcony, it is necessary to ensure a good fixation to avoid accidents.
Choosing the ideal pot
When it comes to pots and planters, the options are almost endless with an infinity of shapes, sizes, colors and materials ranging from plastic to terracotta or wood and it is even a trend to recycle buckets or cans that would otherwise end up in the garbage. There are no strict rules but what is important is that the containers are large enough to provide the plants with the necessary space to grow and that they have adequate drainage.
Choosing the right fertilizer
The choice of fertilizer is important because it is a factor on which depends that the cultivation of plants and flowers are given properly. The fertilization of soils and plants is key for them to look healthy and, in the same way, fertilizers, irrigation water and substrate must be taken into account.
Whether it is universal fertilizer bought in specialized stores or the ones you get in Roots Macaronesia or homemade compost, it will provide nutrients and retain moisture in your pots. Avoid using garden soil as it is not only heavy but can lead to weed growth.
Irrigation water for pots
Plants growing in pots depend only on the irrigation water that we supply them with, so we must water our plants more frequently than if they were growing in soil. Special care should be taken especially on very hot and sunny days as the compost dries out in a few hours. In summer it is advisable to water the plants well in the morning or at night and make sure that the water penetrates well to the roots.
Necessary nutrients
Just as potted plants have limited access to water, so do nutrients. They will need to meet the need for nutrients through the use of slow-release fertilizers or by adding them to the irrigation water. In the growing stages, it is advisable to feed them every fortnight for them to develop healthy and vital.
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