How to design a beautiful garden

Designing a beautiful garden can range from low cost creative ideas to costly designer furnishings available in the market. You can start making your garden beautiful with the things you already have at home or consider useless. You just need to be creative with them. While of course, there is no limit to spending on a decorative garden. From French marble to unique art sculptures and water features, you can have them all. In fact, landscaping companies have a lot of services that can transform your garden into a living, breathing heaven.
Before we opt for a landscaping company, let’s try designing your garden ourselves, where we can spend a little and create wonders. A beautifully designed garden begins with the knowledge of the plants and trees. If you know the colors, flowers and fruits they bear in a particular season, you can have a gala throughout the year.

1.Mix different color – Splash colors with different flowering plants in your garden. Go for lilies, roses, daffodils, hibiscus, bougainvillea, and other flowering plants that break up the green and provide variety, contrast and focal points.
2.Hedge designs – Hedges can add a lot to the beauty of the garden. If you have a lot of flowering plants, you can skip the flowering hedges and opt for the evergreen ones. Maintain and trim them well. The ones that change color in different seasons can add a pleasant tone to your garden as well.
3.Group plants and trees – Want an evergreen or rather ever colorful garden? Grouping is the ideal way. Group plants with different flowering seasons together. There are winter, summer and annual flowering plants and trees. This way you’ll always have some greens and some flowers in every part of your garden. But make sure that one plant shouldn’t be a parasite for the other.
4.Colorful and designer pots – Using colorful and designer pots is an addition to the garden art. You can either buy or color your existing pots. You can also use dry twigs and jute for rugged look of your pots. These simple yet creative designs make the garden look more lively and beautiful.
5.Furniture – Table and chairs, benches, cane furniture, there are a lot of options available for garden furniture. Adding some colors to the garden furniture can also be a real draw-card. Always choose to place your furniture near fragrant flowers to enjoy the beauty and engage the senses even further.

6.Lights – Placing lights creatively can add tons of beauty to your garden. It will also keep your garden illuminated at night.
7.Pathways and driveways – Pathways and driveways add to the elegance of a garden and give you a clean walkway in rains. Landscaping companies offer many designs and budgets for each type of pathway.

8.Garden art – Adding some catchy frames, big metal flower pots, cushions to the furniture and some decorative colorful stones to the flower pots are some of the examples of garden art. As long as you’re experimenting, there is no limit. Just keep things fun and creative, but don’t go overboard.
9.Ornamental designs – As we mentioned in the beginning, garden designing can start with something as irrelevant as a wooden log and can go up to spending thousands of dollars, depending upon your creativity and budget. Water features like fountains, driveways, patios and decks, fencing, parking lots and designer entry ways are some of them.
Simple concepts can make a huge difference to the enjoyment of your garden space. So go on and experiment with all these tips to design your garden your way.

Author Bio:
Tender Care Lawn is a dedicated lawn care company started by Donald Lapoint and family in 2004 in southwest Louisiana. Our goal is to provide affordable, dependable, quality Landscape Maintenance Services. We believe in complete customer satisfaction. Our services include grass cutting, fertilization, weed control, shrub and hedge trimming in the Sulphur, Lake Charles, Moss Bluff, Westlake, Carlyss and surrounding areas.

7 Useful Tips for Growing Flowering Plants

Flowers are the essence of a beautiful lawn. These blooming beauties not only make your garden spectacular but also add value to your property. Since flowering plants need more attention all the landscaping companies provide special services for them.

If you still don’t have some, perhaps it’s time you should think of trying out some. Flowers also make an inviting space for birds to visit and share their song.

There’s a large variety to choose from and some precautions to be taken. Here’re a few basics, you need to learn for understanding flowering plants:

1. Design your lawn first – It’s good to have a mental picture of your lawn. You can also start with drawing a rough map. This will help you understand what exactly you want your lawn to look like once you have the flower beds in place.
   1. Shape and size of flowering plant – You can also judge the area available for the the plants you choose. Also, grouping plants of similar height or planting the taller plants behind the shorter ones is a good way of giving your lawn a multi-color and multi-layer look.
   2. Color of flowers – Always try to plant colors that look vibrant around each other. You can also try the same plant that comes in a variety of colors to give your garden a symmetrical look.
2. Ample sunshine – Most of the flowering plants need 6 to 8 hours of sunlight everyday during the growing season. It’s best to analyse such a space in your lawn before bringing in these plants.
3. Balanced soil – Most of the flowering plants need balanced soil that’s neither too sandy nor too sticky. You should also test the pH and fertility level of the soil before starting with these plants. Most of the landscaping companies offer this service and also provide testing kits if you’re keen on doing it on your own.
4. Manure and fertilizers – Flowering plants require a little more organic matter and better amount of fertilizer in the soil to make flowers so their requirements are a little more as compared to non-flowering plants.
5. Selecting the right flowering plant – There are the two main types of flowering plants, annuals and perennials.
   1. Annual flowering plants have one life cycle, growing in one season. They sprout in their season, grow leaves and roots, produce flowers, create seeds and then die. They bloom abundantly but require more watering and fertilizing.
   2. While perennials on the other hand are the plants whose root systems stay alive underground for years. They go dormant in winter, but sprout again in spring. They bloom moderately but provide a steady structure for a garden.
   3. It’s best to have a combination of a few annuals and a few perennials that bloom in different seasons to have an ever flowering garden.
6. Insect and disease resistance – Make sure to learn about the common insects and diseases that infest the flowering plant of your choice. Since flowering plants have more colors and fragrance they tend to attract more bugs. It’s recommended to choose the flowers that are naturally resistant and are native to your region.
7. Transplanting or seeds – While transplanting your favorite flowers is easier and also offers instant gratification by blooming immediately, there’re a few good ones that only come in the form of seeds. Moreover, sometimes when transplanted, the plant doesn’t trive well and dies in a few days or weeks. On the other hand, growing from seeds is a slower task and needs more dedication and care. Hence, it’s suggested to visit a lawn care company and get the right information before starting with the planting process.

Flowering plants may seem to be a more tedious task with all the attention and care they need but you can’t deny the fact that they bring colors and liveliness to your surroundings. Also, if you plan the planting process, read labels, seed packets and catalog descriptions carefully while buying plants and take proper guidance and services from good landscaping companies, you can have a blooming garden, all year long. Our land care services include lawn care, power washing, mosquito spraying, mini excavator work, fertilization and weed control, sprinkler system programming and repair, shrub and hedge trimming, and landscape maintenance.