Can we create an innovative home Garden?|
G. Ravishankar
Have you ever wondered how prudently innovative gardens can be developed? Before initiating your efforts to create a garden, think of innovative ideas. To contact good gardeners and get their unique experience will helpful. Here are the few thoughts shared by Gardeners to purchase plants diligently.
I have to buy a pot of the first purple hyacinths of the season. In summer, I pick up small pots of Shasta daisies and those short-stemmed sunflowers that look so good on the patio table. Plus a few white cosmos and last spring, the wild, bright orange things whose name I don't remember. Small pots of red florist roses are gorgeous on the holiday table in December and of course I pot up an amaryllis or two -- every single year. One February I bought a small quince tree in blossom, trimmed it up, and put it into a petite urn on the buffet table for a Valentine's party. How sweet! my guests agreed.
I plant all the potted flowers into my garden when they are spent; usually in March and often when it is raining. I run outside, dig a hole, plop the plant in, run inside. I don't look back. I don't think about what's out there until one warm April day, the first day of spring plant fever.
Surveying the garden in April, you see nothing. The ground is bare except for a few sticks poking up at you. Did everything die? Just in case, I climb into the old Jeep and go get a few things at the nurseries. It takes two trips.
Come May or June, the old things all start to "come back." By July, they are up to my shoulders. Eight years worth of potted daisies invade the perfect circle of daylilies that I unwittingly planted between them on that lovely April day of spring plant fever. The cosmos, who must be related to the Crusaders, overrun the roses.
The purple clematis and moonlight nasturtiums battle for supremacy on the fence. The unusual bright orange things run wild through "Love in a Mist" and surround every bed. The quince tree is no longer sweet. It is so rangy that you can't see the delphiniums behind it.
Just think of unique ideas, analyse various options and you will enjoy the experience of innovative and exotic garden.