Ideas For The Perfect Backyard Garden
So you want a backyard garden but aren’t sure just what to do? Below you will find 5 garden ideas from avid gardeners that you can use to create a garden paradise of your own.
1. Butterfly Garden: Rosemary Willis designed this gem by stuffing her backyard chock-full of plants and flowers that attract butterflies.
Bright colors and sweet scents are a must for butterflies. Fortunately, humans enjoy these sensational qualities, as well. Not only is Rosemary\'s garden beautiful, aromatic, and full of life, but as an added bonus, butterflies tend to eat the kinds of bugs that annoy people.
2. An English garden is one of the oldest types of backyard gardens in the world. Certain very specific types of plants and flowers are very intrinsic to the English garden. The English have very traditional gardens that include wild flowers, hedges, and paths. Some designers have also including garden globes and statuary in their otherwise traditional English gardens.
3. Cat Garden: Sissy Nye-Robison has done something out of the ordinary- she designed her garden around her cats! She planted plenty of cat grass and catnip, along with birdhouses and plants to attract butterflies to arouse and motivate her cats. She planted wisteria plants and small tress for her cats to climb or perch upon. Sissy mentions that cat lovers should make sure all plants are non-poisonous for cats when they decide to purchase any.
4. Black and White Garden: Pilar Sota designed these striking backyard gardens to be beautiful both during the day and at night. By day, dark, rich, violets and sparkling whites make beautiful patterns. By night, the white plants reflect the moonlight, taking on an almost ethereal quality.
5. Love cuddling up in bed every night with a warm cup of tea? The aroma, the warmth, the flavor. Imagine this same experience every time you walk out to your backyard patio. Create a tea garden right in your own backyard and incorporate some of the ideas Janice LaRoux used when she created her aromatic tea garden with over 50 plants.
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