Guides For New Gardeners #RainbowGardenParadise

Guides For New Gardeners #RainbowGardenParadise

Gardening is an activity that every person can do. Even if you are convinced that you have a "black thumb" you can learn how to grow a garden. Give yourself time and eventually you'll learn how to grow everything from flowers to food to trees! People fail at gardening because they assume that growing a garden is easy. While you should eventually find gardening quite simple, when you first start out there is quite a lot to learn. Planting and watering are only two parts of growing a successful garden. Here are a few tricks to that you can use to improve the quality of your first garden.

Decide which flowers and foods you want to grow before you begin the planting process. Do you love the idea of having your own rose garden? Have you been toying with the idea of growing your own herbs? Learn what you can about your plants before planting so that you can make sure to set up your garden correctly. Different plants require different types of care. You can easily avoid mistakes (like watering too often) if you learn everything you can about the plants you want to grow before you actually plants them. Other mistakes that can be avoided include putting the wrong nutrients into your soil Basically, making sure that you grow a great garden means that you have to do some research ahead of time.

Bell peppers make great additions to any garden. You can put these plants in direct sunlight (they love the sun) and they'll grow in both containers and the ground. You won't need to water them very often. Because these plants originated in arid places that did not get a lot of rainfall bell peppers actually seem to prefer dry soil. People who like to grown their own veggies and fruits love the bell peppers because there are so many different kinds to choose from. These are fruits that ripen quickly-usually between two and three months after they are planted-which is another reason they are so popular amongst beginning gardeners. These plants are incredibly low maintenance: make sure they get enough bright light, put some nutrients into their soil patches and water them once in a while and they will grow like gangbusters!
Composting is a great way to keep your garden healthy. Compost can be made at home without having to make any special purchases.

Beginning your own compost pile is easy. It can be made from fruit and vegetable scraps from your meals, coffee grounds, tea bags, egg shells, old flowers that have died (the cuttings you've had in vases around your house are great for a compost pile), grass clippings, bedding from hamster, rabbits and guinea pig cages and even used paper! Just leave the meat out of it and your compost pile will be just fine. You have now grown your own fertilizer to use in your very own garden!

Gardening does not have to be difficult. If you have the right gardening hints handy you can grow a wonderful garden. Sometimes all you need is a little bit of time and knowledge to become a first rate gardener. It also can't hurt to practice. Just be vigilant and eventually you will grow a wonderful garden. Nobody was born knowing instinctively how to create a successful garden-even experts had to start somewhere. Not one single gardener grew a perfect plant the first time he or she tried gardening.

Want to Know About Japanese Garden? #RainbowGardenParadise

Want to Know About Japanese Garden? #RainbowGardenParadise

To see a Japanese garden is to remember it forever. There uniqueness and precision are unforgettable and leave a lasting impression on the memory.

In Japan there are many types of garden construction and their origins stretch back over hundreds and thousands of years and they have gradually developed styles of their own over time. I am going to concentrate in this article on the most common types of Japanese gardens. The design and construction are based on strict rules and principles and perhaps one of the more important requirements is for the garden to face southwards.

There are in principle two types of garden which we can split into divisions called 'flat' (Hiraniwa) and 'hill' (Tsukiyama-niwa) gardens and these can then be split into 3 categories "Finished", "Intermediary" and "Rough". Hill gardens of the finished variety will use the biggest available space often located in front of a building known as the principal building. Their ingredients are hills, stones, trees, bridges and islands that are all carefully arranged.
Hills are used to represent mountains and often have substantial sweeping sides, one hill will always be bigger than any others which will be lower in the garden than the principle hill. If constructed carefully and correctly the hills will give the impression of being distant peaks within the garden itself.

Flat gardens are exactly what their name suggests and can take various forms, there are easier to view as they are essentially on one level. These types of Japanese gardens will carefully use stones in the construction, some flat and some vertical. They often feature pottery and lanterns.

An intermediary garden is a semi-elaborate one with definite spaces between principal stones and trees and any 'mountains' will catch the eye as either distant to view or sometimes closer ones are called 'near mountains'.

A hill garden in a 'rough' style will only concentrate on the principal points of interest to the viewer although mountains or small mounds will always be used to give the appearance of distant and near hills. Once again stones are positioned in a very precise manner, water is also a common feature and even bridges that are sometimes made of logs to cross a stream for example. Everything in a Japanese garden is about the perfect imitation of nature and this explains the creation of mountains, water sources and the placement of stones.

Both flat and hill gardens have three styles of finished, intermediary and rough and both main styles are equally important.

A flat garden finished style uses stones, trees, stone lanterns, screening fences, a well and water basins. The stones that can be used include 'Worshipping stone', 'Island stone', 'Moon shadow stone' and 'Perfect view stone' and the essential trees have names like 'Principal tree', 'tree of solitude' etc.

An Intermediary style flat garden is quite similar to the finished style and is very ordered because all the ingredients have a meaning using stones for style and religious meaning. A flat garden rough style is nowhere near as precise as the previous two examples and would typically have a garden floor of fine earth, a well, a lantern, trees and stones and maybe a few stepping stones on any spacious bit of ground. The central stone would be called the 'Guardian stone' and opposite of the previous two styles. Rocks and stones used in this form of Japanese garden would be rougher and not hewn and only low plants and vegetation are used.

Water plants can also be used and even a circling bamboo fence surround would be common. Every Japanese garden must have a stone lantern but when they are introduced strict principles of harmony, size and form must be observed otherwise it is detrimental to the effect of the garden itself. They are generally placed on islands, at the foot of hills, on lake banks or by wells and water basins.

This article is a pretty simplistic explanation of Japanese gardens as it is a complex and fascinating subject that once grasped all falls into place whether you are a viewer or a potential designer.

Source: Russ Chard