Planning and designing your own garden is usually a fabulous process, however there are lots of points you should bear in mind before you start. Time spent on planning at the start helps prevent time and money being wasted later on.

Even though much of the enjoyment in gardening comes from unpredicted effects, comprehensive planning is essential to ensure a consistent style. Figuring out the basic outline of the garden on paper before making any real modifications will help you to avoid any pricey errors. Although minor changes can always be completed later, the placement of long-term features such as trees, patios, and walls should always be worked out ahead of time. A garden should be planned as a whole rather than tackling different sections bit by bit; this makes it easier to bring about a feeling of continuity, so that the individual elements aren’t merely appealing in their own right but effective when viewed as a whole.

Should you have just acquired a garden, whether or not it’s established and overgrown or brand new, always spend some time getting to know the space, before rushing in and re-designing it. Both you and your family will need time to get the feel of it, to note down your prerequisites, and to put together some ideas about the type of garden you want. A bit of patience in the beginning of your project will save a substantial amount of confusion – and expense – later on. You should also remember that some plants are not visible at particular times of year: most bulbs, appearing in the spring, have died by the summer, while hardy perennials die down through the winter. It always pays, therefore, to delay before digging the plot over; those dormant plants could enhance the ultimate garden design.

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