A beautiful garden can be a wonderful addition to a home. However, like any area of your property, it will never simply fall together in a beautiful manner by itself. It takes work, effort and direction. Of course, you could just hire a landscape architect to help you perfect this space, and many do. There’s nothing wrong with doing so. That being said, there’s something valuable in designing this space for yourself, in stamping your own personality on it, and watching it dynamically change over the years.
A garden is comprised of the flowers, the footpaths, the grass, but also the additions, large and small, that you choose to apply. When developing your green space and hoping to customize it for your tastes and your family needs, this can be the fun part. That being said, without inspiration, it can be hard to fuel this path in the first instance.
We hope to help change that narrative. In the following advice, you’ll ensure some worthwhile and fun additions for your garden, those that we hope can make the final difference here. Please, consider:
Encouraging Wildlife
Encouraging wildlife to reside in your garden can be a fantastic thing to both see and enjoy. Bird tables can provide a feeding or watering spot for the local flying creatures, allowing you to hear their lovely song and watch them bathe throughout the day. Squirrel feeders can also attract some loving creatures to your garden, as well as ensuring that flowers are available to be pollinated by bees, which is more and more important as these essential creatures need to be preserved.
Additionally, it might be that bringing in a rabbit hutch or coop of chickens to your garden can serve as a wonderful backdrop for your gorgeous green environment, provided you take care of them and invest in their correct shelters, of course. A garden, no matter how beautiful, is missing something without a speck of animal life in it. This way, you can ensure the perfect, non-artificial addition.
A Water Feature
A water feature can also provide you with an astounding amount of decorative joy, because there’s something amazing and calming about both seeing and hearing the flow of water in your garden. This may be found through a small pond, or a water feature such as a small fountain, or perhaps even a small stream on your property that may be curated to fit your aesthetic and safety standards. This latter example might include fencing, a small bridge, or a small patio in front as a place to situate furniture.
There’s something tremendously beautiful about running water, and provided you clean and maintain the direct flow of said water to the best degree, your garden will have an amazing decoration that will be hard to rival elsewhere.
A Climbing Frame
A climbing frame can be a great gift for children, as can a trampoline of some kind. Not only does this serve as a means for your children to play and get active, but it can help you fill the empty green space of your garden all the more, and help it stay lived in. A swingset, a slide, or perhaps even something rudimentary such as a tire swing can provide hours of fun for your children. Additionally, a handcrafted or preportioned climbing frame (wooden high-quality offerings are often best) can serve as a great adornment for your property, because if there’s anything that can help this space take on new life, it’s the laughing and smiling of your child.
A Vegetable Patch
Both serving as a means for self-sufficiency, and also an excuse to get into your garden more, a vegetable patch can help you portion said patch into fertile rows of planted soil, allowing yourself time to work on that green thumb, and as they sprout, to help with the aesthetic of your garden.
This can be extremely cheap to begin, as toiling the soil, purchasing the right minerals and seeds can be nominal in cost. Additionally, once you start a process like this, you will often find that you are much more interested in furthering your gardening insight, perhaps by lining the garden path with an arch and hanging baskets, or by crafting even more room for root vegetables. Who knows? This time next year you may have purchased a welcome greenhouse for growing even more produce.
With this advice, you’re certain to find fun additions to your garden.
