Garden pleasure

The garden is about good therapy and lovely recreation. It is about creating something, to get a little dirt on your hands and to use a little strength to make it nice and beautiful around you. Then you can relax in the hammock and enjoy the beautiful you have created.

It is about time to get started. The first thing to do is to clean up after the winter. Remove dead branches and leafs, cut bushes and threes. Spring flowers should not be cut until they are done blooming, while the late summer and fall flowers can be cut now. To get a god shape and growth it is important that light and air gets through to all the branches.

Plan where you want to place the flowers or the seating group, where you want a little waterfall or build a wall. If you do this without a plan, you may not be happy and have to rearrange it later. Than make sure of good growth condition through the necessary soil depth, and decide what kind of flowers and plants you want. When you decide on flowers it is important to consider colours, shapes, size, contrast and texture. It is also important to compose your garden so that the summer flowers replace the spring flowers and the fall flowers replace the summer flowers. This will make your garden colourful through the whole season.