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Gardening - Helpful Tips, Tools and Accessories, Decor, and Plant Selection

A guide to help you with some important matters related to gardening.

By Sid MarkPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Gardening Tips For Beautiful Gardens

Starting a garden should be fun and pleasure if you have a little knowledge about home gardening. Now, gardening knowledge comes from experience and your ability to ask questions and listen to fellow gardeners.

To create a stunning home garden, you will have to learn how to utilize minimal space, eliminate weeds, watering your flowers or plants more efficiently and how to deal with bugs, sprays, and diseases.

Something as simple as choosing plants for your garden tends to create a big problem for most gardeners, and that is where you have to learn to pick only the plants you will use. Stop going with what you love.

The next thing you will have to fully understand is the gardening tools you will be using. Having the right gardening tools can make any tough job very easy.

Gardening Tools:

  • Gardening shear - For trimming shrubs, perennials, and grasses.
  • Good Garden Shovel - Must have a solid blade, flat edge, and an easy handle grip.
  • Garden hose with reel - you want to always be able to store your hose after use.
  • Watering cans - Watering is key in gardening, it has to be well balanced.
  • Garden Fork - To break and loosen up the soil.

Another thing to keep in mind is that your garden design is even more important when you're dealing with container gardening. Here is where you will blend fine and coarse leaves together with different colors. It is a really beautiful one you blend them with simple flowers.

As far as landscaping goes, you will have to plan out your landscape. Decide upon the type of trees you will be planting that will provide the beautiful scenery and be prepared to trim and prune those plants when needed.

The Most Important Garden Accessories Needed to Start Your Own Garden

You can make your gardening experience fun and easy by using the right garden accessories, the right garden tools will help you start that beautiful garden you have been dreaming of.

Here is the list of my top 7 garden tools:

  1. Garden Fork
  2. Garden Hoes
  3. Garden Shovel
  4. Garden Spade
  5. Garden Tool Sets
  6. Garden Shears
  7. Gardening Gloves

For those of you that have a much bigger garden space, then you can also get yourself a garden shed. This isn't a must, but it comes in handy for storing all your tools and other materials.

Most people only remember to beautify their garden for the day time, but you can also add solar garden lanterns, garden candle holders, and oil burners. And don't forget to add a comfortable garden bench, to sit and enjoy the outdoors.

I am also very much attracted to garden ponds, where you can add flowers, pond light, fountains, and many other garden accessories that will change the entire look of your garden.

Please bear in mind that garden ponds are pretty costly and require a lot of maintenance and work, but the beautiful ponds are very eye-catching and always worth the price.

Improving Your Gardening By Redesigning Your Garden Decor

The beauty of any garden can be seen in the type of patio and garden decor that you're using. I have seen some beautiful gardens that have imported Japanese garden supplies. With the Internet today anyone can order garden accessories and decor online and have them drop shipped.

Garden decor adds value to your home and gives it a more exquisite and unique appeal. You can transform your garden into any garden theme you wish. You can add fountains, statues, birdbaths, garden furniture, and garden sculptures.

You can liven up your garden by:

  1. Building your garden around one focal point. Stick to that plan.
  2. Using different plants, trees, or flowers to block ugly parts of your home.
  3. Placing lights that accent certain parts of your home.
  4. Adding a simple Gazebo to your garden with a barbecue grill.

There are so many ways to make your garden a little paradise, so be creative and search online for your own garden decor. Be creative and make your garden look unique.

Your Garden Plant Selection Is What Makes Beautiful Gardens Stand Out!

When it comes to garden plant selection, you can go with planting from seeds or buying plants for your garden.

No matter which route you choose, you will have to choose garden plants:

  • By Color
  • By season
  • To suit your likings
  • For drought

When choosing garden plants and flowers, make sure your plants are healthy, not too small or too big. Look to see if there are any roots exposed in the pot, and if so, then that's not a good choice.

Another beautiful type of plant that many have been using lately is the butterfly garden plant. These plants attract beautiful butterflies to your garden, they are nectar-rich plants, and they have to be in sunny sheltered spots for you to see the attraction power. If you like the idea give it a try.

For garden plants, a nice place to visit would be a botanical garden, I always visit many botanical gardens while I travel, and they are just awesome, try it, you will view natures best-reserved spots on the earth.

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  • Elizabeth Nellson3 months ago

    If you have never gardened before, but have decided to make a drastic change in your life, start by reading books and following popular garden bloggers. Another resource is other gardeners. Here https://gardeniaorganic.com/gardening-tools-gardener-must-have/ you can find a lot of useful information about what tools you will definitely need

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