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Growing a Garden – Gardening Trends A trend can be like fashion. This year’s “in” color can be next year’s charity shop special. Trends can sometimes have more substance, like the classic litte black dress, that never goes out of style.As folk are spending more time at home we are starting to see the re-emergence of trends such as home baking and making our own preserves. It is simple to see this trend has had a flow on effect into gardening.
Having your own fruit and plant garden has gotten so popular even Michelle Obama is doing it! The White house now has a food garden, something that has not happened in more that 5 decades! As people are spending more time actually “living” in their houses and sections another aspect of “nurturing” has become plain – the landscape around the section. A short while back people were very “now” driven and looked for “quick fixes” and static designs. This was possibly because of the need to see immediate results since the presumption was that the house would be sold in a few years.
Folks were also doing plenty of travel and other away from home activities, so they would have liked a ready to use, plant and walk away garden. These days people are passing more time really living in their houses and they’re starting to see gardening as an activity not just a piece of art on the wall. They are experimenting with fresh things, learning from their bad and good experiences and are coming to accept a rather more long term return for their efforts. In doing so , they are coming to accept a more long term retur n for their efforts.
As a consequence of this more “nurturing gardening” approach, people are starting to see that their “quick fix” planting escapades of previous years have unfortunately been over planted and may now need to be ripped up. For example, it may look good “right now” to plant a bunch of flaxes close together, however give it 1 or 2 months and after they start to grow they’re going to begin to look unruly and un kept. They will eventually need to be pulled out. You must plant a garden thinking about what it will grow into, not what it looks like immediately.
The most significant thing is designing a landscape to fit the owners style. It’s also beneficial to get the owners involved in their own gardens. If you are deciding whether to start improving your garden there isn’t any better time to start than now. As a side note, make sure you get sensible advice from a reputable garden center or nursery, these folk work with, care for and love plants day in day out, you will not get any more qualified advice from any place else.
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