Moving in to a new home brings with it abundant excitement, inspiration, and project planning to make your new abode truly something special. Your garden is an outward statement about your personality, sense of style, and creativity. They can also provide valuable functions that will give back not just to you, but your neighbourhood. Here are some ways to get the most out of your garden.
Bee Sanctuary
Don’t recoil in horror just yet; bees are increasingly endangered yet vital to ensure environmental sustainability. Choosing plants that they can pollinate not only makes for an attractive and lively garden, but it helps protect hard-working bees in a world that continues to decline in bee population. Choosing plants and flowers of various heights with different flower shapes and sizes will entice more bees to pay your garden a visit. If afraid, bear in mind that if you don’t disturb them, they’ll be too busy pollinating to bother you anyway.
Vegetable, Fruit, And Spice Gardening
Why not save on groceries and have a finely manicured garden full of delicious fresh produce? You can easily achieve this with a little bit of effort and determination. Depending on your climate and sun exposure, you can grow everything from tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, watermelons, strawberries, and rosemary. It’s a great way to bring trustworthy food into your home that you know is genuinely fresh. And if you have too much, offer the excess harvest to your friends and family – people never turn down some delicious fresh produce.
Zen Retreat
This is a little more of a self-indulgent and simplistic approach to gardening, but you’ve worked hard for your home, why not create your own place of solace and reflection? In today’s ever-connected, frantic society, it does the mind good to have a place to retreat to and rejuvenate amongst nature in peace. Landscaping with coy ponds, rock and sand gardens, and simplistic plant or flower arrangements are lovely compliments to any meditative space. Adding the gentle trickle of a waterfall or the whimsical melodies of wind chimes can do wonders to release tension and unwind after a hard day at the office. New age tunes and yoga mats are optional but highly recommended.
A garden is a place of creative energy, vibrancy, and self-expression. Adding more function to the form of a carefully manicured patch of foliage can make it all feel more worthwhile. In the end, a garden is your canvas. Go ahead and make it a reflection of yourself, but don’t be afraid of giving it a purpose.
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