Garden Art and Decor

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Gardening has long been one of the simple pleasures of life. Sure, you can grow food in your garden, and that has been the longest standing use for agriculture, and the reason we moved on from the hunter-gatherer stage and settled down. However, the garden as an art form has centuries of tradition behind it as well. As is typical with origin debates, we are uncertain who legitimately had the first pleasure gardens: European nobility or ancient Asians. We know that both established gardens as a place of beauty, a place where they could go to escape the pressures of everyday life.

That precedent is what garden art follows after. From fountains to walkways to benches, garden décor is designed to accentuate the beauty of the plants you grow. They also make it easier to spend time in the garden, even when you aren’t gardening. There are few pleasures as robust, yet as simple as relaxing in the garden on a summer’s evening.

Planning a garden’s décor is much different from planning a food garden. You don’t worry as much about things such as cross pollination or keeping the birds away from your vegetables. Instead you focus on things like blooming times and shrub pruning techniques. A well planned walking garden, which is one common form of garden as art, has something different for every month of the growing year. It may have early spring perennials, a summer flowering tree, and a tree that turns gorgeous colors in the fall. The idea is that the garden should never be experienced exactly the same way twice.

A good decorative garden will have a mixture of trees, shrubs, and ground cover. Some areas are naturally suited for live ground cover, in the form of annuals or perennials. However, an extremely popular option is to use gravel, bark, sand, or even recycled plastic as a ‘dead’ ground cover. The advantages to this style are low upkeep and longevity. You never need to fertilize or water gravel, and the gravel changes little year over year. The only exception is if you use gravel for paths, in which case the foot traffic will move it around, however this is easily remedied with a gravel rake.

 

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