Gardens are the paradise we build in our world of homes. It is the place of a cozy evening or a lovely time with your loved ones in the moment of a reddish sunset. Love is the cornerstone of every home garden where we build not only just plants, herbs or flowers, it’s a collected memory of so many natural phenomena happening at our very doorstep. Today we are going to discuss the garden types that present in our modern world in a little but detailed way. Enjoy your read everyone 😊
1. By Purpose
A. Vegetable Garden
- Hot Spot: Only a few veggies like leafy ones will tolerate some shade but most of the common vegetables will need 6 to 8 hours of sunshine directly and daily.
- Raised Bed or Row: For improved drainage, plant veggies in a raised bed or raised row, even if you have poorly draining soil where water pools mostly. Rotted roots can happen if you have wet soil which turns the root into wet roots. Rocky soil will make the plant weak because they cannot go deeper and make wide roots and the rock will interfere with root growth.
- Avoid Windy Space: Avoid places where wind is so strong that could knock the plant down or keep pollinators from reaching their desired location. Also avoid locations where there’s much more foot traffic and are easily floodable.
- Common Mistakes: Planting too much in the start is the common mistake any beginner would do. Plant only what your home or family requires, which makes us prepare for our wants and needs well and not to waste food much.
- Size: 100 square feet garden is a manageable size because pick three to five of your favorite vegetables and buy three to five plants for each one. That would make the planning session easy and you can execute your actions well.
- For raised bed: A 4×4 foot or 4×8 foot is a good size if you are a beginner. One thing to keep in mind is, to weed and harvest, make sure you have paths that allow you to access your plants well.
B. Flower Garden
- The flowers, seeing them is the pleasure of life. Even a small flower garden can enhance the aesthetic of home and spending time there can be the best therapy one can get. It is an exciting journey and one can understand nature well through their small homey gardens and can learn the basic laws that elevate the perceptions of life in general.
- Determine your Zone: It is good to know your gardening zone before selecting your perennial plants. Based on your location, the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map will help you identify your zone. Someone may be thinking that the zip code will give you the correct location of your zone but that’s not may be the case because putting just zip code only can show your zone wrong.
- Best Source of Info: To growing annuals, knowing your garden zone is not relevant. Most important is, your last and first frost date, your growing season. To determine your last frost date, relying on your garden zone or zip code is sometimes not accurate at all. Gardening neighbors would be your best source of info in that regard.
- Start Small: It is tempting to go big when getting started with a flower garden but starting small is the key. Without requiring a lot of upkeep, which could prove discouraging, a manageable garden area lets you focus on proper care. If you are a beginner, start soft and small, as you gain confidence and knowledge of your space, only then you expand over the seasons.
C. Herb Garden
- They offer you a well harvest even after some months of planting and they don’t require a lot of sunlight or nutrients to grow much in your garden area. Like the corner of a raised bed, they can grow even in limited space or stretch out beautifully into a larger area without you even noticing.
- Compared to a store-bought variety, just harvested herbs and herbs you dry yourself have so much more flavor and nutrients. By making the most of every plant in your garden, you can harvest again and again from them throughout the year.
- From the mint plant family, the best cut and come again varieties come and from the carrot family, some of the most common kitchen herbs happen. The Daisy family offers most of the flowering herbs and onion family is the reason for the easiest herbs to grow.
D. Ornamental Garden
- For the greatest pleasure of the eyes, the ornamental garden is a garden where shrubs, flowers, perennials, climbing flowers grow and color the outside of the house. Compared to vegetable gardens, for the well-being of the occupants, the ornamental garden is purely and simply decorative.
- Usually in the garden, it is the plants that offer the show, because each season reveals its share of colors, its blooms and the underlying perfumes that showers the surrounding. Everything is a treat for the visitor.
2. By Design Style
A. Cottage Garden
- A garden that is adjacent to your home, which includes local flowers, food and herbs: is the practical explanation of a cottage garden. And they are colorful, whimsical and beautiful.
- Fundamental Plan: Cottage gardens are known as informal but even though that’s the case the garden needs a basic plan. You don’t actually need to be a landscape architect to sketch out a realistic plan, you can also do that in your head too. I mean to say is, all that matters is your “vision”. The design mostly depends on the elements (food, gardening, hardscaping etc.) you will use, placement of your house and where the sun hits.
- Hardscaping: When you do the design, remember, straight lines are out, curved lines are in, as simple as that. In the cottage garden plan, wandering and curved hardscaping features are a staple component. Instead of straight sidewalks, think of curving walkways or meandering stone paths.
- Few Hardscaping Elements are: Arbors (perfect for climbers and vines), birdbaths, gates, pergolas, picket fences (or any short border), raised bed (garden beds or flower beds), trellises.
- Thrift: In the old days, you didn’t have to spend money for interesting or rare flower plants because your friends would provide seeds or cuttings, and you would divide your perennials as needed and save your seeds each year. Today, in the online era, you can either contact a local garden club or specifically, gardeners who are willing to share seeds or extra plants from their gardens, you can look for them in social media groups of your local area.
- Fences: Imagine a cottage garden without riotous plants climbing over a rustic fence with a squeaky gate, we don’t even wanna imagine that, right? The fences are an essential part of a cottage garden, it is to keep the larger or dangerous animals out and to protect the chickens or other domestic animals well. For adding charm to your cottage garden, fences and gates may be less utilitarian today, but they can serve to demarcate areas of the garden, which will offer a disciplined look when watching from far.
B. Japanese Garden
- Introduction: If you would like to keep your garden authentic and original, you can go for Japanese style gardening and it is highly recommended as well. Below we are going to explore some Japanese gardening principles and you will get a firm idea after reading them. You can go for and try more than one of those principles in your garden.
- Miniaturization: Because the Japanese garden is an idealized and miniature view of mother nature, which explains, ponds can represent seas and rocks can symbolize mountains. By placing smaller rocks in the background and larger ones and trees in the foreground, the garden mostly appears larger.
- Concealment: Like a scroll of painted landscapes unrolling, dry rock gardens aren’t meant to be seen all at once, but they are meant to be seen one landscape at a time. When the visitor follows the winding path, features to be discovered are hidden behind hills, trees, groves or bamboo, walls or structures. Practically the garden viewer is forced to watch their step, because the stones are somewhat uneasy and difficult to walk. The way to keep the people present is by forcing them to concentrate on where they walk and the aesthetic of the garden clearly depends on the angle you are looking at it from.
- Borrowed Scenery: To make the garden seem larger than it really is, even if it’s a small garden, by incorporating the view of features outside the garden.
- Asymmetry: These gardens are with a view from only one angle or not laid on straight axes. Buildings and gardens are carefully composed into scenes that contrast those right angles and the features are usually placed to be seen from diagonal. Horizontal features would be something like a stone garden and vertical features can consist of protruding or taller rocks, bamboo or rocks.
C. Mughal Garden
- According to experts, it is derived from the Persian Charbagh, which attempts to depict the vision of paradise and every Mughal garden’s design consists of exquisite geometrical patterns, pools and lovely fountains that are situated in the middle of fragrant stocks of flowers.
- The Charbagh divides a garden into four equal parts, and has fountains and waterfalls to add to the aesthetics, and is based on Persian architectural design and features canals and pools along the axes.