If you have a green thumb but a small garden space, you can still create a beautiful retreat if you use the area you have wisely and efficiently. Here are a few simple ways to better enjoy your garden.
Gardening Space Saving Tips
1. By creating a ‘layered’ affect with your plants, you can maximise your available space. Incorporating plants of various heights, from ground covers, up to shrubs can beautifully fill a small space with a variety of lovely plants.
2. You can use fences and walls to create vertical gardens with trellises, climbing plants and window boxes. Just use caution and try not to use the more invasive climbing and creeping plants, lest they become garden ‘bullies’.
3. You can use hanging planters, columnar plants (vertically growing plants) and ‘dwarf’ plants and other excellent space saving variations, to add diversity without taking up much room.
4. Be sure to leave some empty space in your garden, to create balance and avoid over-crowding so as not to create a cramped and ‘busy’ environment.