Gardening

A garden is generally an outdoor planned space, used to display, and cultivate a variety of plant species. It also is great for appreciating the many versatile splendors of plants, and numerous forms of nature and wildlife it has to offer. A garden can incorporate both natural and man-made resources. The residential garden is easily the most common form of garden understood today. However gardens are traditionally based on plants and trees.

Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining a garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to specialize in design for public and corporate specters.

Garden design may be done by the garden owner themselves, or by professionals. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, who have acquired an advanced degree and often a state license.

Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and more.
Some gardens are used strictly for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens can also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

The Beauty of Home Gardening
Most houses accommodate some garden area. The home garden is a great area for many outdoor activities, like resting, playing, sun bathing and gardening. According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the regular physical activities can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in to two times. For older peoples, the BHF strongly recommend gardening to keep active. Furthermore, spending quality time in a beautiful and professionally decorated garden is conducive to a faster and higher quality rest and relaxation time as opposed to spending time indoors.

Home Garden and Gardening In 1998, 65 percent, or about 67 million, households in the U.S. participated in some form of indoor or outdoor gardening activity. Good luck with your project!

Your garden space provides and features a wide array of aesthetic, functional and recreational uses. It continually grows and produces to cooperate with nature through plant cultivation. And naturally through observation your garden will provide you with all the bird- and insect-watching available, every day throughout the year’s changing seasons.
Your garden is the perfect place for relaxation purposes – you can enjoy family dinners on the terrace, children playing in the garden, reading and relaxing in the hammock, maintain the flowerbeds, pottering in the shed, basking in warm sunshine and escaping the strong sunlight and heat during summer.

The Garden also provides useful produce in the form of flowers to cut and bring inside for indoor beauty whilst also providing freshly grown herbs and vegetables for cooking.

Garden Design
Elements of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such as paths, rockeries, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking, as well as the plants themselves, with consideration for their horticultural requirements, their season-to-season appearance, lifespan, growth habit, size, speed of growth, and combinations with other plants and landscape features. Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the choices of plants regarding speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the plants, whether annual or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other characteristics.

The most important consideration in any garden design is, how the garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way the garden space will connect to the home or other structures in the surrounding areas. All of these considerations are subject to the limitations of the budget. Budget limitations can be addressed by a simpler garden style with fewer plants and less costly hardscape materials, seeds rather than sod for lawns, and plants that grow quickly; alternately, garden owners may choose to create their garden over time, area by area.

Types of Gardens
Your garden can feature a particular plant or plant types such as: back garden, bog garden, cactus garden, fernery, flower garden, front garden, herb garden, orangery, orchard, rose garden, vegetable garden, vineyard, whit garden, wildflower garden and winter garden.

There is a great selection of garden styles your garden can feature or embody to suit your taste and interests such as: alpine or rock garden, bonsai or miniature garden, a children’s garden, Chinese’s garden, Dutch garden, English Landscape garden, French formal garden, Italian garden, Japanese garden, Knot Garden, Mughal garden, native garden, Persian garden, roman gardens, Spanish garden, Trial Garden, Tropical Garden, Water Garden, Wild Garden and finally a Zen Garden.

The many types of gardens available out there to see and be inspired by to create your own version of one are: Botanical garden, Butterfly Garden, Butterfly zoo garden, Cold Frame Garden, Community garden, Container garden, Cottage garden, Cutting garden, Garden conservatory, Greenhouse, Green wall Forest garden, Hydroponic garden, Rain garden
Popular home garden featuring the following can be either:  Roof garden, hanging garden, Raised bed gardening, and the Residential garden.
And also: Sacred garden, Sensory garden, Square foot garden,  Vertical garden, Walled garden, Window box, Zoological garden

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