Garden Room Boundaries...
By Gordon Goh
The areas of your landscape can be divided into several sections and areas,
which are also known as garden rooms. Garden rooms are spaces where you plant,
grow, and display different ideas in gardening in various creative methods.
One garden room could be a rose garden, while another could include the use
of a water garden, while still another garden room in your landscape could
include the use of just purple flowers. Garden rooms are your creation, and
only limited to your imagination. To create the rooms in your landscape where
you can be both different and creative you need to actually create some type
of walls in your gardens. The walls in your gardens are going to be grown from
other larger types of plants. Living fences are one 'way' that you can create
garden rooms.
Dependable shrubs and hedges that you can use for fences or as wall between
the garden rooms include various types such as:
Forsythia is a spring flowering shrubs that would make the country garden
room lovely. Long after the spring months, the flowers will die off but the
leaves on this shrub will fill in as a wall nicely.
Broadleaf evergreens are another type of shrub that is very popular in creating
garden rooms. One in particular is the boxwood. The boxwood can be shaped rounded
or with a boxy shape. It will take years to grow to be very tall, but it is
a very thick shrub, that will create wonderful walls for the garden rooms.
The leaves are very small, appearing in the late spring months and lasting
until the very coldest of the winter months.
There are many 'ways' that you can create walls in the garden to grow private
rooms. Lilacs are a 'flowering boundary type' plant that will spread but very
slowly. The flowers on the taller bushes create a nice backdrop for many garden
rooms. The Border Privet is a smaller shrub that is fast growing. This plant
would grow to fill in the walls of any room in the garden.
Juniper evergreens, holly, burning bushes, and even rose bushes grow and tame
to produce what will look like walls. When you are creating several different
areas in your landscape, you have hundreds of choices of plants, shrubs, or
even bushes that will fill in nicely.
One important thing to remember when you start creating your walls for any
type of garden room is that the final display inside of the room is going to
be accented by the type of plants that you use to create the actual room.
Gordon Goh is author of the free, informative website Simply Flower Garden
offering quality useful tips for flower garden lovers.