Plants, colour and mood is very important for your garden, no matter where you live I been involved with Gardening in Calgary, AB Canada for many years.

Have you ever walked into a flowering garden and your mood instantly changes? Do you find that plants have the power to change the way you feel? Did you have that tranquil feeling or did you feel more livelier? The colours you choose as a backdrop influences the air of the place and affects the atmosphere of your occasion as well. Colour is taken very seriously in my Calgary Gardens I suggest you find your own tastes when it comes to Gardening with colour.

Dropping by a beautiful local garden like many Gardens in Calgary I frequent can help decide what colours that fit your personality and its the best decision you can make if you want to set the mood of your yard Do you want your backyard to be a place to relax? Or maybe you want an exciting backyard where people come to play. Remember that the colours of your surroundings sets the vibe. Know what kind of garden that you have always wanted, so you may have an easier time making that a reality. You may have some difficulty finding the perfect design, but the more you it, the easier it becomes. Choosing the right shrubs and its right variety that will fit in your garden. can be difficult, make sure you exercise patience.

As you start to notice colour in different landscapes, pay close attention to certain public areas. Think about the flowers that are planted at amusement parks. The floral arrangements are usually shimmering in inviting colours that paves the way for the expected festivities in the place. On the other hand, some parks may have a meditation garden where the colours are very calming and peaceful. Landscape artists knows the need of perfect combinations of colours to set the vibe. It is important to have the right combination of colour and the mood to make your yard more attractive and also more beautiful to look at. You can also bring the shade of such landscapes right at your own home.

An extraordinary Calgary Gardens may give you a lot of pleasure. If you have a stressful job and you want to totally relax when you come home, plan your landscape accordingly. Garden design can help you achieve the comfort that you can only imagine. Picture the calming lavender flowers, with a nicely mowed lawn and a man made waterfall. Have you felt that yet? A garden such as this gives the visitor a feeling of peace and serenity.If will add a hammock or a wooden log, this completes the scenery even more. Just bring in folding tables and chairs if you’re gonna have a grand event.

Do you wish to have more diversions for your visitors? You can easily set up a picnic grill to cook sausages and ribs. If you wish to have a backyard like these, vibrant colors should go well. A good mix of burgundy, orange, yellow and little pink should be just fine. Choose flowers with large petals  like petunias  This flower needs little care but still blooms all year long. Put lots of thought into the styles and types of tools you are buying. Put consideration on the features that you will place in your garden. You should choose those suggested by professionals like Calgary Gardens. You can buy vibrant colored containers and then you can arrange them at the foot of the trees. Containers need no maintenance and it can instantly add aesthetics to your backyard. The use of self watering containers can also save you time.

You can create the mood you want by the plants you put in your landscape. Determine the tone that you want and the design that you like. You can achieve that with garden Design and for sure you will have the memorable moments in your home in no time.

Written by:Custom Stone and Waterscapes?3829 Parkhill Place SW, Calgary, AB T2S 2W6 (403) 870-1142

Are you thinking about starting a home garden? We found ourselves thinking about having a garden every time spring came around and now we do. We wanted a home garden long before we had the space to grow one. Of course you need to decide what kind of garden you want first, we chose both flower gardens and a home vegetable garden.

When deciding on the kind of garden you want you should think about the beds, will they be raised beds or boxed raised beds, or even containers like we used when we first started.

Jenny started with flower gardens in the places we didn’t have space for a vegetable garden, but we did use containers to grow tomatoes, but mostly we only had flowers.

Jenny is a petunia person so we had them growing out of every little plot of dirt we could find. Now we grow a lot more than just petunias but they are still her favourite.

Now we have a lot of perennials that start popping up every where in our yard as soon as the snow melts down to a bare ground. It’s great because it just does something for us when we are sick and tired of Old Man Winter.

I was never able to take pictures before my heart attack because my hands shook too much all the time. Not sure why they stopped shaking after my heart attack, must be one of the meds I take but now I can take pictures. Anyways it’s a real treat and I take pictures constantly now.

If you have been wishing for a garden then get one started. You can start with pots like Jenny and I did and grow for there. Once you start though the urge gets even stronger each spring.

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I couldn’t tell you how many times I have bought plants on impulse only to find they don’t really fit my home garden. Now, before I buy plants, I  examine our backyard garden to see what fits in.

What do I pay attention to now?

• I pay attention to things like, how much sun and shade it will get
• Is the soil well drained or waterlogged
• Is the spot I want to plant in sheltered or windswept

The little list above is what I have messed up on in the past so now I know our yard and have done much better choosing the best plants for our home gardening needs.

We didn’t check our soil because it was so obvious that it was all clay and hard as cement, which meant it didn’t drain well at all.We have to add a lot of our soil in order to have it drain but once that was done we had an entirely new home garden that grows more than weeds.

My advice is to test your soil to determine the pH level of your soil and what kind of nutrients you need to add, if any.

Is the soil acid or alkaline?

Some plants prefer soil that is slightly acidic, while others require alkaline soil to grow well.  You can test your soil and then just plant accordingly but we prefer to amend the soil to suit the plants we wish to grow. It’s a little more work but well worth our time and effort as we get a much better looking home garden.

This way we can grow plants, flowers and veggies, that we want. Heck we would be planting mostly water loving plants as our yard just wouldn’t drain for days at a time. Now it drains everywhere and we have all the plants we wanted.

Getting Arrangements You Want

Before you dig in take the time to place the plants you’ve chosen around the garden bed in their pots to see how they will look. Re-arrange them until you are satisfied. It’s so much better than rearranging them after you have them in the ground.

Grouping plants in sets of threes or fives usually looks better than planting in groups of even numbers. Be sure that you have an interesting combination of colors and textures of plants. Tall plants should go to the back, or the centre if your garden will be viewed equally from all sides. Try to keep your plants away from trees. The roots of trees are fiercely competitive and will steal all the nutrients and moisture meant for your flowers.

The right color scheme is one way to maintain the harmony in your garden. Imagine the color of the flowers when they are in bloom. Some colors may clash with others, but can still be planted side-by-side if they have a different blooming season. Foliage color is also important. Many flower plants have silver, grey or purplish foliage that is just as attractive as the flower. This means that they are still attractive well past the blooming season and so have added value.

Container Gardening For Those Will Little Space.

Before we had room for an in the ground garden we gave container gardening a try. When the conditions aren’t just right where they are.

Container gardening  really gave us the opportunity to grow flowers and vegetables without having yard space. Even though we now have a large property and lots of gardening space we still do the container gardening thing because we like it.

Container Gardening On The 11th Floor

When I lived in Toronto my home was on the 11th floor. Not much garden space but I made great use of the balcony and containers.

We even have containers with both vegetables and flowers growing around our little patio. It’s so cool to reach over and pluck a strawberry or tomato while I am playing my guitar outside.

This year we are going to have a few window boxes as well. I think they will make a great herb garden that I can access directly from the kitchen window. Now that will be very cool indeed.

Container Gardening Configuration

We don’t usually group our containers as we did when we didn’t have much room but I have seen some yards that have beautiful configurations of flowers in containers. I may give that a try this year and see how we can do with a themed container garden.

A container gardening tip that works for us is to just remove the plants that have finished blooming and swap them out for another plant that is just starting to bloom. Keeps your container garden looking fresh all the time.

I have to admit that I am no designer so I have to learn from what others do. I can look at an arrangement and like it but I find it hard to create it myself. One thing I have learned is that varying heights work but never put the tall plants around the short plants so that they don’t get sunlight. That doesn’t work well in the long run.

Choose plants with a long flowering season, or have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming.

Container Gardening Containers

Experiment with creative containers. You might have an old porcelain bowl or copper urn you can use, or perhaps you’d rather make something really modern with timber or tiles.  If you decide to buy your containers ready-made, terracotta pots look wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don’t want your plants to dry out, so paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores.

Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside with water-based paints for good effect.  When purchasing pots, don’t forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting. Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants.

If you have steps leading up to your front door, an attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors. Indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere.

Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. Some plants also have really large roots, so they are best kept for the open garden.

If you have plenty of space at your front door, a group of potted plants off to one side will be more visually appealing than two similar plants placed each side. Unless they are spectacular, they will look rather boring.

Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots of the same type and color, but in different sizes also looks affective.

With a creative mind and some determination, you will soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers alike.

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OK, you’d like large, showy plants that will mature together to form an excellent display in your yard. There are two ways of achieving this. The 1st would be to feed the plants with one of many propriety chemical feeds that promote a tremendous development having plants ten times bigger than regular and lots of giant blooms. This can probably work- for the short term.

However, after a moderately short time, the plant will have expended all its vitality and perish. Not the best display ever! It may be problematic to cultivate other plants at that place without further treatments of chemical feed. A costly plan to get into, and also time intensive. What is more, when you spill the feed upon the leaves of your plant, it looks terrible.

The next technique would be to feed the growing areas instead of the plant. It will be neither as easy or as fast to give results, however, it is certainly far better for the surroundings and in the long run will give you superior, more robust plants. This is applicable to vegetables and fruits in addition to flowers.

Most plant life, whether decorative or cullinary, trees, shrubs or plants want those same basic needs for growth. Good fertile soil, water and light. The quantity of sunlight and also types of nutritional requirements change from plant to plant however the basics are the same. We also need little insects to polinate blooms to create fruit and veggies. So in order to produce optimum conditions and produce great plants we must know what the plant needs and supply it.

1st test out the earth. Make use of a meter to determine whether it is alkaline or acid. This affects what kind of plants you can cultivate. There is no point in attempting to grow plants like azaleas in land that is alkaline, and although is is realively not difficult to include lime to soil to deminish its acidity, is quite a bit harder to get rid of it. Manage your land never against it. If you really must grow a plant not suited to your soil, grow it in a pot, however make sure you feed and water it regularly.

Look closely at the fertility of your soil. There are products that can inform you the balance of the nutrients in your land. Next look at it. Does it get water logged when you have heavy rainfall, or has it been effectively drained. And finally, look at your garden during the day. Where is it normally sun – drenched, where is it partly shady and where is it frequently in shade. Various plants appreciate differant amounts of sun. After you have got the answers to each of questions, you’ll be able to develop your plants to their entire potential with very little cost.

Before you plant, carefully prepare the soil. Dig it over to aerate it and remove any weeds and add fertiliser, whether in the form of compost or slow release proprietry fertiliser like blood, fish and bonemeal, or growmore. After that finally put your plants in. Look very carefully at your plants and choose them to fit the spot. Theres no point in placing flowers that require full sunlight next to a wall which will shade them. On the other hand there’s little profit in putting shade loving plants in full sunlight, they will just burn and perish. The whole point of looking after your garden is to obtain a really good show.

If you feed your soil rather than your plants, you’ll grow more robust, healthier plants that will create large flowers over an extended period of time without any intervention on your part. They will be more capable of resisting deseases and deter assaults by predators including aphids and if they are perennials, are more able to endure their dormant time and return the next year looking strong and ready to offer you more satisfaction, for almost no additional cost or effort. And remember, to get really good results you should always start off with the best seeds and plants.