What Type of Garden Do You Want?

Gardening is the art of cultivating plants, flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit. As a pastime, gardening grew with the increase in home ownership and leisure time. Gardens range in size from small windowboxes and backyard beds to large plots of cultivated land. Garden types also vary widely between those devoted to one type of plant or others combining many types of plants to achieve maximum beauty and productivity.

Flower Garden

Flower Gardens are usually created for their aesthetic and decorative qualities. They combine flowering plants of various heights, colors, textures, and fragances to create beauty and enhance homes and businesses. A wide variety of plants are used in flower gardens due to their various blooming seasons throughout the year. For more detailed information please see Flower Gardens.

Fruit Garden

A well planned and maintained Fruit Garden can supply an abundance of fresh fruit throughout the summer. In addition to delicious food for snacks and meals, fruit trees provide shade and beauty to your landscaping. Fruit trees may offer a better return on effort than anything in the garden. Several trees, with different harvest times, can bring fruit to your table 8 months of the year. For more detailed information please see Fruit Gardens.

Indoor Herb Garden

Liven up family meals with fresh herbs grown in your very own Indoor Herb Garden. Culinary herbs have many uses including that of being a major source of seasoning for foods. Many gardeners and homemakers are rediscovering the pleasure of producing their own herbs. Most herbs fit into one or more categories according to their use: culinary, aromatic, ornamental or medicinal. For more detailed information please see Indoor Herb Gardens.

Raised Bed Garden

A Raised Bed Garden is a method used by many gardeners. The soil warms quicker, you can plant earlier in the season, and the soil remains warmer, bringing the crop to earlier maturity. No matter whether you are planting vegetables, herbs or flowers, a raised bed garden is always a good option to consider. For more detailed information please see Raised Bed Gardens.

Rock Garden

Rock gardens can be a practical, yet very attractive, solution where more common landscaping designs fail. A rock garden, also known as an alpine garden, features liberal use of rocks and stones along with low-growing perennials native to rocky or alpine areas. They are typically used in landscaping to address steep or irregular terrain, lack of space for a larger garden and to prevent soil erosion. The most beautiful rock gardens are those that blend in with their natural surroundings. For more detailed information please see Rock Gardens.

Rose Garden

Roses have a long and colorful history. The rose has always been valued for its beauty as well as it's long history of symbolism. They have been used as symbols of love, beauty, war, and politics. Rose bushes can be used freely in a garden or to enhance the beauty of arbors, trellises, walls, hedges and fountains. Cut roses are a decoration that can hardly be beaten for the beauty and sweet fragrances that they provide. For more detailed information please see Rose Gardens.

Vegetable Garden

There are few things in life quite as satisfying to a home gardener than to grow, harvest and consume the fruits of their labor. A vegetable garden can provide your family with a variety of fresh, delicious vegetables if planned out in advance. Nothing can beat the fresh flavor and high nutritional value of vegetables harvested directly from your own garden. For more detailed information please see Vegetable Gardens.

Water Garden

Enjoy the peaceful and relaxing sights and sounds of a water garden in the privacy of your own backyard. Water gardens add an appealing element to landscaping and can include fountains, waterfalls, small ponds and elaborate combinations of stonework and lighting. A water garden is a pool of water that includes aquatic plants, fish and possibly other water creatures. For more detailed information please see Water Gardens.

Essential tasks required of all types of gardens include soil and water maintenance and regulation, control of weeds, and protection of plants from pests and diseases. Given time and patience, gardening can be a very rewarding experience.