What You Reap is What You Sow
Gardening is not just a hobby for me, it’s a healthy obsession! My children would usually join me in that small backyard patch we now call a garden on account of what I was able to accomplish with my bare hands.
I am a meticulous worker. When I plan on something, I don’t let go but keep at it. Just like this garden. I just saw a pocket sized one in FB, and it really hit me that I have it in me to create one like it. So, I went online and researched on gardens. Do you know that there are several different gardens you can choose from?
Before you venture outside with your shovel, create and design your garden online. See how you can maintain garden views with up-to-date information as the garden plantings change from season to season. Create your own dream garden online. Let me tell you as I move on to the shed how I came to decide on a rock garden.
Actually, it’s a Japanese rock garden, I should qualify that. The composition of a Japanese garden depends chiefly upon the arrangement of its trees, boulders, paths, streams, and bridges. In general, Japanese Garden Plans may be treated under two divisions: Flat Japanese Gardens (hiraniwa) and Hill Japanese Gardens (tsukiyama-niwa), both of which may be again subdivided into three different forms called, respectively: Finished, Intermediary and Rough.
Rock gardens showcase those plants which grow their best and prove most interesting in a miniature landscape with rocky features. It is not necessary in the development of an interesting Rock Garden Design to use a large quantity of different types of plants — its success is dependent largely upon the ability of the designer to select proper types of plants which are in harmony with the spirit of the garden.
What was that I said a while ago? About the garden being a healthy obsessive idea. Well, it’s like this. Being out there in the sun gives me the vitamin D which is prescribed for my sallow skin and brittle hair on account of lack of vitamin D. Here’s the clincher, among the rocks strewn about and bonsai trees, I have interspersed small pots of herbs and fruit bearing shrubs like cherry tomatoes, herbals, and chilli peppers good enough for a salad toss up.
You know what, I really love the feel of clayey soil on my palms, it’s like going back to my roots. So, yes it’s a matter of being in the spirit of creating a garden. As I survey my project taking shape, little by little by my own hands, I can’t help but suppress a smile. I can picture myself lying bare in newly turned soil in my next book. See it all here complete with your free online garden design tool.
Grab your tools,
Sandra Ross
