Garden Types
The world of gardening offers many different types of gardens. Some gardens may feature a particular plant or plant type while others may focus on creating an attractive design element. Gardens may be functional, aesthetic, or recreational. Whatever you are looking for in a garden, there is a style out there to suit you and your needs.
Butterfly Garden Plant
Butterfly garden plants are certain plants that attract butterflies to your garden. There are many factors in creating a butterfly garden including the placement of the garden and making sure the flowers planted favor both adult and larval butterflies. Some good flowers to plant are Asters, Black-eyed Susans, Ironweed, and Passion flowers.
Container Gardening
If you don't have a lot of space for a garden container gardening allows you to create an indoor garden. Growing plants in containers allows people who live in places where it is impossible to have an outdoor garden to keep living plants around them.
Garden English
English gardens are traditionally based on the natural landscape of the area. Sometimes referred to as "landscape gardens" the English garden often has a pond, bridge, and hexagonal pavilion to overlook it. Other common features of the English garden are grottoes, imitation ruins, small lakes, and other styles of pavilion.
Fall Garden
Planting a fall garden can ensure the beauty of your lawn during the fall months as well as provide and extended growing season for your vegetable garden. Fall gardens can either be vegetable or flower gardens, or both! Either option ensures the beauty of your lawn on into the winter months.
Flower Garden
A flower garden is primarily a decorative feature. The focus of a flower garden are the variety of the flowers planted. Flower gardens may include flowers of different heights, species, and color to create an interesting and attractive feature.
Indoor Gardening
If you live somewhere where outdoor gardening is impossible, indoor gardening is an excellent alternative. Foilage plants, or plants that are grown for leaf features instead of for flowers, do very well in indoor gardens. These plants must be placed near windows, but direct sunlight may harm them.
Native Garden
Native gardens are speciality gardens that incorporate plant species that are native to your area. These gardens are desirable because they include species that are sure to thrive in your area. There are many resources available to find appropriate native species for your garden.
Organic Gardening
Organic gardening utilizes natural and creative ways to grow a successful garden. Differing from "traditional" gardening, organic gardening avoids using synthetic chemicals that may harm the environment. A staple of the organic garden is the compost pile, a combination of organic elements that over time create a viable organic fertilizer.
Outdoor Garden
Outdoor gardens are the most commonly seen type of garden. Planting a garden outside allows for creativity and an opportunity to grow a variety of plants. Depending on the space available and your needs you can plant and grow a small or very large garden.
Perennial Garden
Perennials are a popular choice for gardens as they live longer than many plants. Perennials can live anywhere between two or three years to more than twenty. There are many different kinds of perennials; flowers, ferns, and grasses all have perennial variations. Perennial gardening offers a diverse and long-living garden.
Railroad Garden
Railroad gardens, also known as railway gardens, are gardens that feature model trains running throughout. The gardens are specially designed to feature not only the model trains, but other scale models like towns. Railroad gardens are a fun project for the whole family.
Railway Garden
Railway gardens, also known as railroad gardens, are gardens that feature model trains running throughout. The gardens are specially designed to feature not only the model trains, but other scale models like towns. Railway gardens are a fun project for the whole family.
Raised Bed Garden
Raised bed gardens are freestanding garden beds constructed several inches above the ground. These gardens have many advantages as they lift plants above areas that may have poor soil and are less likely to be invaded by certain grasses and tree roots. Raised bed gardens also allow for interesting architectural leveling features.
Sculpture Garden
Sculpture gardens are designed to use nature to highlight sculptures. The sculptures are usually permanent pieces constructed out of durable materials. The gardens themselves are carefully planned and landscaped to highlight both the sculptures and the natural surroundings.
Spring Bulb Garden
Creating a Spring bulb garden can be a simple way to ensure flowers every spring. By planting bulbs in Autumn, you ensure their growth once spring comes, and planting perennials ensures that they return every year. There is enough variation in bulbs available that you can have a beautiful garden every year.
Japanese Gardens
Japanese gardens may fall into one or several categories. There are pond gardens, which are designed to be viewed from a boat in the water. Sitting gardens are designed to be viewed from inside a building or veranda. Tea gardens are gardens that offer an attractive view while walking to a tea ceremony. Finally, strolling gardens offer long and winding roads throughout the garden.
Vegetable Gardens
As the name implies, vegetable gardens are grown to provide vegetables, herbs, and other useful plants. Vegetable gardens can be a fun and useful way to provide fresh vegetables for you and your family. These gardens are also a good way to teach youngsters about nature and the circle of life.
Water Gardens
If you enjoy fish and aquatic plants, then a water garden will suit you well. Water gardens are typically a small or large pond that utilizes a waterfall to mimic the current of a natural body of water. There are a number of attractive fish and aquatic plants that make water gardens a very attractive garden option.
Wild Flower Garden
A wild flower garden can be a low maintenance alternative to standard flower gardening. Wild flowers are hardy and do well when left alone so they tend to be a low hassle plant to grow. An important part of a wild flower garden is to keep weeds out, as weeds are the wild flower gardeners biggest enemy.
Zen Garden
The zen garden is an enclosed shallow box filled with sand or gravel and containing rocks, grass, moss, or other natural elements. The sand is raked in a pattern made to represent water rippling around the rocks. Zen gardens offer a meditative space and the raking of the sand can be very therapeutic.