There is nothing more frustrating than owning a garden and not knowing what you want to do with it. You can walk through every home and garden decor store there is and still come up with nothing. The problem is that the home and garden decor stores could have everything that you could possibly need, but without them doing their best displays, you could go home empty minded.

When you originally got the itch to do something about the garden you were really convinced you would come home with a fresh new idea, but you didn’t. Your own imagination is the key to it all. Yes every other garden around could look great but you don't have to tend to it and live with it. You need inspiration.

 

Shop For Ideas

 

The average home and garden decor store is not the place for all your gardening information; it is purely commodities they are selling. The home and garden decor store may very well carry some books on gardening, but the best would just to go straight to the nursery for the best advice instead of wasting time through the books. At the nursery you can learn so much faster, yes buy the book and see for yourself too about what works with what and for decor too.

 

Mixing It All Up

 

If you have creative abilities there would be a minimal need to go to any home and garden decor store for ideas, only for the goods. But somewhere while flicking the pages of loads of books you could have bought you could finally days later come up with your own home and garden idea. Yes, it does take a lot of mulling over and frustration in the beginning, but once you get started it should just flow with ease.

There is nothing wrong with mixing and matching ideas that you could have gotten from the home and garden decor book, as long as you are happy with it, that is all that matters. And later as the seasons change, it would be time to go through the books again to refresh your garden for the new season.

 

With every garden there is normally a theme, even if it is just a section of the garden. These themes vary from person to person and what they like and want from a garden. The basic idea is that you have a bit of everything, a little lawn patch, some flowers, shrubs and maybe a tree if you have the space. Other types of gardens are just out of stone and cacti. There is no hard and fast rule of what a garden is supposed to look like.