As the saying goes "there is no place like home", it is wonderful to know that you can go into your own home garden and pot around all day if you wanted to.  In your own home garden you can unwind the stresses of the day, while tending to your precious plants, trees, shrubs and or lawn. Gardening is said to be very therapeutic. You don't need to be the best horticulturist on the block either to start your own home garden from scratch. Your home garden should be a pleasure to spend time in, not a space of slavery.

 

If you have no home garden yet wherever you live, you can create one. With time and patience a lot can be achieved. A bit of money and some friends could help too, to minimize your bill, depending on what you wish to achieve. For the first part, get hold of you friends that do have their own gardens, and see what works in their gardens for them. Some of the plants that you may like in their home garden could be propagated for your garden. This way you save on lots of money, but patience is required.

 

The Way To Begin

 

Since you might not think you have the ability or knowledge to achieve what you think you want, you could start with just thinking about a theme, your lifestyle and personality, or the function of the garden, or even just the colour would do. From these points, a lot more can be achieved. Having a bit of knowledge would help and you could always check with the nursery what could be placed where and what soil is required for what. They definitely are very helpful as they could tell you, which plants also don’t grow with others to avoid some plants dying off, and wasting money.

 

The stores are flooded with home and garden décor, so if you are stuck with a plant that you like and don't know quite what to do with, go look to see if there are pots or other ideas that you could do with the plant, and if you can’t do anything with it donate it to someone who can. The world seriously needs more greenery.

 

If you have a small home garden it is a lot easier for you to manage it, as it’s probably no lawn and just pots and troughs. For the bigger home garden, a lot more time and attention needs to go into it, as not everything needs attention continuously, you would need to keep a hand on it as it could start looking tatty.