Eight Exciting Ways To Spruce Up Your Garden
Spring may not be here quite yet, but if you’re already bored of the cold winter weather, it’s likely you’ve started to plan how you want your 2020 garden to look. The time is now for considering landscaping and cleaning up the garden. You have to think about mulching, weeding and redoing the lawn after the cold has lifted. This part isn’t the most fun part of doing up a garden, which is why if you love spending time in yours, you’ll love the chance to get it planned and ready for the season!
The good bit is that none of the changes have to be expensive if you don’t want them to be. You can be as frugal or as luxurious as you like with your garden, and our eight exciting ways to spruce up your garden will ensure that your project is completed with as much taste as possible. Let’s take a look at the ways that you can get your garden ready and thriving this year.
Plan Planting
Planting new annual flowers doesn’t have to be boring. You can make picking your annuals fun and colorful, and you don’t even have to splash out on planters if you don’t want to – there are so many more options. You can plant new annuals in anything you want. If you have old galoshes you want to get rid of, drill holes in the bottom and line it with newspaper and soil and create your own planters. Use bright paints to paint over old plant pots to give them a refreshed look. Old buckets and watering cans do the same job, too. You could even decide to hang annuals in baskets and plant pots mounted onto walls. There are a lot of options to make your flowers really stand out this year. If you don’t have the time to plant new flowers this year, consider silk flowers. You get all the beauty without any of the maintenance, and you won’t attract as many bugs once they realise that they’re not real!
Think About Lighting
A garden is the perfect place to sit back and unwind in during the evening, and you can create an instant atmosphere by adding solar fairy lights. You can wrap these around fencing and drape them into the bushes you’ve planted. If you want to really add some atmosphere, why not curl them into old (and clean) jam jars? The lights will twinkle through the glass, and you can wire them up so that you can have the jam jars hanging beautifully over the decking. For added oomph, paint the glass jars and give them the “stained glass” effect.
Smarten Your Bushes
If you want to smarten up your shrubs that have been a bit battered by the cold weather, think about topiary. It’s a great way to get things looking smart at this time of year, and you don’t have to get the bushes cut into shapes at all! You can have a beautiful look with neat globes and cubes, and you can make them into different sizes if you want to give your garden a little boost.
Lawn Perfection
The lawn is the main feature of a garden that is mostly grass, and it takes time and effort to create a beautiful lawn. It’s definitely a labor of love, and it takes a good trim to get a weed-choked lawn looking better than it ever has. If your lawn is currently in a brown/yellow phase, then a treatment with lawn care products can make a big difference within a few days. A lush green lawn isn’t something that you have to slave over!
Invest In A Shed
All those ugly bits and pieces: compost bins, water butts, tools, bamboo – it’s all practical and necessary, but none of it looks good in the garden! You want your garden to be full of color and flowers, not strewn with tools and water butts! So, invest in a shed this year, and fill it with all of those tools that currently don’t have a home in the garden. This way, you still keep everything that you need, it just doesn’t need to be an eyesore among the flowers.
Fabric Furniture
There is nothing beautiful about plain and dull colors for garden furniture. So, invest in fabric furniture that looks stunning. Striped canvas pillows for your deckchair and woolly picnic blankets are just the start. You can add big splashes of color in your garden when you choose fabrics, and you can give it a sophisticated look when you choose fabrics to upholster your tables and chairs. Scatter some large, bright cushions on dry grass in the summer as places for your friends or family to lounge. You can get similar color cushions for your chairs and benches, too, so it offsets nicely and looks great
Add Shelter
How many times have the kids begged to go camping? Well, this is a little different. Adding teepees into the garden filled with cushions provide you with a beautiful shade for the spring and summer weather. You can sit inside with drinks and food so that you can stay out of the main glare of the sun. it’s a nice way to fill the blank space of your lawn and it’s comfortable and stylish to have teepees in the garden. Plus, they’re such a quirky addition you’ll wonder why you didn’t add them before! Shelter in the garden can make a big difference to the way you use the space, and you may find that you use it more when you’re sheltered from the elements.
A Little Fire
Fire safety is so important with this one, as whether you build in a firepit or you have chimineas, you need to remain as safe as possible. There’s nothing like roasting marshmallows over an open fire, but that doesn’t mean you do it unsafely. Check out these safe fire pit options so that you have the best of fun and safety at once.
