Landscaping Your Garden with Layering

It's spring, and our thoughts are turning to gardening.... If your garden needs a bit of landscaping, now is the time to do it, before you get a bunch of stuff planted. But don't get discouraged at the thought of all the work ahead - this can be an exciting project, because there is nothing more fun than garden landscaping -- it will get your imagination working overtime and you will have a ball planting and rearranging your plants and flowers!

Image via WikipediaLayering is a great way to landscape your garden in an effective and attractive way. By layering your garden landscaping beds you will be able to add a whole other level of beauty to your landscaping design. Your yard is the first thing that people will see when they come to your house, and giving a grand tour that includes a fabulous garden is always fun and exciting.

Layering your garden landscaping design is easy to do. You need to know the flowers that you are going to plant first however. The choices that you make as far as the flowers and other plants will affect the way your garden landscaping is laid out. For example you do not want to have the taller plants in front of the shorter ones. This is obvious but you should still make a rough sketch of where you want things laid out before you begin. This will help you to keep things as simple as possible. Your garden landscaping will go a lot faster this way and you will run into fewer problems as you go.

Image by ukgardenphotos via FlickrWhen layering you should have about three layers. Your back row should face north, if it can, and the back row should have the tallest plants and as the rows descend so should the heights of the plants and flowers. The trick of this kind of garden landscaping is that oftentimes the plants we buy are baby plants. So you will need to talk to those working at your local gardening store about how large the plants will grow to be. (If planting from seed, be sure to check the packages for approximate plant heights.) This is key to successful garden landscaping. If the front or middle row of your garden landscaping design is going to grow much higher than the last row, then you will have to do some rearranging.

The layering affect of your garden landscaping design will add depth and make your garden much more interesting to look at. This is what will make your garden landscaping a success. So build some layers, and have some fun!