| Design is an element of planning your garden | | | | things you love to collect like teapots? Use |
| much like it is for any art. You want your garden | | | | teacups and saucers, and even cracked teapots, |
| to look lovely not only to you but to anyone who | | | | as planters for small plants you display on your |
| sees it. So where do you look to come up with | | | | patio or terrace. Or perhaps you like old farm |
| ideas for your garden to begin your gardening | | | | implements and have a select few to serve as |
| around your home? Where do you look to find | | | | pots for some flowers in your favorite colors to |
| design inspiration?To get ideas for your garden, | | | | form the base of a country garden theme. Larger |
| start with looking at your own interests and your | | | | implements can serve as the basis for flowering |
| own home. After all you will be looking at and | | | | vines to grow upon.You could simply begin your |
| living in your garden just as you look at and live in | | | | garden based upon your favorite colors. This is a |
| the interior of your home. Presumably your | | | | good place for beginning gardeners to start. Pick |
| interior decorating reflects what you like and this | | | | two of your favorite colors, being sure that they |
| is a good reason to carry that decorating scheme | | | | complement each other, and select flowers and |
| outdoors into your garden.Is your home | | | | other plants to provide these colors within your |
| decorated in a country French theme? Carry the | | | | garden.Look also to the style of your home when |
| colors outdoors with the fabrics you use on your | | | | designing your garden. A lovely colonial would be |
| garden furniture and the flowers you plant. | | | | well served with an English garden or earthen |
| Country French usually uses the colors of yellow | | | | colored adobe home would look great with |
| and blue or red and a touch of green. Create a | | | | interesting cacti and succulents appropriate to the |
| garden room as a place to dine using these colors. | | | | area. Keep this in mind when coming up with your |
| And don't forget the almost obligatory pottery | | | | garden ideas. Don't try to create an English |
| chickens or chicken platters in your country | | | | cottage garden in the middle of the desert in |
| French theme.Have you a nautical theme indoors | | | | Arizona. It just doesn't fit the climate or |
| with lots of blue and white to invoke the | | | | location.copyright 2006, Sandra |
| seashore? Plant white and blue flowers. Use | | | | Dinkins-WilsonLooking for more articles? Come |
| nautical items to add interest to your garden. | | | | discover all kinds of Gardening Tips at our site. |
| Rope wrapped planters with blue and white | | | | Read articles about water, shade, rose, butterfly |
| flowers and large seashells, as pots for small | | | | gardens, gardening tips, and more. |
| plants, are interesting touches to add.Do you have | | | | |