Choosing your garden plants

Massif of plants

To design a garden you have to have a basic idea and then know how to develop it. There are families who hire a professional to design the garden and take care of every detail, while others prefer to do the process on their own and thus learn during the tour.

There are many steps to follow until you reach the selection of garden plants, a long-awaited and long-awaited stage. But it is not all about taste, as choosing the right plants for the garden implies knowing the terrain, the climate and the way the sun moves throughout the day. As with the artist in front of a blank canvas, you have to think of space as a composition in which the parts and the whole are interconnected, each part will have an effect on the other.

Main plants

At Garden design, there are so-called focal points, which are natural or artificial elements that attract attention and, in some way, organize the design. It can be a water fountain, a table with chairs or, in the best of cases, a striking and large tree. The important thing is to know that the design starts from these focal points.

Before choose garden plants study the place and discover the focal points. If you can't find any, you can create them with some most striking plants that will be the protagonists. They are the key plants, those that you will choose with precision because they will receive the most attention. In general, we speak of large trees or shrubs.

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Support plants

Along with the key plants, a second group will have to be selected, that of plants that function as a complement. Are the support plants y will serve as a garden structure. Among them, we can highlight climbing plants, hedges, shrubs and even small trees.

Filling plants

As their name indicates, they are plants that serve to complete the garden and that is why they are located in places that need filling or areas that are empty. They are usually low or creeping plants.

Decorative plants

Are plants that are in the garden for ornamental purposes and that is why they are distinguished by their shapes and colors. The spectrum is very broad, ranging from annuals to bulbous plants, herbs, and small shrubs.

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