Pretty garden – many ways to get it

By: Pfeiffer in Design, Floral & Fauna on Jun. 2, 2011

What is a pretty garden? If you would gather several garden owners around a table, you likely might get many and very different answers. A garden is a very individual matter. In cities there are quite few gardens, because especially in the centres there is not enough space. Townsman can only help by themselves with allotments. There as a rule, the differences between the parcels are not so concise like in the ‘real’ gardens, you find more in the surroundings.

Some people are spending much time in their garden. They make them to real works of art. Trees and bushes are meticulously modeled, the lawn is green and short, roses, ornamental shrubs and other nice plants are carefully arranged around it. Only disadvantage from the whole is an unexpected catastrophy, like some birds picking some precious seeds or the ball of the hyperactive neighbours son killing some roses.

In opposite to that is the garden owner, who dislikes it, when his garden looks to smooth and perfect. When he cuts the bushes, he intentionally leaves some branches. For him a garden is more part of the nature and it has to fullfill a purpose. He plants salad, fruit trees and vegetables, he breeds shrubs, because he wants shadows in the sunny side of his house, and he cuts bushes in the shady side, to get more light. In this way he feels comfortable.

Sometimes, the decision what a pretty garden is, also depends from the relation between the neighbours. There might be a little competition. So if one neigbour has installed a new item in his garden, a tree house for example, also the other neighbour must have it. But it can also go the other way round. If one neigbour fosters and maintains an idyllic natural fence, it might be, that the other neighbour builts, just for this reason, a solid concrete wall. How I said, a pretty garden is a very individual matter.

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