How to Landscape Your Garden Using the "Layered" Technique

Would your yard look better with some different and improved garden landscaping? In most cases the answer will be a resounding "yes." Garden landscaping is innovative and fun. It gives you the opportunity to let your imagination run wild and rearrange your garden and to add new plants and flowers to suit your tastes. This article looks at master gardener Nitin Goel's "layered landscaping technique" in particular.

Layering your garden's landscape beds also gives you the chance to take your garden to a new level of beauty. Think about it - the first thing people see when they come up to your home is the garden. Taking guests on a tour of a beautifully landscaped garden is always exciting and enjoyable. Your garden will be admired by your neighbors and with good reason - you have created a unique and personal enhancement to your home.

Layering the design of a garden is an easy task. The first thing is to decide what flowers you want to plant because your choices will determine how you lay out the landscape. For instance, taller plants should be planted behind smaller plants. As simple as this idea sounds, it's a good idea to sketch out where plants will be placed before you start. A rough drawing will give you a visual idea of how the garden will look when it is finished and will help the actual planting and design go faster, with fewer problems.

Your garden should have around three layers. The back row should have the tallest plants and should face north, if possible. The next row should have shorter plants and the first row's plants should be even shorter. The descending height of the plants and flowers is what provides the layered effect. One of the considerations in planting a layered garden is to remember that the smaller plants or flowers you buy for the first and second rows will grow. Talk to a people at your local gardening source to find out how big plants will be when finally grown. If you find out that plants in the first two rows of your garden will be taller than the back row, rearranging the plants is in order.

A layered flower and plant garden design adds depth to your garden and the variety of plants and flowers makes it look much more interesting. The work you put into designing and planting a layered design garden landscape is worth the effort. You will be proud of the accomplishment.