Time to get out into your garden now that Spring has sprung
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Wednesday March 17 2010
THE daffodils are blooming, the evenings are getting longer and outside the garden is a whole new world just waiting to be explored.
Spring is the time when even those not blessed with green fingers can feel the urge to make the best of the space around their homes.
Fortunately there is plenty of advice and assistance available out there both for avid and experienced gardeners as well as for the complete novice.
There are many ways that you can have a garden all year around and show it off to your friends.
Garden design is often presented as a list of principals and rules presented on a grand scale.
But most of us don't have acres of land on which to impose our vision of perennial borders.
Many of us also don't have the time or inclination to undertake the work need to maintain such gardens.
Fortunately gardening can be undertaken in a small space and with a little forethought and planning, the gardener can decide how much or how little work, they can devote to the enterprise.
For those who like to look at a garden but don't fancy the work involved, garden centres can provide plants and advice to produce the low maintenance garden.
These days it is quite possible to have a garden with lots of colourful shrubbery, plants and flowers, which by using bark covering to prevent weeds, will require the minimum of maintenance.
